Blockchain: Where to Begin?

Blockchain symbolic representation

Blockchain is a technology that I hear about almost every day now.  And yet I haven’t found the best place to learn about it – both its concepts and its implementation. With so many courses and books, where to begin? Those of you who have learned about it and use it regularly – what resources … Read more

Focusing on Big Data This Year with Hadoop, R, and Python

big data

This year I plan to focus on learning more about “Big Data” and its related technologies, such as machine learning. Currently, I’m planning on studying Hadoop, R, and Python. What other technologies do you think should be added to this list?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2013

It’s a new year, and a new opportunity to update skill sets! So far, my poll indicates that the most popular technologies for the upcoming year (at least for those who answered the poll) will be jQuery and Python. Given the increased number of articles and blog posts about jQuery and also Python’s use in … Read more