Category: Data
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Time For A Change? #algorithms #ml #ai #business #data
My first WordPress blog post was back in October 2008, my first blog post goes back way before then in 2000. Twenty-one years of knowledge, insight and, let’s be honest, nonsense. While most folk know me for the big data thing, whether that’s Hadoop, Spark, Kafka or Pulsar. What I want to do now is…
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Tales from the Frontline of Kafka – #kafka #confluent #podcast
Listen now >>>>> https://developer.confluent.io/podcast/tales-from-the-frontline-of-apache-kafka-devops-ft-jason-bell The podcast has been up a while now but I’ve been busy. It was definitely fun to do. There’s a lot of opinion especially about how teams, developers and others embrace Kafka. We also confirmed that Dave Klein is not omnipresent, I was convinced that he was.
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Kafka Is A Team Sport Redux – #kafka #apachekafka #streamingdata #data #confluentkafka
The feedback from Saturday’s blog post Kafka Is A Team Sport was very positive. I still felt I hadn’t quite got my point across though, well not clearly enough. Then it hit me. The Three Functions I see the current ecosystem as three distinct parts. Development, DevOps Engineering and Data Engineering. They all have different…
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Kafka Is A Team Sport – #kafka #apachekafka #streamingdata #data #confluentkafka
One of the nice things about being an early adopter is watching things grow. Another is observing how that adoption happens from organisation to organisation. The questions I get tend to be varied and in the oddest of locations, doing an impromptu Q&A at London City Airport is still a highlight of data related daftness.…
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Tesco Clubcard: #customerloyalty is dead! It’s all about membership! #clubcard #tesco #loyalty #data #datamining #algorithms
(First things first, four months since my last post…. apologies, just a lot of things going on.) The “rona” has done a lot of things to retail, it’s also done an awful lot of things to the economy. The UK furlough scheme reduced incomes and made customers very very very price sensitive. And today is…
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Customer Loyalty – Starting a stampercard: Part 1. #customerloyalty #stampcard #coffee #tea #loyalty #retail #cafe #restaurants
Sometimes the simplest solutions work the best and the stamp card is the easiest way to establish a form of repeat business. The idea is simple, have a card with spaces for nine or ten transactions, where stamps or a pen signature can be applied. Once the card is complete the customer then receives a…
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Dealing With Imposter Syndrome on Panels – #impostersyndrome #beltech2020 #ai #machinelearning #conferences
Thirty-two years into this industry and this was possibly the first time that imposter syndrome didn’t hit me five minutes before the start of the panel. If you are doing a talk and it’s you and you alone, then that’s okay. You’ve put the work in, got the slides sorted, rehearsed(!) and when you stand…
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Three Things Retailers Can Do Right Now – #COVID-19 #retail #ecommerce #startups #fashion #restaurants #fastfood #bricksandmortar
Retailers are feeling the impact of COVID-19 as the landscape of how people move, interact and generally get on with day-to-day life. The ones I’ve been talking to have seen drastic falls in footfall and takings. As you can assume, they are naturally worried. For the first time ever I managed to enter and exit…
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The National Trust and the Travelling Salesperson – #TSP #Data #NationalTrust @NationalTrustNI #R #RLang
I’ve not had to change much of my routine when it comes to self isolation, I work from home anyways. Saying that with all my speaking engagements cancelled (and rightly so) my brain needed something else to do….. The Travelling Salesperson problem has fascinated me for years but I’ve never had the time to really…
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Machine Learning Hands On 2nd edition now available. #machinelearning #ai #java #kafka #clojure #weka #dl4j #spark #r
Towards the end of February the author copies of the second edition of my book, Machine Learning: Hands-on for developers and technical professionals landed on my desk. I’m very happy with the way it’s turned out. I’ve spend the last few months resting, asides from the day job at Digitalis.io – the plan was to…
It's All A Bet - MLOps, DevOps, AI and Synthetic Data Design 