business
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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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Finding business partners the eHarmony way.
So much for the quiet long weekend. I got into a fairly long Twitter conversation with Nichola Bates (@growsalesonline), Chris McCabe (@maxer08), Jackie McGonigle (@whatsonni), Lyra McKee (@LyraMcKee) and Mary McKenna (@MMaryMcKenna) about somethi…
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The JFDI Chronicles – My little black book.
I suppose everyone has “a book”, it might be a journal or a word document. It’s the place where everything goes into. For me I have an A4 sketch book, it’s coffee stained and a bit bashed around the edges, not great to look at it but it contains e…
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Self employed or startup in Northern or Southern Ireland? smeople.com
Just a quick heads up, there’s a new website for self employed, small business and startups called Smeople. Founded by Rob Marr it’s there to bring like minded entreprenuer type folk together to share and help each other on. Sounds like a plan, ju…
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Data, Data, Data: Why would Subway run out of my fave bread?
I hope my doctor isn’t reading this….. My morning commute to work involves me passing a Subway store. As I have the Subway card (500 points and you get a free 6 inch sub, or ?50 for a sandwich) I’ll use it pretty regularly to get the points. My …
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Don’t be afraid to shoot high, very high.
This isn’t just a Northern Ireland thing, it seems to be a connected Great Britain mentality. No one wants to see you succeed. More than that no one wants you to make a comfortable fortune either. I don’t hear very often, “well I hope you make f**…
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Bootstrap Diaries: Knowledge is cheap.
Very cheap in fact. Obviously there’s the Google/Bing/(Name your other favourite search engine here). When it comes to knowledge for Datasentiment I had a bit of a head start from 2002 when I worked for a data mining company. I learned an awful lo…
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StartVI – The incubator
Oh how I have waited for something like this. When the huge slow to react monsters can’t deliver what’s actually needed then it gives space for smaller more nimble creatures to evolve and react. Welcome the small, mobile and beautiful www.startvi….