Using Machine Learning to Increase Health Insurance Coverage Ricky (@rickyhennessy) works as a Sr. Data Designer at Fjord, Design and Innovation from Accenture. Previously, he was at frog design, where he worked as a Sr. Data Scientist. Working at the intersection of data science and design, he’s been able to apply a more human centered... Continue reading →

Hello everybody and especially the upcoming ML4ALL attendees! For those that haven’t registered, here’s the link for that, and for those that have welcome aboard! Here’s two of the excellent speakers that will be presenting at ML4ALL Paige (@DynamicWebPaige) and Suz (@Noopkat)! Paige & Suz both work on the amazing, now somewhat famous Microsoft Developer... Continue reading →

While at Goto Conf in Chicago today I had two thoughts while talking with Joe (@joelaha) while hanging out with Bridget (@bridgetkromhout) while waiting for Lena’s (@lenadroid) talk on “Distributed Data Stores on Kubernetes“. All that wrapped up into a few ideas for future conferences. Here, I present them to you dear readers, please lament,... Continue reading →

Once upon a time in a part of the tech universe far far away, there was a general consensus to block all JavaScript from browser execution. It was the way things were because JavaScript was seen as harmful. You see, the early miscreants of that time had used JavaScript to write all sorts of problematic... Continue reading →

Today I TA’d (Teacher’s Assistant) a course with Bridget at GOTO Chicago Conference. There were a number of workshops besides just the Kubernetes 101 like; Working Effectively with Legacy Code with Michael Feathers (@mfeathers), Estimates or NoEstimates with Woody Zuill (@WoodyZuill), Testing Faster with Dan North (@tastapod), Data Science and Analytics for Developers (Machine Learning)... Continue reading →