Around 2015, I was getting increasingly frustrated with the shitty ESPN mobile app. I did what many millenials would do in this situation and searched for alternative solutions. One of the suggestions I came across was theScore so I gave it a shot. After downloading the app, I never...

In the fall of 2012, I walked into my graduate advisor’s office and asked her which computer science class she recommended for me to enroll in. I explained that I was a complete novice in programming. She suggested Introduction to C Programming. After attending a few lectures, I discover...

By Jeff Lundy While most people took up breadmaking during the pandemic, I got into cocktails. I don’t know how it took me so long to get into cocktails, as it basically combines chemistry with booze.  As a nicety for my houseguests (whenever we have those again), I coded...

Utter the word, “Bitcoin”, in any conversation and you can have the entire room at your immediate attention. Not many words or phrases have that kind of power in society. At 12 years of age, this pre-teen is just about to enter its rebellious stage. Subscribing to the Lindy...

After writing my first review of the OMSA program, I have been contacted by many prospective and current students. Because this program attracts students from a wide variety of backgrounds, providing advice that applies to everyone can be challenging. Below are some of the most common questions I receive...

Here are a dozen of the most common SQL interview questions you will see during an interview for a data professional role. I would highly suggest you attempt to answer the questions and write prospective queries for each question before you compare your answers to mine at the end...

After doing a little bit of research (AKA Googling), much of the financial advice seems to point you in one direction — open an IRA. Congrats! You made a significant step forward in your financial journey. Unfortunately, most of this discussion stops short of the next step — Which...

In every introductory statistics class, you are forced to learn about the basic descriptive statistics — mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. These calculations give you a quick summary of any dataset. The key word here is summary. In any summary, you zoom out to describe the dataset and...

The other day I was chatting with my father about the stock market when he mentioned that he liked General Electric ($GE) because it was cheap. I cringed immediately. Every time I hear someone use “cheap” to describe a stock it takes every ounce of my being not to...

I first ordered The Hundred-Page Machine Learning book back in May and am only just now finishing it up. In COVID-time, that was about 10 years ago. As you might have inferred, this book is NOT a quick read. What it lacks in easy reading, it makes up for...