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Persistence and Transience - Navigating the Modern Data Architecture
Exhibit at the Southern VT Arts Center A Case for Transient Data Sources The modern data architecture spans a wide range of data storage....
Tim Burns
Apr 13, 20243 min read
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What do I get from serving a church?
Photo Courtesy of Leslie Long, who made this Fairy Garden Today I'm sharing my role in our church's Commitment Drive with Sunday school...
Tim Burns
Mar 24, 20242 min read
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Carto, Snowflake, and Data Management
A basic principle of data management: Don't move data unless you have to. Moving data is expensive and error-prone. Data Egress Cost:...
Tim Burns
Feb 10, 20241 min read
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KEXP Live 2023 Wrapup
I listen to KEXP Live every chance I get. For an end-of-year visualization, I looked at a year-over-year comparison of all the artists...
Tim Burns
Dec 30, 20231 min read
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Music Festivals 2024
I am browsing music festivals I'd like to attend in 2024. I work for Evolve.com which manages vacation properties and my search came up...
Tim Burns
Dec 30, 20231 min read
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Incoming for 2024: Clickhouse OLAP
I maintain a project that tracks playlist data on KEXP Radio playlists and publishes the latest trending music to my Tableau public...
Tim Burns
Dec 24, 20232 min read
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Agile Meeting Effectiveness
I recently contributed to a LinkedIn thread on Sprint Reviews in Agile. The Sprint Review is one of the many meetings in Scrum, and it...
Tim Burns
Dec 17, 20232 min read
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Scrum Master Pro-Tip
Cancel as many meetings as you can. Schedule a meeting to set the stakes Use Slack or Teams to resolve blocks on the day of the meeting...
Tim Burns
Dec 14, 20231 min read
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What other blogs am I reading
here are some blogs that caught my interest today. I spend at least 4 hours a month in various company meetings....
Tim Burns
Dec 9, 20231 min read
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Create Actionable Datasets by Combining Sources
Brittney Howard performing Stay High on KEXP Good Data drives actions. A stunning dashboard is good for impressing others, but the real...
Tim Burns
Nov 23, 20231 min read
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Iceland Airwaves Recap and Future Festivals
I saw Briet at Iceland Airwaves and she had a cadre of Icelandic Generation Z "Swifties" singing along to her beautiful songs in...
Tim Burns
Nov 11, 20231 min read
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D&D and Scrum - "Rules as Written"
The Author's setup from his Home Campaign I'm an avid game master (dungeon master). I have run D&D tables at a local gaming shop and a...
Tim Burns
Oct 22, 20233 min read
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Making My Way as a Principle Data Architect at Evolve
On my way to Carter Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire I am thrilled to say that I will be starting at Evolve next week as a...
Tim Burns
May 25, 20231 min read
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The Feast Feature Store and Snowflake
The Providence Athenaeum Library A feature is a property of a data product that has been reduced into a form to be used for Machine...
Tim Burns
May 22, 20231 min read
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Machine Learning will change everything
Our world is filled with layers of information - waiting to be comprehended (Author) I have been researching using Machine Learning to...
Tim Burns
May 10, 20232 min read
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Domain Data as a Product
Aspects of Domain Data The components of Domain Data as a Product are as follows [1]. Discoverable Addressable Reliability...
Tim Burns
Apr 25, 20231 min read
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Saturday Words of Wisdom
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to...
Tim Burns
Apr 22, 20231 min read
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Value, Delivery, Security, Repeatability, and Simplicity
Improving Data Architecture with AWS, Snowflake, and Open Source Tools I'm trying that on as a title for a book I'm writing. One of the...
Tim Burns
Apr 19, 20233 min read
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A Lean Data Pipeline - on Medium
Powerful cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks change our thoughts about normal forms and data warehousing. Photo by David...
Tim Burns
Apr 12, 20231 min read
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A Sad Loss
I am mourning my friend Bob Lee. http://blog.crazybob.org/2006/12/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-me.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Tim Burns
Apr 9, 20231 min read
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