Tim’s Blog
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Data-Driven vs the Dashboard
It is common for technical product companies to call themselves “data-driven” these days. The idea is that metrics are used to drive decisions. Sounds easy enough, and compatible with a technology landscape that is enamored with data science, etc. But something didn’t always feel right to me. Strange, right? If you follow this blog or…
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My Next Home: Why DialogTech?
In my last post, I wrote about why I was making a change. I started in January at Ifbyphone’s Cleveland office. This week, we rebranded to DialogTech. In my opinion, a much better name. We have software-as-a-service products (SAAS, Cloud-based, however you want to say that) around managing analytics, specifically geared towards marketing efforts. Anyone…
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On Leaving A Job After 8 Years
In tech years, eight years is enough for a gold watch. I went to work for a newly formed company called Method Driven Software in early 2007 as it’s first employee (there were two partner/employees that remain with the firm today in various forms). Through the years, we acquired several firms and rebranded twice, eventually…
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Analyzing Spread Football Picks With R
I’ve been making an effort to learn R for about a year. I have experimented with it on and off over the years, but this is first serious effort I’ve been making. Whenever I am learning something, rather than just focusing on book examples, I try to come up with an example that is relevant…
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Running a Local ElasticSearch Cluster for Development
ElasticSearch is a document database built on Lucene, a full text-search engine. It clusters and is useful in a variety of scenarios. If you want to run it locally and test some of the clustering feature, here are some things I learned from my experience. Install with your preferred package manager, or from source. In…
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