April 11, 2025

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been accepted into the Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University. Over the ...

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March 29, 2025

I spent the week at Microsoft learning about the latest advances in AI during the MVP Global Summit and Regional ...

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July 11, 2024

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in AI for my 9th year in a ...

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May 20, 2024

Today, I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. As I wrapped things up, I ...

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August 9, 2023

I am very excited to announce that I’ve been invited to join the Microsoft Regional Directors program based on my ...

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July 6, 2023

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in Artificial Intelligence for the 8th year in ...

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March 28, 2023

It’s been a CRAZY past few weeks in AI news! GPT-4, PaLM-e, Midjourney 5, Stanford’s Alpaca 7B, GPT plugins, BingChat, ...

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March 18, 2023

For the past 8 months, I’ve been hosting a monthly meetup at TechAlley in Las Vegas on AI. Each month ...

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November 21, 2022

I was recently a guest on the Azure DevOps podcast with Jeffrey Palaremo. During the interview, we discussed how to ...

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June 28, 2022

I’d like to take a moment to publicly address the recent overturning of Roe v Wade. As citizens in a ...

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November 24, 2021

I was recently featured in an article by Eleanor Bennett on the Logit.io blog titled Interview with AI Specialist Matthew ...

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October 13, 2021

I was recently quoted in an article by Sascha Brodsky in Lifewire titled AI Music Is Good, but It Won’t ...

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October 7, 2021

The Carroll Times Herald wrote an article about the Kuemper Foundation and my presentation there for my 25-year class reunion. ...

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July 1, 2021

I’m excited to announce that I’ve received the Microsoft MVP Award for my 6th year in a row! The award ...

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June 18, 2021

Heather Wilde and I gave a webinar on Best Practices for Running Hybrid Events for Serenze Global. You can watch ...

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March 22, 2021

Job Description Renze Consulting is in search of a virtual business manager to help us manage and grow our online ...

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November 25, 2020

In this episode of the WP-Tonic Show, Jonathan Denwood, Steven Saunder, and I discussed data science and everything you want ...

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October 27, 2020

I was invited to be a guest on the WP-Tonic Show’s weekly round-table discussion. During the show we discussed Google’s ...

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October 22, 2020

In this episode of Attitudeable, Dolores Guiñazú and I discuss how AI will impact our lives, our careers, and our ...

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August 6, 2020

Based on the positive feedback we received from our discussion panel at AFWERX Fusion, Heather Wilde suggested that I elaborate ...

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June 5, 2020

I’d like to take a moment to address the protests that have happened around the world these past few days. ...

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June 1, 2020

I delivered a webinar for Build Stuff on Preparing Your Career for AI. You can watch it below:     ...

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March 15, 2020

Are you confused with all the misinformation about COVID-19? Are you unsure what you should be doing right now to ...

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February 7, 2020

Christina Aldan and I discuss AI, ML, and DataScience at AntarctiConf on her Luckygirl bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs. http://www.iamagoodmix.com/data-science-matthew-renze/

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January 1, 2020

I’m releasing my new online course Intro to Data for Data Science completely free for everyone. My hope is that ...

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July 8, 2019

I spoke with Jeffrey Palermo on his Azure DevOps Podcast about data science for developers. We discussed topics including software ...

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June 4, 2019

At DevSum Stockholm, I spoke with Jon Galloway from @HerdingCode about Data Science practices to improve both products and software ...

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January 5, 2019

I created a quick Python script to rename image files based on the date a photo was taken. It’s freely ...

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January 4, 2019

I created a quick Python script to create a Gmail filter from a Google Contacts CSV export. If you need ...

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November 17, 2018

My latest Pluralsight course titled Data Science: Executive Briefing was published today. I created it to teach executives and managers what data ...

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October 1, 2018

I’ve been invited to speak at BuildStuff in Vilnius, Lithuania in November. I will be presenting on Artificial Intelligence and the future of software.

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September 18, 2018

I’ve been spending some time learning about genetic algorithms lately. So I implemented my own genetic-algorithm solution to the knapsack ...

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August 21, 2018

I created a set of Python scripts to convert Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX) to Adobe PDF. You can find the open-source scripts on ...

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August 17, 2018

Heather Wilde and I are pleased to announce AntarctiConf 2020. It’s a 4-day mastermind, mini-conference, and retreat taking place on a 16-day ...

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August 12, 2018

I created a series of Python scripts that get historical weather data from the Dark Sky weather API based on ...

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August 11, 2018

I created a series of Python scripts that convert, summarize, and reverse-geocode Google location data for a data analysis project ...

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July 15, 2018

My friend Jeremy Sharp released his new book today called From the Depths of Madness. I was both an editor and ...

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July 1, 2018

I am honored to recieve my third Microsoft MVP Award today. This year I was awarded in the Artificial Intelligence ...

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May 14, 2018

I’ve been invited to be a keynote speaker at Music City Data in Nashville, Tennessee on June 2nd. My keynote presentation will ...

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May 1, 2018

I’m thrilled to be giving an opening keynote at Devoxx UK on May 10. We’ll be discussing the use of mindfulness practices ...

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March 22, 2018

I’ve been invited to speak again this year at Pluralsight Live on Aug 28-30 in Salt Lake City, Utah I’ll be delivering ...

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March 14, 2018

I’ve been invited to give the opening keynote at Prairie Dev Con in Winnipeg, Canada on June 5-6. My keynote ...

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February 8, 2018

Curious about deep learning, neural networks, and Tensorflow? Learn what deep learning is, why it’s important, and how it works ...

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January 13, 2018

CodeMash is by far one of my favorite conferences in the US. The attendees, organizers, and speakers are all top ...

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December 23, 2017

I just completed my third and final international public-speaking tour for the year. Six weeks, five continents, four workshops, three ...

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November 17, 2017

I presented my first international keynote on Artificial Intelligence at DevoxxMA in Morocco this week. Thank you to everyone who ...

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October 8, 2017

I’m wrapping up my latest public-speaking tour today. Over the past three weeks, I’ve given 11 talks at five events, ...

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October 7, 2017

I was recently quoted in an article by Heather Wilde in Inc. Magazine titled In Deplomatirc Row, US and Turkey ...

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September 29, 2017

My first time speaking at Microsoft Ignite went very well. This was the largest conference I’ve spoken at to date ...

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September 22, 2017

Thank you to everyone who attended my talks and panels at Pluralsight Live. Both the author summit and the main ...

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September 20, 2017

I’ve been invited to speak at two events in Dubai next month. I’ll be presenting on Deep Learning for Microsoft ...

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September 16, 2017

My latest Pluralsight course, Data Science: The Big Picture was released today. If you’re interested in data science, be sure ...

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September 7, 2017

I completed the Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University and Coursera today. I had a perfect score in all ...

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August 25, 2017

Very excited to announce that I’ve been invited to give a keynote in Casablanca at Devoxx Morocco in November. My ...

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August 16, 2017

I’ve been invited to speak at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida in September. This will be my first time speaking ...

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August 14, 2017

David Rael took his Developer on Fire podcast on the road to KCDC to chat with me for his first-ever ...

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August 11, 2017

Many years ago, I was in a band called For Love and Money. In 2004, we released our debut album ...

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August 4, 2017

KCDC is always a great conference to attend. The attendees, the speakers, and the organizers make this one of my ...

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July 13, 2017

The International Tinnitus Journal recently posted an article that I wrote on Visual Snow Syndrome and It’s Relationship to Tinnitus. ...

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July 12, 2017

I had a great time speaking at the first ever Detroit Code conference. It’s always fun being part of a ...

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July 1, 2017

I am honored to recieve my second Microsoft MVP Award today. I love being a part of this group of ...

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June 18, 2017

Today is the final day of my 47-day speaking tour across Europe and the US. During this time, I visited ...

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June 17, 2017

I spoke at my first Geek Girl TechCon in San Diego today. It was great to see so much enthusiasm ...

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June 9, 2017

Thank you to everyone who attended my workshop and my talk at DevSum. I really enjoyed the entire event and ...

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May 20, 2017

I spoke at NextBuild in Eindhoven, Neatherlands today. Great turnout for my Clean Architecture talk. I enjoyed making new friends ...

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May 18, 2017

My first SDD conference in London is a wrap. I had a great time visiting with several old friends and ...

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May 12, 2017

I had a great time speaking at my first Devoxx conference in the UK yesterday. The attendees, the speakers, and ...

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May 6, 2017

My latest Pluralsight course titled Writing Testable Code has been published. If you’d like to learn how to write code ...

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May 5, 2017

I’ve been invited to speak at IT/Dev Connections again this fall in San Francisco. I’ll be presenting on Exploratory Data ...

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May 1, 2017

I wrote an article for The Hearing Journal titled What Visual Snow May Tell Us About Tinnitus which discusses the ...

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April 19, 2017

Looking forward to speaking at the inaugural Detroit Code in July. I’ll be presenting on Data Science: The Big Picture ...

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April 7, 2017

Very excited to invited to speak at KCDC again this year. I’ll be giving two brand new talks Data Science: ...

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April 6, 2017

I’ve been invited to speak at NextBuild in Eindhoven, Netherlands in May. This will be my first time speaking in ...

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April 1, 2017

I created a quick tool called Shortcuts to Hyperlinks that converts a list of Windows URL shortcuts to a page of HTML ...

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March 28, 2017

I’ve been invited to speak at the first-ever Pluralsight LIVE in Salt Lake City, Utah in September. This will be one of ...

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February 9, 2017

To assist me with converting my old website over to ASP.NET MVC Core, I created a simple Website Link Checker. In ...

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February 8, 2017

I received an invitation to speak at Devoxx UK today. My presentation will be on Data Visualization with R. This ...

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January 26, 2017

The Las Vegas .NET User Group invited me to speak on Clean Code at their monthly meeting tonight. It was my first time speaking ...

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January 17, 2017

My latest Pluralsight course, Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles, has been published. It covers how to create a modern software ...

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January 13, 2017

CodeMash 2017 is a wrap. I sat on an MVP discussion panel, hosted a full-day workshop, and gave a new talk titled: The Mindful Developer. ...

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January 6, 2017

I received an invitation to speak at DevSum in Stockholm, Sweden in June. This will be my first time speaking in Sweden ...

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December 12, 2016

I’ve been invited to speak at the Software Design and Development (SDD) conference in London in May. This will be my second ...

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December 1, 2016

My Developer on Fire interview with David Rael was published today. We discussed scientific approaches to software development, software essentialism, mindfulness, and more.

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November 10, 2016

I’m wrapping up four days of learning, networking, and providing feedback to Microsoft at the MVP Global Summit today. It was great ...

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October 29, 2016

The first-ever Prairie Code was a great experience. My talk and live-music performance at the attendee party were both well received. It was great ...

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October 26, 2016

My latest Pluralsight course titled Data Science with R was released today. If you’re interested in learning how to transform your data ...

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October 23, 2016

DevUp in St. Louis is a wrap. I presented a full-day workshop and an hour-long session on Clean Architecture. However, my favorite part of ...

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October 14, 2016

I had a great time speaking at IT/Dev Connections this week. So much fun and knowledge packed into such a short amount ...

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October 7, 2016

All four our my presentations at VS Live in both Anaheim, CA and Washington DC went very well. What a great way to kick ...

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September 30, 2016

I received an invitation yesterday to speak at CodeMash in Sandusky, Ohio again this year. Last year’s CodeMash was a great experience ...

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September 9, 2016

My latest Pluralsight course titled Mastering Data Visualization with R has been published. It teaches you how to create advanced data visualizations ...

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September 8, 2016

My full-day workshop on Practical Data Science with R at AIM | hdc was a success. In fact, the entire conference has been an ...

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August 9, 2016

I’m very happy to be invited to speak at the first ever Prairie Codeconference in Des Moines in October. I’ll be ...

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August 8, 2016

I submitted my HoloLens talk to this year’s SXSW Interactive conference. If you’d like to see me present this talk at SXSW, please ...

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July 28, 2016

Kyle Baley interviewed me for the Western Devs podcast at Prairie Dev Con. We discussed Exploratory Data Analysis with R and the growing popularity ...

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July 27, 2016

Pluralsight published my third course titled Multivariate Data Visualization with R today. If you’re interested in learning how to create and interpret ...

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July 25, 2016

I received an invitation to speak at IT/Dev Connections in Las Vegas in October. It will be my first time ...

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July 1, 2016

I received my first Microsoft MVP Award today. Very happy to be part of such an amazing group of people! ...

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June 24, 2016

This year’s KCDC was the best ever. I presented my first full-day workshop, a new presentation, participated in a Startland News panel discussion in front of ...

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June 17, 2016

I spoke at the 24th International Tinnitus Conference at the University of Iowa Medical College yesterday. The feedback I received ...

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June 11, 2016

I received an invitation to speak at the new Dev Up Conference (formerly St. Louis Days of .NET). This year, I’ll be ...

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June 2, 2016

I’ve been invited to speak at AIM | hdc again this year. This time, I will be presenting a full-day version of ...

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May 20, 2016

Both my workshop on Practical Data Science with R and my presentation on Clean Architecture at Nebraska Code went extremely well. I also had a great ...

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May 8, 2016

Iowa Public Television created a segment on Igor Technologies for their Iowa Entrepreneur series. I’ve been consulting and creating software with the Igor team for ...

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May 5, 2016

Well, it looks like I will be speaking at both Visual Studio Live in Anaheim, CA and now Washington, DC ...

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April 24, 2016

I received an invitation this weekend to speak at Visual Studio Live in Anaheim, CA. Both of my talks will ...

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April 17, 2016

I judged the annual Computational Thinking Competition at Iowa State University again this year. After another great experience, I decided ...

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April 14, 2016

I received an invitation this week to speak at That Conference at the Kalahari in the Wisconsin Dells. I’m looking ...

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April 12, 2016

Thank you to everyone who attended my presentations at Prairie Dev Con this week. In addition, thank you to D’Arcy ...

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April 6, 2016

I spent the day at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago attending a full-day Azure IoT Suite workshop. We learned ...

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March 27, 2016

I received an invitation to speak at Nebraska Code today. On the agenda is my new Practical Data Science with ...

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March 11, 2016

I am very happy to announce that Pluralsight published my second course, Beginning Data Visualization with R, today. If you’re ...

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February 26, 2016

I received an invitation to speak at KCDC today. My sessions this year will include a new presentation on Data ...

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February 25, 2016

My .NET Rocks interview went online today. We discussed the economics, psychology and science of Agile. Thanks to Carl Franklin ...

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January 19, 2016

I received an invitation to speak at Prairie Dev Con in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. My presentations will include ...

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January 17, 2016

I spent the past two weeks on the road speaking at both CodeMash and NDC London. All four of my ...

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January 1, 2016

Reflecting back on this past year, I have so much to be thankful for. Speaking at several conferences, becoming a ...

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December 12, 2015

Both of my presentations on Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles for the Iowa Code Camp and Iowa .NET User ...

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November 19, 2015

I just finished a 4-day course on Practical Data Science with Cortana Analytics: Azure Machine Learning, SQL Data Mining and ...

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November 10, 2015

My first Pluralsight course Exploratory Data Analysis with R was published today. Please feel free to check it out, spread ...

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November 6, 2015

I had a great time at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit this week. It was a tremendous learning experience and ...

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November 1, 2015

I just received an invitation this weekend to speak at NDC London. This will be my first international conference and ...

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October 24, 2015

I just received an invitation to the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Redmond, WA. We will spend a week at ...

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September 30, 2015

Today I received an invitation to join the ASPInsiders. The ASPInsiders are an international group of experts on ASP.NET technologies ...

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September 12, 2015

My presentations from AIM | hdc (Heartland Developers Conference) are now online. Both presentations went extremely well and I received ...

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September 9, 2015

I just found out today that I’ve been invited to speak at CodeMash in Sandusky, Ohio. Codemash is one of ...

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July 18, 2015

I’ve been invited to speak at AIM | hdc (Heartland Developers Conference) in Omaha, Nebraska on Sept 10-11. It’s my ...

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June 27, 2015

KCDC was a blast! Both of my presentations went extremely well, I learned a lot, and most importantly, I got ...

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May 12, 2015

I just found out this weekend that my Pluralsight audition has been accepted and I’m now officially an approved Pluralsight ...

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April 11, 2015

I had some free time this morning, so I created a simple console application called Sleep to CSV that converts ...

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March 8, 2015

I’ve been invited to speak at KCDC (Kansas City Developers Conference) on June 24-26. My two presentations will be Exploratory ...

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January 4, 2015

Over the weekend I created a simple console application called IOM DAT to CSV that converts Wild Divine IOM .dat ...

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September 21, 2014

I have been invited to speak at the DAMA (Data Management) Iowa Chapter on Tuesday, Oct 21. My presentation for ...

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August 16, 2014

My presentation on Exploratory Data Analysis with R at That Conference this week went very well. I’ve uploaded both the ...

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June 1, 2014

After giving it some thought, I’ve decided that I’m going to take some time off this summer from my side ...

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May 15, 2014

I’ve been invited to speak at That Conference in Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 12. My presentation topic will be Exploratory ...

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May 1, 2014

Today we released version 0.2.0 of Data Explorer, an open-source interactive data-visualization tool for everyone. There were a couple new ...

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April 19, 2014

I was a judge again this year for the ISU K-12 Computational Thinking Competition. Once again, I was very impressed ...

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April 2, 2014

After two years of work on nights and weekends, I finally released the first production version of my open-source interactive ...

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April 1, 2014

To start the new year in good form, I created my first article for this website titled Visualizing Fowler’s Layering ...

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March 26, 2014

The Nebraska Code Camp posted an article about me as their featured speaker of the day today. I’m really looking ...

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February 25, 2014

I’ve been invited to speak again at the Nebraska Code Camp on March 29th. My presentation will be an updated ...

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February 3, 2014

I’ve been invited to speak at the Twin Cities Code Camp on April 5th. My presentation topic will be on ...

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December 5, 2013

My presentation on Clean Code for the 10th Anniversary of the Iowa .NET User Group went very well. We had ...

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November 13, 2013

I’ve been invited to demo my Data Explorer at the St. Louis Days of .NET tech expo. I’m excited to ...

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November 7, 2013

Iowa State University’s Computer Science Department presented me with the Young Alumni Achievement Award at their annual Alumni Awards and ...

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November 4, 2013

My presentation on Exploratory Data Analysis with R at the Iowa Code Camp went very well. I have the slides ...

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October 1, 2013

I have been invited to speak at the next Agile Iowa meeting on Wednesday, October 16 at Nationwide in Des ...

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August 2, 2013

I’ve started working on my Data Explorer software again in my free time. My current plan is to continue working ...

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July 1, 2013

I completed my third online course through Coursera this week. The course was Introduction to Data Science offered by University ...

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June 8, 2013

I was a guest speaker at the Iowa Code Camp in Iowa City today. My first presentation, Why Agile? The ...

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May 24, 2013

I’ve been invited to speak at the Iowa Code Camp on June 8th in Iowa City. My first presentation is ...

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April 13, 2013

I was a judge in the ISU K-12 Computational Thinking Competition today. The quality and creativity of the students’ projects ...

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March 22, 2013

I completed my second online course through Coursera today. The course was Data Analysis offered by Johns Hopkins University. The ...

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March 16, 2013

My presentation at the Nebraska Code Camp on Exploratory Data Analysis with R went really well. I’ve uploaded the presentation ...

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February 19, 2013

I’ve been invited to speak at the Nebraska Code Camp on March 16 in Lincoln Nebraska. My presentation, Exploratory Data ...

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February 6, 2013

I completed my first online course through Coursera today. The course was Computing for Data Analysis offered by Johns Hopkins ...

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January 3, 2013

Over Christmas break I took the Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM I) exam through Scrum.org. Well, it looks like all ...

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January 1, 2013

After a year of development, I’m releasing the first public preview of my Data Explorer software. I’m not sure if ...

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November 19, 2012

I uploaded the video of my Iowa Code Camp presentation to my YouTube account. You can view the video here. ...

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November 15, 2012

I was a guest speaker for two classes at Iowa State University today. My first presentation was on Agile Software ...

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October 27, 2012

I was a guest speaker at the Iowa Code Camp today. My presentation was titled Transforming Data into Knowledge. It ...

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October 5, 2012

Welcome to my new website. I created this site to replace my previous website at Iowa State University. Please be ...

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