I’m excited to announce that I’ve been accepted into the Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University. Over the ...
I spent the week at Microsoft learning about the latest advances in AI during the MVP Global Summit and Regional ...
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in AI for my 9th year in a ...
Today, I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. As I wrapped things up, I ...
I am very excited to announce that I’ve been invited to join the Microsoft Regional Directors program based on my ...
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in Artificial Intelligence for the 8th year in ...
It’s been a CRAZY past few weeks in AI news! GPT-4, PaLM-e, Midjourney 5, Stanford’s Alpaca 7B, GPT plugins, BingChat, ...
For the past 8 months, I’ve been hosting a monthly meetup at TechAlley in Las Vegas on AI. Each month ...
I was recently a guest on the Azure DevOps podcast with Jeffrey Palaremo. During the interview, we discussed how to ...
I’d like to take a moment to publicly address the recent overturning of Roe v Wade. As citizens in a ...
I was recently featured in an article by Eleanor Bennett on the Logit.io blog titled Interview with AI Specialist Matthew ...
I was recently quoted in an article by Sascha Brodsky in Lifewire titled AI Music Is Good, but It Won’t ...
The Carroll Times Herald wrote an article about the Kuemper Foundation and my presentation there for my 25-year class reunion. ...
I’m excited to announce that I’ve received the Microsoft MVP Award for my 6th year in a row! The award ...
Heather Wilde and I gave a webinar on Best Practices for Running Hybrid Events for Serenze Global. You can watch ...
Job Description Renze Consulting is in search of a virtual business manager to help us manage and grow our online ...
In this episode of the WP-Tonic Show, Jonathan Denwood, Steven Saunder, and I discussed data science and everything you want ...
I was invited to be a guest on the WP-Tonic Show’s weekly round-table discussion. During the show we discussed Google’s ...
In this episode of Attitudeable, Dolores Guiñazú and I discuss how AI will impact our lives, our careers, and our ...
Based on the positive feedback we received from our discussion panel at AFWERX Fusion, Heather Wilde suggested that I elaborate ...
I’d like to take a moment to address the protests that have happened around the world these past few days. ...
I delivered a webinar for Build Stuff on Preparing Your Career for AI. You can watch it below: ...
Are you confused with all the misinformation about COVID-19? Are you unsure what you should be doing right now to ...
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/
I’m releasing my new online course Intro to Data for Data Science completely free for everyone. My hope is that ...
I spoke with Jeffrey Palermo on his Azure DevOps Podcast about data science for developers. We discussed topics including software ...
At DevSum Stockholm, I spoke with Jon Galloway from @HerdingCode about Data Science practices to improve both products and software ...
I created a quick Python script to rename image files based on the date a photo was taken. It’s freely ...
I created a quick Python script to create a Gmail filter from a Google Contacts CSV export. If you need ...
My latest Pluralsight course titled Data Science: Executive Briefing was published today. I created it to teach executives and managers what data ...
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.
I’ve been spending some time learning about genetic algorithms lately. So I implemented my own genetic-algorithm solution to the knapsack ...
I created a set of Python scripts to convert Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX) to Adobe PDF. You can find the open-source scripts on ...
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 ...
I created a series of Python scripts that get historical weather data from the Dark Sky weather API based on ...
I created a series of Python scripts that convert, summarize, and reverse-geocode Google location data for a data analysis project ...
My friend Jeremy Sharp released his new book today called From the Depths of Madness. I was both an editor and ...
I am honored to recieve my third Microsoft MVP Award today. This year I was awarded in the Artificial Intelligence ...
I’ve been invited to be a keynote speaker at Music City Data in Nashville, Tennessee on June 2nd. My keynote presentation will ...
I’m thrilled to be giving an opening keynote at Devoxx UK on May 10. We’ll be discussing the use of mindfulness practices ...
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 ...
I’ve been invited to give the opening keynote at Prairie Dev Con in Winnipeg, Canada on June 5-6. My keynote ...
Curious about deep learning, neural networks, and Tensorflow? Learn what deep learning is, why it’s important, and how it works ...
CodeMash is by far one of my favorite conferences in the US. The attendees, organizers, and speakers are all top ...
I just completed my third and final international public-speaking tour for the year. Six weeks, five continents, four workshops, three ...
I presented my first international keynote on Artificial Intelligence at DevoxxMA in Morocco this week. Thank you to everyone who ...
I’m wrapping up my latest public-speaking tour today. Over the past three weeks, I’ve given 11 talks at five events, ...
I was recently quoted in an article by Heather Wilde in Inc. Magazine titled In Deplomatirc Row, US and Turkey ...
My first time speaking at Microsoft Ignite went very well. This was the largest conference I’ve spoken at to date ...
Thank you to everyone who attended my talks and panels at Pluralsight Live. Both the author summit and the main ...
I’ve been invited to speak at two events in Dubai next month. I’ll be presenting on Deep Learning for Microsoft ...
My latest Pluralsight course, Data Science: The Big Picture was released today. If you’re interested in data science, be sure ...
I completed the Data Science Specialization from Johns Hopkins University and Coursera today. I had a perfect score in all ...
Very excited to announce that I’ve been invited to give a keynote in Casablanca at Devoxx Morocco in November. My ...
I’ve been invited to speak at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida in September. This will be my first time speaking ...
David Rael took his Developer on Fire podcast on the road to KCDC to chat with me for his first-ever ...
Many years ago, I was in a band called For Love and Money. In 2004, we released our debut album ...
KCDC is always a great conference to attend. The attendees, the speakers, and the organizers make this one of my ...
The International Tinnitus Journal recently posted an article that I wrote on Visual Snow Syndrome and It’s Relationship to Tinnitus. ...
I had a great time speaking at the first ever Detroit Code conference. It’s always fun being part of a ...
I am honored to recieve my second Microsoft MVP Award today. I love being a part of this group of ...
Today is the final day of my 47-day speaking tour across Europe and the US. During this time, I visited ...
I spoke at my first Geek Girl TechCon in San Diego today. It was great to see so much enthusiasm ...
Thank you to everyone who attended my workshop and my talk at DevSum. I really enjoyed the entire event and ...
I spoke at NextBuild in Eindhoven, Neatherlands today. Great turnout for my Clean Architecture talk. I enjoyed making new friends ...
My first SDD conference in London is a wrap. I had a great time visiting with several old friends and ...
I had a great time speaking at my first Devoxx conference in the UK yesterday. The attendees, the speakers, and ...
My latest Pluralsight course titled Writing Testable Code has been published. If you’d like to learn how to write code ...
I’ve been invited to speak at IT/Dev Connections again this fall in San Francisco. I’ll be presenting on Exploratory Data ...
I wrote an article for The Hearing Journal titled What Visual Snow May Tell Us About Tinnitus which discusses the ...
Looking forward to speaking at the inaugural Detroit Code in July. I’ll be presenting on Data Science: The Big Picture ...
Very excited to invited to speak at KCDC again this year. I’ll be giving two brand new talks Data Science: ...
I’ve been invited to speak at NextBuild in Eindhoven, Netherlands in May. This will be my first time speaking in ...
I created a quick tool called Shortcuts to Hyperlinks that converts a list of Windows URL shortcuts to a page of HTML ...
I’ve been invited to speak at the first-ever Pluralsight LIVE in Salt Lake City, Utah in September. This will be one of ...
To assist me with converting my old website over to ASP.NET MVC Core, I created a simple Website Link Checker. In ...
I received an invitation to speak at Devoxx UK today. My presentation will be on Data Visualization with R. This ...
The Las Vegas .NET User Group invited me to speak on Clean Code at their monthly meeting tonight. It was my first time speaking ...
My latest Pluralsight course, Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles, has been published. It covers how to create a modern software ...
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. ...
I received an invitation to speak at DevSum in Stockholm, Sweden in June. This will be my first time speaking in Sweden ...
I’ve been invited to speak at the Software Design and Development (SDD) conference in London in May. This will be my second ...
My Developer on Fire interview with David Rael was published today. We discussed scientific approaches to software development, software essentialism, mindfulness, and more.
I’m wrapping up four days of learning, networking, and providing feedback to Microsoft at the MVP Global Summit today. It was great ...
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 ...
My latest Pluralsight course titled Data Science with R was released today. If you’re interested in learning how to transform your data ...
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 ...
I had a great time speaking at IT/Dev Connections this week. So much fun and knowledge packed into such a short amount ...
All four our my presentations at VS Live in both Anaheim, CA and Washington DC went very well. What a great way to kick ...
I received an invitation yesterday to speak at CodeMash in Sandusky, Ohio again this year. Last year’s CodeMash was a great experience ...
My latest Pluralsight course titled Mastering Data Visualization with R has been published. It teaches you how to create advanced data visualizations ...
My full-day workshop on Practical Data Science with R at AIM | hdc was a success. In fact, the entire conference has been an ...
I’m very happy to be invited to speak at the first ever Prairie Codeconference in Des Moines in October. I’ll be ...
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 ...
Kyle Baley interviewed me for the Western Devs podcast at Prairie Dev Con. We discussed Exploratory Data Analysis with R and the growing popularity ...
Pluralsight published my third course titled Multivariate Data Visualization with R today. If you’re interested in learning how to create and interpret ...
I received an invitation to speak at IT/Dev Connections in Las Vegas in October. It will be my first time ...
I received my first Microsoft MVP Award today. Very happy to be part of such an amazing group of people! ...
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 ...
I spoke at the 24th International Tinnitus Conference at the University of Iowa Medical College yesterday. The feedback I received ...
I received an invitation to speak at the new Dev Up Conference (formerly St. Louis Days of .NET). This year, I’ll be ...
I’ve been invited to speak at AIM | hdc again this year. This time, I will be presenting a full-day version of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Well, it looks like I will be speaking at both Visual Studio Live in Anaheim, CA and now Washington, DC ...
I received an invitation this weekend to speak at Visual Studio Live in Anaheim, CA. Both of my talks will ...
I judged the annual Computational Thinking Competition at Iowa State University again this year. After another great experience, I decided ...
I received an invitation this week to speak at That Conference at the Kalahari in the Wisconsin Dells. I’m looking ...
Thank you to everyone who attended my presentations at Prairie Dev Con this week. In addition, thank you to D’Arcy ...
I spent the day at the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago attending a full-day Azure IoT Suite workshop. We learned ...
I received an invitation to speak at Nebraska Code today. On the agenda is my new Practical Data Science with ...
I am very happy to announce that Pluralsight published my second course, Beginning Data Visualization with R, today. If you’re ...
I received an invitation to speak at KCDC today. My sessions this year will include a new presentation on Data ...
My .NET Rocks interview went online today. We discussed the economics, psychology and science of Agile. Thanks to Carl Franklin ...
I received an invitation to speak at Prairie Dev Con in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. My presentations will include ...
I spent the past two weeks on the road speaking at both CodeMash and NDC London. All four of my ...
Reflecting back on this past year, I have so much to be thankful for. Speaking at several conferences, becoming a ...
Both of my presentations on Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles for the Iowa Code Camp and Iowa .NET User ...
I just finished a 4-day course on Practical Data Science with Cortana Analytics: Azure Machine Learning, SQL Data Mining and ...
My first Pluralsight course Exploratory Data Analysis with R was published today. Please feel free to check it out, spread ...
I had a great time at the Microsoft MVP Global Summit this week. It was a tremendous learning experience and ...
I just received an invitation this weekend to speak at NDC London. This will be my first international conference and ...
I just received an invitation to the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Redmond, WA. We will spend a week at ...
Today I received an invitation to join the ASPInsiders. The ASPInsiders are an international group of experts on ASP.NET technologies ...
My presentations from AIM | hdc (Heartland Developers Conference) are now online. Both presentations went extremely well and I received ...
I just found out today that I’ve been invited to speak at CodeMash in Sandusky, Ohio. Codemash is one of ...
I’ve been invited to speak at AIM | hdc (Heartland Developers Conference) in Omaha, Nebraska on Sept 10-11. It’s my ...
KCDC was a blast! Both of my presentations went extremely well, I learned a lot, and most importantly, I got ...
I just found out this weekend that my Pluralsight audition has been accepted and I’m now officially an approved Pluralsight ...
I had some free time this morning, so I created a simple console application called Sleep to CSV that converts ...
I’ve been invited to speak at KCDC (Kansas City Developers Conference) on June 24-26. My two presentations will be Exploratory ...
Over the weekend I created a simple console application called IOM DAT to CSV that converts Wild Divine IOM .dat ...
I have been invited to speak at the DAMA (Data Management) Iowa Chapter on Tuesday, Oct 21. My presentation for ...
My presentation on Exploratory Data Analysis with R at That Conference this week went very well. I’ve uploaded both the ...
After giving it some thought, I’ve decided that I’m going to take some time off this summer from my side ...
I’ve been invited to speak at That Conference in Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 12. My presentation topic will be Exploratory ...
Today we released version 0.2.0 of Data Explorer, an open-source interactive data-visualization tool for everyone. There were a couple new ...
I was a judge again this year for the ISU K-12 Computational Thinking Competition. Once again, I was very impressed ...
After two years of work on nights and weekends, I finally released the first production version of my open-source interactive ...
To start the new year in good form, I created my first article for this website titled Visualizing Fowler’s Layering ...
The Nebraska Code Camp posted an article about me as their featured speaker of the day today. I’m really looking ...
I’ve been invited to speak again at the Nebraska Code Camp on March 29th. My presentation will be an updated ...
I’ve been invited to speak at the Twin Cities Code Camp on April 5th. My presentation topic will be on ...
My presentation on Clean Code for the 10th Anniversary of the Iowa .NET User Group went very well. We had ...
I’ve been invited to demo my Data Explorer at the St. Louis Days of .NET tech expo. I’m excited to ...
Iowa State University’s Computer Science Department presented me with the Young Alumni Achievement Award at their annual Alumni Awards and ...
My presentation on Exploratory Data Analysis with R at the Iowa Code Camp went very well. I have the slides ...
I have been invited to speak at the next Agile Iowa meeting on Wednesday, October 16 at Nationwide in Des ...
I’ve started working on my Data Explorer software again in my free time. My current plan is to continue working ...
I completed my third online course through Coursera this week. The course was Introduction to Data Science offered by University ...
I was a guest speaker at the Iowa Code Camp in Iowa City today. My first presentation, Why Agile? The ...
I’ve been invited to speak at the Iowa Code Camp on June 8th in Iowa City. My first presentation is ...
I was a judge in the ISU K-12 Computational Thinking Competition today. The quality and creativity of the students’ projects ...
I completed my second online course through Coursera today. The course was Data Analysis offered by Johns Hopkins University. The ...
My presentation at the Nebraska Code Camp on Exploratory Data Analysis with R went really well. I’ve uploaded the presentation ...
I’ve been invited to speak at the Nebraska Code Camp on March 16 in Lincoln Nebraska. My presentation, Exploratory Data ...
I completed my first online course through Coursera today. The course was Computing for Data Analysis offered by Johns Hopkins ...
Over Christmas break I took the Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM I) exam through Scrum.org. Well, it looks like all ...
After a year of development, I’m releasing the first public preview of my Data Explorer software. I’m not sure if ...
I uploaded the video of my Iowa Code Camp presentation to my YouTube account. You can view the video here. ...
I was a guest speaker for two classes at Iowa State University today. My first presentation was on Agile Software ...
I was a guest speaker at the Iowa Code Camp today. My presentation was titled Transforming Data into Knowledge. It ...
Welcome to my new website. I created this site to replace my previous website at Iowa State University. Please be ...