Lars Fiedler – dataflow analytics blog

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Lars has comprehensive expertise building large complex software systems, and has served as a Software Engineer at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory from 2010-2014, where he began developing Composable Analytics. Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, Lars worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft Corporation from 2006 to 2010. Lars received his MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004, and his BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2003.

Code Reuse and Modularity in Composable

Published January 2, 2019 by Lars Fiedler

Composable provides special mechanisms for managing complexity of dataflows. Specifically, Composable allows you to reuse parts of your dataflow by encapsulating them as stand-alone custom modules. When developing your dataflow…

DataOps: Straightforward Data Migration

Published December 31, 2018 by Lars Fiedler

Business use cases sometimes demand the orchestration or migration of data from one Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) to another. For example, moving data from MySQL to Oracle, or from…

WIX: Scheduling a custom database upgrade to happen After=”InstallSqlData” and Before=”StartServices”

Published October 24, 2018 by Lars Fiedler

At Composable, we develop MSIs for deploying and upgrading instances of the Composable platform. Anytime we want to update an instance, we just simply double click on the latest Composable…

When is a parameterized SQL query slower than having inline values?

Published May 17, 2018 by Lars Fiedler

Software engineers have always been told to parameterize their SQL queries. Why? It avoids any possibilities of SQL injection. Rather than an arbitrary value being formatted into the SQL query,…

Composable shines versus Alteryx

Published April 17, 2018 by Lars Fiedler

Composable shines versus Alteryx

We’ve written previously about the numerous products that market themselves for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. As we noted earlier, this can be confusing, but we are typically successful in…

Integrating and Syncing Salesforce with Sql Server

Published November 16, 2017 by Lars Fiedler

Integrating and Syncing Salesforce with Sql Server

When it comes to CRMs these days, Salesforce has maintained its industry leadership for quite some time. But its analytics and reporting capabilities surrounding the data it controls has always…

Migrating a FoxPro Database to 64 bit SQL Server

Published September 25, 2017 by Lars Fiedler

Migrating a FoxPro Database to 64 bit SQL Server

We recently had a client who needed to query data from a legacy system built on FoxPro. What is FoxPro you ask? Fox Software was a company Microsoft purchased back…

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Top practitioners are coming to PAW London, 16-17 Oct 2019, to describe the design, deployment and business impact of their machine learning projects. Register using code KDNUGGETS for a 15% discount on your Predictive Analytics World ticket.

McKinsey: Data Engineer [Wroclaw, Poland]

McKinsey is seeking a Data Engineer in Wroclaw, Poland, to enable effective, highly scalable data analysis pipelines and play a critical role in database design, development, data integration and ingestion, as well as designing ETL architectures using a variety of ETL tools and techniques.

McKinsey: Data Scientist [Wroclaw, Poland]

McKinsey is seeking a Data Scientist in Wroclaw, Poland, to work with McKinsey clients and consulting teams to carry out complex data analysis and modeling, creating a foundation for sound recommendations for client studies and internal projects.

Scaling a Massive State-of-the-art Deep Learning Model in Production

A new NLP text writing app based on OpenAI's GPT-2 aims to write with you -- whenever you ask. Find out how the developers setup and deployed their model into production from an engineer working on the team.

Secrets to a Successful Data Science Interview

Are you puzzled as to what to prepare for data science interviews? That you are reading this document is a reflection of your seriousness in being a successful data scientist.

The Hackathon Guide for Aspiring Data Scientists

This article is an overview of how to prepare for a hackathon as an aspiring data scientist, highlighting the 4 reasons why you should take part in one, along with a series of tips for participation.

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Introducing Gen: MIT’s New Language That Wants to be the TensorFlow of Programmable Inference

Researchers from MIT recently unveiled a new probabilistic programming language named Gen, a language which allow researchers to write models and algorithms from multiple fields where AI techniques are applied without having to deal with equations or manually write high-performance code.

Pre-training, Transformers, and Bi-directionality

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) is a language representation model that combines the power of pre-training with the bi-directionality of the Transformer’s encoder (Vaswani et al., 2017). BERT improves the state-of-the-art performance on a wide array of downstream NLP tasks with minimal additional task-specific training.

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