The Portfolio & Writings of Bill Chambers

The Portfolio & Writings of Bill Chambers

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Projects

Applying SaaS Company Metrics to Product Adoption11 Jan 2019
Thoughts on Shutting Down Projects and Looking to 201924 Dec 2018
Spark: The Definitive Guide published by O'Reilly!08 Feb 2018
Introducing SparkTutorials.net10 Sep 2015
A Simple Link Shortener in Scala10 Jun 2015
A Simple Link Shortener in Clojure01 Jun 2015
Visualizing Crime in San Francisco during the 2014 World Series20 May 2015
Visualizing Flights Origins and Departures with d3.js05 Apr 2015
K-Means Clustering - Liquor & Assaults in San Francisco31 Mar 2015
Exploratory Data Analysis of Crime in San Francisco16 Mar 2015
Infographic - Why Hasn’t Russia’s Economic Collapse Affected its Leadership?01 Mar 2015
Hackday - Data Science and Docker Working Together18 Jan 2015
Data Challenge - Rebalancing Bike Terminals in SF08 Jan 2015
Deploying PostgreSQL for the California Civic Data Coalition's Django Project25 Nov 2014
EverDone - A Project for An Evernote Hackathon10 Sep 2014
SurpriseHaiku - Discovering Unusual Haikus On Twitter20 Aug 2014

Tutorials and Guides

Plotting Your AWS Redshift Data with Plotly08 May 2015
Plotting Spark DataFrames with Plotly04 May 2015
Interactive Salesforce Graphing with Plotly23 Mar 2015
Python NLP - NLTK and scikit-learn14 Jan 2015
Basic Statistical NLP Part 2 - TF-IDF And Cosine Similarity22 Dec 2014
Basic Statistical NLP Part 1 - Jaccard Similarity and TF-IDF21 Dec 2014
Getting Started with Apache Spark06 Dec 2014
A Gentle Introduction to Static Site Generators11 Nov 2014

Essays

Car Rental Companies and Branding - What sharing desks teaches us about product management23 Jul 2019
Thoughts on 'The Black Swan' by Nassim Taleb16 Feb 2018
The Future of Privacy05 Dec 2014
User Experience Critique - Habits in Timeful31 Aug 2014

Miscellaneous

DataKindSF - Data Analysis for the Greater Good08 Oct 2014