LLM Fine-tuning
My Journey I began this blog 9 years ago and was honest in my About statement that my intent was to share my journey as I was learning more and more about Data Visualization and Data Analytics. Most importantly …… Read more ›
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Background I loved playing Hungry Hungry Hippos as a child, as a parent and as a grandparent. So when the opportunity arose to talk about Information Hungry hippos, I mean end users, I just couldn’t pass up the chance to… Read more ›
Role Playing Dimension of the Year
The ballots have been tabulated and the 2022 Dorksi for Role Playing Dimension of the Year goes to the “Physicians Table.” The CEO, CIO, CMO, CNO of the ficticous, soap opera based General Hospital Health System all shared the same… Read more ›
What’s In It For Them
Background In my last post What’s In It For Me I provided a step by step example that showed how I could gain peace of mind by backup an important SaaS application to GitHub on a scheduled basis. Then I… Read more ›
What’s In It For Me
WII-FM When I was young Dork starting my career I participated in Toastmasters International for 7 years. If you aren’t familiar with the organization it is a non-profit group with clubs all over the world where you meet on a… Read more ›
Data Artistry – The Treasured and Definitive Book
Foreword All businesses have a product which they sell and hospitals, even non-profits, are no exception to that rule. Their product? Beds. Oh, sure they have lots of human beings that poke you, prod you, care for you and feed… Read more ›
Data Artistry
A picture paints a thousand words They say that a picture paints a thousand words. If that were true, you should be able to describe a picture with a thousand words. Right? Like you, I have no idea who “they”… Read more ›
Taming the Trickiness of Temporality
In my previous post Merging with Time Travel I demonstrated how you can combine Qlik’s Merge functionality to take advantage of Snowflake Time Travel. After all, everyone else in the world is talking about Change Data Capture and Data Pipelines… Read more ›
Merging with Time Travel
Yikes Sorry science fiction fans this post isn’t about time travel or the new fascination with surviving while traveling through a black hole. It’s about something much scarier and harder to deal with. End users who are super demanding. You… Read more ›
Show and Tell
One of my fondest memories of early years in school was Show and Tell. For those not familiar with the concept, students could bring 1 item to school with them and show it off to the class. As you can… Read more ›