What is Hashing? Hashing is simply passing some data through a formula that produces a result, called a hash. That hash is usually a string of characters and the hashes generated by a formula are …
What does it mean to hash data and do I really care? Read More
Actuary, data scientist, or just a guy in the rain? The hot new thing, data science, isn’t so new after all. Since the advent of modern actuarial science in the late 1980s, insurance companies have …
The Difference Between an Actuary and a Data Scientist Read More
There exists a chronic confusion as to what the distinction is between your average software engineer (i.e. programmer) and a data scientist. This is totally understandable, considering the fact that both jobs do involve programming …
So, what is the difference between a programmer and a data scientist? Read More
UPDATE: 2020 January 20 – When I originally wrote this post, the term data lake wasn’t in vogue. Well, times have changed! Nowadays, the term sandbox has largely been replaced with data lake. The concept …
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