Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group ... then to hell with them.
A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind that loves diagnosis involving multiple variables.
I'm interested in project management, F.A.I.R. data, metadata, the user experience of data driven products and services, and engaging data catalogues. I occasionally write to Medium and post videos to YouTube.
| Site | Description |
| Medium | I sometimes post my writing to Medium. |
| YouTube | I upload videos to YouTube. |
| Tumblr | I use Tumblr for blogging sometimes. |
How does our access to information influence our worldview? Consider the information we encounter and consume online. Machine learning can be used to change the flow of information we have access to which can then be used to change our behaviour. I sometimes post data analyses to R Pubs, a free publication site for users of the R statistical programming language.
| Site | Description |
| RPubs | Where I post my data analyses. |
| Air Pollution | Toronto air pollution levels before and after Covid-19 lockdown. |
I enjoy taking photos of architecture and other things I see when visiting big cities. I post to Instagram and Pixelfed, the latter being a federated photography platform.
| Site | Description |
| I occasionally post to Instagram. | |
| Pixelfed | I like the interface and lack of advertisements on Pixelfed. |
I've included some of the presentations I've given.
| Name of Presentation | Description |
| Advanced Analytics Workspace | Made for Statistics Canada in 2022. |
| Ubuntu Desktop | Made for Canonical in 2021. |
| Ubuntu SDK Tools | Made for Canonical in 2021. |
I've been interested in the graphical user interface of operating systems and the user experience of computers in general since I was a young kid with a Mac IIci. I've recently started looking more seriously into the user experience of open source software.
| Site | Description |
| GNOME Gitlab | I sometimes contribute to GNOME on their Gitlab instance. |
There are many ways to get in touch with me. Please check out the following social media sites.
| Site | Description |
| I sometimes post on Twitter. | |
| Github | I use Github for project management and open source development. |
| I use LinkedIn for professional networking. |