Repeated estimation can be one of the most unpleasant tasks for any project — and getting it wrong hurts (especially if you get stuck as a target in the project’s “search for the guilty” and “punishing of the innocent” phases!) What...
Open States strives to improve civic engagement at the state and federal level by providing data and tools regarding state legislatures by aggregating legislative information from all 50 states, Congress, Washington, D.C., and Territories. This information is then...
Xcel Energy has been rolling out smart meters to its customers that unlock new abilities. If you have gotten yours, you may be wondering what can my smart meter do, and how does it benefit me? In this presentation, Matthew will be discussing how Xcel Energy smart...
A little over a year ago, while going through a stressful time, I got into basketball to shift focus. I wanted to dive deeper and learn more about my favorite Boston Celtics team, so I built a dashboard with Elasticsearch and Kibana. This talk will show you how to...
As organizations grapple with ever-growing volumes of data, managing and querying large-scale datasets efficiently becomes a critical challenge. Apache Iceberg, an open-source table format for large, slow-changing datasets, emerges as a promising solution to address...
