Lamplight Lab

Lamplight Lab: Data Science and tinkering

Mark’s Books

This is my son Mark: Mark was born in 2021 and is a pretty normal baby. If Mark is anything like his parents, he’ll love books. We decided a great present for him would be a set of books on every birthday (The list of books is at the end of this post). This would…

November 23, 2021
Chapter 3: All Things Data-Defining Your Data Landscape For Data Science

A company’s data landscape is both the foundation and a hard requirement for any data science initiatives. Data strategy is incredibly hard to execute and no one gets it right-some companies just get closer than others. This chapter will address the following subjects: What is data and what forms does it come in What is…

December 30, 2023
Chapter 2: Where am I on this Data Science Journey?

How to help others help you “Help me, help you.” – Jerry Maguire Working for a management consulting company as a director in the Data and AI space I get a lot of questions that begin with “I have this problem” and end with “can you help me?” Now I happen to cover a lot…

October 14, 2023
Chapter 1: What is Data Science and What Can It Do For You?

It is just as {Joseph} said to Pharaoh: …seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them…

August 27, 2023
Preface

“This head of data analytics just put in their notice. You gravitate to this stuff-do you want to run the team until we find a real professional?” – COO of Operations to me in the hallway, 2016 Of course I will! It’s odd how so much of life is working hard until you get placed,…

August 27, 2023
Top 50 Movies Every Young Man Should Watch

“So what movies would you recommend?” That’s a tough question-I know what I would recommend to young men who would like to be able to understand references and quotes from movies. This list is not the best 50 movies of all time-though they are all good. This list is the movies I think young men…

January 26, 2023
Mark’s Courses: Simple Linear Regression Tutorial

I’ve decided to start building a data science course for my son so when he’s old enough to be interested I can offer him education that I can understand and explain. This is the first in hopefully many, and will focus on linear regression of a large feature data set. The data set is from…

November 29, 2022
Step By Step Guide for Data Engineering With Python

This article will guide you through a practical exercise on engineering relational data. The input is a comma separated variable file and the output will be the same, with the intent that the output is in a format matching a template so that data can be concatenated. This could easily be applied/extended to database operations.…

March 18, 2022
More Architects Will Only Make This Worse

March 14, 2022
End to End Guide for Creating Windows Installers for Python using cx-Freeze

Creating windows installer for a program is a very powerful outcome for a developer. It means a user doesn’t need python installed or go through the work of installing required modules to use a program. It also gives the formality of adding an application to Window’s application list, and allows for easy uninstalling of a…

February 17, 2022
End to End Guide For Creating Python Packages

I looked around the internet for guides on how to publish Python packages, and although there’s some great guides I couldn’t find an end to end one with examples and code to walk through. I endeavor for this article to serve that purpose. I referenced python’s documentation almost exclusively for this. The sources are linked…

January 27, 2022