Yearly Archives: 2011

Using LinkedIN in Local Government

Watch the Video Interview Angela Stubbs, Economic Development Officer at the City of Kingston.recently did an interview and a guest post on how they have been using LinkedIn. Angela has championed the use of LinkedIn at the City of Kingston and in this post she provides some insights into her experiences with LinkedIn as aRead… Read more »

PMP Exam Tip: Cost of Nonconformance

There are two separate components within Cost of Quality (COQ). We looked at the Cost of Conformance in our last tip and this time we’ll focus on the Cost of Nonconformance. The Cost of Conformance is focused on avoiding potential failures and the Cost of Nonconformance is the cost incurred as a result of anyRead… Read more »

Data Wizards Know Hadoop is Powerful: But they want more automation

Hadoop and the many capabilities associated with it (including Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Flume, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie and Whirr) is really the rage. Enterprises with big data challenges, researchers with massive data sets and organizations seeking to make sense over seemingly unbounded data are learning how to use those many related technologies to solve problemsRead… Read more »

Arduino Workshop: The Man with the Soldering Gun

During our last Labs Friday, Andrew Sliwinski led an Arduino workshop at the CfA office. Arduino is an electronic prototyping platform that allows even amateur hackers (like me) to create cool, interactive electronic objects. From blinking lights (Arduino’s version of “Hello world”) to wireless air climate sensors, there was something to learn for beginners andRead… Read more »

1.USA.gov Hack Day in San Diego

Mark your calendars: on July 29th, from 10am to 6pm, we will host a hack day in San Diego at the Ansir Innovation Center as part of the nationwide 1.USA.gov Hack Day. RSVP on Eventbrite! Why this hack day will be awesome The 1.USA.gov Hack Day is designed to encourage coders, entrepreneurs, and curious citizensRead… Read more »

California’s budget: Cleaning up the mess

Deltek Analyst Erin Brady reports. The state of California’s budget finally seems to have caught a break after a long, tedious ordeal. The road to the completed budget certainly wasn’t easy. First came the $25 billion deficit, and then Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the budget presented to him by state legislators. The veto was California’sRead… Read more »

CIDA announces Open Data portal: What it means to Canadians

For those who missed it, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has announced it is launching an open data portal. This is exciting news. On Monday I was interviewed about the initiative by Embassy Magazine which published the resulting article (behind their paywall) here. As (I hope) the interview conveys, I’m cautiously optimistic about theRead… Read more »