Throughput, throughput, throughput – for many databases, this is the performance measure of...
Plotting Oracle RMAN backup durations with R
How long does your Oracle RMAN backup take to complete? How does this vary over time? Are the...
Revisiting text processing with R and Python
Back in 2011, I covered the relative performance difference of the most popular libraries for tex...
Law’s Future from Finance’s Past: Recorded Talk from Reinvent Law Silicon Valley
Back in March, I posted the slides to my talk at the Silicon Valley Reinvent Law event – Law&#...
Generating SSH config from AWS hosts using boto
As a consultant and advisor to many firms running on or investigating AWS, I find SSH host and ke...
Slides from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley Talk
Live from ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, where I gave an Ignite-style talk drawing analogy to law̵...
Automating Oracle Database deployment with Amazon Web Services, fabric, and boto – SEMOP Talk, Feb 12, 2013
I’ll be giving a talk tonight on automated Oracle database deployment at the SouthEast Michig...
Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics
After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source f...
Connecting R to an Oracle database with RJDBC
In many circumstances, you might want to connect R directly to a database to store and retrieve data...
Retrieving the VIX term structure in R
Much of my time lately has gone into analyzing and trading products in the volatility complex. ...