https://harlanh.tech/tags/meta/Recent content in Meta on Harlan D. HarrisHugo -- gohugo.ioenharlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris)harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris)Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://harlanh.tech/2018/03/on-moving-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-blogdown/Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris)https://harlanh.tech/2018/03/on-moving-my-blog-from-wordpress-to-blogdown/ <p>This is my first new post on <a href="https://harlanh.tech">harlan.harris.name</a> for a while. The occasion is a change of scenery. For about 10 years, my primary blog has been on WordPress, more recently supplemented by Medium. But WordPress and Medium are limited for technical writing, and the trend among data people recently has been to publish static sites built with Blogdown and Hugo. So that’s what this is.</p> <p>The technology I’m using (more on it below) lets me do fun things like trivially embed math: <span class="math inline">\(\sum_i a^2_i\)</span>, or generate plots with embedded code:</p>https://harlanh.tech/2013/05/on-name-and-third-level-domains/Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris)https://harlanh.tech/2013/05/on-name-and-third-level-domains/ <p>And, we’re back! After being off-line for several weeks, this site is now live again! I can’t imagine you missed it.</p> <p>Here’s what happened. Let’s start at the beginning. In 2003, ICANN added <code>.name</code> to the list of top-level domains (like <code>.com</code>, <code>.edu</code>, etc.). The idea is that individuals would use it for personal sites and email addresses. You can still do this, but (in case you haven’t noticed), it’s not very popular, and most domain name registrars don’t even sell <code>.name</code> addresses.</p>https://harlanh.tech/2013/02/more-posts-on-the-data-community-dc-blog/Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris)https://harlanh.tech/2013/02/more-posts-on-the-data-community-dc-blog/ <p>For those people (or, more likely, 0 or 1 persons) who follow this blog to catch up on my professional thoughts: I’ve been doing a little bit of writing on the Data Community DC blog. Here are all my posts over there: <a href="http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/author/harlan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/author/harlan/</a> I’d definitely encourage you to read everyone else’s work on the DC2 blog too!</p> <p>Two titles of my own:</p> <ul> <li><a title="Permalink to Examining Overlapping Meetup Memberships with Venn Diagrams" href="http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/2013/02/examining-overlapping-meetup-memberships-with-venn-diagrams/" rel="bookmark">Examining Overlapping Meetup Memberships with Venn Diagrams</a></li> <li><a title="Permalink to Hackathons and DataDives" href="http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/2013/01/hackathons-and-datadives/" rel="bookmark">Hackathons and DataDives</a></li> </ul> <p>And three  of others’:</p>https://harlanh.tech/2012/05/survey-of-data-science-analytics-big-data-applied-stats-machine-learning-etc-practitioners/Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000harlan@harris.name (Harlan Harris)https://harlanh.tech/2012/05/survey-of-data-science-analytics-big-data-applied-stats-machine-learning-etc-practitioners/ <p><a title="Data Science, Moore’s Law, and Moneyball" href="https://harlanh.tech/2011/09/data-science-moores-law-and-moneyball/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As I’ve discussed here before</a>, there is a debate raging (ok, maybe not raging) about terms such as “data science”, “analytics”, “data mining”, and “big data”. What do they mean, how do they overlap, and perhaps most importantly, who are the people who work in these fields?</p> <p>Along with two other DC-area Data Scientists, Marck Vaisman and Sean Murphy, I’ve put together a survey to explore some of these issues. Help us quantitatively understand the space of data-related skills and careers by participating!</p>