I cook a lot, and especially on weekend mornings I’ll make a big breakfast for the family. Oftentimes, I’ll make pancakes. I’m vegan, so the typical pancake recipe that likely includes eggs and milk doesn’t work for me. …

Summary according to ChatGPT There are two broad categories when it comes to data products: treating data as a product and actually building data products. Treating data as a product involves shifting focus away from service-oriented work, interacting and understanding users deeply, planning and reviewing work in the style of a product manager, and…

Over the last few weeks I’ve had fun playing around with the OpenAI API. This time I got interested in what the till could do if I just fed it a dataset. To my surprise (though I’m less and less surprised the more I try things out), the response…

I really like to read and listen to audiobooks — thankfully the library has both physical books as well as audiobooks and ebooks available and Amazon fills in the gaps if I want to buy the book. …

The City of Syracuse’s Office of Accountability, Performance, and Innovation launched an open data challenge this month, with a prompt of using the Syracuse Public Art dataset to build an interesting visualization, web app, or something else interesting. …

When I was in fifth grade, I had a writing assignment that asked for each student to create a step-by-step guide to do any task we liked. I remember one student wrote a guide to putting a golf ball, another wrote a guide to typing your shoes. …

This is coming a few weeks before the official anniversary, but since there’s a big celebration of the accomplishment this weekend, I thought I’d write. I was a senior in high school and had been admitted to Syracuse University. While this is where I likely wanted to go to college…

When I first started working for the City of Syracuse, the team’s first task was to help find new solutions for dealing with the City’s aging and increasingly failing infrastructure. As I attempted to analyze data, it was increasingly clear that the City’s data infrastructure was also aging and failing. …

Last week, I wrote about the barriers to data driven decision making in government, covered in the first week of the class I teach in the Executive MPA program at Syracuse University. In this week’s class, we talked about the framework around which data and analytics projects can be implemented…