Here’s the situation: you’ve spent days crafting a dynamic period over period (PoP) selector that updates automatically with whatever period length and number of prior periods the user wants to see. It’s beautiful! It passes all the tests! Oh…and also… It requires 3 specific dimensions and filters to be selected or it won’t work properly. Quick Start, to the rescue! Explores in Looker have an excellent feature called Quick Start…

I’ve always had trouble distinguishing between really specific genres in music by the sound alone — I’m looking at you, metal! So, I turned the problem of classifying genre into a Digital Signal Processing problem. Let’s get processing! [I should preface this by saying I have a master’s degree in…

Before I started data science, I was working with audio constantly: editing podcasts, mixing 50-track sessions of middle school band players, arranging the “Fairytale” theme from Shrek, and the list goes on. As an audio editor, you 100% absolutely need shortcuts or you will decompose in your chair while working…

“Hello, World!” It’s the first program you’ll learn to run in just about any coding language. It was initially referenced by Brian Kernighan in his book, A Tutorial Introduction to the Programming Language B. It’s also a symbolic statement — you’re stepping into a previously unknown world, so you might…