As the three of us embarked on this new data-mining project, we were the data scientist, the manager and the developer, who knew nothing about visualizations. We didn’t even want to do any visuals at first. Then someone stumbled across the New York Times Obama Budget visual and the wheels started spinning. Pretty soon we […]

Figure a blog without pictures or conversations is just boring, so, here it is. Lately, I have been dealing a lot with data visualization. This was a brand new area for me and while we do use F# for data extraction, all of the front end is done using d3, an amazing toolkit by Mike […]

The last post contains the description of a sqlMonad. It also happens to contain a silly and obvious (aren’t they all in hindsight) bug. The bug is in implementing the containing CmdSqlBuilder with the IDisposable. While the intent was good (the class wraps resources that should be promptly disposed of – SqlCommand and SqlConnection): there […]

Most of the developers have dealt with calling SQL server stored procedures from their applications at least once or twice. In my last project, where intense data mining is done on the SQL side, this is basically all I am doing. There is always a desire to wrap and abstract the ever-repetitive code to get […]