SQL Hegemony -- the "Pivot Table" problem

As far as I can tell, the Pivot Table Problem™ only exists for people who have actively put on blinders so that they can only see data one way.
This leads to the following.
The context appears to be millions of rows of data. Hundreds of columns. It appears that …
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SQL Hegemony -- a sad state of affairs

It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.

Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.

The sentence that got my attention was "Python has basically made SQL obsolete as a language for data …

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Lynda and Educational Content

Just found http://www.lynda.com.

Unlike random YouTube videos, these are professionally edited.

Not everything on YouTube is poorly edited. Some are really good.

Having done a few webcasts for O'Reilly (and I have another scheduled for January 2016,) I know that my "you knows" -- you know -- and my …

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Events: PyCon 2016, OSCon 2016

Many years ago ('07?) I went to my first PyCon. My situation changed and I didn't get to another PyCon until last year.

The story is a kind of major dumbosity. In '07 I could expense the trip as education. In '08, I'd lost that feature of my employment. After …

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