Back in May I won startup weekend as part of the People Analytics team. The experience was exhausting and energizing. Here’s a short recap: Jay Beavers, Javiar Luraschi, John Rice and I decided to...

Back in May I accepted a position on the Strategic Engagements team at Microsoft. It’s a great group of people, with cool opportunities. We are still figuring out the lay of the land, but we’re muc...

When developing map-reduce programs for Microsoft Azures Hadoop implementation, HDInsight, it’s often useful to reference data stored in azure. Here is what I’ve found works easily but wasn’t clea...