Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 278 | Thomas Henson
Guest:
Thomas Henson talks with Dave Rael about broad interests, data science, data engineering, career progression, listening to users, and being a good teammate
Thomas Henson is a known Hadoop Guru who is known for helping teams solve complex problems with Big Data. Thomas is a Software Engineer at heart and Big Data Analytics Evanglist by trade; where he specializes in solving real world problems with Hadoop. He is proud Alumni of the University of North Alabama; where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degree. Thomas has been seen at many conferences events like Hadoop Summit, Future of Data Roadshow and Fed Forum. You can always check him out at thomashenson.com or on twitter at @henson_tm.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Thomas Henson
- - Data Science and Data Engineering and the team game that is Big Data
- - Thomas's path into Big Data
- - Thomas's experiences with being focused on data
- - Artificial intelligence
- - Thomas's education and relevance to the math and algorithms in data analysis
- - Advice for software developers to know more about data science
- - Thomas's Pluralsight courses
- - Thomas's joy in teaching
- - Thomas's story of failure - building the wrong features because of not listening to users
- - Thomas's book recommendation
- - The things that have Thomas most excited
- - Thomas's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Thomas
Resources:
- Thomas's Blog
- Thomas's Pluralsight Author Page
- Thomas's YouTube Channel
- Geeks vs Nerds
- Data Science and Data Engineering
- Big Data
- Hadoop
- Spark
- Nate Silver
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
- Moneyball
- Hadoop Summit
- Artificial intelligence
- Skynet
- Machine learning
- Matrices and Matrix Arithmetic
- Netflix Prize
- Splunk
- Ryan Holiday
- The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Ryan Holiday
- Linux Academy
Thomas's book recommendation:
Thomas's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Take time to learn something new
- Bring energy and attitude
- Rely on data
