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A pivot point - from SharePoint to Advanced Analytics

Today marks exactly 12 years since I started this blog. My first post went up on 3rd October 2008 and the posts that followed went on to shape my career with opportunities am so thankful for to everyone that gave them to me. 

Unfortunately, in the last 4 years, I took a back seat from blogging here and later on did a slight career pivot, from SharePoint into the world of data engineering and data science. I had thought long and hard about retiring this blog because I had initially dedicated it to a vertical field of SharePoint, at least that's what it was known for anyway. However, I realized that I can still continue to use it, albeit in a new field being data engineering and data science which I've embraced over the last 4 years, since my last post, while at the same time retain my blogging journey. In there is a message as well, to those that might be looking for hope, wondering whether the pivot is even possible. 

As part of rebranding this blog and making it fit for purpose, I have decided to make a few changes to this blog. I've given it a more modern theme, renamed it to Storytelling With Analytics, and bought the domain name storytellingwithanalytics.com which I will point to this blog unless I come up with something better to use the domain name for. 

Going forward, I plan to blog on sharing my learnings and experiences around advanced analytics, including:

  • Machine Learning, leveraging platforms such as Azure, Databricks, and Apache Spark
  • Some Artificial Intelligence inspirations
  • Statistics, where it makes sense
I hope you will join me on this new journey and hopefully cheers for another 12 years!

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