Kurt Cagle is the former contributing editor for Data Science Central. Kurt is a published author with more than twenty books to his credit, and has been working as a technology editor for years, writing for Forbes, O'Reilly Media, IDC and others. He has also been a consulting information architect and ontologist with more than twenty years experience working with Fortune 100 companies and US and European agencies, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on data technologies.
Another year, another round of updates for ECMAScript, better known to the world as Javascript. This process of continuous improvement in the language has been… Read More »What’s Under the Tree for ECMAScript-mas 2022?
Projects fail. There are many reasons why they do, but a surprising number of them come down to one or more variations of the “Wishful… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 08 March 2022: Beware of Wishful Thinking
We’re moving at the Cagle house and we’re discovering that, after eight years of living at the same place, one family can collect a lot… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 01 March 2022: Taxonomists Classify, Ontologists Conceptualize
In the last couple of months, I’ve been noticing a gradual shift in the kind of articles that we receive at Data Science Central. We… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 22 February 2022: Graphology
It is nearly certain that, if you have ever played a 3D video game, watched a CGI-effects-laden movie, or seen increasingly hyperrealistic imagery, you have… Read More »Scene Graphs and Semantics
I write this particular newsletter on Valentine’s Day, and I was planning to talk about love (in particular the love of data). However, real-world events… Read More »DSC Weekly Newsletter 15 Feb 2022: On the Verge of War
The Semantic Web has garnered a reputation for complexity among both Javascript and Python developers, primarily because, well, it’s not JSON, and JSON has become… Read More »Why JSON Users Should Learn Turtle
It ended with a sock puppet. The year was 1999, and the dot-com era was in full swing. Every company was not just an Internet… Read More »DSC Weekly Digest 08 Feb 2022: All That eGlitters Is Not Gold
The Javascript language has, over the last few years, evolved dramatically, to the extent that even those who are regular Javascript developers are likely to… Read More »Javascript Tips For Conditional Expressions
In 1993, I was at a conference in Seattle where I stumbled onto someone who was showing this new application called the Mosaic WWW Browser.… Read More »DSC Weekly Newsletter 01 Feb 2022: What is Web 3.0 and Why Does it Matter?
