My name is Steve, I have been facinated by computers since I was a child and created my first website using PHP and MySQL when I was about 11. dataSteve is my latest personal blog where I share things that I am learning on my journey.
How to spin up a cheap Oracle Database in the cloud
I saw this article from linked in a tweet yesterday and realised I know very little about Oracle’s cloud offering. It seems like this venerable giant of the data industry is not leading the way in the cloud domain. As a curious type, I thought it would be interesting to investigate how to spin up a cheap Oracle database in the cloud using Oracle’s own little known cloud offering and others....
Should I learn Python, R or SQL for data science?
The question ‘Should I learn Python, R or SQL for data science?’ is a common one amongst new starters in the field of data science. I have often seen blogs explaining for instance how: “Python is better as it will allow you to do other things as well as data science” or “R is better at doing statistical analysis” and so on. Mind the knowledge gap? While it’s perfectly valid to hold an opinion on these things as an experienced data developer, I have often thought that for beginners, statements like these can be unhelpful....