elainegrey

This morning's micro progress in thinking about data mining & python (before i stepped over the microprogress line into the space of overwhelm), was to find the couple of top-ish python libraries and modules for the purpose. A couple books on data mining came to my attention in the search, and i should probably read those too.

From the code libraries i can begin design work.

This, instead of playing with resumes and such. Sooner or later, i will need to resurrect my blog and begin being social under my public name about the project.

Feeling the overwhelm that hit, though -- partly triggered by seing the data mining company a friend used to work for is now at Google, realizing the unexplored networking opportunity that friend presents, also recognizing my fear... not fear, but learned aversion... of the environment that i recall from grad school and listening to the guys posturing and posing.... and i ran into that environment at WhereCamp ... and maybe that's part of what is bothering me about work: the ego and posturing and combativeness for the sake of combat, an interest in being right in the dimension of academic precision and not about a solution that works in multiple dimensions...

Again, i circle around to the question: Do i want to stay in this world?

A possible vision: develop my personal data mine, find value in the small data, and show it off as business analytics i can do for Meeting... go off in search of problems from folks who can't afford... sigh. There's a glimmer there. A glimmer.

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Morning: up early as part of the shift to eastern time.