Author: Scott

YOLO and Nifi: You Only LOOK Once – Part I

YOLO, You Only Look Once, is a real-time object detection system. You can read the research paper or watch the videos on the website to get a feel for what this system offers. Best of all, the source code is completely free! This blog will not get into retraining the system or implementing it for … Continue reading YOLO and Nifi: You Only LOOK Once – Part I →

Nationals – World Series Champions

Fight Finished! In case you need to re-live game #7 where the Nats came from behind to beat the Astros, here's my book. World Series Game #7 - WSH @ HOU Or the link to LiveBaseballScoreCards. Thank you Nationals for an exciting year of baseball, and for staying in the fight. Go Nats!

Apache Nifi – Part 1

For the past few days I've been experimenting with Apache Nifi. Nifi is a scalable, visual programming tool for developing and running data migration, transformation, and processing dataflows within and among systems. Dataflows are built by dropping pre-built processors on a canvas, configuring them, and connecting their inputs and outputs as necessary. Each processor is … Continue reading Apache Nifi – Part 1 →

Apache Nifi – Part 2

In my last blog about Nifi, I demonstrated a simple dataflow to obtain current weather data from Open Weather Map and write it to a JSON file. Recall the overview of the dataflow shown in the figure below. Nifi dataflow to query http://www.openweathermap.org for local weather, save data as JSON, and display results in web … Continue reading Apache Nifi – Part 2 →

Jupyter Notebooks and Documentum

I've known about Jupyter Notebooks for sometime and have occasionally used other people's notebooks, but never really explored them myself. I think they are very cool and a terrific way to share research, tutorials, examples -- really anything you want to be more interactive than a static web page (and Jupyter Lab looks even cooler!). … Continue reading Jupyter Notebooks and Documentum →