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As time permited, over the past few months, I’ve been learning how to turn my Raspberry Pi into a simple weather data logger. Right now, it’s sitting in my office with a waterproof SHT30 sensor connected to it. The SHT30 measures both temperature and humidity and communicates through something called I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit). This is a communication protocol that allows multiple sensors or devices to share just two wires (one for data and one for…
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Blog post for a Business Intelligence course, part of the AI for Business Master’s program: The Lecture and Assigned Reading The assigned article was “Big Data and Business Intelligence: Unveiling the Impact,” from the Decision Foundry. It outlined how traditional BI was once based on limited, structured datasets and static reporting and now has evolved into a system capable of processing massive and diverse data streams. The article, like the lecture, emphasized how Big Data…
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Last semester was the first time I was introduced to Google Colab, a cloud-based platform for writing and running code. Up until then, I had been using PyCharm to write code locally on my computer. PyCharm is great for structured projects, but Colab immediately stood out for how it integrates with the rest of the Google Workspace apps like Drive, Sheets, and Google Gemini. For a new coder like me, that integration was intuitive and…
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My bachelor’s degree focused on visual communication, a.k.a. graphic design, and I worked for various print and web design companies during the 2000s. That experience helped me become familiar with front-end coding like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I big part of learning these languages was viewing the page source of a website to see how it was built. This was before the days of Firebug or Chrome’s Inspect feature, which now show exactly what’s happening…
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Field to Cloud is a space where I write about new technologies, trends in agriculture, and the ideas I’m exploring through my work and studies….