Miscellaneous

I love assigning project code names. However, after a certain point the increase in projects decrease the amount of time I am able to commit to assigning a meaningful code name to each one.

July 2020 marked the 10 year anniversary for my blog. If you asked me a decade ago what I would be blogging about now my answer would be SEO. I never would have guessed it would shift to data science and data visualization topics.

The 2020 US presidential election is coming down to the wire and I thought it would be fun to share how I calculate the answer to the following question: What is the distribution of the remaining ballots that Biden/Trump needs to win the electoral college votes for a given state? If we join this data point with Biden vs Trump mail-in ballot rates, or any other information for that matter, then it returns a fairly…

Ask my wife anything about me and she’ll be the first to testify that I have more books than clothing (lol). One book that dramatically changed my life and highly recommend reading is “Deep Work” by Cal Newport .

The purpose of this article is to elaborate and visualize (surprise!) my comment I left over on Reddit: Professional data scientists: did you overcome the feeling of never knowing enough?

The coronavirus (a. k. a. COVID-19) is taking the world by storm with the World Health Organization officially characterizing the situation as a pandemic .

Pretty fun murder mystery from @knightlab - can you find the killer using #SQL ? https://t. co/vXcMtY2b1c — Christopher Yee ( @Eeysirhc ) December 20, 2019 CLUE #1 There is a murder in SQL City on 2018-01-15 .

Do you know who your favorite person on Twitter is? Probably! Did you ever want to quantify that statement? Probably not!

With the year coming to a close and 2019 just around the corner, I thought I would try something new and reflect back on the defining moments of my 2018 - along with my $0. 02.

TL;DR implementing a system to “drive” (e. g. creating a team or process) and “celebrate” (e. g.

I attended MozCon 2017 last month where it’s always a blast to reconnect with old colleagues and make new friends. That being said, this isn’t going to be your typical feel good post or conference recap.

This post is super late but if you didn’t know already I left my short tenure with Macy’s earlier this month and joined the SEOgadget family! You can read my first SEOgadget blog post here .

There are many pivotal moments in a life time and one of mine occurred earlier this month when I made the difficult decision to resign from CafePress as the in-house SEO Analyst . After nearly two years of dedicated service I felt my time was up as my professional long-term vision no longer aligned with company goals.

Update: Conference has unfortunately been cancelled . I don’t have anything major to share this month besides the fact that I will be attending Distilled’s SearchLove conference in San Francisco (not an affiliate link).

Happy new years eve, everyone! To continue my tradition from last year , below are the top funny and interesting search phrases for CafePress in 2011. Enjoy! Funniest Don’t ask me, ask google The sun is trying to kill me Pow!

In the past few months I’ve taken a new interest in learning how to program and code as it applies to SEO. This came out as a need to research and evaluate SEO campaigns in a scalable manner where popular SEO tools didn’t work for my situation or I had no engineering resources available.

It’s been very busy for me this month so unfortunately I do not have anything to write about. However, I am introducing my monthly link round-up where I share some of the most link worthy blog posts out there about SEO - I guess that’s my treat.

I’ve officially transitioned my SEO blog from the free wordpress. COM to the paid wordpress. ORG version. Everything went off without a hitch and I can’t thank the WordPress team enough for making this process ridiculously easy.

When I first started this blog a little over a year ago, its main purpose was to act as my resume. It was to show potential employers that even though I had no knowledge about the SEO industry, I was very passionate about it.

I ran my SEObook Rank Checker the other day for one of my clients Google keywords rankings when I came upon the Captcha image below. They may be the world’s best search engine at the moment but they still have a lot of work to do….

Interactive marketing is hot in the job market right now and a recent report by ClickZ illustrates the increase in salary since 2010. What is fishy about this study is how they don’t account for experience.

Happy new years eve!!! Just a few more hours before the start of 2011 and I thought it’d be a great idea to showcase some of the top funny and interesting search phrases of 2010 for CafePress .