Keefe

In 1993, a cargo ship called the Golden Venture ran aground on a sandbar off the Rockaway Peninsula in New York. The ship, which had set off four months earlier from Bangkok, had stopped in Kenya and rounded the Cape of Good Hope to reach America. It carried a desperate cargo: 286 undocumented people from Fuzhou in China, who had made the voyage in the clothes they stood up in, without any kind of adequate sanitation on board, and little food or water. With the ship stranded offshore, most of the migrants, stick-thin and…

Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts under false pretenses in September 2022.Image: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)One of the bigger political news stories in 2022 was Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ harebrained scheme to ship immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in a bid to own the libs. While the plan backfired, a recent report from CBS Miami reveals more deception at the hands of the DeSantis administration, as a top adviser used a Silence of the…

Photo by Jason Goodman on UnsplashLean Six Sigma practices are industry-standard in manufacturing, but the same principles are readily transferrable and transformational when applied to your digital teams in software development and productionLean Six Sigma and related total quality management systems have been around for decades, and have had multiple predecessors stemming back from W. Edwards Deming and succeeding to specific quality systems in individual sectors such as Agile Project Management in tech.While the clear…

Photo: Samuel Corum (Getty Images)Project Veritas, the conservative “investigative journalism” outlet known for shoving hidden cameras anywhere they can fit them, reportedly violated wiretapping laws.That’s according to a ruling in a federal civil case this week where jurors determined Project Veritas operatives fraudulently misrepresented themselves when conducting one of their so-called investigations into a Democratic consulting firm called Democracy Partners. The jury awarded the consulting firm $120,000.The alleged…

Photo by Chris Liverani on UnsplashOpinionIn a time where LinkedIn posts, online conversations, and news articles are all implying the end is near, data scientists, engineers, and analysts all alike should not give up hope and should continue to hone their skills and talents.While this article has a somewhat different nature than most of my tech tutorials, I felt that I was doing the data science community an injustice by not commenting in an op-ed on industry trends and what has been seeming to be a global recession. It…

Photo by Scott Graham on UnsplashOne of the current disadvantages of the Pandas library's built-in pivot functions is the lack of gathering subtotals dynamically for multiple levels of data. We can write our own function for adding this feature, similar to that in Excel.Pivot tables are data tools that summarize transformations or manipulations of another data source. They are very useful for presenting key insights from large datasets and have been part of Excel and other similar spreadsheet systems for decades. While…

Patrick Radden Keefe is among the hallowed practitioners of American long-form journalism. Every year or so at the New Yorker, he comes up with the eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting piece of narrative reportage that has become practically its own genre in the past two decades. In the preface to Rogues, a collection of his greatest hits since 2007, Keefe writes that despite the internet’s overall bleak effect on the circulation of print media, it also enabled his career on a…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Hockey Brendan Shanahan and Kyle Dubas during the end of season press conference on Tuesday May 17, 2022. Photo by Veronica Henri /Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun Article content The management family isn’t breaking up yet, but the Maple Leafs might soon be living in a house divided. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content The coming months, with public patience at an…