Nic Acton

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Guru of Grok; Lover of Lifts; Peloton Pedaler; Constantly Consuming Coffee; Crafter of Code, Containers, and Clouds! Absolutely adore alliteration

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LinkedIn Network Exploration Using Qlik Sense

May 15, 20216 min read

LinkedIn is definitely THE place where people talk business. The social-media platform has built up amazing UI and toolkits to help companies do things like recruit new employees and target engagement within their followings. For the general user, wh...

LinkedIn Network Exploration Using Qlik Sense

Project & Product Management Resources for Students and Recent Grads

Feb 22, 20216 min read

Riding on the coat-tails of my previous post where I talked about Data Analytics for students and grads, I thought I would provide a similar post in another vertical that is incredibly important in the technology space: toolsets for product and proje...

Project & Product Management Resources for Students and Recent Grads

Data Analytics Resources for Students and Recent Grads

Feb 19, 20217 min read

You can learn some of the top platforms at home and for FREE! Congratulations upcoming grads! You’ve sat through countless hours of classes, written your sorting algorithms from scratch, analyzed your lab data in Excel, and you’re about to receive th...

Data Analytics Resources for Students and Recent Grads

Different Posture, Same Result

Jan 6, 20212 min read

Quite some time ago I read The Art of Possibility and it gave me a lot of very interesting points that I think have helped direct my life differently and positively. One point that was very poignant to me came from one of the co-authors, Benjamin Zan...

Your Next Gaming PC will be Borrowed

Jan 6, 20213 min read

Back around 2008 I remember when I was 15 or 16 and I got together with a friend to build my first gaming computer. We ran to Microcenter, bought about $1000 worth of parts, then ran home to put it all together. I’m thankful for that experience, it h...

The Number One Tool for Solutions Architects

Jan 5, 20212 min read

When you think of solution architecture, you probably think of Cloudformation or Terraform scripts that define massive infrastructure applications for various customers. You probably also think of lots of bash or cloud-init scripts that define what p...