Optics: Pulling Google Spreadsheet and Salesforce.com data into Elasticsearch

Above: The basic architecture of what I build as part of this blogpost. I’m not...

Apr 03, 2016  - Tags:  # projects  # optics  # python  # elasticsearch 

Quantified Self: Week three progress and real time beer events using Untappd

Untappd beer data turned out to be very easy to add to my quantified self...

Jan 16, 2016  - Tags:  # projects  # untappd  # quantified-self 

Quantified Self: Week two progress and 'Near Real-Time' Fitibit activity

I’m about a week into quantified self tracking. At this point my IFTTT and Zapier...

Jan 09, 2016  - Tags:  # projects  # quantified-self 

Quantified Self: IFTTT, Zapier, and Elasticsearch

As a new years resolution I’m embarking on a Quantified Self project. It is known...

Jan 03, 2016  - Tags:  # tech  # iot  # projects  # quantified-self  # elasticsearch 

Pulling and Splitting live XML with Logstash

As someone who demos Elasticsearch and Kibana quite a bit, the new “http_poller” input to...

Aug 26, 2015  - Tags:  # tech  # logstash  # XML  # elasticsearch 

Web Augmented Reality Experiment

Above is a weekend project visualizing data from Logstash and Elasticsearch using Web Augmented Reality....

Aug 19, 2015  - Tags:  # tech  # WebAR  # visualization 

Logstash CSV with Custom Geo-Enrichment

The city where I live, Washington, DC, has a public bicycle share program called Capital...

May 12, 2015  - Tags:  # tech  # logstash  # bikeshare 

Converting To Jekyll

This blog started life as a Wordpress site backed by a LAMP server over at...

Apr 26, 2015  - Tags:  # tech  # jekyll  # hosting