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Top 5 2021 Opportunities and Predictions

When you combine this past years unprecedented experiences with 15+ years as CEO, customer and partner interactions, countless technical training and certifications, and reading any technical trend article and email I can get my hands on, you might have a pretty solid understanding of which technologies and strategies to make a priority for your optimal

Buoyancy Strong

2020 started like most years for us, with optimism, hopes, and dreams for what we could accomplish. Also typical, by March I know whether business is trending in a positive direction, and the timing this year was remarkable. Cloud Brigade was in the beginning stages of a business pivot which is anxiety inducing in itself,

Exploring COVID-19 Data

The Problem COVID-19 is spreading and killing people unevenly through our national population, and public policy makers need a better way to narrow their focus to best handle this pandemic. The Data Science Problem Can we create and use a set of Machine Learning models and Data Science tools to identify the leading indicators of

What’s in my Fridge?

Let me tell you a real story, that definitely happened. With the announcement of Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, we were trying to find a nice use-case to evaluate the performance of this new functionality. While we were thinking we got thirsty, so we ran to the fridge but instead of beverages, we found a surprise, the fridge was empty!

Covid-19 Data Exploration

Cloud Brigade has been exploring Covid 19 data using Machine Learning algorithms, focusing on (or digging deeper) into data points that we feel were under-reported in the media. You can read more about our work in our blog, including this post. Covid-19 Infections and Deaths in Santa Cruz In this dashboard we look at infection
AWS Community Builders

Community Building Brigade-Style

Due to Chris’s public contributions around AWS services, he was invited to participate within the Beta phase of the AWS Community Builders program.

We Built a Fake News App… Horrible Idea

Fake News was discussed daily, and I had been thinking about this problem for a few months. On a whim I thought, what if we created a website that allowed the public to rate our president’s tweets as true or false?

What Could You Do With $1000 of AWS Credits?

To the individual “the cloud” is this mystical place where we store photos and check email. To businesses small or large, the cloud provides a lot of benefits that were previously too expensive or out of reach.