Andy Parkerson
Data Engineering & Analytics | Microsoft Fabric Advocate
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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Andy is a seasoned data engineer with over a decade of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, specializing in Microsoft Fabric. With a solid background in software development for retail back-end systems, he brings a unique perspective to building scalable, data-driven solutions. Holding an M.S. in Mathematics, Andy combines analytical rigor with practical engineering to deliver reliable, actionable insights.
After transitioning to data engineering, Andy has become a passionate advocate for evidence-based programming and empowering organizations through trustworthy data. He actively contributes to the tech community by organizing and speaking at user groups focused on Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, and analytics.
When he’s not working with data, Andy enjoys grilling and smoking, often spending weekends refurbishing old grills and bringing them back to life for another round of great cooking.
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Own Your Workflow: Build Notebooks Locally & Deploy Them to Fabric
Break free from browser IDE in Fabric Python and PySpark Notebooks! Learn to install Python and Spark, create your own local lakehouse, and develop Python and PySpark Notebooks in Visual Studio, VSCode, or whatever IDE you're used to. We'll start with a clean machine and download, install and configure everything we need. We will create a feature-rich notebook, and wrap up by deploying to Fabric.
Deep Dive into Azure DevOps
There are many different tools for tracking your team's work, and many more for maintaining a code base. There are tools for managing deployments, and tools for testing both your work in progress as well as your work in production. Getting these all to work together is difficult and requires learning several different platforms.
Azure DevOps is a suite of tools that accomplishes all of these things. It replaces Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, and Katalon, bringing all of the power of these tools into one unified interface. We will discuss each of these features, as well as how to set it up, configure a team, create tickets, manage code, and deploy it. No previous experience is required to gain actionable insight into this powerful (and free*) set of tools.
Track the Past, Power the Future: SCD Type 2 in Fabric Notebooks
Slowly Changing Dimensions Type 2 are a cornerstone of Kimball’s dimensional modeling methodology, essential for tracking historical changes in data. In this session, we’ll dive into implementing SCD Type 2 tables in Fabric PySpark Notebooks.
Attendees will walk away with a fully functional, reusable notebook template and packaging strategy that they can adapt and deploy in their own environment.
I Can See the Future! Forecasting from Scratch for Fun and Profit
Forecasting for many businesses is done more by gut feel than science. How much product to buy, how much revenue to expect, how many calls will come in — these questions often are answered by some quick Excel formula that doesn’t account for trends or seasonality. We will examine the Holt-Winters exponential triple smoothing (ETS) algorithm for forecasting, both for its excellent results and for its ease of implementation. We will also dive into optimization algorithms — genetic, particle-swarm, and Nelder-Mead — to best identify initial constants.
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Andy Parkerson
Data Engineering & Analytics | Microsoft Fabric Advocate
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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