Today is my first official work day at BuzzData—a startup company devoted to humanization of data. That means, we facilitate the process of transforming raw data ore into all-powerful fuel of knowledge. We are the context. Although there are newspapers, independent journalists, government agencies, data miners among our clients, BuzzData is perfect for everyone with good will and an interesting dataset. Come and try, it's free.

There was a lot of factors contributing to my decision to join BuzzData, but here is the most important one: an opportunity to join a team of highly skilled professionals and just amazingly friendly people. Also, this is not coincidental that I revived my interest in statistics, optimization, machine learning and related things not so long ago.

The first day was spent on figuring out an algorithm for computing distances in a multidimensional non-isomorphic space. Abstract algebra and all that stuff... Looks like there is a lot of fun there.

I also want to thank Shane Caraveo and David Eaves for heading me up. It wouldn't happen without their support.