Why "sigforge"#

I forge machines that transform signals. That is the whole name: sig for signal, forge for the work.

The sigforge mark.

A signal is any measurement of the world that changes over time: phone contact volumes, cellular and Wi-Fi traces, fare-card taps, water and power grid readings, security alerts, speech. It arrives noisy and drifting.

The machine is what turns it into something you can act on: a forecast with its uncertainty, an alert worth answering, a decision an agent can take. Forging means building that machine to run in production: tested against clear goals from the start, and handed over as code anyone can rerun.

A prism is the textbook example of this kind of machine. One white beam goes in, its components come out, each visible on its own.

A white beam of light enters a prism and leaves as a spectrum of colors — One beam in, its components out.

This site is organized around Services, Experience and Research, and this blog will carry short notes on side projects, views on data management, and where information systems are heading.

The prism of The Dark Side of the Moon projected on the dome of the Planetarium Hamburg, a beam of light entering from the left and a spectrum leaving on the right — The prism of *The Dark Side of the Moon* on the dome of the Planetarium Hamburg. Photo: Frank Schwichtenberg, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Have signals that need a machine?

Tell me what you measure and which decision it should drive. A short call is the quickest way to find out whether I can help. Prefer email? Write to [email protected].

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