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I don't want to say that my recent experiences at work are radicalizing me against the star schema per se, but boy is it funny to walk through someone else's construction project and realize that they had one hammer in hand...so every problem immediately became a nail.

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The Data Council ‘25 talks are now online, which is great because even when you attend you can’t be everywhere all at once. I’ll highlight a couple below, but there are plenty of other great talks. #databs

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Trying to (kindly) remind my business colleagues that, just like with real objects in the physical world, if you don't put the data in the place where it goes it won't magically appear there when you go to look for it.

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+1 for eye masks. Once I started using them, I completely stopped waking up in the middle of the night. A shockingly simple solution, honestly.

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Another episode, this time about reconfigured, an AI-assisted journaling tool. If you wish you had a better tool to capture your thoughts as you go through an analysis, have a listen! #dataBS #datasky

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The discussion and engagement was so good on this over the last few weeks that I went ahead and added 2 whole new sections to this blog post (worth checking out if you already read this!): I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

This week on Counting Stuff, a bit about how everyone has the ability to do logs analysis, because it's not about tech but storytelling and domain knowledge #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

One of my favorite underappreciated features of Spotify is the "don't play this artist" setting. As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable. The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.

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Just renewed my powerbi cert! Every year I forget how straightforward it is and accidentally overstudy for it, but it's hard to be mad at myself about it.

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Had a business leader tell me they could cry today when I shared a dashboard I'd built for her because it shows her information she's been asking for "for literally years now." So yeah, that felt pretty good

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It's almost funny how personally I take it when a home advertised to me on Zillow is so obviously a quick flip. I guess it's a sign I've been "looking" for way too long now.

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My least favorite part about working with data is when you present multiple, mutually exclusive, solutions to a business leader and they respond with "all of them, except the easiest, please"

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Already loving this article, and I can attest to it in a way because I love having an e-reader but I hate Kindle's native note taker, so I bought a cheap tablet and have treated it like a "dumb phone," and find it much more pleasant to keep around than the device I'm typing this out on right now.

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I've never accidentally broken the report builder in Salesforce before, but I guess there's a first time for everything. ...back to the drawing board...

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I remember conducting debate research in high school using Lexis Nexis (not Google) because while the internet was growing like gangbusters, validated information was still the coin of the realm. We're quickly waltzing ourselves back into this world. What's old is new, yet again.

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❗️Our next workshop will be on February 20th, 6 pm CET on Tabular ML in R by @frankiethull.bsky.social ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

It's true what they say about your greatest strength being your greatest weakness. I know this, because I have a pretty high tolerance for mundane, hyper-detailed tasks if they're in pursuit of building something that will eventually save me and everyone else time.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

My life at work right now... #databs

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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

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If you are a member of an underrepresented group in data science, consider applying for a scholarship to attend this year's posit::conf() in Atlanta!

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"thank you chocolate hero" 😔

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⏰ Call for speakers: www.devupconf.org Talked about #devUp conference in St Louis last year as a bit of an untapped goldmine, 600+ people in attendance. (@data-dragoness.bsky.social talked #PowerBI and had a blast!) I want to see even more of us this year! You: "A developer conference???" 1/n

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After about a month, I think I finally figured out the killer app for my pixel watch: voice to task with a reminder.

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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

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Since reading Chris Miller’s “Chip War” last year I can’t stop thinking about this. The phone I’m writing this on is alien technology. Chips made by etching patterns so small they can’t even be seen by visible light, using lasers created by heating tin to the surface temperature of the sun.

submitted 149 days ago • 2 comments

Game changer: Did you know every single bluesky account also has an RSS feed? Just add /rss to the end of it. I plugged @reckless.bsky.social’s post RSS feed into the free app feeeed and now I can check in on what’s happening with the TikTok ban without the overhead of getting sucked into Bluesky

submitted 150 days ago • 12 comments

Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com. Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇 🧵

submitted 150 days ago • 14 comments

After years of feeling like maybe it was just me who was behind the curve on all this stuff, this blog post is really affirming. If it feels like everything is messy and convoluted it's because it is. And that's ok.

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

Internet search used to be good.

submitted 154 days ago • 4 comments

I'm in eastern time, and I'm usually pretty early to my desk anyway, so every morning feels like standing at the shore just waiting for the tide to come in. Some days it's a gentle wave. Other days it's a tsunami. All I know is that it's coming.

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