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I long for the simplicity of a problem that can be solved by throwing jewelry into a volcano

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Today I did what I do when I feel anxious or nervous about the world. I gave blood. @americanredcross.bsky.social It's an easy, convenient, and painless way to help someone somewhere who is hurting. And that helps me hurt a little less. Sign up for your appointment here www.redcrossblood.org ❤️‍🩹

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Painting, I have found, can be a very cathartic medium but sometimes I struggle to decide on a subject. Other times, I simply want an image painted to see it in a different way. This story of students partnering with seniors seems like a *happy medium* www.broomfieldenterprise.com/2025/01/30/w...

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Companies out here be like…

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

"you don’t need to ask permission to do good in the world" - Hadley Wickham's mom. I owe much of my career in data to the development of the tidyverse. Fun read.

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dee-going to stop you right there

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Supply and demand . . . We need to build more housing.

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Demographics of 21stC – Declining Fertility – Depopulation & Ageing McKinsey ‘Dependency and Depopulation: Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality‘ looking at fertility rate decline, increasing longevity & ageing populations. educationtrainingsociety.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/d...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Great post by @brendan.fyi on how data team requirements don’t fit nearly within generic cron runners (Jenkins, Kubernetes CronJobs) #dataBS www.prefect.io/blog/stop-ma...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Me, looking for one of David Lynch's meaningful quotes about death and grief:

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Senior housing's one-chart investment thesis:

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how i'd learn machine learning in 2025 if i had to start from scratch: 1. find a log that i initially planned to turn into a table leg 2. make it into a puppet that can walk and talk 3. have the puppet, through a series of adventures, turn into a real boy and realize the true value of friendship

submitted 52 days ago • 13 comments

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

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Bison are the only animal that turn into a snowstorm rather than away from it because they instinctively know that walking into the storm will get them out of the weather quicker. There may be a life lesson for humans in this. It also makes for some epic pictures.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Donated. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Beautiful description of the social nature of developer problem-solving (and on valuing the vast amount of social learning we each have done in our lives!): "As I write code, they enrich my decision-making process, like a radio station of good advice that never turns off."

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Something I've consistently observed in analytics across multiple companies: The central data team doesn't 'get' sales analytics The GTM Ops team doesn't 'get' how to scale analytics Which means the CCO / SVP of GTM Ops / SVP of CS consistently express frustration about data

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

love love @randyau.com’s latest article it starts to get towards something i’ve been writing about privately to clarify my own thinking — that data work is in fact a primarily intuitive field, driven by passion, patterns, symbols www.counting-stuff.com/r/0acb50d8?m...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Parkinson’s Law - “Work expands to fill the time allotted for it.” These and other insights about business from this classic book from 1957. This is the original British print from 1958.

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Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us

submitted 81 days ago • 76 comments

Beautiful

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Working at a company that's gotten pretty sizable headcount-wise (~8000ish), I'm finding a lot of advice for data teams is geared towards smaller companies. Things that worked for me when I was at small orgs just don't most of the time. Build/buy decisions, time needed to change infra, etc.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Friday

submitted 89 days ago • 15 comments

New feed! Add #dataBS or #databsky to your post, and it'll get ingested into this custom Data BS feed, which looks back over 7 days of posts.

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments