schartkoff.bsky.social
Healthcare hopepunk. Gleeful nerd. Analytics strategy, data therapist, decision culture, facilitation, outcomes/impact. Qual-quant, human systems, research, #rstats, ML/AI. Also: cats, crafts, cemeteries, books, birds, equity, justice.
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I can’t follow your logic to the same conclusion. There was very strong messaging against capitulation, w/ coherent messages tying this CR to further abuse by the administration that Schumer muddled. The fragmented messaging is *also* on Schumer. Anger at him is about getting into array, not out.
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Restock & post size details please!
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YESSSS such a beautiful, poignant read!
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Wait, are you also a cat person now? I think I've only ever seen adorable small dogs in your feed before!
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Honestly some talent there since everything is still upright!
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Ooh, yes, such a poignant and (sort of counterintuitively?) humane read.
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Ooh…as someone who's been using it since the before (ggplot1, reshape, etc.) I’d love an account of the big epiphanies and/or “this way or that?” choices that shaped tidyverse evolution. It’s one thing to experience elegant results, but another to appreciate design choices along the way.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January was a fun read.
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💯 This is my routine! only I swap letterboxed for geography puzzles (WhenTaken is my fave), then close out with Spelling Bee.
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Maybe it's just the orgs/domain I work with, but companies' actual data assets and usability for a given purpose are all over the map. A "functionally complete" layer at a higher level is hard to come by, so conversations veer right back into the data weeds anyway.
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I'm so glad someone finally said this! I feel like terminology like this is written for the checkwriters. But that then fuels an ongoing cycle of confusion and disillusionment in companies about what they've paid teams to build and what they got for their $.
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I notice this with our cats when we’re gone and I can’t resist spying on them. Somehow that codependency goes *poof* once we’re away for more than a day, along with the petty rivalries between them. Wait. Does that mean I’m the problem?!
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Also those admin sources often change their own data file layouts, often without any specific indication that they’re doing so, so reproducibility often means writing *additional* data checks before any ingestion code can be run 😓
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Ooh I’m all for a truly zippy chai, I will have to try this one. Current go-to is the Stash chai sampler, and I’m particularly liking the “fire chai” and turmeric ginger chais in that set.
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Well that’s the gist. Also telling them how happy I am to see them. I live next to a beautiful old cemetery and take daily walks there, so I’ve been leaving some treats every time they make an appearance.
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Working on friending some neighborhood crows! 🐦⬛
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It makes me wonder if it’s harder because there’s extra mental noise, expectations vs reality. the most reassuring, true thing I can tell them is hardly anyone has a clear path, and that’s a *good* thing. The alternative is too fragile for a field that has changed so much and keeps changing. 3/3
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…but then they get out here and there’s still no reliable straight path (or not one that day-to-day is like the brochure?) and they don’t *feel* prepared and wonder if they’re doomed bc there was some *other* version of formal training they were supposed to get instead 2/n
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I think about this a lot when early-career data-folk come to me for career advice. They’ve come of age in a time when these are supposed to be “real” careers, with formal training programs that are supposed to prepare them… 1/n
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Tbh, I usually tailor the description on the fly to center the interests of the person I’m talking to within the range of problems/ideas I work on…
A couple of decades deep across different roles and focus, I’ve given up trying for the perfect pithy label, I just want to find the nexus
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I'm sure I'll start posting real data & healthcare content any day now, but this is the quest that might keep me going...
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Ohhh these are stunning.
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This is why I fill my home life with small, no-fail (in any way that matters), concrete (physical reality) activities — knit something, cook/prep something, clean something, fix something.
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It feels like YEARS...has it been years?
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So I try to bookend my work sessions -- where am I starting, and where do I estimate I'll be in this project/task in however many minutes/hours? That gives me something to look at when that time is up and force a reassessment/course correction if I need it.
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A risk I encounter when digging into a task is escalation of commitment. Real knowledge work always has little detours, of course...but it's easy on the flow/hyperfocus continuum to lose sight of the effort/objective ratio.
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Haha it's a fine line, to be sure. Hyperfocus is a term used w/ ADHD, but I don't know whether it's exclusive to that.
To me, it's the "unmanaged" part...or maybe I should say, "under-directed". Like, is the focus or flow going in a healthy direction, towards something worth that level of energy?
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I get some value from taking quick notes between work sessions. So that could include just noticing whether I was in good flow (or its evil twin, unmanaged hyperfocus), where I left off, what’s my current blocker. Or if everything feels hard, why and what one thing could I change.
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It’s so we can work the crossword puzzle together 🤓