Sitemap - 2023 - Counting Stuff

Work in progress: a newsletter move

Tools For Fighting The Data Monster

The Big Bad Data Monster

Working in data as a "meh programmer"

Refresh your baselines

In the future, we'll work with unstructured data at ~Scale~

Reflecting on our toolbox mastery

Enjoying not being "the sexiest job" any more

Finding work at work on your own

I don't know how to move satisfaction

How the heck do I time a talk

Solving the problems in front of you

Organizing Data is Picking What you Care About

Measuring neutrons in the sea

Cursed with reading systems from data

Uhoh, I'm doing a PyData NYC 2023 talk

Make your own space pictures with big telescope data!

Following up on all-in-ones, plus a mishmash

Everything tries to become a one-stop-shop

Pondering on Process Debt

Rev-share validation is weird

Counting explosions at Unity

Insights do not equal utility

Data design has nothing on process design

Craftsmanship is a state of mind

Most metrics are conditional

How people were (math) precise before modern times

A lot of 13th century counting

We still build tools and should share them more

Everyone fears the cartesian

An evening of maps. Actively changing maps.

We don't talk about communicating well

SPF is a pretty unhelpful unit

The value in de-abstracting numbers

Failure comes for us all

It's still worth running a small server in 2023

Most can learn analysis, but won't become analysts

Calls to actions, "like and subscribe", are (sadly) necessary

The data-sphere seems to be drifting apart more

A day(?) in my life as a Quant UX Researcher

How does the Air Quality Index work anyways?

I am terrible at talking about my achievements

When the AI comes for my coding job...

Remember to check your stress levels

Data DIY in the age of industrial pickaxes and shovels

Hobby break! Keyboard building

Over-simplified metrics suck

Learning what actually underpins your data

You are not a method

My processes barely save me from myself

The reasonable(?) effectiveness of data analysis

We should watch people dissect and build products

🙄 The AI is coming for my UX job

When your product's like a tax form

The mythical single source of truth

"Single panes of glass" are horrible

How the heck does one measure color?

Square footage is so broken and weird

😔 Everyone'll have an LLM...

DS work doesn't have to be purely discovery work

Data scientist, working without data

A couple of weeks wading in contextless metrics

Mini Recap: Data Mishaps Night

When are we just speaking for a model

Learning to go from creating to editing

Ugh, the "ai war"(🤮) or whatever is upon us

Internalizing baselines is hard

New year, new chances to get together

There's dashboards all around us that are USED

Watching data science in a fraud lawsuit filing is fun!

Learning from running out of memory all the time

Everyone You'll Ever Meet Knows Something You Don't

Writing posts, maybe as a guest!

Data science has a tool obsession

Working with the rhythms of the business