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The data governance person is a librarian

Organizing data for discovery can be laborious, but it is nothing new: the Library of Alexandria solved the same problem with indexing and search.

August 20, 2025 1 min read

data-governance
data-catalog
discovery
metadata
data-ops

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Analytics

How Not to Be Wrong: mathematical thinking for imperfect decisions

A review of Jordan Ellenberg's book, which teaches you to think mathematically without the fuss so you can navigate a world that demands perfect decisions from incomplete data.

Mar 25, 2025 1 min read

book-review
mathematics
statistics
decision-making

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Business

Data Science for Business: from technique to decision

A review of Provost and Fawcett's book, and why closing the gap between data science technique and business strategy is what makes a data professional useful.

Mar 11, 2025 1 min read

book-review
data-science
business
decision-making

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Engineering

The Enterprise Data Catalog: BI is governance, not a pretty dashboard

A review of Ole Olesen-Bagneux's book, for anyone tired of pushing unnecessary information into the dashboard and ready to take governance seriously.

Feb 24, 2025 1 min read

book-review
data-governance
data-catalog
business-intelligence

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Engineering

Data storytelling matters as much as your model

Six simple habits that keep a well-scoped report from falling apart the moment your audience starts forming questions.

Feb 13, 2025 1 min read

data-storytelling
communication
stakeholders
analytics

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Analytics

How to Lie with Statistics: a classic for spotting the trick

A review of Darrell Huff's classic, the book that teaches you not to lie with statistics by showing how almost everyone does.

Feb 11, 2025 1 min read

book-review
statistics
data-literacy
critical-thinking

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Engineering

Window functions every analyst should master

A practical tour of SQL window functions, with retention and ranking examples.

Feb 10, 2025 1 min read

sql
engineering
analytics

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Analytics

A measurement framework before touching the pipeline

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Nov 4, 2024 1 min read

measurement
analytics-engineering
retention

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Research

Accent is an advantage

No human being alive is free of an accent, so treating it as a defect costs the professionals who carry it and the companies that could grow through them.

May 15, 2024 2 min read

language
accent
communication
career

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Engineering

Python and its libraries, with a side of karaage

A weekend spent on what I love: a small visualization case joining data with consumer experience research.

Mar 11, 2024 1 min read

python
data-visualization
customer-experience
weekend-study

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Research

Rethink the thought: Barbie can be data too

I grew up loving the Barbie movies, and among her many careers came my choice for data. The films' universe was missing a dataset, so I built my own.

Jul 20, 2023 1 min read

barbie
data-science
dataset
kaggle

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