Conor Dewey

🔢 MVA: Minimum Viable Analysis

We spend our time pouring over granular datasets, finding mistakes, cleaning them, building predictive models, producing visualizations, deriving insights, and communicating those insights to stakeholders in the hope of driving impact...

📰 13 Essential Newsletters for Data Scientists

If you’re anything like me, you subscribe to newsletters. Lots of newsletters. Like, too many newsletters. I can’t help myself. When done right, newsletters are an excellent form of content curation..

👊 Reasons Don’t Matter: A Lesson from Steve Jobs

You’ve heard the cliché. Employers don’t want excuses, they want facts, supporting data, and most importantly, results. They aren’t concerned with your story, just make sure you keep things moving up and to the right...

🏁 Your Goals Won’t Motivate You

Things weren’t going well. I couldn’t do another assignment. I couldn’t get myself to write anything. I couldn’t make progress on projects. I was struggling to do basically any work at all, let alone work that proved to be half-decent...

🌎 How to Think About Travel

Take a stroll through your Instagram or Facebook feeds. Chances are high that you find no sign of this. Rather than pictures of grey skies and office settings, you’ll instead end up with scenic beaches and exotic views with smiling faces...

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