Data Science
I’ve been kicking around this notion of exploratory vs. explanatory data viz. Despite what most BI tools might have you think, not all data viz is created equal. The charts that we cobble together often have different goals...
Data Science
“Figma for X” might not be as common a startup trope as “Uber for X” but it’s definitely catching up over the last few years. My main beef with catchphrases like these are how often they get thrown around without any context...
Data Science
Maintaining dashboards and analytics is hard and only gets harder as you further delve into the world of self-serve analytics. This makes sense. More stuff being created means more stuff that can break or slip between the cracks...
Data Science
Self-serve analytics is a tough game to win at. Lots of companies aspire to “do self-serve” in order to reduce the load on their analytics and data science teams, but few succeed. This doesn’t mean that we’re hopeless...
Data Science
There has recently been a lot of chatter in the data community about dashboards. Most of which converge on some version of “dashboards suck but what else,” as Benn Stancil points out in Data is for Dashboards...
Data Science
It feels like now some especially interesting things are coming to fruition in the data space. We’ve heard about The Modern Data Stack. We’ve heard about The Future of Work. But what happens when they meet?
Data Science
As GPT-3 and its counterparts have come into the mainstream, I've begun seeing products and conversations about the interaction between Natural Language Processing and data analytics appearing more and more frequently...
Data Science
Machine learning is seemingly baked into every established product these days. But I would posit that you probably don't need a legitimate machine learning solution at first...
Data Science
When I started my first job as a data scientist, we spent a lot of time thinking a lot about how to scale data analysis across the organization. Saying that you are "data-driven" is one thing...
Data Science
Analytics tooling and the discourse around these tools are becoming first-class citizens in the minds of startup founders. Several years ago this might have been a hot take. It definitely isn't anymore...
Data Science
I spent a lot of time on A/B testing during my time as a data scientist at Squarespace. Turns out, there's a dramatic mismatch between what you learn in statistics textbooks and how experimentation works in practice...
Data Science
This detour away from further specialization in data science surprised a lot of people. I learned a ton as a first-time data scientist from both a technical and a functional perspective...