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Founder of the slow analytics movement; hand-crafted, artisinal analytics reporting made from scratch and lots of finger-counting.

Brooklyn, USA
Joined May 2008
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As a non-American living in America, during a pandemic, I'm both awed and horrified by this country's reverence for work.
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"Part of the new process will include a review and outline of the kinds of research the company believes it should be conducting." Interesting how they fire me after I ask what the parameters of the research I can do at Google are. What they're announcing is more censorship.
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Ted Cruz tweeting a glowing tribute to Rush Limbaugh from a resort in Cancun (where he flew tonight while his constituents are literally freezing to death) is peak @GOP.
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I've stopped using datetime.strftime() and just use f-strings. #Python Did you know that you can do this? Instead of >>> somedate.strformat("%Y-%m-%d") do >>> F"{somedate:%Y-%m-%d}"
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Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook misinformation.
NEW: Sheryl Sandberg went out of her way to blame other platforms & deflect attention from FB for organizing the rally. But there’s ample proof of FB’s role, from coordinating bus trips to fliers calling for insurrection. And #stopthesteal is everywhere. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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The more I think about what happened the more frustrated I get that entire social science disciplines like political science and history have been trying to warn us about this since 2015, but few in media or the DC political establishment took them seriously.
No one predicted this moment? Extract from Norris & Inglehart "Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism" (CUP 2019). amazon.com/Cultural-Backlash…
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Here’s the scary moment when protesters initially got into the building from the first floor and made their way outside Senate chamber.
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I've long admired tech zine creators like @b0rk & @sailorhg, and I needed a creative outlet. So I started on a little @spacy_io zine. I can't draw, so I'm going for "cheatsheet meets coffee table book" 📚🎨✨ If I got this printed as a mini book, would anyone be interested?
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📣 We need your help. This is the post we hoped to never write, but today marks a huge turning point in The Strand's history. Our revenue has dropped nearly 70% compared to last year, and the loans and cash reserves that have kept us afloat these past months are depleted.
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When writing custom aggregation functions in pandas🐼, you have 4 options for defining your functions. What do you prefer? #python #pandas
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And one more thing: I was honored to coordinate the Ebola response — 2 Americans died. We left behind a playbook, and a global team to spot outbreaks. You ignored the first and dismantled the latter: and now 200,000 are dead.
Thanks for mentioning me @vp, so here are the facts: 14,000 died from H1N1; we are headed to 400,000 dead in less than a year from COVID. Happy to compare records any time!
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My team just shipped something on iOS and Android - now you can find songs by lyrics 😉 on Spotify Give it a try 😊 – at Stockholm, Sweden
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in a Q&A with employees, Mark Zuckerberg is expressing frustration about past leaks from company Q&As.
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We stand by all peaceful protesters of these senseless events, and we are anxious for justice to be served, properly and swiftly. Learn more about how we're taking action in a letter from our CEO. 💙 do.co/2Y0GCqv
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*spreadsheets* are the main competitor for 90% of software startups
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Bar chart in Python with @pandas_dev vs plotnine vs @plotlygraphs vs Altair pythonplot.com
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Replying to @beeonaposy
The right join is left join.
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Every analytics tool on the planet needs this. ALL OF THEM. This is a huge time saver. Analyst productivity = business productivity. I want tools that make me and my team super productive. I get irritated that no one seems to care about the humans using these tools.
The new @Stripe Dashboard analytics now make it super easy to perform all the usual intertemporal comparisons in a few clicks, automatically surfacing past periods of equal length. Much less fiddling with calendar/date widgets required!
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Are we still obsessing over the mythical big data? Because the real problem in most orgs is 50000000 very small data sets, some barely maintained, loosely tied together between wiki, jira, slack, google drive, bigquery, postgres, zendesk, salesforce, and a bunch of excels.
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