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Arik Friedman

@arikf.net
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Data Scientist @ Atlassian Spent some time looking into software teams' effectiveness, and how software teams can use data to reflect and improve how they work. These days I'm trying to learn more about Statistical Process Control.

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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 30/04/2026
Back in MeasureCamp Sydney I had the opportunity to reflect on lessons I picked up throughout my tenure as a data scientist at Atlassian. This led to a fun discussion at the APH on what it actually means to "get things right" in data analysis.
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 14/10/2025
Oh, that's mean! 🤔
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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I was tagged the other day by someone kindly sharing my Python Rgonomics post and realized that my thesis of "tooling keeps improving" held up too well and some of the recos have changed Hence, here's the 2025 update: www.emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo-... Now feat uv (vs pyenv, pdm) and Positron
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Python Rgonomics - 2025 Update | Emily Riederer
Switching languages is about switching mindsets - not just syntax. New developments in python data science toolings, like polars and seaborn’s object interface, can capture the ‘feel’ that converts fr...
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 21/12/2024
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Data scientist: it's a confidence interval.
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 13/12/2024
KNN + topic detection getting a big glow-up www.anthropic.com/research/clio
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Clio: Privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
A blog post describing Anthropic’s new system, Clio, for analyzing how people use AI while maintaining their privacy
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 30/11/2024
Spent hours yesterday to get a SQL cell in a databricks job use a variable that was set in a prior python cell. Amazing how something that seems so trivial can be so convoluted. Is that what "business impact" looks like?
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Taras Kaduk @taraskaduk.com · 23/11/2024
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Nicolay Gerold @nicolaygerold.com · 22/11/2024
How did I just find this? wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t... #databs
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Don't Do This - PostgreSQL wiki
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 21/11/2024
Great stuff, and an excuse to recommend the book Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic for anyone who wants to learn more on this.
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 16/11/2024
One of my favourite pieces on the role of the data analyst comes from @rdpeng.org , who in turn quotes Tukey's "The Future of Data Analysis" from 1962 (!) simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-0... #databs
simplystatistics.org
Simply Statistics: Tukey, Design Thinking, and Better Questions
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Tim but Spooky @timburga.com · 16/11/2024
one of the many things to like about atproto is that everything is authenticated and public you don't have to trust bluesky, you can read from the relay yourself it's not an API... more like a spinal tap into the central feed and this is an amazing example of what you can do with that power
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Sky Zoo
Stats on Bluesky, At Protocol, ...
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 16/11/2024
One of my favourite pieces on the role of the data analyst comes from @rdpeng.org , who in turn quotes Tukey's "The Future of Data Analysis" from 1962 (!) simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-0... #databs
simplystatistics.org
Simply Statistics: Tukey, Design Thinking, and Better Questions
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 15/11/2024
This is probably the one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen of zero-shot, etc arxiv.org/abs/2309.024...
Chart of zero-shot prompting, RAG, etc
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 12/11/2024
Can confirm
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 09/11/2024
I noticed my app habits changed over the last couple of weeks. I now head to bluesky for #dataBS, and head to X when I want to see temu ads.
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Taylor Murphy @tayloramurphy.dad · 04/11/2024
This is a fantastic read. But depressing, but fantastic. hellooperator.substack.com/p/what-it-me...
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What It Means to Be Data-Driven
Stop hiding behind the numbers and start using them instead.
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Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev · 01/11/2024
Yeah, I think the immune response of "AI will replace us" was just so misguided. "AI will help us" is so much healthier. I write more code because of Cursor, not less.
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 02/11/2024
I forgot to hashtag my #dataBS. Apparently this site doesn't have an edit button.
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 02/11/2024
The talk about "automating analysts' work" reminded me of my past attempt to run an LLM through our Data Science Interview. medium.com/atlassiandat... A colleague of mine actually repeated that recently - it's clear that LLMs got better, but they still need a human in the loop to help them along.
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Will Generative AI make data scientists obsolete?
Would ChatGPT and its Code Interpret plugin pass Atlassian’s Data Science interview? How can data scientists leverage generative AI?
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Randy Au @randyau.com · 29/10/2024
Another Bluesky tip, there's a "Quiet posters" feed that tries to surface people who don't post very often and would otherwise get buried amongst highly online people bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Randy Au @randyau.com · 28/10/2024
I got your "Self Service Dashboard" right 'ere
A blueish/purple web button that reads "Export to CSV"
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Nate Sooter ⛳️ @natesooter.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
“We shall spend an incredible amount of money building a data warehouse and a data science team to generate business insights. Everyone will do this.” —Sir, I assume these data teams will be trusted and their data used for important decisions “No, decisions will be made primarily on vibes”
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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/10/2024
I made a data people starter pack: go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK
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Arik Friedman @arikf.net · 27/10/2024
Hi, I'm Arik. I'm a data scientist at Atlassian, living in Sydney, Australia. I did some software engineering and product management in the past, but a PhD on Privacy Preserving Data Mining eventually led me to work with data.
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