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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Mulling on a thought. As a data professional, I feel it's my responsibility to make sure my business colleagues understand the processes their data goes through. I'm uncomfortable with stakeholders saying "I don't know how it works, it just does!" Not sure though if this is normal.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I just realized I'm a chronic sufferer of SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE 🐍 Apologies to all who my malady has afflicted

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Inversely correlated with Al evangelism, too (at least in my experience)

Chart showing "Correlation Between Screen Size & Your Importance in the Company" featuring a downward trend. CEOs use iPhones, while those with two monitors are labeled 'Corporate Slaves.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Just wait till we get kids cutting off the back of their pants so it doesn't soak up water, while letting the front still cover the shoes. That was my sophomore uniform.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Nothing like a carefully laid out plan of all the things you were going to tackle before a slate of meetings that gets completely derailed by a random request that should have been quick but ended up taking you to Mordor and back.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I think all the time that this is the "science reform" we need to be having. Discrimination in science probably costs us more in scientific insight and scientists' well-being than anything else. AND these toxic patterns are not independent of fraud because toxic cultures create fraud pressures

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just yesterday we had a conversation in my nonprofit about removing the icon & link from the list of social media sites we include in our email signature. Should have happened a while ago, but it's better late than never.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 22/07/2025

This week on Counting Stuff, I was cooking a bunch and was thinking about how we live in a bunch of DAGs but honestly despite knowing how to manage data DAGs, we all hate tracker tools #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/we-have-dags...

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We have DAGs for our data, but also for our work

It's easy to not realize we manage a DAG surrounding... ourselves

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I may have just successfully convinced our head of tech that, no, we in fact *do not* need to spend 5 figures for a consultant firm to engage in a "discovery process" to "assess how AI can enhance our workstreams." AMA

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Very curious if board members are aware of how much organizational time and energy they take up. There are certain aspects of the dominant organizational leadership model that continues to confound me. This is absolutely one of them.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"You've Got to Survive to Thrive: What Doom Taught Me About Mission Alignment, Resource Management, and Task Prioritization"

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Enjoying this chain of QT's and responses over coffee ☕ before going into the "spreadsheet mines" ⛏️ as my wife and I like to call them 😅 #databs

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Just spent the past 20 minutes trying to organize data, getting increasingly frustrated at each pass because no matter how many times I tried to get the error count down to zero there were always just a *few* that were off.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I don't want to say that my recent experiences at work are radicalizing me *against* the star schema per se, but boy is it funny to walk through someone else's construction project and realize that they had one hammer in hand...so every problem immediately became a nail.

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Matthew Mullins @mmullins.coginiti.co · 29/05/2025

The Data Council ‘25 talks are now online, which is great because even when you attend you can’t be everywhere all at once. I’ll highlight a couple below, but there are plenty of other great talks. #databs

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Data Council Oakland '25 - YouTube

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Trying to (kindly) remind my business colleagues that, just like with real objects in the physical world, if you don't put the data in the place where it goes it won't magically appear there when you go to look for it.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

+1 for eye masks. Once I started using them, I completely stopped waking up in the middle of the night. A shockingly simple solution, honestly.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 14/05/2025

Another episode, this time about reconfigured, an AI-assisted journaling tool. If you wish you had a better tool to capture your thoughts as you go through an analysis, have a listen! #dataBS #datasky

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 13/05/2025

The discussion and engagement was so good on this over the last few weeks that I went ahead and added 2 whole new sections to this blog post (worth checking out if you already read this!): I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.

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Minimalism and the absurdity of the data-to-ink-ratio

How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/05/2025

This week on Counting Stuff, a bit about how everyone has the ability to do logs analysis, because it's not about tech but storytelling and domain knowledge #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...

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Everyone is capable of doing logs analysis

It all starts from something most of us has. Just powered up and tooled up.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

One of my favorite underappreciated features of Spotify is the "don't play this artist" setting. As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable. The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Just renewed my powerbi cert! Every year I forget how straightforward it is and accidentally overstudy for it, but it's hard to be mad at myself about it.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Had a business leader tell me they could cry today when I shared a dashboard I'd built for her because it shows her information she's been asking for "for literally years now." So yeah, that felt pretty good

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's almost funny how personally I take it when a home advertised to me on Zillow is so obviously a quick flip. I guess it's a sign I've been "looking" for way too long now.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My least favorite part about working with data is when you present multiple, mutually exclusive, solutions to a business leader and they respond with "all of them, except the easiest, please"

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Already loving this article, and I can attest to it in a way because I love having an e-reader but I hate Kindle's native note taker, so I bought a cheap tablet and have treated it like a "dumb phone," and find it *much* more pleasant to keep around than the device I'm typing this out on right now.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I've never accidentally broken the report builder in Salesforce before, but I guess there's a first time for everything. ...back to the drawing board...

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I remember conducting debate research in high school using Lexis Nexis (not Google) because while the internet was growing like gangbusters, validated information was still the coin of the realm. We're quickly waltzing ourselves back into this world. What's old is new, yet again.

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

❗️Our next workshop will be on February 20th, 6 pm CET on Tabular ML in R by @frankiethull.bsky.social ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It's true what they say about your greatest strength being your greatest weakness. I know this, because I have a pretty high tolerance for mundane, hyper-detailed tasks if they're in pursuit of building something that will eventually save me and everyone else time.

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Federico Dominguez @federicodm.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My life at work right now... #databs

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 21/01/2025

If you are a member of an underrepresented group in data science, consider applying for a scholarship to attend this year's posit::conf() in Atlanta!

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"thank you chocolate hero" 😔

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Alex Power[s] @itsnotaboutthecell.com · 22/01/2025

⏰ Call for speakers: www.devupconf.org Talked about #devUp conference in St Louis last year as a bit of an untapped goldmine, 600+ people in attendance. (@data-dragoness.bsky.social talked #PowerBI and had a blast!) I want to see even more of us this year! You: "A developer conference???" 1/n

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dev up

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

After about a month, I think I finally figured out the killer app for my pixel watch: voice to task with a reminder.

A smartwatch on a wrist displays a reminder to "Buy donuts" at 1:08 PM.

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Of course the Branch Manager had to do his thing

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 20/01/2025

Since reading Chris Miller’s “Chip War” last year I can’t stop thinking about this. The phone I’m writing this on is alien technology. Chips made by etching patterns so small they can’t even be seen by visible light, using lasers created by heating tin to the surface temperature of the sun.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Game changer: Did you know every single bluesky account also has an RSS feed? Just add /rss to the end of it. I plugged @reckless.bsky.social’s post RSS feed into the free app feeeed and now I can check in on what’s happening with the TikTok ban without the overhead of getting sucked into Bluesky

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com. Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇 🧵

In changing their opinion, most participants' experiences followed a general process of (1) distancing from their ideological community,
(2) a desire to seek out information, leading to
(3) a gradual or epiphanic realization that solidified their shift in opinion.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

After years of feeling like maybe it was just me who was behind the curve on all this stuff, this blog post is really affirming. If it feels like everything is messy and convoluted it's because it is. And that's ok.

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 15/01/2025

Internet search used to be good.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I'm in eastern time, and I'm usually pretty early to my desk anyway, so every morning feels like standing at the shore just waiting for the tide to come in. Some days it's a gentle wave. Other days it's a tsunami. All I know is that it's coming.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm not usually a words of affirmation kind of guy when it comes to the workplace, but as I get ready to leave the organization I've been with for over a decade now to transition to a new opportunity, this is going to stick with me

You have been such a pleasure to work with. I legit don't know if I've ever worked with a partner who was better able to listen intently to what the desired outcome was, and then figure out a way to not only design some structures to reach the outcome, but also do it in a way that was digestible for less data/tech savvy people to internalize and process. We are going to miss the hell out of you. But this new opportunity sounds like a role you are ready to crush.

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