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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 · 17/08/2025

Amazing there's nothing like reciprocity for that

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It is truly ironic, because if we really want to be able to live on other planets we have to be able to responsibly manage a biosphere. And boy are we *struggling* with the only one we have right now.

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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

Oh, I did. The cuts came when I finally started to get the little hem loop and then tassels after wearing through the regular part of the pants. Very fashion. Much cool.

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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 one of those little moments as a practitioner that reminds you how important it is to actually look *at* your data, not just operate on it. Especially when it's behaving weirdly.

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

Turns out, I was just shuffling the errors back and forth. Like someone trying to dig two holes beside each other, every time I grabbed a new shovelful of dirt and tossed it over the side I was tossing it into the other hole.

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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

Fair. As annoyed as I am, I should be grateful for the problems I do have...not pining for entirely new and different problems.

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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 · 16/05/2025

Haha music lately, but the peaky thoughts do creep in occasionally

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I've been on a bit of a podcast detox lately, but it sounds like this one will be worth giving a listen

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Gotta be honest, it's gonna take a lot for me to like workday. Gerrit has quite a job ahead of him.

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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-...

counting-stuff.com

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

I'd resign out of sheer shame and embarrassment. Just, wow.

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

Agreed. I'd love to opt-in to different content (e.g. "let me know when there are new arrivals" or "let me know about flash sales") but those kind of bespoke options rarely seem to be available (even though on the back-end it wouldn't be that difficult to set 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

Hell, with all the improvements they've been making to the platform (complimentary), I think it's fair to expect to be surprised by questions about some new feature or ability I haven't interacted with yet.

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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 · 31/03/2025

Not for this first watch, but I'd casually drop it as an idea afterward and see if he picks it up. Might turn into a second watch in the not too distant future.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

in my darkest thoughts something like this should just be named DarwinAI, so we can all just do away with any pretense about what's happening here.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

That is a hilariously awful answer. Like the book review of a student who didn't do the reading bad.

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This man looks like he has a boatload of stories to share over a beer. Could do a lot worse than that!

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Austin Bradley @datasense.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Luckily was able to save my work by cloning the report, opening it directly in edit view, and then hastily deleting my overly ambitious summary formula. Lessons were learned.

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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

This is absolutely where things are headed. And in some ways, I think this could be good?? Users want useful, accurate, and current information and the people who do the work to provide it should be compensated - even if AI is doing the indexing and surfacing of it. bsky.app/profile/gerg...

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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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