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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 11/02/2025

It's rare for companies show their hand but the Medium email re: Towards Data Science's exit is pretty revealing. Looks like it took them completely by surprise and they rushed out an email without even waiting for their new pub's intro post

If you’ve written in the past for Towards Data Science, you may also have questions about your content appearing on their new site. We’re actively working on understanding what’s happened, and if you have concerns, please email us and we’ll help educate you about your options. In the meantime, we’re getting this publication launched to serve the large number of writers who have data science stories to share, now, and want a home for them.

We’ve partnered with Paolo Perrone, an editor from the Medium community, to get started (look for an introduction post soon), but we want to work with you in building out this new community-driven publication. Let us know if you want to be involved in supporting the amazing community of data scientists that has developed over the years on Medium by replying to this email and we’ll be in touch.

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 05/02/2025

Not too long ago I posted a call for interviewees on #dataBS and I'm psyched to share what I've put together: 7 interviews with data practitioners, from AEs to DEs to architects and analysts, on their data migration stories get.datafold.com/tl-dms And our data migration microsite:

Your guide to legendary data migrations
Success stories, lessons learned, and tools to turn your migration into a milestone achievement.

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 13/12/2024

One of my favourite newsletters, Capital Gains, which has some really good data adjacent explainers, has a v insightful piece this week on how data literacy != better judgement. Not all stats cited are meaningful signals - he calls them "decorative": capitalgains.thediff.co/p/decorative...

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Against Decorative Statistics

If You're Going to Back Decisions With Data, Use Real Data

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 10/12/2024

Got a question for #dataBS: Anyone ever survived a data migration with a story to tell—the good, the bad, or the "we’ll laugh about this someday"? I’m writing a technical piece and I’d love to hear your wins, cautionary tales, and hard-earned lessons. Please DM if you're keen!

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 19/11/2024

There has never been a better time to get into software *and* roles that support it e.g. technical writing, product marketing. In fact, developer marketing is an incredibly exciting place to be in right now: www.readamplified.com/there-are-a-...

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There are a lot of developer tools out there

Some data on how saturated the world of developer tools has become, and why you need to stand out.

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 12/11/2024

if there are any Technically fans out there in #dataBS, I have a piece on data migrations in your inbox today: read.technically.dev/p/whats-a-da...

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What's a data migration?

Data migration is about transferring information (data) from one place to another.

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 11/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some past jobs - Kumon math - A few random work-study gigs during undergrad - Global health research fellow - Cdn foreign policy journal editor - Backend banking ops - Bank teller - Editor at Towards Data Science - Sales engineer at Plotly - Freelance DS/DE technical writer

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/11/2024

Data people starter packs, parts 1 and 2. Gotta follow them all! go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK go.bsky.app/DsDyXF3

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 05/11/2024

I don't really know how to create data memes but here's the first and only one I've created for #dataBS

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 04/11/2024

Really enjoyed this, the article is right about it coming down to a "select and review" process for a focused set of data points that answered questions people had But this is still a bit too abstract to grok. One way to understand the difference is to see how it plays out in personal finance

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 02/11/2024

Figured I should re-introduce myself while getting set up in #dataBS I write the docs and a bunch of other things at a data eng startup (CI, migrations, observability) Outside of work, I’ve written about LLMs www.counting-stuff.com/technical-wr... & data jobs elliotgunn.github.io/writing-onli...

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Technical writing is too important to leave to language models

There are no shortcuts to writing something worth reading

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Elliot Gunn @elliotgunn.com · 01/11/2024

arrived here via @randyau.com's post, very excited to see data twitter (sorry, databs) back at it after so long!!

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