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I also really enjoyed Leigh Warner's session "Draw Before You Code" - she talked about how to solve the same kind of problem I've approached from the librarian's frame of the reference interview but from a visual designer's frame of the requirements tree. 5/8

Leigh presenting her talk. This slide is titled "In the AI world, why is design still important?" The bullets below read:
- slows you down and keeps you close to the problem
- prevents you from leaning and building on assumptions
- constraints, relationships, edge cases sometimes present themselves when you work visually
- the output is no the point... but it does aide in collaboration
- a well understood problem = a fast solution

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Ratio PBC's own Eric Guroff gave a fantastic presentation about state & local health data reporting. Many of the attendees approach government health data from either end of the pipeline - as data producers at the start of the pipeline or data consumer at the end of the pipeline... 3/8

Eric presenting about state and local health data reporting through the example of his son's birth

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From the boat ride the night before (complete with trivia over dinner) to the "cursed chart" competition that closed out a day full of informative sessions, Data Camp really did feel more like a camp for healthcare data nerds than a conference. 2/8

View of the Boston harbor at sunset from the boat

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 11/05/2026

In the summer we go to camp.... Out-Of-Pocket's Data Camp, that is. They had the s'mores and everything! Last year's inaugural Data Camp was so fun the Ratio PBC team came back to Boston for seconds, and the OOP team really hit it out of the park this year. 1/8

Data Camp '26
Out-Of-Pocket
Make your own s'mores!

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For any army that are also fans of @adapalmer.bsky.social's Terra Ignota, I have another one for ya... Jimin at the Mexican National Palace is my headcannon for Sniper if they were to ever play The Little Prince.

Jimin in a blue suit standing on a balcony at the Mexican National Palace

BTS with Mexican President Claudio Sheinbaum at the National Palace

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 11/05/2026

For Game of Thrones fans that are also army, this outfit plus a glorious new hairdo during the BTS world tour made Jimin Targaryen instant headcannon:

Jimin during the BTS 2026 world tour in a black leather and fur outfit and long blond hair.

post from X with the text: he looks like daenerys targaryen and jon snow's son istg. jimin targaryen, prince of dragonstone, heir to the iron throne.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 25/04/2026

Perhaps not quite what you are looking for but I adore my hammock swing, I bought two since my house came with two hooks where a porch swing used to hang. It is my favorite spot for knitting, reading, and sometimes coffee too

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 22/04/2026

Your mother-in-law would like my best friend’s pottery: ruckusceramics.com

Many mugs with many kinds of skulls on them

Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 26/03/2026

#dbt has always had community champions, but thanks to Bolaji Oyejide it's now an official program! I remember discussing the seeds of this idea with @jthandy.bsky.social at Coalesce 2024, and it's so exciting to see it now become a reality.

dbt Champions

"It's not about the mechanics of transforming data, it's about how you can improve processes. Every technical choice is also a governance choice."

- Jenna Jordan
Senior Analytics Engineer
Ratio PBC

Building dbt projects for public health initiatives and Health & Human Services organizations

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 15/03/2026

I went to Carolina FiberFest this weekend and took 2 weaving workshops. Behold my first ever attempts at weaving:

Output from my “art weaving” workshop, which is honestly just about vibes. Ignore the phone shadow

Art weaving workshop was with a saori loom

Output of my “small tapestry” weaving workshop. I was very determined to weave the blue ridge mountains at sunset. Not too bad I think

In this case the loom was cardboard and we had a tapestry needle and fork to help with the weaving.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 01/03/2026

Lace shawls are kinda my thing 😁

Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 21/02/2026

These hammock swings have got to be one of my favorite knitting purchases.

I’m in a hammock swing, on my covered front porch, with my knitting on my lap and pattern held up by the porch swing rope, with two dogs relaxing in the background. It’s 65 degrees and the birds are singing all around. In February.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 21/02/2026

Bella gets to have a doggie sleepover with her bff this weekend and I get to start a brand new shawl. We being cozy in prep for the incoming colder weather.

Bella and Bemo sleeping in a line on the couch, with Bemo’s head perilously close to Bella’s butt (her stinkers can be killer)

A baby shawl! Light blue and white yarn in a triangle on top the yarn cake.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 20/02/2026

and finally these three skeins will be a shawl!

Three skeins of Malabrigo Rios in Sobre La Luna by Lena Fedotova

One skein caked up, one skein on the swift, and one skein left to go

All the caked up yarn with the umbrella swift and hand crank winder

Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 20/02/2026

This yarn is gonna be a hat!

Blueish multicolored yarn, freshly caked

The alpaca yarn company
Espiral
Random marl worsted weight
100% alpaca
3.5oz (100g) - 165 yds
66 - Atlantis

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 20/02/2026

Spending my evening watching the Olympics (almost time to watch Alyssa Liu!) and winding yarn.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 08/02/2026

Getting brunch at a local diner and spied some familiar faces on the photo wall…

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 03/02/2026

In our family the tale of the spaghetti sauce sauce recipe is told every Christmas Eve, along with a re-count of how many years the spaghetti sauce has been made for Christmas Eve dinner (I forget exactly but ~70 years). We all got the recipe on tea towels for Christmas one year. It shall live on!

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 03/02/2026

Tada! Just one more night of drying on the racks.

Candied oranges dipped in chocolate. The chosen ones that remained whole.

Candied oranges coated in sugar. The struggling ones, that fell apart a bit in the process.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 02/02/2026

Celebrated Imbolc yesterday by making some candied oranges. Should be ready tonight to dip in chocolate (for those that held together) or coat with sugar (for the rest). My first attempt at candying fruit… I hope they are worth it!

Orange slices simmering in a pot of syrup

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 01/02/2026

If you were able to attend my talk - thank you! I hope you enjoyed it and learned enough to start thinking like a librarian... or at least I hope I convinced you that you need a librarian's perspective on your data team (so hire one!).

Picture from the talk taken by Peter Hanssens. I'm up on stage looking at my slide about all the various fields that fall under the big tent of Library & Information Science.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 01/02/2026

A week ago I delivered my talk at @datadaytexas.bsky.social: "Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives from a Time-Honored Tradition". While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.

Title slide from my talk: "Think like a librarian: fresh perspectives from a time-honored tradition". Image from the movie "Desk Set"

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 31/01/2026

Good day to be cozy inside

Bella in a sweater and under a blanket on a couch and resting on a pillow

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 31/01/2026

A proper winter snow this weekend 🩵

Snow on a wooden fence showing a good few inches of accumulation

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Now, at last, the finale to the finale… the data town hall hosted by @joereis.bsky.social and Matthew Housley… time for some friendly debate!

Last talk of the day before the town hall, Paul Blankley argues in “Agents are eating the semantic layer” that LLMs have graduated beyond needing semantic layers - let the LLM write the sql with the context that is captured by the semantic layer.

My talk is done, phew! Next up is fellow North Carolinian Thais Cooke, talking about the human layer of data

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Last talk before mine… Shachar Meir is telling a room full of data professionals how they can become a $1M data professional

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I’m absolutely delighted to see @hannes.muehleisen.org talk for the first time in person. He is somehow using duckdb for his slides (of course), and talking about the joy of sql… if properly implemented.

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Bill is also looking for more writers for his new Substack- contact him if you’re interested!

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DDTX attendees are lucky to be able to hear the legendary Bill Inmon speak - today about how to fix how decidedly disappointing LLMs have been in producing business value with an LLM preprocessor.

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Conference knitting today is a honey cowl!

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