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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 05/02/2025

Me: Can we get some Fourier analysis? Michelson: We have Fourier analysis at home. Fourier analysis at home:

retro image of a Michelson mechanical Fourier analysis and synthesis machine. it's very complicated and large and mechanical.

Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What is a 'memecoin' anyway? Ryan Broderick in the Garbage Day newsletter describes it succinctly: "Crypto firms want to monetize the very concept of a meme. Which is as insidious as it is extremely lame." (Garbage Day newsletter and content here www.garbageday.email/subscribe?re...)

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It needs to match the ✨vibes✨! This is totally legit.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Loath to admit it, but 95% of my hair product choices are driven by whether it smells good.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This feels like beating a final boss in an AI game. Like the screen should pop up with job postings for becoming an AI engineer at Google if you can type a search that stumps their AI process.

Cropped screenshot from a Google search that shows the ubiquitous AI sparkly diamond and displays the text "An AI Overview is not available for this search"

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Standard Likert vibe scale. Vibes were: ⬜ Sus ⬜ Off ⬜ Vibing ⬜ Immaculate ✅ Unmatched

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Something is rotten in the state of Ohio #databs

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Kirsten Lum @machsci.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Don’t think of it as whether the data has error or not. Most of the time it will. Think of it as whether the error in the data will cause you to make a different decision than if the data was perfectly clean. Most of the time it won’t.

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Andrew Schechtman-Rook @andrewrook.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

One of the biggest tips I have for anyone doing data analysis, especially data from people, is to spend some time drilling down to the most granular data and just looking at individual records. You will find the craziest shit you never imagined and your analysis will be better for it #databs

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I have the Kreg accu-cut track and use that w my DeWalt circ saw - I don't have to rip full sheets often but it works really well when I do! I use a diablo blade and it is great at limiting tear out.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I, too, have uttered the words "it's the freakin' weekend baby I'm about to have me some fun" often in reference to sitting down to work on a side project, which eases the guilt a bit.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

At work, I always start with the problem to solve. In hobby projects, I agree that it's fun to just explore and see where the data takes you!

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

When you are working on a data side project, do you usually start with the problem to solve and find the data to answer it? Or do you start with the dataset and go down the rabbit hole to see what you find?

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

What are the current alt methods we are iterating through as a species that will be the telegraph/Morse code combos intrinsically linked in future humanity's experience? (Highly recommend The Information, btw!)

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Telegraphs and Morse code have always been intrinsically linked in my mind. Reading "The Information" by James Gleick @around.com and learning there were at least half a dozen early iterations for conveying language through an electrical wire is fascinating. Also begs the #dataBS question -

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Telegraph tech and Morse code have always been intrinsically linked in my mind. Reading "The Information" by Gleick and learning there were at least half a dozen alt iterations for conveying language through the medium of electricity that were tested and then abandoned is fascinating.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yep, agree with this - even if prediction of which customers will churn isn't all that's needed, the analytical process to dev a model - EDA, feature engineering, feature importance - can still lead to actionable info. And then model output provides the list of customers to pull those levers on.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

YES. Love this question and totally relate to this answer!

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Tangentially related to the original post - but say the obvious thing! Connect the dots! One of the biggest differentiators I've seen in good senior/leadership folks in tech is that yes, they have next-level skills but also, they SHARE THEM IN A CLEAR AND OBVIOUS WAY.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Data Weaseling and Data Hoarding sound like top tier #databs skills

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My inbox filling up with meeting cancellations due to holiday schedules is the BEST early gift.

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Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

How can we visualize what a book ISN'T talking about? With an anti-tag cloud! See the most common English words that are never mentioned in a text. www.bewitched.com/demo/anti/

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Anti-Tag Cloud

Visualize the negative space of literary works

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Brb, changing every bullet point on my resume to say "tedious, undifferentiated task"

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I have no knowledge of this case, but have seen lots of pathways to the outcome. Misattributing events as users. Poor/no de-duping. Incentives that drive users to sign up for multiple accounts. Our biases lead us to accept a number we like and scrutinize those we don't.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy working on side projects day for all who celebrate! 🥳🤩

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A corollary: if there is coding shown in a movie/TV show, I am def pausing it to see the code.

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Kelly Vaughn @kvlly.com · 27/11/2024

If you're coding near me at a coffee shop, there is a 100% chance I'm going to have to try and see what you're building. I don't make the rules.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My feed could use more puppy pics tbh. Those are never wrong.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Nobody’s logging on expecting profundity, hilarity, or sincerity. It’s the place where people strive to be the most anodyne versions of themselves, pleasant and inoffensive. Artificiality, in other words, is what everyone is expecting." Scathing review of LinkedIn, imo.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What's your process for preserving the magnetic media?

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Will check out that podcast tomorrow, thank you! Fascinating topic on many levels.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What data visualization would you create if it needed to persist 100 years, much less 10k? #databs How many of us work in fields where the dangers of our work need to be communicated 5-10k years down the line? What are we creating now that could require a similar warning in the future?

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Think of media storage and how playing music has morphed in the last 40 years: records, cassettes, CDs, digital - which could be broken down even further. How do we predict how information will be stored, shared, and communicated in 10k years?

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Along with written and picture warnings, physical markers such as spike fields were recommended by the task force. Linguists also suggested the possibility of an atomic priesthood - similar to the Catholic Church's structure - to pass down info radioactive locations and dangers across generations.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

How would you write a critical message to humans 10k years from now? That's what the Human Interference Task Force convened to discuss in 1981. The critical message? There is nuclear waste buried here. The danger is still present in your time. "What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us."

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here." I miss a lot of pop culture references but saw this one on bluesky recently and wanted to share the chilling (but fascinating) source of this one.

English words engraved on a black metallic surface this is slightly reflective. The words say:

"This place is not a place of honour (line break) No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here (line break) Nothing valued is here (line break) What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us (line break) This message is a warning about danger"

This picture was taken from reddit, original source is unknown.

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Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition: www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

To be fair, I live in the Midwest. "Naming things what they do" and "an S3 bucket about hog fat" are not mutually exclusive.

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Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Interested in machine learning in science? Timo and I recently published a book, and even if you are not a scientist, you'll find useful overviews of topics like causality and robustness. The best part is that you can read it for free: ml-science-book.com

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Found a name for my next S3 bucket

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Live look at my laptop after I forgot to include a break condition in my while loop #databs

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Spreadsheets are a tool. I don't hate hammers for being terrible at driving in screws. 99% of the people I work with in business use spreadsheets (probably 100% but there could be that one). Hating a tool that's so ubiquitous is silly. Figure out how to coexist and use it to your advantage instead.

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

When you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but it gives you eggs, that's a yolkenizer

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Jeanna @jschoonmaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Agree with this - knowing when to "call it" is a skill. When is the model iteration as good as it's going to get? When is add'l analysis and rabbitholing no longer serving the original business need?

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