Well, that can’t be right…right?
I can’t help it. Suspect data jumps out at me. I logged into my utility provider's website to pay my gas bill earlier. I'd forgotten how much higher those...
SMART Data Operations
Data quality checks are a critical tool in the data pro’s toolbox to ensure SLAs are maintained, but poorly designed checks can lead to a life of on-call...
FAIL
There’s a lot that I don’t recall from my time as an engineering student, but one thing I do remember is studying failures, like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge...
"Everyone You'll Ever Meet Knows Something You Don't"
[This post was originally published as a guest post on Randy Au’s Counting Stuff] I recently watched Bill Nye talk about his approach to problem solving and...
Dimensions of Data Quality
Everyone wants “good” data. Almost as universal is the sense that the data you’re working with is…not good. Being able to objectively measure data quality is...
Minimizing the Cost Function in Data Projects (or, Keep it Simple, Stupid)
My NormConf Lightning Talk - the transcript I've been working in data and computational science in various capacities in geophysics, finance, civic tech,...