Sanity Check #5 - Fall Down 7, Get Up 8
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The pressure to write a new article every week knocked me down. Here I am, standing up again.
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Curated Columns
If I fall again, you can trust these authors will deliver. They are pros and it's where I find some of my best inspiration.
- The Analytics Engineering Roundup: The best data-centric newsletter around. Bite-sized think pieces sprinkled with links to other notable work in the industry.
- Data Elixir: A weekly dose of the best data science articles from around the web. They cover the full gambit of topics data practitioners are supposed to cram in their minds.
- Oversimplified: Conor Dewey straddles the line between data and business. His insights are bound to give you a lightbulb moment.
- Not Boring: Packy McCormick explores the fringes of business and emerging tech in a fun way.
- Stratechery: Ben Thompson is a living legend for business and tech writing. His work should be mandatory reading for anyone trying to make sense of Internet-scale businesses.
Analytics Crafting A Way Forward
The data community had been talking about viewing our work as a craft or profession, but the trail had gone cold.
It's too important a discussion to not keep moving forward.
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Data Doodle
Mr. Ben
Systems thinking Powered by data Visualized with drawings
Hi friends, Data professionals are dynamic people. They are: Designers with eye-pleasing visualizations Developers, authoring jobs that transform data into value Strategists in plotting out the needs of the business Then at the higher levels, analysts do sales. We need to be persuasive in helping our colleagues arrive at a decision. The one skill that helps all of these demands is writing. This week I've pulled together some of my favorite writing resources. If people cannot write well, they...
Hi friends, Thanks for being here! No preamble - just hope you're having a good day =) Let's get into it. Subscribe DPIM Framework Bundling better infra, people, models, and data A tweet lead me to ask what does better analytics infrastructure, models, data, or even people actually mean? The answer turns out to be "it depends" 🤷♂️ So I wrote out a framework to help you find what better looks like to you. Read more Curated Columns The many faces of "Production" - I really like Randy's...
Hi friends, I promised you that I would get the newsletter out each week, even if I wasn't able to hit publish on an article. Well - no article this week. To make up for it, I've stuffed extra Curated Columns in here. The theme - leverage. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes Subscribe Curated Columns Benn Stancil's Response - Benn shared a few blurbs on last week's Data's Secret Sauce article. He quickly teased out a...