Over the past year, I’ve gone through pregnancy, experienced childbirth, took maternity leave, went back to work (while pumping), and worked from home while taking care of a baby during a pandemic. It’s been quite a ride, and while I still love tech and data science and don’t have any plans to change the general… Continue reading N=1: My Experience with Motherhood in Tech
Git Your SQL Together (with a Query Library)
Focusing on these points has led to my continuous adoption of a query library -- a git repository for saving and sharing commonly (and uncommonly) used queries, all while tracking any changes made to these queries over time.
Field Notes: Building Data Dictionaries
The scariest ghost stories I know take place when the history of data -- how it’s collected, how it’s used, and what it’s meant to represent -- becomes an oral history, passed down as campfire stories from one generation of analysts to another like a spooky game of telephone. These stories include eerie phrases like… Continue reading Field Notes: Building Data Dictionaries
A Month in the Life of a Data Scientist
I used the 1 Second Everyday app to take a series of one second videos of what my work as a data scientist at an IoT startup looked like during the month of August.
The Coolest Things I Learned at JupyterCon
I’m freshly back from JupyterCon in NY and still feeling the bubbly optimism that comes with bringing all you’ve learned at a conference back to your office. In that spirit, I wanted to share some of the coolest and most interesting things I learned with you all.
