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Name-Matching Mortgage Data

How a multi-method NLP pipeline achieved 80%+ match rates across tens of millions of loan records

February 2026 Case Study | Data Engineering | NLP | Python
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Kumquat

One word to overcome stage fright, according to a James Beard Award winner

July 2025 Writing | Leadership | Nashville
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Allemansrätten Analytics

The evolution of Spotify's data teams

October 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Tech
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Data Engineering for a Medically Tailored Meals Company

Building a scalable, HIPAA-aware data pipeline at the intersection of senior care and nutrition

October 2024 Case Study | Data Engineering | Senior Living | Healthcare Analytics
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Breaking News

Graphics at the New York Times — and how data journalism changed everything

September 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Journalism
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Big Data Ductwork

Cloudera's founders focus on infrastructure — and build the pipes the internet runs on

August 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Data Engineering
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Multi-Threaded

How Stitch Fix differentiated with data science — and learned to sell it

July 2024 Writing | Data Teams | E-Commerce
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The VanguaRd

R's extensible community and the open-source revolution in data science

June 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Open Source
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Working Backwards

How Amazon's autonomous team design ushered in a new era of cloud computing

May 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Tech
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Shooting the Messenger

Scalability and science at Moderna — how a small data team helped deliver a historic vaccine

April 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Healthcare
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How the West Was Won

The women who sent a man to space

April 2024 Writing | Data Teams | History
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A Loyal Partnership

How Dunnhumby and Tesco invented retail data science — and launched a new industry

March 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Retail Analytics
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A Financial Renaissance

Renaissance Technologies and the rise of the quant

March 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Finance
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Tableau's Business Intelligence

Not an oxymoron: how the founding team built a $6B data company on scrappy principles

February 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Business Intelligence
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Teaming with Data: Tableau Team Design

A talk on Tableau governance, alternative frameworks, and Team Topologies — presented at the Nashville Tableau User Group

February 2024 Portfolio | Talks | Data Teams | Org Design
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Job Matching with Python

Using TF-IDF and k-nearest neighbors to automate compensation survey matching in HR

February 2024 Portfolio | Python | NLP | Human Resources
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Teaming with Data

Not to be confused with "teeming," or an abundance of something. Quite the opposite really.

January 2024 Writing | Data Teams
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System R and the Birth of SQL

The beaver's dilemma: how IBM's Almaden team invented the language that runs the world's data

January 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Data Engineering
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Working with Me

A primer on my management style for new teammates

January 2024 Portfolio | Data Teams | Leadership
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Bell Labs: The Invention of Research

How the industrial lab changed the way we work together

January 2024 Writing | Data Teams | Research
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Podcast Interview: House of Data by Altos Research

On data team management, real estate data, and the right amount of collaboration in senior housing

December 2023 Portfolio | Podcasts | Data Teams | Senior Living
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Exploring the Transformation Layer: A dbt Primer

What the dbt quickstart with Snowflake taught me about building analytics you can actually trust

November 2023 Case Study | Analytics Engineering | dbt | Snowflake
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Book: Heroes Work Here

Brookdale's CEO on the company's COVID-19 response — including a look at the analytics work behind it

March 2023 Portfolio | Media | Senior Living | COVID-19
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Tableau: Analyzing Airbnb Inventory and Pricing in Nashville, TN

Exploring short-term rental market opportunities with Tableau Public

January 2023 Portfolio | Tableau | Data Visualization | Nashville
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Podcast Interview: The Tech Trek by Elevano

On building and structuring an analytics Center of Excellence

January 2021 Portfolio | Podcasts | Data Teams | Leadership
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Tailor's Dummy

Most people have a torso and two arms. Why treat your analytical projects any differently?

June 2019 Writing | Writing | Analytics
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