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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
Read more →Kumquat
One word to overcome stage fright, according to a James Beard Award winner
Read more →Allemansrätten Analytics
The evolution of Spotify's data teams
Read more →Data Engineering for a Medically Tailored Meals Company
Building a scalable, HIPAA-aware data pipeline at the intersection of senior care and nutrition
Read more →Breaking News
Graphics at the New York Times — and how data journalism changed everything
Read more →Big Data Ductwork
Cloudera's founders focus on infrastructure — and build the pipes the internet runs on
Read more →Multi-Threaded
How Stitch Fix differentiated with data science — and learned to sell it
Read more →The VanguaRd
R's extensible community and the open-source revolution in data science
Read more →Working Backwards
How Amazon's autonomous team design ushered in a new era of cloud computing
Read more →Shooting the Messenger
Scalability and science at Moderna — how a small data team helped deliver a historic vaccine
Read more →How the West Was Won
The women who sent a man to space
Read more →A Loyal Partnership
How Dunnhumby and Tesco invented retail data science — and launched a new industry
Read more →A Financial Renaissance
Renaissance Technologies and the rise of the quant
Read more →Tableau's Business Intelligence
Not an oxymoron: how the founding team built a $6B data company on scrappy principles
Read more →Teaming with Data: Tableau Team Design
A talk on Tableau governance, alternative frameworks, and Team Topologies — presented at the Nashville Tableau User Group
Read more →Job Matching with Python
Using TF-IDF and k-nearest neighbors to automate compensation survey matching in HR
Read more →Teaming with Data
Not to be confused with "teeming," or an abundance of something. Quite the opposite really.
Read more →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
Read more →Working with Me
A primer on my management style for new teammates
Read more →Bell Labs: The Invention of Research
How the industrial lab changed the way we work together
Read more →Podcast Interview: House of Data by Altos Research
On data team management, real estate data, and the right amount of collaboration in senior housing
Read more →Exploring the Transformation Layer: A dbt Primer
What the dbt quickstart with Snowflake taught me about building analytics you can actually trust
Read more →Book: Heroes Work Here
Brookdale's CEO on the company's COVID-19 response — including a look at the analytics work behind it
Read more →Tableau: Analyzing Airbnb Inventory and Pricing in Nashville, TN
Exploring short-term rental market opportunities with Tableau Public
Read more →Podcast Interview: The Tech Trek by Elevano
On building and structuring an analytics Center of Excellence
Read more →Tailor's Dummy
Most people have a torso and two arms. Why treat your analytical projects any differently?
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