A webring

I added this blog to Randy Au's webring for data writers. Take a look here, or below:



I'm struggling to describe why I think this is so interesting.

Most of the writing I've seen about doing data work is misleading. It misrepresents what data work actually looks like.

Everyone writing …


SQL style - where do the commas go?

TL;DR: there are good arguments for leading commas, but I recommend using trailing commas for consistency.


We didn't take an opinionated stance on comma placement when writing Mozilla's SQL Style Guide probably to avoid a quagmire. I'm trying to figure out where I stand now, so I wrote it …


Talk: Practical Strategies for Data Storytelling

I gave a talk at the Open Data Science Conference a few weeks ago titled: Practical Strategies for Data Storytelling. I have more to say on the subject, but in the meantime you can see my slides and speaker notes here.


For the last two years, I've hosted a biweekly …


Getting Credit for Invisible Work

As I moved up my company’s career ladder, my job description became more ambiguous.

I stepped back to take a look at my work, and I was surprised to find that my biggest wins hadn’t come from technical feats or shipped code. Instead, I realized that most of …

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