I just wrote up a style guide for our team's documentation. The documentation is rendered using Gitbook and hosted on Github Pages. You can find the PR here but I figured it's worth sharing here as well.
Articles should be written in Markdown (not AsciiDoc). Markdown is usually …
Quick post to clear up some terminology. But first, an analogy to clear up my thinking:
Temperature control is a big part of brewing beer. Throughout the brewing process I use a thermometer to measure the temperature of the soon-to-be beer. Because I take several temperature readings throughout the …
This is my first job making data tools that other people use. In the past, I've always been a data scientist - a consumer of these tools. I'm learning a lot.
Last quarter, I learned that bad tools are often hard to spot even when they're damaging productivity. I sum this …
I'm working on a big overhaul of my team's documentation. I've noticed writing documentation is a difficult thing to get right. I haven't seen any great example for a data product, either. I don't have much experience in this area, so I decided to review what's already been written about …
I came across this article on the front page of Hacker News yesterday. The author argues that Bay Area housing prices may be high, but the salary increase probably makes it worth while. The author pulls together some interesting data to make their point, but I have major issues with …
I'm happy to announce a new telemetry dataset!
The Cross Sectional dataset makes it easy to describe our users by providing summary statistics for each client. Like the Longitudinal table, there's one row for each client_id in a 1% sample of clients. However, the Cross Sectional dataset simplifies your analysis …
You'll see a lot of posts coming down the line on documentation.
We surveyed our customers last quarter and asked where our data pipeline was lacking. It turns out the most painful part of using our data pipeline, is reading the documentation. I've been interesting in learning how to write …
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Last week I finished a pull request that moved some documentation from mozilla's wiki to a github repository. It took a couple of hours of editing and toying with pandoc to get right, but when I was done, I realized the benefits were difficult to see. So, I decided …
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Working over SSH can be impossibly frustrating if you're not using the right tools. I promised my teammates a write-up how I work over ssh. Using these tools will make it significantly easier / more fun to work with a remote linux system.
For me, tmux is …