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I like to think that you can remain productive over 40. Make is 43 this year and it is still my tool of choice to automate my data cleaning or data analysis. It is versatile and beautifully simple. (At first.) Yet, in a recent survey, we found that l...
title: Wish I Could Be Like David Watts published: true description: How do we know that this David Watts is the same as that David Watts? tags: entity resolution, data quality Which David Watts? Names are not unique and we want to use keys instead....
title: Spatial Relations published: true description: Start seeing the world in points, lines, and polygons. tags: GIS Measurements often have a spatial dimension. If thinking about time intervals feels complicated, welcome to spatial relations. Wher...
title: Eggs Are Easier To Ship Than Omelettes published: true description: I estimated the regression model we discussed last week and it didn’t work. Which regression model? What do you mean it didn’t work? tags: agile, data science team, explorativ...
title: Spells published: true description: Find a model that fits your data as it is. Don’t torture your data to conform to models you know. tags: data science, temporal data, data modeling I often work with time spells in my data. For example, a fir...
title: Everything is a Function published: true description: Procedural programming comes natural to scientists, because it reads like a precise protocol for an experiment. But everything in data analysis is a function. tags: data science, functiona...
title: The Tupperware Approach to Coding published: true description: A tree structure is effective to organize the information you have to keep in your head if you optimize between small and few. tags: coding, script, software architecture Coding is...
title: The Power of Plain Text published: true description: I believe portability and ease of exploration beats a tight schema-conforming database any time. tags: csv, data, json I sometimes get excited by binary file formats for storing data. A cou...
title: Semantic Versioning for Data Products published: true description: Semantic versioning lets you communicate your promises effectively within your data analysis team. tags: semantic versioning,data science,data analysis In one of my research pr...
