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“The Bear” Season 2: A Poignant Story About Building Quality Culture
Confession: When I originally viewed The Bear (Season 1) last year, I thought it was “just OK.” It’s a drama that centers around a group of 8 people who work in a restaurant, and I’ve never worked in...
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ETL is So Much Easier Now
When I think about the rich landscape of ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) tools that organizations can choose from in 2023 to reduce the time to access and manipulate data, I feel like a fossil....
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Enterprise Data and the Holy Grail
TL;DR – A core principle of systems engineering and software engineering isn’t readily applied (or even recognized!) among people who build, operate, and maintain enterprise data ecosystems… leading...
View ArticleA Solid Data Architecture Pays Off
Earlier this year, the people who (rightly) decided the “collective we” needed better tools to manage all our spaghetti SQL (dbt) acquired the “semantic layer” company, Transform. In one of the merger...
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“Us vs. Them”: There’s A Better Choice
Over the past 25 years (at least), I’ve routinely noticed two (and only two!) patterns of interaction emerge between people, and one of those patterns is wildly superior to the other. This post is my...
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Accountability: Getting Real About What We CAN Do
When you hear the word accountability, what do you think of? In cultures with low psychological safety, accountability can be a scary word. Who’s going to whip the horses harder to get them to go...
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A+ for ML with R: Lantz’s 4th Edition
TL;DR – This book is a great value. I’d pay $100 for it, even though I already have a well worn 3rd edition (and even a 1st edition that I started using with undergrads in 2015). Want to learn how to...
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