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Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Apr 26, 2021

Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Apr 26, 2021

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Simple Visualizations Are Pretty Darned Great

If you’re bad at Viz, like me, there’s hope for us

Sep 17, 2020

Simple Visualizations Are Pretty Darned Great

Sep 17, 2020

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The Epic Data Fetch Quest

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.

Sep 16, 2020

The Epic Data Fetch Quest

Sep 16, 2020

Interpreting Email Analytics is Handwavy

What you can do when you actually collect email data

Jul 28, 2020

Interpreting Email Analytics is Handwavy

Jul 28, 2020

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Email Analytics: More than you ever need to know

Black boxes are hot again

Apr 28, 2020

Email Analytics: More than you ever need to know

Apr 28, 2020

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Why we are so tempted to go out of lane?

Work has conditioned us to

Mar 30, 2020

Why we are so tempted to go out of lane?

Mar 30, 2020

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Data Literacy Via COVID-19

Some people are learning data science quickly without realizing it

Mar 9, 2020

Data Literacy Via COVID-19

Mar 9, 2020

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Becoming a Quantitative UX Researcher is Messy

Don’t expect to land the title easily, heck, don’t even go for the title

Feb 18, 2020

Becoming a Quantitative UX Researcher is Messy

Feb 18, 2020

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10x data scientist is luckily not “a thing” let’s all work to keep it this way

We seriously don’t need that sort of nonsense

Feb 11, 2020

10x data scientist is luckily not “a thing” let’s all work to keep it this way

Feb 11, 2020

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Counting is hard, 2019-nCoV edition

It’s not every day we can watch an expert explaining how hard counting is

Jan 29, 2020

Counting is hard, 2019-nCoV edition

Jan 29, 2020

I’ve started a Substack

But I’ll still be on Medium too

Jan 29, 2020

I’ve started a Substack

Jan 29, 2020

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Being the Eyes of Your Organization

Be Aware of the Power You Wield as a Data Person

Jan 10, 2020

Being the Eyes of Your Organization

Jan 10, 2020

Drinks ‘n Data Rant this Saturday

A fun little (online) event for data folk

Dec 30, 2019

Drinks ‘n Data Rant this Saturday

Dec 30, 2019

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Be Yourself: The Data Scientists You See In Public Are Not Representative

It needs to be said regularly — it’s OK to be nothing like them

Dec 13, 2019

Be Yourself: The Data Scientists You See In Public Are Not Representative

Dec 13, 2019

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The User-Agent — That Crazy String Underpinning a Bunch of Analytics

It’s surprising to think we rely on this as much as we do

Dec 9, 2019

The User-Agent — That Crazy String Underpinning a Bunch of Analytics

Dec 9, 2019

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Common Data Science Trap— Getting Systems To Agree

Beware! They will not agree! The question is to what degree

Nov 21, 2019

Common Data Science Trap— Getting Systems To Agree

Nov 21, 2019

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Better Programming

Character Encoding, Part 3 of 3 — Gotchas while working with Unicode

Off by one errors are common in programming, right?

Oct 31, 2019

Character Encoding, Part 3 of 3 — Gotchas while working with Unicode

Oct 31, 2019

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Better Programming

Character Encodings — The Pain That Won’t Go Away, Part 2/3: Unicode

This is supposed to save us all, it’s merely the best we’ve got so far

Oct 28, 2019

Character Encodings — The Pain That Won’t Go Away, Part 2/3: Unicode

Oct 28, 2019

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Better Programming

Character Encodings —The Pain That Won’t Go Away, Part 1/3: Non-Unicode

How we got here, how we’re not getting out yet, and dealing with it

Oct 28, 2019

Character Encodings —The Pain That Won’t Go Away, Part 1/3: Non-Unicode

Oct 28, 2019

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Dates, Times, Calendars— The Universal Source of Data Science Trauma

Some survival tips for all the crazy out there

Sep 30, 2019

Dates, Times, Calendars— The Universal Source of Data Science Trauma

Sep 30, 2019

Randy Au

Randy Au

1.97K Followers

I stress about data quality a lot. Data nerd/scientist, camera junkie. Quant UXR @Google Cloud. Formerly @bitly, @Meetup, @primarydotcom. Opinions are my own.

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