Sam Kennerly is a professional data and amateur musician.
Far from being a lesser version of the other data science breeds, good analysts are a prerequisite for effectiveness in your data endeavors. Cassie Kozyrkov
The reality is that "data science" has never been as much about machine learning as it has about cleaning, shaping data, and moving it from place to place. Vicki Boykis
The world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology. The stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just work, and be self-managing. Radia Perlman
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. John W. Gardner
You hired a data scientist to work on machine learning. They've been warned about spending 80% of their time cleaning data. That sounds like a distant dream now. Instead, they spend 80% of their time begging for data to be created, accessed, moved, or explained. Monica Rogati
- projects
- some of my public GitHub repositories
- quartos
- websites built by my static website generator
- random
- short essays about programming and probability
- science
- slideshows, talks, and published research
- tldrs
- quick-reference guides inspired by TLDR pages
