Data Operations

Posts about data operations, analytics, and organizational data management

182 posts

In support of boring software

Photo by Filip Mishevski on Unsplash I am an unabashed technology fan and an early adopter of new things. As a kid, I loved (and still love) science fiction and super heroes. In these stories, amazing technology creates opportunities, solves…

Building Diagrams with Computers

Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Have a comment or interested in sponsoring this newsletter? Hit reply. Ethan Mollick writes about AI that “the only way to figure out how useful AI might be is to use it.” This…

Build-your-own superpower

Photo by Marjan Blan on Unsplash Think of the most effective people you know. One of their characteristics is that for a given set of tasks, they are much better than anyone else at following a procedure, reviewing information, and…

Going from 0-1 in Data Operations

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Imagine you are starting a new venture and need to describe all the data tasks that need to happen to get you from “nothing” to “something” in Data Operations. These are the basic building…

An ode to console.log()

Photo by Thomas Peham on Unsplash Some of the first programs I ever wrote on a computer used PRINT to echo a line to the screen. Using BASIC, I filled the view with something like: 10 PRINT “This is cool!”20…

The coach will see you now

Photo by sydney Rae on Unsplash If you have a comment or are interested in sponsoring, hit reply. When I was younger I wanted to be a professional baseball player. Professional baseball announcer was probably a more realistic goal given…