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Intro time! I'm David. I call myself a "data generalist" because I haven't found a label that fits. I've been a software dev, data scientist, and my real passion is education so now I do Python and data training. I'm currently most interested in skills that data people *actually* need to know.

BTW I love talking about educational approaches, happy to connect sometime! We also did a bunch of episodes of our podcast (called Half Stack Data Science) all about data education. Had some great guests on. Apparently you can just approach amazing people and they're just... happy to talk? Who knew?

Just added to my podcast player! I never taught data, so I have no expertise here - but the educational component of data is a fascinating space, so it'll be exciting to hear from practitioners in it.

Realising and embracing the fact that I'm a generalist has been a huge turning point for me! davidasboth.com/why-i-now-ca...

Yes! Exactly this! I'd always have to append 'hi, me data scientist' with what I'm actually doing. It's just too big of an umbrella for such a diverse field & set of people 'Data Generalist' is ironically probably the most accurate & specific title for folks like yourself

I've also really liked the term data practitioner (even though if I can never spell it right on the first try)