Austin Bradley

Happy to see 🦋 gaining momentum! About me: I'm Austin, I'm a non-profit guy & former HS Science teacher 👨‍🔬 Studied International Affairs (always happy to chat politics & 🌍 ) I now work as a data & financial analyst 👨‍💻 I'm a big fan of travel✈️, learning languages 🇩🇪 🇪🇸, soccer ⚽ & building things 👷‍♂️

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Mulling on a thought. As a data professional, I feel it's my responsibility to make sure my business colleagues understand the processes their data goes through. I'm uncomfortable with stakeholders saying "I don't know how it works, it just does!" Not sure though if this is normal.

I just realized I'm a chronic sufferer of SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE 🐍 Apologies to all who my malady has afflicted

Inversely correlated with Al evangelism, too (at least in my experience)

Unmitigated lunacy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just wait till we get kids cutting off the back of their pants so it doesn't soak up water, while letting the front still cover the shoes. That was my sophomore uniform.

Nothing like a carefully laid out plan of all the things you were going to tackle before a slate of meetings that gets completely derailed by a random request that should have been quick but ended up taking you to Mordor and back.

I think all the time that this is the "science reform" we need to be having. Discrimination in science probably costs us more in scientific insight and scientists' well-being than anything else. AND these toxic patterns are not independent of fraud because toxic cultures create fraud pressures

Just yesterday we had a conversation in my nonprofit about removing the icon & link from the list of social media sites we include in our email signature. Should have happened a while ago, but it's better late than never.

This week on Counting Stuff, I was cooking a bunch and was thinking about how we live in a bunch of DAGs but honestly despite knowing how to manage data DAGs, we all hate tracker tools #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/we-have-dags...

I may have just successfully convinced our head of tech that, no, we in fact *do not* need to spend 5 figures for a consultant firm to engage in a "discovery process" to "assess how AI can enhance our workstreams." AMA

Very curious if board members are aware of how much organizational time and energy they take up. There are certain aspects of the dominant organizational leadership model that continues to confound me. This is absolutely one of them.

"You've Got to Survive to Thrive: What Doom Taught Me About Mission Alignment, Resource Management, and Task Prioritization"

Enjoying this chain of QT's and responses over coffee ☕ before going into the "spreadsheet mines" ⛏️ as my wife and I like to call them 😅 #databs

I don't want to say that my recent experiences at work are radicalizing me *against* the star schema per se, but boy is it funny to walk through someone else's construction project and realize that they had one hammer in hand...so every problem immediately became a nail.

The Data Council ‘25 talks are now online, which is great because even when you attend you can’t be everywhere all at once. I’ll highlight a couple below, but there are plenty of other great talks. #databs

Trying to (kindly) remind my business colleagues that, just like with real objects in the physical world, if you don't put the data in the place where it goes it won't magically appear there when you go to look for it.

+1 for eye masks. Once I started using them, I completely stopped waking up in the middle of the night. A shockingly simple solution, honestly.

Another episode, this time about reconfigured, an AI-assisted journaling tool. If you wish you had a better tool to capture your thoughts as you go through an analysis, have a listen! #dataBS #datasky

The discussion and engagement was so good on this over the last few weeks that I went ahead and added 2 whole new sections to this blog post (worth checking out if you already read this!): I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.

This week on Counting Stuff, a bit about how everyone has the ability to do logs analysis, because it's not about tech but storytelling and domain knowledge #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...

One of my favorite underappreciated features of Spotify is the "don't play this artist" setting. As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable. The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.

Had a business leader tell me they could cry today when I shared a dashboard I'd built for her because it shows her information she's been asking for "for literally years now." So yeah, that felt pretty good

It's almost funny how personally I take it when a home advertised to me on Zillow is so obviously a quick flip. I guess it's a sign I've been "looking" for way too long now.

My least favorite part about working with data is when you present multiple, mutually exclusive, solutions to a business leader and they respond with "all of them, except the easiest, please"

Already loving this article, and I can attest to it in a way because I love having an e-reader but I hate Kindle's native note taker, so I bought a cheap tablet and have treated it like a "dumb phone," and find it *much* more pleasant to keep around than the device I'm typing this out on right now.

❗️Our next workshop will be on February 20th, 6 pm CET on Tabular ML in R by @frankiethull.bsky.social ! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

My life at work right now... #databs

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

If you are a member of an underrepresented group in data science, consider applying for a scholarship to attend this year's posit::conf() in Atlanta!

"thank you chocolate hero" 😔

⏰ Call for speakers: www.devupconf.org Talked about #devUp conference in St Louis last year as a bit of an untapped goldmine, 600+ people in attendance. (@data-dragoness.bsky.social talked #PowerBI and had a blast!) I want to see even more of us this year! You: "A developer conference???" 1/n

After about a month, I think I finally figured out the killer app for my pixel watch: voice to task with a reminder.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

Since reading Chris Miller’s “Chip War” last year I can’t stop thinking about this. The phone I’m writing this on is alien technology. Chips made by etching patterns so small they can’t even be seen by visible light, using lasers created by heating tin to the surface temperature of the sun.

Game changer: Did you know every single bluesky account also has an RSS feed? Just add /rss to the end of it. I plugged @reckless.bsky.social’s post RSS feed into the free app feeeed and now I can check in on what’s happening with the TikTok ban without the overhead of getting sucked into Bluesky

Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com. Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇 🧵