Every day is a great day to listen to Cake, but today is especially great

The Data Mishaps Night is awesome & has the vibe I think #dataBS is all about XD #dataSky / #databsky & #pyData you can come too ; )

SF DATA PEOPLE: Call for submissions! 🍌 The 5th annual Data Mishaps Night is happening IRL this year in SF on June 3rd. We want to hear about your data mistakes and how you learned from them! Submit your story here by May 15: hextech.typeform.com/to/TIbjWEdi

Confirmed Cubs fan pope!!!!

Pope has a math degree

Thrilled to share that the 5th annual #DataMishapsNight is happening in-person this year on June 3rd in SF, sponsored by our friends at Hex! The event will be free, not recorded, and a great time. If you're interested in speaking, please submit your story here! hextech.typeform.com/to/TIbjWEdi

Great read on good and bad user experiences with AI: koomen.dev/essays/horse...

Has anyone written / shared / open-sourced an AI strategy for data teams? 👀

a bit more #Severance data please enjoy all analyses equally 👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr-website/ and for my #rstats friends: 👉 lucymcgowan.github.io/mdr/

This is completely bonkers and I want an entire documentary just about how they made it

Tis the season! Sharing an all-time favorite analysis, my search for the most depressing Christmas song: www.caitlinhudon.com/posts/2017/1...

Every year I buy a bunch of gift cards to local restaurants as gifts for family members. Every year I’m surprised that only like 10-20% of the local restaurants I find have a way to purchase a gift card directly on the website, so for every 15 sites I visit, I’m getting like 1 or 2 gift cards.

I'm excited to announce @skyseed.fund, the world's first incubator & fund exclusively focused on Bluesky and @atproto.com. We're just getting started but have $1 Million in committed capital, and will be doing developer grants as well as pre-seed/seed funding. www.prweb.com/releases/ope...

Field report from Munich: the Christmas markets are indeed magical 🎄 💫

Just landed in Munich, Santa was there, and the bag handlers (elves, I assume?) put these Santa chocolates in the handle of each one. I’ve never been so delighted in my life.

Listening was very on-brand this year. Everywhere has been my top jam lately. Cake forever. Being Dead was my fave band discovery at SXSW. Loved Texas Hold ‘Em. Taylor remains queen.

Annual reminder that Spotify Wrapped is a great example of how you can build a fantastic data product without ML or AI

2yo is referring to numbers as “countings” 😭

The #1 piece of clothing I wish I owned is my HS math team shirt, which was a navy and white polo with a number on the back. The number was the same for everyone, 2^0, because “second to none, we’re number one”. Absolute perfection.

“I think I can see California from here”

Today in balancing parenting and working during a holiday week, a new record: school starts at 9am, parade at 11:10am and dismissal right afterwards 🫠

Perfect day for new Father John Misty, thank you universe

I’ve had a bunch of referral requests/questions lately which is great because I’d love to refer and work with you wonderful people. Thing is, I can’t refer folks after they’ve applied. If you’re interested, best to reach out before applying! I know every co is different so wanted to PSA :)

Heck yeah we A/B test all our designs: 𝗔sk stakeholders which idea they like 𝗕uild that one

My husband just told me that he always knows when I’m going to send a text because I say the “hey” to start out loud 💀

Spotify gets it

Spending a good chunk of my week on financial forecasting, something I weirdly love but haven’t done much of since leaving early startup world (so it’s novel and a nice change of pace right now). Sharing some observations!

“and I think to myself, what a wonderful world”

Joyscrolling for a while, we are so back

We need to start thinking of ourselves as members of the teams we work with, whether we sit on centralized or decentralized teams. We succeed when our companies and teams succeed, not when we generate the most insightful analysis or build the perfect platform

For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new

The approach for this — and the related concept of ad hoc questions coming in through DMs — is to constantly and consistently redirect to channels. “Do you mind posting this in X channel [for broader visibility, for future reference, so that Ana can weigh in]? Happy to chime in there!”

Took a lil sunset hike up Mt Beacon this evening ⛰️

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

Sharing a presentation I gave yesterday at Figma, Building Your Network + Personal Brand. In it, I'm sharing my approach to networking and branding, why I think it's worth investing in, and concrete advice (including a couple of SMART goals). www.figma.com/deck/fT5xf6P...

You guys, I have great news: the Pizza Hut reading program still exists(!!) and in a few months I’ll get to witness the joy of my daughter eating her hard-earned personal pan pizza at an actual Pizza Hut restaurant

[Owen Wilson voice] WAU

Giving an internal talk tomorrow on building your network and personal brand. Do y’all have any themes or questions that jump out on that topic?

It’s so damn beautiful outside in the Hudson Valley today

Starting a rewatch of Bad Sisters before the second season comes out this week. 🍿 If you haven’t watched Bad Sisters yet, it’s an Irish dramedy murder mystery created by Sharon Horgan about the death of “the prick”, his wife, her four sisters, and a community. I can’t recommend it enough.

Paramus is the Revere of New Jersey

Going through old notes on my phone and honestly still love the idea of MTV Cribs for tech stacks and architecture

Hey data nerds! You have just a week and half left to submit a talk to Data Council '25 (in SF next year!). I'm running the analytics tracks. Any interesting ideas we should be covering on the analytics track? Any brilliant people that fly under the radar that we should elevate?

Heard we’re making this happen. Clocking in, joyfully 🫡

Resharing my intake form blog post for anyone who could use a structured way to intake and prioritize data requests. This idea came up in a handful of conversations at #DataCouncil, and I've loved hearing about how folks have implemented this at their orgs! www.caitlinhudon.com/posts/2020/0...

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#DataMishapsNight is like exposure therapy for anyone working with data 😅

I have definitely made data viz so bad it "burned a bridge it will take a lot of bar charts to repair" #datamishapsnight

It’s business fine. #DataMishapsNight