when WebMD came out, patients started self diagnosing before walking into doctors offices. with GPTs, clients are now writing code before developers can even define the biz problem. this will sound odd - but we need to become more problem-oriented. folks are putting the AI cart before the horse.

Blue Light Glasses Mode Activated 👓 There will be no poll. This is it. This is the new look.

The funny part is I’m mostly a people pleaser. But there are instances - especially as a contractor - where you need to be careful about overcommitting yourself. In consulting world, scopes, timelines, & SLAs are sacred. If a client jeopardizes a timeline, it warrants a tough convo.

Tattooing this on my forehead. We can categorize it as a business expense. #consultinglife

DATA SCIENTIST JOB ALERT 🚨 My friend is looking for a new data scientist to join her team. Details in link. Must be NY based. If you’re interested or have questions, send me a note! #careers #hiring #data jobs.ashbyhq.com/graphite/08f...

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Connecting a private GH repo to PBI is an incredibly frustrating experience. It's up there with date handling in JS. Maybe worse. Yes, definitely worse.

Year 3 of being an LLC, I guess we’re doing this thing huh.

Next week I'll give a talk on how to "Guide the View" in DataViz (likely with a bit of love coding in our "#ggplot2 uncharted" setup 🤩) Save your spot and sign up here 👉 luma.com/z5ea6oew #datavisualization #rstats #learning

Day 8 #30DayChartChallenge: circular. Serious research happening over here...nyacht. Drawing as I learn, boy did I make some bad assumptions. Watercolor and ink. 🦈🦜🍔

Today, for Day 8 Circular of #30DayChartChallenge, I'm reflecting on my data viz glow-up journey. A few years ago I experimented with a global choropleth map encircled by a radial bar chart (ggplot2). Now I'm recycling this idea for an interactive data viz to visualize The Global Human Day (D3).

First ever posit::conf talk approved! Excited to co-present with the talent @jadeynryan.bsky.social on our project, Dirt Data Reports. 🌱 See you guys in Texas 🤠

You ever look at a random font in the wild or on your feed and go “yep that’s definitely Space Grotesk [or insert font name here].” *chest swells with pride* Or is this just a weird designer thing? 😬 Yeah probably a weird designer thing…

I need a video game to unplug my brain from work. PS5 or Switch. Hit me with recs 👇

Today we... - Created an Azure acct & spun up a SQL server - Dropped, recreated, & re-seeded tables 10x because of data type issues - Hooked it up to a live Nuxt app - Got 500 errors on the live site - Yelled at Firewall settings for 30 min (it was a cache prblm) - GOT IT WORKING ON A LIVE SITE

Day 1: Part-to-Whole Visualizing Teddy's magical expansion from a very average 45 pound dog into an immovable dire wolf once he hits the bed. Watercolor & ink. #30DayChartChallenge

I've been working on overhauling my site (again). This was also a perfect opp to show an old project some love for #30DayChartChallenge. Day 1 Part-to-Whole. Breakdown of The Global Human Day. It's an exploratory piece for curious folks who like to play with data! indievisual.tech/projects/viz...

so posit::conf... who's going? other cool data conferences on your list this year? maybe this is the year i see more of you guys out in the wild 👀

We should do this like a nomination chain... You do one, you pass the buck and challenge someone to do one after. Maybe that's how we hold each other accountable. Excited to see the cool vizzes that come out of this!

Silver lining to being migraine-prone: my clients automatically get dark mode styling baked into their web apps.

playing around with Claude today to rig up a prototype Nuxt/Vue app that produces Quarto reports using Quarto CLI this could be a game changer bringing together best of both worlds 👀

Back on my BS re-doing my website and all the old content for the gagillionth time. Hooked this up to a live API instead of static files. Still working on the exploratory interface. PS. I am SO excited for Dutton Ranch. indievisual.tech/projects/viz...

A few months ago, I ventured out to build myself a CRM/task hack tool. The impetus: As a consultant, time is money. I needed to reduce admin work in order to maximize billable hours. Today, it will take me < than 5 minutes to generate a proposal. THANK YOU PAST SELF - NOW LETS GET BACK TO WERK 💅

building a CRM, brb

When you're triggered after a long work week and you hear someone say "Our back..." NO NOT RBAC, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I NEED A BREAK ..."yard" Oh sorry, yes please continue, I'm not normal.

Developers: *creates cool, thoughtfully designed dashboards and applications* Users: "where's the export to Excel button?"

my mind when it activates data architect mode.

Making Shiny apps not look like "Shiny" apps but like ✨shiny✨ apps. HTML, CSS, and JS are my front-end Glam Squad 💅 R is the rugged cowboy wrangling data & herding functions in the back 🤠

Tax season as an independent consultant hits different. My W2 dudes, you have it good by comparison. Now please excuse me while I consolidate 9 different 1099s 🙃

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Lurking on the neighborhood facebook group (as one does in their 30s) and the chats about Girl Scout cookies reads like a Silk Road darknet market: “You got any thin mints?” “I can get you trefoils, no thin mints” “How many do you have and where can I meet you?” Welcome to the burbs 💀

as a data person, my Google searches vary widely from "how do i round the edges of a shape in ppt" to "how do i set up my Google Maps API."

Today is a good day for the Iranian people. May this bring in a new era ❤️

your entities and entity relationships should be the north star of app development, not an afterthought. no one wants product feature soup.

Is this the year we submit our first ever posit conf talk submission? I thinkest yes. Any tips from past speakers appreciated😊

Building tools for myself 👷‍♀️ I project manage across tools - GitHub, Asana, SharePoint Lists, etc. Which makes it hard to quantify work and time block across clients. Working on a "hub" to bring it all together and make life easier 😊

2016. I used to be cool.

I'm insufferable, but in a fun way. Funsufferable.

i'm too lazy to update a powerpoint every month. so i guess we're gonna learn how to work with xml in R so we can automate this sucker. what lazy task is motivating you to learn new things today?

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

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Late to the party (as usual) but Claude Code is pretty mind blowing. Of course - back of my mind I'm also thinking of this scene from Silicon Valley.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0b_...

Restoring my well of inspiration 📚📈

love when an enterprise saas company makes changes to their APIs without giving a girl a heads up. guess we're in reactive plumbing mode today 👩‍🔧

I offered her an end-of-year promotion and she said yes! Could not think of a better way to start of this new year. Love you KK 😘 @kweest0n.bsky.social

As a new homeowner, I feel myself entering my professional designer era 💅 It is a very expensive era…

Power lines of Italy. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A perk of being self-employed: no cringe corporate holiday parties.

Moving into new home this weekend. I have the opportunity to redecorate my office. If I can make it happen, it would be really cool to put together an art wall with some pieces from #rstats artists. Not all have online shops. TBD on logistics 🤔