Nobody: Me: I wonder how different peace/conflict and democracy researchers will encode an election conducted over discord in their various datasets… 👀

I went back to the yarn shop next to the sheep farm to find a skein of yarn to pair with one I bought at Cannon Beach (and the colorway is called Cannon Beach!) a few years back. The lovely ladies there were very excited to help me find a match. Here is what I landed on: (new yarn on the left)

I have too much rage after reading this to express all of the many ways it is wrong and stupid and disingenuous. Someone else can be helpful and explain for anyone who actually needs it.

Data Behind the Scenes Conference free registration is open! Wed Sept 24, ~10am-5pm EDT. Online-only, single track. Join data folks as they share experiences with how data work is done in production, thorns & disturbing hacks and all! (Pls help get the word out 📈) ti.to/databsconf/d... #dataBS

The author of Kill It With Fire, Marianne Bellotti, is currently doing a Q&A with @joereis.bsky.social's Practical Data community! join here: discord.gg/fNtfeh6F?eve...

This 👇 datakitchen.io/fitt-data-ar...

#DataRescuers, let's get #InFormation! Help us stay informed and submit any datasets that need rescuing to our Nominations Form:

My favorite spot on rainy days

Knitting update: this shawl is finished and on its (very belated) way to my friend who got married… a whole year+ ago 😅 Ends woven in Saturday, blocked Sunday night, unpinned Monday night, and in the mail by Tuesday. So very happy it is finally done 😁

There is no book club today because… we are done! We wrapped up discussion of the final chapter for Data & Reality two weeks ago, and for now my book club is on hiatus. However! @joereis.bsky.social is starting up a book club that I’ll be joining. Find it here: discord.com/channels/132...

Finally casting off this shawl over a year late! Picot bind offs take forever, but they are pretty and easier to block. I swear this hammock swing is the most ergonomic way to knit, and it’s so peaceful with a gentle summer rain coming down.

Happening now! #datasky #databs

Tomorrow (Thursday) will be Book Club's last meeting for Data & Reality. We will be discussing Chapter 12 - the final chapter! - titled "Philosophy". It's your final opportunity to catch up on Data & Reality and chat about it with fellow data & philosophy nerds! jennajordan.me/book-club/

"The translation from a business-oriented request into a data-oriented request should be on the data professional, not the stakeholder." and plenty more wisdom nuggets to be found here ⬇️

I wrote an absurdly long thing over the past year, and now it's finally published. I really hope some people read it and get value out of it, even though it is definitely too long. I present: the reference interview for data teams jennajordan.me/blog/referen... #datalibs 📚 #databs #datasky

Check it 😉 jennajordan.me/appearances/

Sundays are for going to your favorite coffee shop to work on website updates, and getting surprised by a cookout and drag show to celebrate a local restaurant’s birthday (and the chefs’ anniversary) Those drag queens & king *served* 👑💅 #pride #TransLivesMatter

Starting in 1 hour! Will I see you there? #datasky #databs

Stop scrolling, take a dance break open.spotify.com/track/32SrQz...

Tomorrow! (a Wednesday, this week) Book Club is meeting to discuss Chapter 11 - this is the 2nd to last chapter y'all! Chapter 11 is called: "Elementary Concepts: Another Model?" Are you intrigued? Show up in the google meet at 7pm ET - all of the details are here: jennajordan.me/book-club/

The blog post draft I've been working on intermittently for the past... *ahem* year!!... is finally complete. It comes in at almost 8000 words. I'm very grateful to the few friends & family who are reading this beast of a post to make sure I won't embarrass myself by publishing it. Coming soon!

Book club is getting bumped by a week - originally we were supposed to discuss Chapter 11 tomorrow, but I've rescheduled it to next Wednesday. Reminder, you can always see the calendar here: jennajordan.me/book-club/ And you can subscribe to the google calendar so it is always on your calendar!

I have ground up so many eggshells with my mortar and pestle this weekend 😮‍💨 While catching up with Hannah Lee Duggan videos (basically the only YouTube vlogger I follow) 🤗 I have also sadly discovered my tomato plants have many tiny red bugs on them 😫

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Pupper cuddles, a cozy blanket, chrysanthemum tea with lavender honey, and my favorite comfort read can’t make a summer cold go away, but they sure do help make it more bearable

Happening now! Find the calendar link here: jennajordan.me/book-club/

Thank you @pacoid.bsky.social for pointing me to a new fan of Data & Reality! Check out this excellent write up from Dennis Irorere: denniseirorere.com/posts/graph-...

Tomorrow at Book Club we will be discussing Chapter 10 of Data & Reality: The Modeling of Relationships This chapter is another longer one, and once again I'm going to be racing to finish it before 7pm ET Thursday evening 😅 Find all the details here: jennajordan.me/book-club/ #datasky #databs

My brain is still on the #dbt Launch Showcase, but I've been noodling on something besides Fusion this evening. I want to take a moment to focus on some of the possibilities that were teased and my own personal hopes for future product developments in one key area: Governance.

dbt Launch Showcase happening now. Let's go old school and live-skeet this thing #dbt www.getdbt.com/resources/we...

The shade thrown in this post is just 🤌💋 “Here at DuckDB, we actually like databases.” “Finally, the SQL database that hosts the catalog server can be any halfway competent SQL database that supports ACID and primary key constraints.” “Turns out, a database system can be used to manage data, too.” 🔥

It's finally in a shareable state... my remixed version of the @carpentries.carpentries.org git workshop! jennajordan.me/git-novice-s... This version of the workshop prioritizes speed - it can be taught in 90 minutes instead of 4 hours.

The good: I did actually finish reading Chapter 9 by 7pm! The bad: nobody showed up 😅 Chapters 8 & 9 have been a bust for book club, but hopefully some of y’all rejoin for Chapter 10 in 2 weeks: The Modeling of Relationships

Book Club is in 1 hour! jennajordan.me/book-club/ #datasky #databs Who is planning on showing up to chat about the record, relational, hierarchical, and network models?

Book Club is happening soon, at 7pm ET on Thursday. This week we’re discussing Chapter 9 of Data & Reality: The Other Three Popular Models. Namely, Kent’s comments on the relational, hierarchical, and network models, following a long chapter on the records model. jennajordan.me/book-club/

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

I used Claude for the first time ever and I'm suitably impressed. My brain was struggling to be creative and the content isn't actually the most important part, so I decided to see what could be generated... here's the convo: claude.ai/share/2db0b8...

Lots of life updates/announcements over the past week, and I'm betting some of y'all would rather walk off a cliff than click on a LinkedIn link, so here's a follow-up thread on what's new with me... tl;dr I have a new job and I'll be speaking at Data Day Texas 😁

Don't forget - today is Book Club day! We're discussing Chapter 8 of Data & Reality, on the Record Model. Please note, the meeting link has changed - but as always you can get the correct link from the google calendar, which can be found at: jennajordan.me/book-club/ #datasky #databs

Please hold, evolving into my next form

job alert for #datalibs ‼️

If you missed the live State of Analytics Engineering event and caught the recording instead, you sadly missed out on the chat. While much of the chat did revolve around Bella, there were also several links dropped in chat that you may want to follow up on if you found what I was saying intriguing.

2 weeks later… I’ve got shrooms. Like, giant shrooms (of the lion’s mane variety). Whaddya know, the grow kit worked! But… now what? Idk if they are ready, how long I can leave them after they are ready… like how much time do I have to eat all these shrooms? 😬

If you missed the live dbt Labs State of Analytics Engineering virtual event yesterday, no worries - you can catch the recording here: www.getdbt.com/2025-state-o...

Quick book club announcement: meetup for Chapter 8 will be next week, because how is it Thursday evening and I’m just realizing I never put an event on the calendar and also I haven’t read the chapter yet myself. It’s been a crazy busy couple of weeks y’all 😮‍💨

Happening tomorrow! Register here: www.getdbt.com/resources/we...

Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.

Y'all I'm doing a thing:

Just how old is the idea of a "semantic layer", and using it to "talk to your data"? At the beginning of this year, I started a book club for Data & Reality by Bill Kent. (you've probably seen me posting about it!) The 1st edition of Data & Reality was published in 1978, the 2nd edition in 1998.