Taylor A Murphy
@tayloramurphy
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Founder & CEO @archdotdev | maintainer: @meltanodata | prev: Data @GitLab @ConcertGenetics| PhD @VanderbiltU | Paid Data Actor/Influencer | Husband and Dad(x2)
DFW, Texas, USA
Joined April 2011
Sure, machine learning is fun, but have you ever written a function that delivers business value, is well tested, and can be iterated on by your colleagues?.
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How is it 2020 and I can't do. SELECT *.EXCEPT column1, column2.FROM table. 😤.
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Let's just say, for a moment, let's just say, @benshapiro should watch this.
Hi. Here is the latest episode of #SomeMoreNews with @drmistercody. Link: Produced by @katystoll. Written and Directed by @will_gordh. Edited by @greggmeller.
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Talked with a buddy of mine about doing a consultancy where we just convince people they don't need machine learning. Massive market.
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give someone a dashboard and you'll disappoint them for a day. teach someone SQL and they'll disappoint themselves for a lifetime.
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Dear data, what's preventing you from looking like this?
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This is .10% bash,.20% SQL,.15% manual editing in Excel,.5% Python,.50% Stack Overflow,.and 100% reason to just hire a data engineer.
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data analysts when they deliver a dashboard and the stakeholder says "how come these numbers don't match my excel??"
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working in data is great. any question can be met with one of these:. - it's complicated. - it depends. - we don't have that data.
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sure your data tool has export to csv, but does it have this??
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the only way you're getting a date is if you cast it from a varchar.
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welcome to the data team!. we report up to the cfo. sorry, IT says no to this "dbt" package. all the data is in excel. ask Dave for access
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you'll never convince me that data engineering isn't just digital plumbing. nobody cares until it breaks, it's expected to just work, it literally gives you a critical resource and removes shit from your life, it's a huge pain in the ass, and everyone balks at the pricetag.
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can you even say you've worked in data if you haven't rapidly moved your eyes back and forth between two tables to find the difference so you didn't have to write the sql?.
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ah yes, the well-known fact that having clean data is both quick to do and useless.
If you don’t laugh you’ll cry: this company decided they need data visualization and BI, but none of that “data warehousing” malarkey.
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I'm going to start a data consulting firm and call it "No Code Data". we just talk you out of your bad data ideas. literally no code.
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my data superpower is doing the shit grunt work necessary to make things look really good. my tolerance for doing tedious manual cleaning is higher than it should be, but it gets results.
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I want some data demotivational posters. JSON - When you're too lazy to actually think about your data model. Snowflake - When you want to screw over your future CFO. Data Science - When you make a basic chart in Excel but want to be paid more. 😈.
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are you really struggling to learn SQL OR are you just HAVING trouble knowing FROM WHERE to SELECT the best resource?.
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I need to they need the.clean the data dashboard now. ( •_•) (•_• ). ( ง )ง ୧( ୧ ). /︶\ /︶\.
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machine learning idea: give it stock market data and have it tell me when to buy and sell. can't believe no one has done this.
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it's not Excel, it's "artisanal analytics done the old fashioned way".
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me: no data ever enters the same warehouse twice, for it is not the same warehouse and it not the same data. them: sooo is the dashboard up to date or what?.
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this year I will be taking part in Novimber (pronounced "No-vim-ber") where I will not be using Vim, which will then continue for the next month and every month thereafter.
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data activation. my brother in christ you are replicating data from one table to another.
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.@emilieschario and I finally published our follow-on blog post to the @coalesceconf talk we gave last year! Thanks @LocalOptimistic for having us! We're pretty proud of this one.
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The future of "no code" are tools that make it easy to do something w/o writing code but then allow you to punch through to the actual code when you need to.
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as a data engineer, i want to click "Request a Demo" to learn more about your product, so that I can create an entry in your Leads object.
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I still maintain that the best data diff method is a combination of rapidly moving your eyes between datasets and alt tabbing between windows.
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me about to run "select count(*)" using a 4XL warehouse on a table with < 1M rows
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I'm beyond excited to announce that I will be joining @meltanodata! . I believe Meltano is on a fantastic path right now and I'm eager to join and help drive the project. A couple of reasons why I'm excited. short 🧵👇.
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The "Head of Data" role implies the "Body of Data" role 🧐.
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"you have to respect other people's opinions". their opinion:
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Today we're excited to announce that Meltano is an independent startup and we've raised a $4.2M Seed round to enable us to bring data integration into the DataOps era! 🎉 Check out our blog post for more details on what this means for us and the community
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Tinder for Data Analysts - only show your latest sql queries and dashboards. Swipe right if you're interested in a JOIN. We'll call it Analyzr.
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I figured out a way to make working in data warehouses more like data science:. rows/columns are now vectors,. tables are matrices,. olap cubes are tensors. let me know how much this increases your salary!.
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me: it's ironic, those who least want power are precisely the ones who should have the most, while those who seek power are not to be trusted. them: what the fu- what are you talking about?! can I edit the sql behind this chart or not??.
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BREAKING: the trust your execs have in that dashboard.
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this is you, data scientists. 🕯. 🕯 🕯. 🕯 🕯. 🕯 INSIGHTS 🕯. 🕯 🕯. 🕯 🕯. 🕯.
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OK that's enough well written data articles. I don't have time to read them all. you can stop writing everyone. let's execute on all this advice in our respective orgs for the next ~2 years and regroup then.
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feels like a real risk that a data conference in 2022 will be 500 vendors courting 20 practitioners (who happen to be interviewing at 10 of the vendors each) 🤪.
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me as a data engineer telling the data analyst that the pipeline broke and the dashboard they built for the CEO is broken
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you should be doing everything in your power to avoid injecting machine learning into a process. invest in operational efficiency in whatever ways you can and exhaust those avenues *before* you reach for ML.
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I love being a data professional, but sometimes it's terrifying when there's an entry in a database outside your control that you *know* is wrong and you have to go through layers of bureaucracy to get it fixed. I'm sure DB errors ruin people's lives. 😟.
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Happy Christmas y'all! . Hopefully your pipelines are all. 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩. and not. 🟩🟥🟩🟥🟩. even though it's more Christmas-y.
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"How do you have time for this??". I neglect critical areas of my life, obviously. .
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Should commas in SQL be trailing?. Yes Yes Yes.👇 👇 👇.
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As an analyst grows and matures, it is only natural for them to question if they want to be a data engineer. It's called dbt curious.
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data professionals handling data and dashboard requests
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I printed out my data and hung it on the wall. my wife said it was missing something so I put a decorative border around it. guess you could say I added a dataframe.
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we had to say goodbye to this sweet girl today. her wounds were just too bad and she was suffering. she's at peace now. we enjoyed the outdoors with some ice cream together before she passed. goodbye Luna. thank you for 10 years. you are missed 💔
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I owe my career to many amazing women. My wife being the most important as we've made explicit choices as a family to prioritize my career. She does most of the glue work for our family of 6 (2 kids / 2 dogs) and I literally wouldn't be in the position I'm in today without her.
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A large SQL query the size of a small SQL query is blocking the warehouse used to populate the dashboards. Expect delays.
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is there anything worse than staring at your own tired, haggard face for 2 minutes waiting for someone in the zoom room.
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everybody is going to hate on yaml for the next 5 years and then y'all will have an epiphany that it's totally fine and does its job well, kinda like how good data people feel about sql now.
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them: can you explain the gaps in the data?. me: I exported it from the database as a csv and you imported it into excel and it converted half of it to dates.
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did it hurt? when you had to sign another contract for your modern data stack.
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Been noodling in the back of my mind how, for most orgs, the data isn't "The Work" of the org. Data can be an accelerant, a vehicle for optimization, and an ever present opportunity - but it's generally one step removed from the main thing.
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Business: this chart shows the sky is falling!. Data team: well actually this chart is showing current month data and it shouldn't plus it's updated via a manual process biweekly and it also seems the query is filtered for some reason (who changed this?!) but really this is the.
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cold take: data was a mistake. should've kept with a purely oral tradition.
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whatever hot takes will come, data council was a good event with wonderful people. smart, kind, funny, earnest, and caring folks that love data and the community and are all doing their best. this is just a moment and we're all working to make it all better 💟.
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We Abandoned Data Warehouses and Saved Hundreds of Engineering Hours a Month. In the post below I will explain how you can directly query your code using Excel. No warehouse, no cloud, no SQL.
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What's something ~< $2k that you bought and absolutely love?. Serious question, but I will block you if you mention Peloton.
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