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Arynn

3 months

Consultation services for data teams, with emphasis on team: - communication - expectation setting - social norms - role clarity - learning and dev - objection handling - "everything has gone to sh*t" handling And more. Set up a meeting with me here

Arynn Martin-Post

Solutions Engineer| Business Intelligence, Analytics, Human Factors, Groups & Teams, Developer Advocate

topmate.io

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Every time.

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1 year

There are two wolves inside of you:

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@ArynnPost

2 months

I fear I may be becoming one of the "just use Excel" people.

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6 months

@ronawang "The successful applicant will enjoy working for a company that's about to be sued by the EEOC." 😂

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1 year

Okay I get SQLMesh hype now based solely on this.

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1 year

SQLMesh vs dbt regarding SQL understanding:

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11 months

@pdrmnvd @CarsRuinedCity If it's Lambeau field in Green Bay, WI, sign me up

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

The #AnalyticsEngineer when the business user's question requires 4 fact tables, 19 dim tables, and a csv on a shared drive owned by someone named Greg that doesn't even work there anymore

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Good data engineers are heroes.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I was just laid off from thoughtspot. If any of you have any interest in working with me or know of opportunities hiring immediately for a solutions engineer or in the data and analytics space, I would be abundantly grateful. ❤️ #opentowork

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Happy to announce that I will be starting on May 8th as a Data Advocate for @shipyardapp - a data orchestration company. Thank you to everyone for your support. 😊

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

7 months

@ExcelHumor I see your #REF and raise you a null.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

If data is your job, find hobbies that aren't also data-related.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Get laid off ✅️ Go get ice cream ✅️ Enjoy the sunshine ✅️ The outpouring of support means more than you know. I'll bounce back, eventually. I've roughed it under worse conditions. For today, self care. ❤️ ☀️

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Having someone explain something to you in a way that is unintimidating is underrated. Explanations should inspire you, not make you feel stupid. The real intelligence flex isn't to intentionally obfuscate, but to clarify.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

SQL is a gateway drug to data hell** **data governance, data engineering, ETL, reporting, data analytics, BI tools, forecasting models, etc.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

20 days

I stumbled upon this very thorough series explaining transformers and LLMs. There's a history, tokenization, embeddings, and code examples in Phython. If you're tired (as I am) of learning bits and pieces from disparate sources, this is great.

A Complete Guide to BERT with Code

History, Architecture, Pre-training, and Fine-tuning

towardsdatascience.com

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@ArynnPost

9 months

Data engineers that only allow analysts to have aggregated data are sus.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Dashboarding analysts are like the minimum wage workers of the data space- people poke fun at their skill level, but get irate when they do upskill and there's not enough of them left wanting to do the work that the end users most regularly consume.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

9 months

Tall data good. Wide data bad.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

I said it wasn't real until my name was on the site. Well... Ya girl is speaking at @coalesceconf @getdbt (Also *sales engineer) 😅

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

5 months

The "How to break into tech" "How to become a data engineer" "How to become an analyst" content can stop now.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Taken from @SeattleDataGuy - link to his excellent, longer post on data engineering vocab below:

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Needs stickers. 🥲 (New milage points card, and found a huge discount at best buy for open box because of scratches. Wooo!)

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Something seems off...can we take a look at the data model? Me:

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

8 months

This whole finding a job thing is really tough. I hope all of the time I'm spending upskilling pays off. But after days like today, it's hard to stay optimistic. Gutted by a rejection. I now feel confident in saying I know SQL, command line, some git, and some python, at least.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

When they only follow other men in the data space 🚩🚩🚩

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

"Believe it or not, YTD yesterday is, in fact, not the same as YTD today." - an actual thing I have said in a meeting

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

3 months

Don’t install any Visual Studio updates today. Beware the IDEs of March.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Once at a prior job I did manual data entry in an excel file for a month 😬 It was the only way. That excel file got written to the db (dim table). I'm fairly certain it's an important table used by...maybe every department report? Real world data work is not always glamorous.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

I was just honored as a @getdbt partner community champion from @thoughtspot 😭 y'all... love you so much. #dbtCoalesce

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

10 months

The full "Simplifying Data Orchestration" series, in order: Why What How Where Who When

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I still need more stickers for my laptop. *ahem* @AirbyteHQ @datafoldcom

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

7 months

People say to worry about AI, but as per usual, it's still people we need to worry about.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

So. It has come to this. Who among you wants to teach me to use python? I can pay in compliments and memes.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

It's beautiful.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

7 months

Rate my LinkedIn Influencer look

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Increasingly convinced this is just how data people live their lives.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

My superpower is asking what I thought was simple question in slack and then accidentally summoning the VP of engineering. 😬🧠

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

We did it 🥳 still seams unreal!

Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

If I make a trip to Seattle by car, who all is along the way from NorCal that I should pay a visit to? Maybe make a little PacNW data twitter gathering out of it idk. @paul_rietschka @leoebfolsom @alexkyllo @NateSooter ..anyone else up yonder?

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Do you think about query optimization in your spare time, or are you normal?

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I'm very happy for all these tech companies making AI advancements, but can we focus next on making regex suck less?

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I have career coaching for 2 mo. as part of my layoff, and was told today "your linkedin is beautiful - no notes" Self promotion is gross for me, but if you're looking to improve your linkedin, check out my profile if that is helpful to you. I'm easy to find: Arynn Martin-Post

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Empathy is (my guess) a predictor of whether or not you go the analyst or the engineer data career route. Unless you're a DBA. Then you might actually have negative empathy. Just pure smoldering hatred for anyone who even thinks about write access.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

9 months

woah we're halfway there wooooooah livin' on a prayer

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

🥲🥺 Don't take my word for it, I loved building a sense of team and bringing my passion to work with me wether it was in person or zoom. I'm going to miss them all (and ThoughtSpot) so much.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

My old code sucked --> I'm improving it --> My code will be better Repeat forever.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I got promoted a week before I was laid off so... there's that. Congratulations to me! 🤣

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

11 months

I'm so excited to share my 1st blog post of a new series at @shipyard - Simplifying Data Orchestration! Here's my no-nonsesne guide on *WHY* data orchestration exists. Let's simplify together! 😊🤸‍♀️

Why Does Data Orchestration Exist?

This is part one of a six part series on ‘Simplifying Data Orchestration.’ We start with one question - why? Why do data orchestration tools exist? Dive into the pain of managing data pipelines to...

www.shipyardapp.com

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

5 months

I just finished recording an episode for the Data Bytes Podcast, hosted by Sadie St. Lawrence, CEO of Women In Data! It won't be out for another two weeks or so. Special thanks to Sadie for recognizing that even if you're unemployed, you are still a woman in data ❤️

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

9 months

I just really wanna be a solutions engineer again, you know? I love people. I love teaching, learning, and building relationships to help people make their work lives easier (and some memes and jokes along the way). I work hard. I evangelize. I am kind, empathetic, creative,

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

8 months

I have an update! Thanks to my wonderful friend, we found my issue. Because I have Jupyter installed on my local machine, when I launch Jupyter from a virtual environment, it still defaults to opening the jupyter from my local machine. So any packages I've installed in the

Arynn

@ArynnPost

8 months

Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 why I can't get pandas to work in my jupyter notebook?

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I'm excited that I enrolled in Analytics Engineering with dbt starting January 9th via @corise_

Uplimit - Analytics Engineering with dbt

dbt is a game-changer when it comes to shipping trusted data faster. In this course, you will explore the modern analytics stack and best practices to transform, test, and maintain datasets within a...

uplimit.com

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Check out this thread for some excellent examples of SQL technical interview questions, the skills needed for them, and the difficulty level. [Don't worry if this freaks out out, I'd fail his interview if I had to take it right now 😅]

» teej

@teej_m

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I have done hundreds of analytical SQL coding interviews. My standards are higher than most. Here’s what you need to know to pass it.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 months

Devastating

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

10 months

I quit my job, and my last day was yesterday. I'm in the process of moving to NC, as well! Anyone in that area or with remote opportunities in solutions engineering, now is your time. 😊

Arynn Martin-Post - Freelance | LinkedIn

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Huxley Skills: SQL, Python, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Alteryx Solutions Engineer, data person, and Industrial-Organiza...

www.linkedin.com

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Hi I left my couch and did a thing in SF then made it home safely to Sac please clap.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

8 months

It's harder than you think to find a practice data set and project that feels portfolio-worthy and is unique. At least, not one I find interesting.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Everyone wish a happy birthday to The Honorable Roscoe Douglas Post. (He is 10. He does not like his crown, but does like whipped cream.)

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

Sticker update - delivery from @motherduck and @ryguyrg came today! 😍🐥 #duckdb

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

11 months

😊 📸 photographic evidence

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@decisionleader

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@ArynnPost Prove it! Photo or it didn't happen. 😉

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

More #data plz.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

@ADHDdesigner Plot addition - you also spent your hypoerfocus time on not the thing you were supposed to.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I'm going camping over the weekend to fully unplug and system reboot. I've found that time in nature does that for me better than anything. I'm looking forward to exiting this stage of shock/paralysis and getting into full job hunt mode when I get back. 🤟

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@ArynnPost

1 year

What's one technical thing that you spent time learning that you wish you hadn't? As in, looking back, it feels like it was a waste of time.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

10 months

Since we're here though... Look - dbt was a really good idea that solved a problem. Even if you ignore influencers and other marketing, a following grew because dbt assuaged a visceral pain. But (there's always a but) - there were seeds planted for problems that grew like…

Arynn

@ArynnPost

10 months

Arynn on steroids and benadryl should not be allowed to use Twitter.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

8 months

@yacineMTB Absolutely not 😂 SF doesn't even make my top 50%.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

9 months

Out of all the memes I've made, this is the most underrated.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

How Roscoe sleeps knowing that SVB doesn't affect him.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

A blog post on THE NUMBER ONE THING you need to prioritize to be successful in a data career. 🚀💥 ... 💫Don't be a shit person.💫 The end.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

9 months

I've let my grief settle for a little over a week now. So here goes. My endometriosis is only one part of the story. A few weeks ago I had a massive increase in pain and went to urgent care. MUCH to my surprise, I found out I was 4 weeks pregnant! This was after years of…

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

#DBT (not the data one) tip of the day The "dialectic" in DBT references that two opposing things can both be true at the same time. This is a great example of that. 💫

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Like this tweet for our CMO @scottiholden to give the marketing team responsible for the "Data Daddy" hats a raise. (Scott I am sorry 😅) #dbtCoalesce

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

For Christmas 3 years ago, I was on unpaid leave and trying my best to avoid medical debt. There were no presents. Instead, I went to a lights show on a foggy night. It was magical. Even smal things can bring joy and make the season merry. I'll never forget this. Love you all❤️

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

After some discussion with some of you on here recently... Told my manager today that I am interested in mgmt/leadership at current company. I wish I had a better way to express it's not just another "thing I'm interested in". My adhd brain preceeds me.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

There's simply too much to learn and too many resources to do so. I get overwhelmed just trying to figure out where to start. Then, my brain spins on that feeling of overwhelm until exhausted. Sleep. Wake up. Repeat. If I can break this cycle I'll be unstoppable. Big if.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

#DuckDB has "it's not delivery, it's Digiorno" vibes. I will not explain further.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

dbt Coalesce pitch submitted ✅️

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Wow! 😭 Did not expect to come back and find such an outpouring of support and kindness! I have new hope that my eclectic experiences, uses, and perspectives of data could be of value. IO Psych -> consultant -> #dataanalyst -> BI tool junkie -> pre-sales Let's go. ✌️

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

5 months

I haven't been this happy since 2022. Facts.

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I'm losing my ability to type on my phone tbh. 158.3. Perfect QB rating. Good fucking night NFL!

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@ArynnPost

1 year

Nature and my favorite human.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

7 months

I cannot tell you how good it feels to be in a place where not a single conversation is about OpenAI or Grok or LLMs or query optimization. I grew up in a small town in a farming/dairy area. I'm glad I can still blend. As I drive across the country, I'm reminded that the big

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

It's 2am. Pyenv, python, pipx, and poetry have been installed. I shall return to keeping my "woe is me" tweets limited to my twitter circle. But for now, thanks for the crowdsourced help in getting me set up!

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Me : I need to go to bed My brain: #dbtCoalesce

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

Purple 🐉

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

My new work laptop arrived. The simple joy of personalization settings. 🤌

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

9 months

If I could just delete all of the lyrics to church songs in my head from growing up Catholic, and replace them with python functions, that'd be swell.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 years

When some has a problem, it's important to ask - do you want solutions or comfort? Me, a *solutions* engineer: Let's figure out how we can solve your data problem. 💫 Me, a *comfort* engineer: Just because your data is bad doesn't mean that YOU are bad. 💜

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@ArynnPost

11 months

Pleased to announce that I can still throw a pointy stick real far.

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@ArynnPost

2 years

This is my emotional support cloud. His name is Roscoe. He is a v good boi.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

2 months

Fixed it.

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True story.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

11 months

@pdrmnvd Whomst among us (that isn't a VC) will lead us back on the path of righteousness? *pours 3rd cup of coffee* ☕️ cheers

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@ArynnPost

2 years

I want a thesaurus for #data terms. So many analyses and tools have different names actually mean/do the same or a similar thing. This is not a joke. I want this.

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Arynn

@ArynnPost

1 year

I am reading. A book. On purpose. 😳 Also, the book: 😅😂

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