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Eevamaija Virtanen
@eevamaija.bsky.social
Finland’s Most Famous Data Engineer You’ve Never Heard Of 💾
Founder @helsinkidataweek.bsky.social
Co-Founder, Lead Data Engineer @ Invinite
Photographer | Creative Director
A broad board member @ TIVIA
#helsinkidataweek #databs
ChatGPT rickrolled me once.

Pretty sure that was the closest we’ve been to AGI.
February 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
What if Parquet didn’t just store data, but stored knowledge?

RAGs are starving for structured data with context.

What if we embedded ontology links, units, provenance and entity relationships directly into Parquet metadata?

Who else is thinking about this? 👀
February 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by Eevamaija Virtanen
“our thinking is outdated” because we must be aware of our limitations - @eevamaija.bsky.social

Great topic @ @datadaytexas.bsky.social #datadaytexas
January 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve started writing about the challenges in the data ecosystem and the burnout faced by data engineers.

These are systemic, cultural and deeply human issues.

I’ll explore practical solutions, systemic thinking and Bridge Skills to rebuild from the ground up.

👉 Join the discussion on Substack! 🔗
January 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Eevamaija Virtanen
Interest piqued.

JEF, subsidiary of NATO has activated some kind an AI dubbed ’Nordic Warden’ to take in data from AIS and ”other sensors” in Baltic Sea to monitor and proactively react to threats by the Russian shadow fleet.
January 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Make normalizing denormalized Gaussian lives great again!
December 11, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Eevamaija Virtanen
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December 8, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Data, ML, GenAI or humans:
Who makes the best decisions?

📊 Data gives you the historical facts.
⚙️ Machine Learning (ML) predicts outcomes but struggles with the unexpected.
🤖 Generative AI (GenAI) generates ideas.
🤷‍♀️ Humans? Creative and visionary, but slow and biased.

The answer? Combine them.
December 4, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Hey gang!

Just hanging out with my dearest Helsinki Data Week crew @jkor.bsky.social, @youcanbeapirate.bsky.social & Säde Haveri!

We might be planning something amazing for you folks here in Finland. 🤩

Anyway, what are your plans for next fall? 🤓

#HDW2025
#HelsinkiDataWeek
#databs
November 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
How much money has your company wasted on data projects with no real value?

✅ Don’t chase shiny tools.
✅ Start with real business problems.
✅ Build tailored, actionable data products to solve them.
✅ Ask: Does this help customers/employees?

🚫 If not, stop.

Simplicity wins.

#datastrategy
#databs
November 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Highlights from the past year:

🤝 Co-founded Invinite, Grade-A health data consultancy

🚀 Founded Helsinki Data Week: 800+ participants, 10+ countries

🤝 Launched DataTribe 💚

💻 36 MBA credits

🎤 10+ talks & webinars: Conquered stage fear 🙏

✈️ Traveled to Italy, UK & Australia

Can’t wait for 2025!
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Officially taking this as my title. 😂💅🏻
Even the most famous Finnish data engineer agrees my boot camp looks great
This looks awesome! Great job @eczachly.bsky.social ! 🔥
#databs
November 13, 2024 at 12:18 PM
This looks awesome! Great job @eczachly.bsky.social ! 🔥
#databs
I’m releasing a 6 week free boot camp on YouTube starting on Friday!

Here’s the launch video!

7 new DE videos each week!

youtu.be/myhe0LXpCeo
6-week Free Data Engineering Boot Camp Launch Video | DataExpert.io
YouTube video by Data with Zach
youtu.be
November 12, 2024 at 2:40 PM
That feeling when you start your data journey and discover pd.read_csv. 🥰

Still remember that.

What a gateway drug.

#pandas
#databs
November 10, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Reposted by Eevamaija Virtanen
Every time is hear someone in data say “I’m self taught” I think — “is there another way?”

#dataBS
November 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Hybrid cloud strategy.

#databs
November 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Eevamaija Virtanen
Data people starter packs, parts 1 and 2. Gotta follow them all!

go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK

go.bsky.app/DsDyXF3
November 7, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Alright #databs. I’m here. Show me what you got.
November 6, 2024 at 10:07 PM