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Sarah Harris

@implausible17.bsky.social

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Lives in Swindon UK, maths/stats nerd, paints murals, reads comics, grumbles fairly politely at ice hockey referees, watches a lot of sci fi and horror movies, has a big fat crush on Lee Pace.

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Aug 27

agreed - I used to buy the Grauniad every day in the 80s/90s. But nowadays it's so far removed from my life, it might as well be in orbit.

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you!

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Aug 18

I don't always remember to post my street art stuff on here, but I quite like how my Laika piece turned out.
She sold for a good cause too, which is cool, I didn't think anyone would be able to fit an 8 ft tall painting in their house, but in the end 3 people had a little bidding war! :)

A painting of Laika, the first dog in space, on an 8 foot by 4 foot vertical board

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm going in a couple of weeks when the tour gets to Bristol. Also excited, it was my favourite musical as a kid, especially Tevye's scary ass dream!

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Jun 12

thank you!!

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Jun 12

exactly! data detective work is fun :)

There are tools that can do basic reporting, tools that can build ok (but not great) models, and tools that can help with coding - but none that I've yet found that can do the proper legwork that makes up the majority of the job

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Jun 12

also a data analyst - also voted #2.

The main issue I'm seeing at the moment is that clients are expecting that we quote quicker turnarounds/cheaper prices as they think we should be cutting corners with gen AI - even though, as yet, it can't come close to doing what we do - not accurately anyway

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jun 10

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Jun 11

I just saw the author/comedian
@callybeaton.bsky.social
post that women our age weren't raised to say that we are proud of our work / what we do (I'm doing her a slight disservice as she is 2 years younger than me)

But she's right, we should be able to.

Here's some recent work I'm proud of:

Homage to Douglas Adams - painted for a college in Worcestershire

Painted for Robins FC youth football team in Swindon

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Jun 11

not sure why those pics went on a separate post - never mind - I'm better with a paint brush than with social media, clearly :D

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · May 27

This is extraordinary. To cut the ribbon at the opening of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC in 1976, they got the Viking spacecraft, then orbiting Mars, to send a signal to the arm from the engineering model of the Viking lander. And poof! It burnt through the ribbon.

Ribbon Cutting to Open the National Air and Space Museum - July 1, 1976

YouTube video by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · May 13

Noice

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The Secret DJ. @thesecretdj.bsky.social · May 7

To be fair, he did warn us all that we were never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · May 6

oof

Lily Allen 💓 @novva.bsky.social · May 6

This is so, so bleak. (Source: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...)

A screenshot with text that reads, “The Al usage.
Using Al to do the illustrations instead of doing it manually is mandatory. The comic industry from a profit point of view is heavily dominated by the Japanese Manga industry even in the west, now accounting for 2 out of every 3 comics sold. To compete effectively, we need to be both fast and good at delivering products to market. There is no time or bandwidth to sit around waiting for 6 months for anyone to hand-illustrate a comic. That is not the reality of jobs in the comic industry anymore.”

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · May 3

Middleman and Leverage

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · May 2

You've just listed 4 of my favourite shows of all time, one I've never got around to but keep meaning to, and 2 I've never heard of. I'd better check out the 2!

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · May 2

You'd hope. Huh?

Labour have a lot of work to do before the next general election to turn this ship around. I think, and hope, that it's possible, but not if they keep insisting on hurtling full steam towards the iceberg.

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you, my favourite hoopy frood:)

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you, all done in 6 hours so I had to go all out. Pleased with how it ended up though.

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 26

Oh no, not again!

I had fun painting this today at Norton College in Worcester, I'm hoping it will encourage some of the kids to give the books a read :)

#HitchhikersGuide #42

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 21

I used to have a proper antique one, but my oldest son "borrowed" it from me years ago and has no intention of ever giving it back, it seems. This new one was a gift to me from his girlfriend, so presumably he told her about the first one.

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 21

One of my birthday presents this year was this cool phrenology head. I've called him Dom because he kind of reminds me of Dominic Cummings :D

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 20

Not belated. My birthday is today :) I just did my big day out a day early because I wanted to hit a matinée and they don't do them on Sundays.

Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 20

Highlights from my birthday trip to London town yesterday

(It's impossible to pick 4! Facebook got 80)

Leigh Bowery exhibition at the Tate Modern

Operation Mincemeat at the Fortune Theatre

Tim Burton exhibition at the Design Museum - ack.ack!

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Sarah Harris @implausible17.bsky.social · Apr 20

That's a huge amount. You guys have made such a difference, and kept memories alive of your super cool dad.