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Tanya Shapiro

@tanyashapiro.bsky.social

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Solopreneur @ IndieVisual Data geek who loves problem solving Rambles about fitness & random stuff too https://indievisual.tech

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Fall down seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb

"Fix one bug, spawn ten more." - Developer proverb

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 13h

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 18h

rifling through my old workshop materials to remember how i did that cool thing in R with tables.

oh, you thought my workshops were for you? friends, make no mistake - i am the primary beneficiary of my own teaching content.

if you happened to learn something too, that's just a bonus.

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 1d

how did you catch him on camera?!

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to my dad on a work call today: "The API is the API"

And me thinking "API? What is he talking about? This is the guy who doesn't even know how to flip the FaceTime camera around."

Then realizing, duh, acronyms stand for many things. In his world, API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient 👨‍🔬

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 3d

This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 8d

❗️Our next workshop will be on October 9th, 6 pm CEST titled From slow analysis to a fast and structured program in R by
@johanzvrskovec.bsky.social

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 3d

Obvi 💁🏻‍♀️

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 4d

What’s your data passion project these days?

I’ve gotten into gamer stats territory in my free time and it brings me so much joy 👾

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 4d

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my god it’s only Monday

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 5d

SDLC: ship, debug, learn, cry

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 5d

making a bunch of dev changes at once thinking i can successfully test, check it off, and call it a slam dunk

every. edit. needs. testing. #babydevsteps

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 7d

It’s been a week. Happy Friday friends.

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

Yessss. I know this journey well!

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

Data Magic, brought to you by R + {httr}

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

Have I mentioned how much I love APIs?

I had to clean up 500 dupe CRM records. Alas, there was no bulk merge feature in the UI. It would take hours to clean up 😱

And since laziness is my greatest coding motivator, I started to dig thru dev docs… low & behold, they had an API!

THANK YOU DATA MAGIC

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

But @alanau.bsky.social totally agree with you. It's a tough but necessary exercise.

And I'm a people pleaser. So I do this to myself 😅

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

The logic is sound. In a perfect world, everyone is equal parts data consumer and data conservator.

Alas, data quality assurance is not on everyone’s priority list. But analytics and “insights” are…and thus most of the work gets relegated downstream to analysts, engineers, and data scientists 🙃

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

If anyone is interested in said talk:
www.ted.com/talks/dan_ar...

What makes us feel good about our work?

What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work.

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 15d

Me, the system admin, cleaning up data after users who are on a mission to fill the CRM with dirty, filthy, data.

This reminds me of a talk by renown behavioral economist, Dan Ariely about work/motivation using legos...sigh.

#iamsisyphus

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 16d

I had to do a double take on this map.

To really highlight “high” vs “low,” it’s clearer to use completely different colors instead of similar hues. The choice below reads like a sequential scale - light blue feels like a middle bin, not a low one.

Color opinions aside, interesting info!

Choropleth map of the United States depicting States with the highest and lowest proportion of same sex couples per 1,000 households. The legend shows dark blue box to represent “Highest proportion of same sex couples” while a light blue box represents “Lowest proportion of same sex couples.” Other states are muted with a grey blue tone and have values that are somewhere between the high and low bins. Graphic by UCLA School of Law Williams Institute.

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 16d

I always tell myself “this is, it’s the last time I fall for this”

And yet here I am. Again. #foolmemorethantwice

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 17d

The audacity! Yeah those are equally rude and disappointing (one reason I’m more selective on connection requests)

Equally annoying, I’ve had sales guys abuse my “Discovery Call” scheduling link to pitch me THEIR product/service. 🙄

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 17d

Opening LinkedIn to see a shiny red inbox notification

…only to realize it’s another sponsored message

Suckered. Every. Time.

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 18d

Shana Tova 🤍

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 22d

truly! i'm leaning heavily on fuzzyjoin & stringdist packages so i get away with minimal thinking (thank you #rstats community). processing lv was ⚡