Arik Friedman
@arikf.net
Data Scientist @ Atlassian
Spent some time looking into software teams' effectiveness, and how software teams can use data to reflect and improve how they work. These days I'm trying to learn more about Statistical Process Control.
Spent some time looking into software teams' effectiveness, and how software teams can use data to reflect and improve how they work. These days I'm trying to learn more about Statistical Process Control.
Not a silly idea. Reminds of this arxiv.org/abs/1102.4374
Link Prediction by De-anonymization: How We Won the Kaggle Social Network Challenge
This paper describes the winning entry to the IJCNN 2011 Social Network Challenge run by Kaggle.com. The goal of the contest was to promote research on real-world link prediction, and the dataset was ...
arxiv.org
December 28, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Not a silly idea. Reminds of this arxiv.org/abs/1102.4374
Converting SQL code to python equivalent would have been just another route towards spending hours on this 🫠
But yes, if it was only a single cell or a little amount of SQL code I would have just done it all in python and be done with it.
But yes, if it was only a single cell or a little amount of SQL code I would have just done it all in python and be done with it.
November 30, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Converting SQL code to python equivalent would have been just another route towards spending hours on this 🫠
But yes, if it was only a single cell or a little amount of SQL code I would have just done it all in python and be done with it.
But yes, if it was only a single cell or a little amount of SQL code I would have just done it all in python and be done with it.
I tried passing it through the spark context with spark.conf.set() but the SQL cell didn't pick it up. Maybe I used the wrong commands?
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 AM
I tried passing it through the spark context with spark.conf.set() but the SQL cell didn't pick it up. Maybe I used the wrong commands?
Good. Now do the rest of the internet.
November 29, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Good. Now do the rest of the internet.
I heard that in at least some of the cases it was due to commercial and film rights reasons www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1...
Sony and Marvel and the Amazing Spider-Man Films Rights Saga : Planet Money
(Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.)This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the second largest domestic opening of 2023, netting (or should we say webbing?) over $120 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada. But the story leading up to this latest Spider-Man movie has been its own epic saga.When Marvel licensed the Spider-Man film rights to Sony Pictures in the 1990s, the deal made sense — Marvel didn't make movies yet, and their business was mainly about making comic books and toys. Years later, though, the deal would come back to haunt Marvel, and it would start a long tug of war between Sony and Marvel over who should have creative cinematic control of Marvel's most popular superhero. Today, we break down all of the off-screen drama that has become just as entertaining as the movies themselves.This episode was originally produced by Nick Fountain with help from Taylor Washington and Dave Blanchard. It was engineered by Isaac Rodrigues. It was edited by Jess Jiang. The update was produced by Emma Peaslee, with engineering by Maggie Luthar. It was edited by Keith Romer. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.
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November 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I heard that in at least some of the cases it was due to commercial and film rights reasons www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1...
Dark Matter is based on a book by Blake Crouch.
November 24, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Dark Matter is based on a book by Blake Crouch.
Reposted by Arik Friedman
Definitely different setup to anything I experienced. I think that the aspects of team composition and targeted scope would still play a bigger role. Examples I've seen (www.synq.io/blog/data-te... or towardsdatascience.com/data-to-engi...) indicate a wide spread, so the context likely matters more.
Data team as % of workforce: A deep dive into 100 tech scaleups
What’s the right ratio of data roles in scaleups and why it should probably be higher than you think.
www.synq.io
November 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Definitely different setup to anything I experienced. I think that the aspects of team composition and targeted scope would still play a bigger role. Examples I've seen (www.synq.io/blog/data-te... or towardsdatascience.com/data-to-engi...) indicate a wide spread, so the context likely matters more.
Absolutely. Maybe we just have different notions of what data storytelling is? I see data storytelling as the competency of communicating effectively with data. That is different to using narratives as a substitute for data sense making.
November 18, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Absolutely. Maybe we just have different notions of what data storytelling is? I see data storytelling as the competency of communicating effectively with data. That is different to using narratives as a substitute for data sense making.
Yes, I agree on that point, storytelling can be abused. But I don't think it means it can't be useful or applicable within a process control worldview.
November 18, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Yes, I agree on that point, storytelling can be abused. But I don't think it means it can't be useful or applicable within a process control worldview.
Btw, from what I've seen in Donald Wheeler's books so far, I got the impression he'd classify top-down goal setting and metric tracking (which he calls "voice of the customer") as belonging to the Fantasy genre.
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Btw, from what I've seen in Donald Wheeler's books so far, I got the impression he'd classify top-down goal setting and metric tracking (which he calls "voice of the customer") as belonging to the Fantasy genre.
Storytelling is a communication competency. From my exposure to process control so far, its application can help you verify your stories are of the non-fiction variety.
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Storytelling is a communication competency. From my exposure to process control so far, its application can help you verify your stories are of the non-fiction variety.
I usually call it "data"
November 18, 2024 at 3:10 AM
I usually call it "data"
Adversarial and malicious are common terms in computer security.
November 17, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Adversarial and malicious are common terms in computer security.
Have you seen hamel.dev/blog/posts/l... ?
Creating a LLM-as-a-Judge That Drives Business Results –
A step-by-step guide with my learnings from 30+ AI implementations.
hamel.dev
November 17, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Have you seen hamel.dev/blog/posts/l... ?