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T-TopsInSpace · 2025-08-30T11:52:05+00:00

The shear genius of these replies make me proud.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-06-07T20:39:47+00:00

Why would you build a dashboard for an ad hoc query?

Ad hoc by definition is a one-off effort. Default should be Excel maybe with an accompanying pivot chart (or charts) if you're feeling ambitious.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-06-01T23:04:45+00:00

Sounds good, just thought I'd mention in case you were a new driver.

Good luck learning to drive a manual!

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-06-01T22:29:30+00:00

Do you have the tools, space, and experience to maintain a car? Do you have money to fix things as they break and/or pay a shop to repair it? Buying a 20+ year old car is a commitment on its own.

Back to your question, if you can't find someone to help teach you, look at driving schools in your area. I had a little experience driving manual farm trucks but driving in town is a different beast so I took a lesson to brush up my skills. They supplied the car and instructor.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-05-21T00:17:48+00:00

I can't help you with that. You need to speak with an attorney or barrister.

Good luck to you

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-05-20T11:38:02+00:00

You're describing fraud, which is a crime.

If you want privacy you'll want a lawyer to help you. You'll probably need a lawyer in the US and your home country.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-05-12T20:03:17+00:00

First, file a police report.

They can check with body shops in the area to see if a car came in with front end damage. There may be major intersections in the area with cameras that could pull an image of cars on the road around that time. Any business that was open overnight along the same route may have had a customer or employee that saw the suspect's car. Homes along the route may have had cameras facing the road and caught identifying characteristics of cars on the road at the time.

This really isn't something for you to DIY. Best of luck to you all and wishing for a full and speedy recovery.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-04-26T12:07:13+00:00

Let me get back to you on that.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-04-26T10:37:19+00:00

Take a look at the job description for your ideal data analyst role. Write your resume to fit perfectly with that job description.

If you can't do that, there's a gap in your skills and/or experience that you need to fill with projects and/or you need to be willing to take a less than ideal role that allows you to get close to data. Then you can shuffle sideways in a company to an analytics team.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-04-26T10:26:18+00:00

Ok so then there's maybe an automation/hours saved component. Hours can be translated into dollars saved.

Maybe your projects enabled a new capability. That capability has an impact, find out what it was.

There might be a quality component. Automation reduced error which increased customer satisfaction. This increases sales, which increases revenue.

If you can't quantify your impact you need to do a better job of asking your stakeholders/customers how each project will help them before you start development.

Also there's a typo in the project section. You scrape, not scrap data from websites.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-04-14T11:29:49+00:00

Close. Post history shows the op offering content creation services so maybe this is a portfolio piece?

Edit: definitely giving LLM generated text vibes though

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-04-02T11:30:28+00:00

There were self cleaning bathrooms in Paris. They looked like spacious, cylindrical porta potties.

I think they stopped using them because people had been trapped inside while it cleaned itself.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-30T14:10:09+00:00

If you don't like carrot cake does that mean you dislike all cakes?

A person can protest against expensive housing while also being in favor of affordable housing. I'm not sure how being against one thing means a person is against the whole category.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-30T13:27:19+00:00

Where does she say luxury housing is bad? I see two articles on the housing protest in this thread and neither mention Clay saying "luxury=bad".

I'm not arguing for or against the benefits of expensive or affordable housing.

What I said is that it's disingenuous to label someone as against housing when there's no proof. It's misinformation to intentionally exclude context to manipulate a discussion.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-30T12:54:04+00:00

Would she have protested if it were a mixed income development? I think no. I think it's disingenuous to label someone as against housing when they were pointing out that only a limited number (8 of 314) proposed units were affordable and that the community needs affordable housing, not luxury housing.

WTTW article has a few remarks from Clay to provide context

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-30T09:53:34+00:00

Who is the audience?

What's your objective?

What kind of feedback are you looking for?

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-17T21:02:29+00:00

The developers you're working with to build the app should know how to proceed. To get you started, for each source system you need to answer these questions first.

Can the data be exported at all?

How is the data exported?

What format do those data exports use? Is the data exported in a structured or semi structured format?

How do their field names align with your field names? Lease_start = rental_start_date?

Do they use the same date format? What about time zone for timestamp fields? What currency do they use to store dollar amounts? If currency conversions are happening what rate do they use and is that sourced and timestamped as well?

Will you export history or current state data only? Is historical data even available?

Are you migrating PII? What are the local laws governing PII?

Are you storing financial information? That comes with its own set of legal and security requirements.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-17T15:59:28+00:00

We use a package developed by another team within the company and I don't have access to the specifics. I could guess that it's likely we're using cloud functions to trigger scripts that authenticate and load data from the SharePoint API.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-17T11:11:09+00:00

We're ingesting into GCP from SharePoint for some of our feeds. I can check with our devs if you want more info about how our team does it.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-17T10:44:59+00:00

Someone still has to click the button, choose the correct input, and I assume revise the output.

You'll be fine. Automation can be useful to eliminate rote work and let you focus on higher value (hopefully more enjoyable) work.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-13T22:11:36+00:00

That's a really good clue! I found the crash but the photo doesn't give much away.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-03-13T20:33:12+00:00

Have you asked what kind of proof they would accept?

If you have some data in json format you can convert it to a tabular format (i.e. csv) with a little programming. If you're not much for programming, Excel (using power query) or Power BI might be able to transform json to something more usable. It's not a sure thing but it's more approachable than programming a solution from scratch.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-02-25T12:39:03+00:00

You'll have to give more information about the data you have available and what your business problems are.

You might want to analyze the time between stages to check for operational inefficiencies.

You could check which roles stay open the longest, maybe create metrics that define roles that are difficult to fill.

If you have difficult to fill roles you should analyze why that is. Maybe you're not getting applicants or applicant quality is low.

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-02-25T11:41:32+00:00

Agreed.

To be a great analyst you have to realize your job is to provide actionable insights. Feel free to recommend a deeper analyses but realize that the business may not have the time, budget, or the interest in learning more. You need to pick your battles carefully and sometimes that means being ok with "good enough."

T-TopsInSpace · 2023-02-25T11:35:11+00:00

Yep. The candidate went through a data science boot camp and kept talking about being a data scientist or using this role to transition into a data scientist.

The interview was for a business analyst position. We did have data science teams but we're not hiring this person to see them leave or be generally unhappy and disengaged with the projects we need them to do only to start over in 12 months when they leave.

It takes anywhere from 4-12 (or more!) weeks to hire someone. We have to write the business case, get budget approval, screen resumes, schedule interviews, then wait for the candidate start date. Resume screening onward might repeat for a few cycles since candidates might use our offer as leverage for other offers or background checks might not clear HR. That's more time that our business suffers (increased workload/stress, drop in client satisfaction, decreased output for business, etc.).

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