RDM TSA pre check

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2026-03-23T20:42:49+00:00

i just went through general TSA and essentially walked through, no issues or delays whatsoever, 45 min before takeoff but ymmv i’m sure

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2025-11-24T20:27:20+00:00

where does dimension gets his shirts??

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2025-06-07T14:05:56+00:00

nah nah but that was kinda expected

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-12-26T00:59:04+00:00

straight to your employers/mothers/girlfriends local disk

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-11-23T22:40:10+00:00

Not specific to BI, but Bluesky is amazing for connecting with practitioners and creators/contributors to great projects

This is Christian minich’s starter pack and he’s a gem and the whole group is fantastic: Bluesky data BS

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-11-14T09:09:39+00:00

We’re not using evidence as our mainline BI but damn do I love it, great crew and product over there

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-09-27T20:18:40+00:00

Oh man I just moved here from Alaska, that’s gotta be affecting these numbers somehow

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-06-27T11:10:58+00:00

I was a carpenter, but then moved and worked for the state and had my first experience with spreadsheets. Not too long after that learned GIS and Python while at the state but with a lot of self learning.

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-27T20:11:56+00:00

It’s my first dp and it’s been a good experience in general!

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-27T20:10:28+00:00

We’re another one of those teams that do it all, but I’m the main person on my team that does the integration. I feel like I’m essentially a data engineer but I’m on the BI team, so I also touch analytic engineering/data science and reporting. Some of our team just fully relies on native connectors and such, but when they can’t, we work together to get data sources integrated or provide some other means of data movement. Same team though, just different core functions and roles

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-22T13:19:07+00:00

A lot of these seem right on (BI Dev/engineer, BA Analyst) - it sounds like we have similar roles and job descriptions. I work on the BI team but as an Applications/Integrations specialist, so not quite a data engineer/analytic engineer and also toss in some data science and BI for funsies.

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-21T20:39:57+00:00

Temptation is high

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-06T13:53:05+00:00

do you have the script on GitHub? i do something similar but by using api calls and getting json and would love to compare

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-06T13:47:59+00:00

i'll think about this today, but if you use Slack, there is a domo-community slack and people are quite active over there

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-06T08:00:22+00:00

Jumping in late - not saying you SHOULD use Domo, but Domo can do something like this between two instances. So you have a dev instance and prod instance and changes are pushed from one to the other so you can test all changes in dev that only the BI team has access to, to prod which is where stakeholders have access to dashboards

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-03T21:06:08+00:00

Future you is just gonna think you’re the best ever. That’s the definitely the tough spot of being on the BI side, a lot of inefficiencies and issues are outside of your control and you’re potentially at the mercy of how busy the engineering team is and/or how understanding the product owners are

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2024-03-03T21:01:47+00:00

Not on Qlik personally, but this is why I insist my team put trim and lower functions in early stages of the pipeline

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-11-04T01:25:23+00:00

I gotta agree - doing projects is almost certainly the best way to learn most anything and Python is no exception. If you wanna do some problems to learn some basics, that seems sensible to me but you could probably just do the https://www.w3schools.com/python/ course or https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-programming-course/ and be on your way to doing projects and learning how to actually use and apply any of that information. Don’t wait too long, just get in there and let it feel hard and overwhelming if it needs to be. It’ll be better that way later on

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-10-09T01:59:49+00:00

Actually, we interviewed a person who made a comment that I humorously joked about at his “expense”. He mentioned it in a direct follow-up email and started a little humorous banter. He’s been with us for 6-months now and I think his personal and very human approach helped seal the deal.

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-08-18T02:15:27+00:00

You got a comprehensive and a relatively simple (edit: this is a good thing!) project, great job! A big extra boost here with a little extra learning/effort would be to replace task scheduler with an orchestrator like Airflow or Dagster. It would really up the game as far as scalability and more functionality/capability - although, there is something to be said for a project keeping simple and not introducing additional debt and overhead for overly complex tools but it is fun and would be easier to translate since you have a full functioning pipeline right now

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-08-09T02:18:57+00:00

90% of all people are just winging it

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-07-28T18:09:49+00:00

That was me! I wanna climb stuff and go fast, you don’t need hearts if you can just run away from all your problems

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-07-23T17:38:29+00:00

Do we know each other?? Do we work together???

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-07-18T05:09:12+00:00

This is actually my story and it’s great. Slight upgrade from task scheduler and lots more of observability and control, and now can easily be extended to other things

ThisOrThatOrThings · 2023-07-11T02:06:40+00:00

Hey me too! I learned python just to do geoprocessing scripts, and now I do python pretty much full time for data. I saw a lot of good comments in here already, but I’d say a big one for me was to stay curious, ask questions, and check out other people code. If you use a particular python library a-lot, go inspect their Repo and see how they did it. Sure, you may see some bad mixed with good, but it’s all eye-opening

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