“I had the pleasure of sitting across from Brenna while working at Mogl. Brenna's positive attitude and enthusiasm was quite infectious. Her willingness to learn and adapt to new skills / requirements was impressive and something that would benefit any team.”
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Data engineer turned developer evangelist. Passionate about coding, data, and learning…
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How can you create effective visualizations for a skeptical audience?
It is almost never appropriate to use pie charts. Our human brains aren’t very good at interpreting data from the areas of circles, especially when a lot of categories are involved. You are already working at a disadvantage presenting to a skeptical audience. Put your best foot forward with charting that is more easily understood and less subject to misinterpretation. Some more reading on the subject: https://medium.com/ims-health-design/why-are-pie-charts-evil-c1d2d08138ee https://www.stevefenton.co.uk/blog/2009/04/pie-charts-are-bad/
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I’m just back 🛬 from a week with the amazing BMS Group Cat Analytics team in Dallas 🇺🇸, discussing client focused strategy, roadmap, product…
I’m just back 🛬 from a week with the amazing BMS Group Cat Analytics team in Dallas 🇺🇸, discussing client focused strategy, roadmap, product…
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I’ve gotten hands on with Snowflake Polaris. Here are some real world takeaways: - setup is painless if you know what to do. - all 3 major clouds…
I’ve gotten hands on with Snowflake Polaris. Here are some real world takeaways: - setup is painless if you know what to do. - all 3 major clouds…
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Headed to CIO100 next week in Colorado Springs! ⛰️ Would love to know if any of my past colleagues will be there as I’d love to catch up while…
Headed to CIO100 next week in Colorado Springs! ⛰️ Would love to know if any of my past colleagues will be there as I’d love to catch up while…
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Volunteer
Feeding America San Diego
- Present 12 years
Poverty Alleviation
Quality control of donations; checked for broken, bent, or missing packaging and past sell by dates. After quality control, sorted donations by type for distribution.
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Spanish
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Super excited to see the launch of this coarse focused on embedding models. A lot of the attention in generative AI is focused on generative models…
Super excited to see the launch of this coarse focused on embedding models. A lot of the attention in generative AI is focused on generative models…
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The data lake revolution continues, but getting data in — #ingestion — remains a critical hurdle. Most vendors are just doing the minimum to support…
The data lake revolution continues, but getting data in — #ingestion — remains a critical hurdle. Most vendors are just doing the minimum to support…
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A few folks have been working with me on SlateDB. It's a cloud native embedded storage engine built on object storage. It'll be open sourced soon…
A few folks have been working with me on SlateDB. It's a cloud native embedded storage engine built on object storage. It'll be open sourced soon…
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