New episode alert! In the season 3 finale @shaunmcgirr.bsky.social interviews @davidasboth.com about his book, The Well-Grounded Data Analyst.
If you listen to the end, we also tease our upcoming season 4 of the podcast!
Listen wherever you listen to podcasts, e.g. open.spotify.com/episode/5D0i...
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We've got some new episodes in the pipeline for this year, stay tuned! Until then, you can find all our episodes on halfstackdatascience.com
For the 2006 Census in NZ, a key integration between the telephone help desk and the SMS gateway we used to send instructions to the field agents was done by our provider using MS Access. So maybe Kelly's spreadsheet used an ODBC connection to something else?
Google Sheets?
Oh and I cohost a podcast!
It's called Half Stack Data Science and together with @shaunmcgirr.bsky.social we explore the realities of doing data work.
It has a website at halfstackdatascience.com and you can listen wherever you listen to podcasts!
Working on the next chapter of Solve Any Data Analysis Problem and the dataset I've chosen is AWFUL.
Full of gaps, half-baked assumptions, variations across groups.
I'm genuinely excited to bring this pain to my readers. Not often analysts get a chance to play with this kind of nightmare data.
