And here's @Buzzfeed's move to BigQuery: "Hundreds of TB across 300+ tables, 100K+ queries a day": youtube.com/watch?v=74PKZm… h/t Max Woolf #GoogleNext18

FFS 🤦‍♀️

Hannah Fry It reminds me of this.. haha

And yet there are still those that believe AI will solve all the biases people have. AI feeds off of existing data. Existing data is biased. reuters.com/article/us-ama…

TL;DR: if you think someone’s work is good, and important, tell them! It really can make a surprisingly large difference and it took me quite a while to appreciate extent.

Nothing about this visualization looks right. I guess data visualization is more time consuming to acquire🤔

A good chart is worth more than a well written essay.

There is no secret to BuzzFeed, no data science, no metrics, no tricks, it’s just really special talented people who make great stuff Many of those people are being let go today and next week all around the world. Hire them. Support them. Let them continuing making amazing stuff

Going to add to the chorus of my beloved BuzzFeed souls...after 3.5 amazing years of growth and inspiration my time has also come. Looking for product and user experience/research roles across industries including hospitality. @-me for leads! 💜

Forgive me for being weepy but I want to talk about what BuzzFeed layoffs mean not just to ~the state of journalism~ but to the internet at large. A bunch of people were laid off (and more to come! Fuck!) who quite literally created and shaped the internet as we know it today.

Here it goes! My best attempt at compressing the last eight years of Gumroad into a single article. Includes: Failing to raise money, laying off 75% of the company, building back up and becoming profitable, restructuring our cap table, and more… medium.com/@shl/reflectin…

Looking forward to being "old" for the rest of my long career.

I relate to this! Thanks to Hamish Smyth for sharing!

3.5 years ago, I wrote a FORTUNE feature about how Best Buy's largely female leadership was contributing to its turnaround. One of my sources was an up-and-coming finance exec named Corie Barry. Today, she was named Best Buy's first female CEO fortune.com/2015/10/25/bes…

Looking for my features without a #FeatureStore

I did an interview with Funmi Doro about Business Intelligence, Automated Analysis and the future of making decisions with data. It's a great topic and one I still feel strongly about, since the future of data is AI. Check it out here: medium.com/@FunmiDoro/how…

I interviewed Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 on how BI tools could evolve to help teams surface unexpected insights and opportunities hidden in data. We covered many topics - metrics, bias, ML, semantic models, personalized insights feeds, ... link.medium.com/6Npyrmnguwb