Category Archives: Editorial

Deceptive Visualizations

Posted on June 19, 2021 by way0utwest

I’m sure there are plenty of examples, but I’ve seen deceptive data visualizations far too often in mass media. I don’t often watch the news, but at times I’ve been at the gym, saw a graph on a television and … Continue reading →

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Evaluting a DBA

Posted on June 18, 2021 by way0utwest

Interviewing is difficult for many organizations. Often they don’t have a consistent process, and very often the people that do initial screening don’t know much about what a DBA does. Many of the somewhat trivial questions I see on Internet … Continue reading →

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Tracking, Privacy, and Lots of Data

Posted on June 16, 2021 by way0utwest

Half of all advertising dollars are wasted. We just don’t know which half. That’s a common view from people purchasing advertising, and it’s why I expect that this saying is what has led to complaints from Google, Facebook, and other … Continue reading →

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Useless Hackathons

Posted on June 14, 2021 by way0utwest

I participated in a few coding competitions in high school, where we got together for a day with a team and tried to build software to solve a problem. They were challenging and exciting, but exhausting. Not something I’d want … Continue reading →

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