NYC Data #382: Leaving Github, Counsel Health, The Upshot, Europe's 'American vassalage', Runhouse & Anthropic, Different Timelines of Product Data Signals
And Data Quality Testing with Great Expectations
Hi friends, happy Friday. It’s May, somehow! This weekend is the Five Boro Bike Tour, so good luck to participants and look out for road closures everyone!
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Good Local Posts
Sam Bail released a new LinkedIn Learning course: Data Quality Testing with Great Expectations. We tried Great Expectations at my previous role but it didn’t stick, and I’m not totally sure why. I’m interested in seeing if there were other ways we could have used it that would have been more effective.
I read this post about leaving Github a few months ago. The author was primarily motivated by political reasons, but recently some influential people in the developer community (Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp & Ghostty, Armin Ronacher of Flask/Jinja fame) are talking about leaving due to performance gaps and lack of reliability. Ronacher’s piece in particular struck me: I remember pre-Github and I wonder and worry about what a more decentralized open source community looks like.
Adam Virani and Lukas Goetz-Weiss had an interesting piece on Datadog’s blog about the different timelines of product data signals, and the different owners of each pathway. I like the ‘Pulse / Pain / Proof’ framework.
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
5/12: Brooklyn Tech Expo
5/13: AI Loves Data New York (formerly Data Science Salon)
5/13: New York dbt Meetup
5/20 - 5/21: Data Intelligence Summit
6/1 - 6/7: New York Tech Week
6/9 - 6/10: Dash by Datadog
6/22 - 6/26: UN Open Source Week
9/28 - 10/2: MLCon
Open Roles
The Upshot is looking for a Deputy Editor for Visuals and Data (dream job alert!)
Friends at Counsel Health are hiring their first Analytics Engineer: great people with a great mission!
NYC’s Office of Technology and Innovation is seeking a Data Scientist.
Paramount is looking for a Senior Analyst, Marketing Analytics.
Coach (part of Tapestry) is hiring a Sr. Analyst, Global Brand Analytics.
Miscellany
Ben Thompson shared this X post referencing The Economist piece ‘How Europe regulated itself into American vassalage’ (behind a paywall but you can read for free by registering). One thing I’ve noticed in my lifetime is how much less expensive ‘high-end’ things in Europe have become (eg I know several people who flew to Europe to see Taylor Swift or go to theme parks because it was so much cheaper than here). I don’t reflexively think of that change being downstream of policy decisions, but it almost certainly is to some extent. See some GDP per capita numbers over time here.
Kubetorch builder and local startup Runhouse has been acquired by Anthropic. Congrats to Donny and the crew!
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