Allison Stafford

Analytics Engineer. Hill climber. Swimmer. Vegetable spiralizer.

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@NateSooter I think it's casting the timestamp_ntz to timestamp_tz using your session parameters.

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

Lookimg to join a team of great humans doing interesting work w dbt and snowflake?

[Nate Sooter ⛳️ @NateSooter]

My team is looking for an Analytics Engineering intern for the summer! We're just getting going on our analytics engineering journey (see thread below) and can't wait for someone to join the team to learn alongside us.

Apply here: https://t.co/YzLCMi94dm

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@CYDobbe V confusing weekend of sportsball

[Nate Sooter ⛳️ @NateSooter]

@matsonj Unironically, one of the top (if not THE top) use cases for viz software is screenshotting into a slide deck.

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

I'm loving watching the @votefwd progress bars creep higher! So many state campaigns are getting close. We got this! #vote #snailmail #USPSisEssential

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

Shout out to @Uplight for fighting "structural racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of oppression" with their inviting job description. #EquityInAction #EquitableHiring #DiversityandInclusion

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@MsDiMaria Double checking, "does that/this make sense?" I thought I wanted 100 cubic feet of mulch for the garden, and my partner said "that's our car all the way full" - this reference was helpful to check and visualize amounts (and talk about).

[protect queer kids (Fran-sko-vee-ack) @BFranckoTeaches]

Is this the first good news of 2020? https://t.co/AfNXcTwO7L

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

This is perfect. Thank you @NPR Mallory Yu! (It's better than the headline.) Opinion: Harry Potter's Magic Fades When His Creator Tweets https://t.co/5JvTfzjl0W

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

Seattle can save lives now. @MayorJenny enact the remaining @8CANTWAIT measures: require police to exhaust all other measures before shooting and ban shooting at moving vehicles #8cantwait #Seattle #CampaignZero

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

excited to learn more about mutation testing! Thanks for the tip @theavalkyrie! #PyLadiesSEAPanel #WhatILoveAboutPython

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

THIS! - Favorite new-ish things to python: f-strings and typing - @gvanrossum #PyLadiesSEAPanel #WhatILoveAboutPython

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@theavalkyrie also shouting out pytest. Love it! #PyLadiesSEAPanel #WhatILoveAboutPython

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

I see you @eyspahn and @christytoes. "I know there are packages that make super beautiful visualizations, but I love #Matplotlib" #PyLadiesSEAPanel #WhatILoveAboutPython

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

Good reminder from @eyspahn that we should remember that content knowledge is important before we go to far into the armchair future modeling #WhatILoveAboutPython #PyLadiesSEAPanel #DataScience

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@kanarinka @laurenfklein @SareetaAmrute @datasociety We need to be careful about policing "what counts as [data] science" - remembering the history of branding/rebranding and using titles/labels as a way to exclude. #DataFeminism

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

Fun to engage with Data Feminism with @kanarinka @laurenfklein @SareetaAmrute Thank you for hosting @datasociety! #databites

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@kanarinka @laurenfklein @SareetaAmrute @datasociety Dr. Klein: we can hold two things in our minds at the same time - the data points, and the people/lives they represent.

[Hera Hussain حرا @herahussain]

Summary of #DataFeminism.

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@kanarinka @laurenfklein @SareetaAmrute @datasociety how do you acquire the big picture? For who is the big picture? - Prof. D'Ignazio

[Allison Stafford @acstaffo]

@kanarinka @laurenfklein @SareetaAmrute @datasociety Re: ethics of collaborating with big tech - ask "who questions" - who is being helped, who is being harmed, who is participating