Alexandre Gracovetsky

Preaching the beauty of Data Science: One tweet at a time.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@RossKneeDeep Agree that it is worth a watch. And at the very end, return to watch a few episodes of season 1. Thé contrast of how the main character turns from a decent fellow to something perverse is striking. It was much more convincing than, say, watching the downfall of Anakin to Vader.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@KristajSharpe The ´sigh’ says it all. By coincidence, I am reading a book by #DanRather who goes into some detail about the importance of empathy towards each other.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@ankatea @captainswallow @geolinguistics I don’t see why a qualitative or quantitative study is colonial by definition. All cultures have to do this in some form. The first tribes had to learn the most optimal way to build a bow, pick a berry, or traverse water. Scientific minds at work. It is all data.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@mackenz_kitchen Take a good look at https://t.co/MIPBuk7frt. Their work on creating concrete projects for kids is invaluable and the investment is marginal. The full RPi-4 is maybe $100 all in and works as a windows 3 desktop.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

If you are thinking of how to build data literacy, @mackenz_kitchen is someone to pay attention to.

[Mackenzie Kitchen @mackenz_kitchen]

So I did a data literacy training thing, in collaboration with 18 departments and in an agile way over the last 4 months. I just pressed ‘send’ to invite others to participate and provide feedback - feels so vulnerable and awesome at the same time 🙈#gcdigital @DigiAcademyCAN

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

July 22, or 22/7, is Pi Approximation Day, not to be confused with Pi Day (March 14). I wish everyone Happy Pi Approximation Day! The image includes Pi Poetry (3-1-4 syllables per line!) and some Pie recipes. Thanks to colleagues for their contributions!

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

Data Science Challenge-48 (Stages of Data Science): Knowing the data maturity level of your organization is critical to building a data science team. It fundamentally changes your team philosophy, which in turn affects recruitment and retention strategies. #DataScienceTogether

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@kimjones2976 (1)first daughter
(2)wife
(3)third daughter
(4)second daughter
(5)fourth daughter

#Luckyhusband #LuckyFather

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@paulmguerra Data model within Power Bi is built with English / French by default. Plan is to have the analytics comes out in both languages allowing us to publish files quickly, in both languages, at the same time. Documentation almost done. Objective: No more "french to follow" emails!

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

Data Science Challenge-47 (Communication): Have you invested in creating a dynamic bilingual dashboard that refreshes with live data? Not easy, but my whole team is getting this training now and it will be a requirement for all dashboards going forward. #DataScienceTogether

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@mackenz_kitchen And for those that need a practical example, many schools receive at least partial funding from the neighbourhoods they reside in. It sounds fair, but it means that kids in lower income areas, which are also much more diverse, don’t have the same services as everyone else.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

I am looking for examples of collecting data from social media (scrapingthe data) within the federal family. Would appreciate a message to take a look at what you have. Would rather not have to rebuild this!

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@pauldombowsky Paul, I would be happy to look at your CV because I was going to advertise next week for #2. Some hiring managers have asked if I could share CVs and I would be happy to do so. Everyone can find their niche. Please send it in.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

PCO is looking for a federal employee developer who wants to help build a new Data Science team (ideal CS-03 technical). We need someone who can (1) build a proper database as a core function (to enable the team!) and (2) work with clients to help them understand their own data.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@ToferC @Actinolite @Transports_gc @PrivyCouncilCA That is a fair point. In one of our challenges we have dozens of variables collected in various free text formats (email / word / excel) and dozens more variables in different legacy systems. Data being organized, but need some form of relational database for our foundation.

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

I was not aware of this statistic. It makes me wonder at other types of gender bias there is in reporting health stats.

[Jit @jtcanuck]

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[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

@jtcanuck You have to ask yourself how often stuff like that happened in North America before we realized we needed dedicated training centres!

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

#COVID19 #Covid_19 #COVIDCanada #COVIDIOTS

[Alexandre Gracovetsky @Data_Crat]

The lighter side of working from home. For me at least, this is non-fiction. https://t.co/Vok4kGj1yb