Dr Matthew Thornton

Lead Data Scientist @ an award winning EdTech company | Focus on measuring things | PhD Quantum Physics

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@OVOHydro I have purchased Hydro Club Upgrade tickets but they are still unavailable in my ticketmaster app. The show is tonight.

When do you expect they will become available?

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@RMcElhenney I hope that Frank is Janine’s dad

[skooks @skooookum]

if you’re dissatisfied with your email job it means you were genetically predisposed to be a day laborer. you dishonor god with the way your rough hands and simple mind wield Microsoft Outlook

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@TeawithTolkien @morcilla_vasca They make excellent tote bags!

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@TeawithTolkien Yes!!!!!! Love Oscha slings! I have a “Rohan regalia” ring sling and it’s fab

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@archieemwood @duckdb This would be a game changer for a lot of data teams

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@DulwichQuantum 0K Qupid

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@sophaskins I always get a slushy at the cinema for the exact same reason. 8 year old me would be so proud 🥹

[Robert Talisse @RobertTalisse]

My profession has turned me into someone who finds this funny. Please help.

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@JoyManganye “A man who reads the back of a lot of books”

- Stephen Merchant talking about Russel Brand

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@keenanisalive This used to be one of my favourite ways of teaching Fourier transforms to second year undergrads. They’d recently learned about vector spaces in maths. In physics we were teaching them Fourier series which seems esoteric at first. Nice to see things click into place

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@merm_bot Wow what a bad response.

Walking round with my toddler, waving and smiling forcing me to interact with strangers, is one of the best bits of our trips out.

I’m convinced interactions like these are a great litmus test for tolerance. And jerkness

[Jacob Matson @matsonj]

a story in two parts

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The insane irony of this is that each one of these failed multiplications requires performing trillions of successful multiplications

[Carlos Alberto Haro @h1sort]

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@PhDemetri In 2016 we regularly went with “Huey Lewis and the fake news”

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@rrhoover It means I spend less time on my phone

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@__mharrison__ In any case Effective Pandas is probably the most consequential book for my career since moving into data. So I’m always glad to read good technical writing!

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@__mharrison__ Guess it’d be a harder one to write, too?
There’s a lot out there already for viz principles, but then many many choices for technical angle.

And, hard to separate from the data wrangling steps.

Still it’d be valuable to see what you’d write in this space!