Pamela Clevenger

Data and dogs.

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

Hi @zemnmez , nice to meet you 👋
I’m Pam on the data science team and worked on this user segmentation model. We created this because we know that people use Notion in a ton of different ways and we want to understand what they find most valuable at different depths of usage. Maybe different naming would be better, thanks for helping me see that! 😅

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

2020: Can I go running?

2021: My brother is a fully vaxxed Scorpio who only lies and my roommate is an unvaccinated INTJ who only tells the truth; how do we attend a 124-person outdoor wedding across a river with a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain, and only one mask?

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

Before parenthood (one week ago): Butt wipes warmer? Come ON, baby can have room temperature wipes my goodness 🙄

Now that baby is here: oh no these wipes are too chilly on my sweet baby’s skin! This is awful! (Orders butt wipes warmer immediately, apologizes to infant)

[Seth Rosen @sethrosen]

Trashboard (noun): A dashboard which is viewed once but never used again.

Example: They asked me for the most ridiculous data and I had to build them a trashboard that I know they’ll never reference again.

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

We should normalize referring to any bike lane that isn’t separated from cars as an unprotected bike lane

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

@felixsalmon Face cream

[Seth Rosen @sethrosen]

Kids these days actually care about data lineage and building reliable pipelines. When I was growing up we just wrote a bunch of ad-hoc sql and then continually debugged it forever.

[Maura C @outoftheverse]

"Our job as analysts isn’t to do the math right so that we can figure out which answer is in the back of the book; it’s to determine which version, out of a subjective set of options, helps us best run a business." https://t.co/CTdxpZ35Y4

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

Just realized that eight years have already gone by since we started spending all our time together. It's not an anniversary or anything, it just occurred to me that when things are going great time really flies so fast.

[Sharif Matar @sharifmatar]

I just want to make sure we’re aligned but I also want to be respectful of your time...

[Randy Olson @randal_olson]

Where Americans moved during the #COVID19 pandemic. Yellow = net loss, purple = net gain. #dataviz

Source: https://t.co/vgM8Tr1T2X

[KP *Brown Spiced* Upadhyayula @KP11Studios]

Me. Everyday. Always. Perpetually.

[Caitlin Hudon @beeonaposy]

Working backwards from goals is simple but works so well for thinking through data Q's:

- How do you know what data to track? Well, what do you want to know?
- How do you design an A/B test? Well, what do you want to learn?
- How do you build an algo? Well, how will it be used?

[Calling Bullshit @callin_bull]

In our course, we teach a very simple method for bullshit detection.

When you hear a claim, ask yourself

1) Who is telling me this,
2) How do they know it, and
3) What are they trying to sell me?

Let's try it out.

[Bill the Lizard @lizardbill]

Interviewer: How would you detect a cycle in a linked list?
Me: Oh, that's easy. I'd Google it to find the canonical solution.
Interviewer: But I wanted to see how you solve it.
Me: *more slowly* I'd Google it to find the canonical solution.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

NYT: dark patterns are the techniques that companies use online to get consumers to keep subscriptions they might otherwise cancel

Also NYT: if you want to cancel your NYT subscription, you have to call this phone number during our business hours & let us talk you out of it

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

A really underrated gift that family members give is when they take their health seriously (diet, exercise, vaccine, etc.) It makes me so happy when I hear about family members doing these things!

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

@MMRobinson93 Actually there are folks who do it, and empirically it is almost always dads. They take the first month, then go back for a month, then take another month, etc. over the course of a year. Moms (that I work with) are less likely to do it that way.

[Pamela Clevenger @peclevenger]

Things not to say to someone going out on parental leave: "WOW that's a REALLY long time, aren't you worried about your team? Is it normal to do it like this instead of breaking it into chunks of time?"