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Scoring a decade of data predictions

Moneyballing the World Cup

The product is the process

How analysis dies

The worst spreadsheet I've ever made

Should we be grateful for the modern data stack?

The internet, 2022

Data’s day of reckoning

The emperor and his clothes

Data's invisible hand

All in one place

Internal tools make lousy startups

How dbt fails

A rich man and his iPhone

Fine, let's talk about data contracts

How Fivetran fails

If data is a product, what is production?

How Snowflake fails

The past is not precious

What do we do when we get it wrong?

Down with the DAG

Analysts should have portfolios

The powder keg of the modern data stack

Do data-driven companies actually win?

The data config

Are we human, or are we vendor?

Why do people want to be analytics engineers?

Disaster

iSnowflake

Microsoft, Google, and the original purple people

All your database are belong to us

The technical pay gap

Free fall

The best decision is one

The case for consolidation

How much is 265 billion dollars?

A better way to lie with statistics

Has SQL gone too far?

The end of Big Data

We all have an audience

The ghosts in the data stack

Startups shouldn’t care about revenue

A very big deal

Work like an analyst

Nothing to add

Disclose your angel investments

The next billion programmers

Business in the back, party in the front

Service pressure

How to play Wordle

The metadata money corporation

Data's trillion dollar question mark

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