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The Freedom of Freelancing
Why being a freelance analytics engineer is better than full time
Sep 29, 2023 • 
Kenny Ning
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December 2022

cron, dbt Cloud, and Airflow: 3 ways to deploy dbt
This is an old post I wrote for dbt’s blog that didn’t end up getting published. I’m putting it here since I’ve been referencing it again with one of my…
Dec 27, 2022 • 
Kenny Ning
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May 2021

Finding uniqueness
select * from prod.public.customer limit 100
May 1, 2021 • 
Kenny Ning

April 2021

I am Data Last
Data First is overrated.
Apr 1, 2021 • 
Kenny Ning
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March 2021

Data science is different
Author’s note: Told from the perspective of a naive, junior data scientist, this story was inspired by a Vicki Boykis post of a similar namesake. Thanks…
Mar 1, 2021 • 
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February 2021

Value chain
Artist unknown
Feb 1, 2021 • 
Kenny Ning
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January 2021

Kiro dreams of data
A story about sushi and data analysis best practices
Jan 1, 2021 • 
Kenny Ning
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December 2020

Statistically significant
A short fictional story about being an evil data scientist
Dec 1, 2020 • 
Kenny Ning
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