Eevamaija Virtanen
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Eevamaija Virtanen
@eevamaija.bsky.social
Finland’s Most Famous Data Engineer You’ve Never Heard Of 💾
Founder @helsinkidataweek.bsky.social
Co-Founder, Lead Data Engineer @ Invinite
Photographer | Creative Director
A broad board member @ TIVIA
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I’ve started writing about the challenges in the data ecosystem and the burnout faced by data engineers.

These are systemic, cultural and deeply human issues.

I’ll explore practical solutions, systemic thinking and Bridge Skills to rebuild from the ground up.

👉 Join the discussion on Substack! 🔗
January 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Data, ML, GenAI or humans:
Who makes the best decisions?

📊 Data gives you the historical facts.
⚙️ Machine Learning (ML) predicts outcomes but struggles with the unexpected.
🤖 Generative AI (GenAI) generates ideas.
🤷‍♀️ Humans? Creative and visionary, but slow and biased.

The answer? Combine them.
December 4, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Hey gang!

Just hanging out with my dearest Helsinki Data Week crew @jkor.bsky.social, @youcanbeapirate.bsky.social & Säde Haveri!

We might be planning something amazing for you folks here in Finland. 🤩

Anyway, what are your plans for next fall? 🤓

#HDW2025
#HelsinkiDataWeek
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November 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
How much money has your company wasted on data projects with no real value?

✅ Don’t chase shiny tools.
✅ Start with real business problems.
✅ Build tailored, actionable data products to solve them.
✅ Ask: Does this help customers/employees?

🚫 If not, stop.

Simplicity wins.

#datastrategy
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November 27, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Highlights from the past year:

🤝 Co-founded Invinite, Grade-A health data consultancy

🚀 Founded Helsinki Data Week: 800+ participants, 10+ countries

🤝 Launched DataTribe 💚

💻 36 MBA credits

🎤 10+ talks & webinars: Conquered stage fear 🙏

✈️ Traveled to Italy, UK & Australia

Can’t wait for 2025!
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
That feeling when you start your data journey and discover pd.read_csv. 🥰

Still remember that.

What a gateway drug.

#pandas
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November 10, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Hybrid cloud strategy.

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November 8, 2024 at 1:11 PM