Elliot Gunn
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Elliot Gunn
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technical marketing @ Datafold / docs, data diffs & economics /
elliotgunn.com / Toronto
It's rare for companies show their hand but the Medium email re: Towards Data Science's exit is pretty revealing. Looks like it took them completely by surprise and they rushed out an email without even waiting for their new pub's intro post
February 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Not too long ago I posted a call for interviewees on #dataBS and I'm psyched to share what I've put together:

7 interviews with data practitioners, from AEs to DEs to architects and analysts, on their data migration stories

get.datafold.com/tl-dms

And our data migration microsite:
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Relevant bit for both #dataBS folks and data-inclined writers to test the sensitivity of conclusions with a pretty simple rule-of-thumb sanity check
December 13, 2024 at 7:56 PM
This is correct
November 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
the philosophers on here will appreciate that I got to sneak in a Ship of Thesus reference:
November 12, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Interesting point towards the end: data migrations are more than database capabilities but institutional alignment (shared knowledge, collective expertise)

If anyone else in #dataBS has a favourite data migrations primer (or story about how it all went terribly wrong), please send it my way!
November 6, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I don't really know how to create data memes but here's the first and only one I've created for #dataBS
November 5, 2024 at 4:20 PM