Zach Nabavian
zach-nabavian.bsky.social
Zach Nabavian
@zach-nabavian.bsky.social
Data analyst with a focus on demand forecasting and automation.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-nabavian/
GitHub: https://github.com/Zach-Nabavian
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Hello! After taking a break from social media at the end of last year, I wanted to reintroduce myself:

I'm a data analyst with a focus on demand planning and forecasting, and I'm looking to advance my career in the field. I also love video games and books, and I'm happy to hear any recommendations.
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U.S. employers added 22,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3 percent.
Data: www.bls.gov/news.release...
Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... #NumbersDay
Employment Situation Summary - 2025 M07 Results
www.bls.gov
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
For this week's Tidy Tuesday, we looked at earthquakes around Mt Vesuvius. I was interested in how many earthquakes were recorded each year, and how that was related to their average Duration Magnitude. I tried to use a dual axis graph for this, but these are generally advised against.
May 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It's been a while, but I wanted to share some visualizations I made for the last few Tidy Tuesdays, though the topics for the last few weeks have been depressing to say the least. First, I have this bar graph showing how science grant terminations are distributed across different categories.
May 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Again, he just thinks the act of importing is itself an economic loss. He has no concept of mutually beneficial transactions.
REPORTER: But we're seeing as a result that ports here in the US, the traffic has really slowed and now thousands of dockworkers are truck drivers are worried about their jobs

TRUMP: That means we lose less money ... when you say it slowed down, that's a good thing, not a bad thing

May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Yesterday I had two very different people tell me, "I thought #TidyTuesday data could only be accessed in R" & they thought the "cleaning script" at the bottom of each data readme was something they would have to run. No & no! The data is just CSV files! And the cleaning is already done! #databs
May 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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HEY. I'm looking to chat with professors, teachers, instructors, and educators of all kinds who use #Python in their data-focused courses (stats, analytics, modeling, forecasting, econ, finance, biostats, medical, whatever). Looking to connect py data learners with the data community. Help! #databs
April 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A new Python edition of "Forecasting: Principles and Practice" is now available online at otexts.com/fpppy/. Thanks to @azulgarza.bsky.social, Cristian Challu, Max Mergenthaler, Kin Olivares & Nixtla for making this happen. #forecasting #python
Forecasting: Principles and Practice, the Pythonic Way
otexts.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
For this week's Tidy Tuesday, we looked at general healthcare data from the United States from 2023 to 2024. This was a really tough dataset to wrap our heads around initially. I have a graph of the Top 10 States with the highest percentage of healthcare workers up to date with the COVID vaccine.
April 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The main effect of tariff insanity:

Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once.

That scar tissue will linger for a long time.

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April 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Vaccination eliminated polio from the United States 🧵
April 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
For this week's TidyTuesday, we played with a dataset of Pokemon stats and other features. I wanted to show how fully evolved Pokemons' strength has changed over the generations.
April 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It's just about Data Science Hangout time! Hope to see y'all in about 10 minutes :) posit.co/data-science...
April 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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HAPPENING NOW! COME HANGOUT!
It's just about Data Science Hangout time! Hope to see y'all in about 10 minutes :) posit.co/data-science...
April 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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So, searching on @bsky.app has felt really unsafe 😰 The "Moderation" settings for images don't seem to help, and many of the words associated with data stuff are also associated with... other... stuff. Anyone have safe search tips or use other tools to interact with bluesky? #databs
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Ready to dive into #MachineLearning with R? An Introduction to Statistical Learning (statlearning.com) is a fantastic (and free!) book that covers the ML essentials with clear examples. Each chapter has #rstats labs to practice - I've had fun completing this book with friends! #DataScience #RLadies
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
statlearning.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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PSA: Learning #datascience with others beats Googling error messages every time. 😅 We've all been there! Finding a community (like a #useR or #RLadies group) or study buddy can turn frustration into “aha!” moments. Team up and save yourself some time and angst. #rstats #BetterTogether
April 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Again, nobody is forcing them to put tariffs on bananas, coffee, avocados, or any of the hundreds food/minerals/materials that literally can't be obtained in the US. They could write exemptions for any or all of them. Instead they press the "make groceries more expensive" button.
April 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The way this current administration uses the phrase "gender ideology" makes me somewhat NUTS. I grew up in a borderline fundamentalist evangelical community in Texas; we had gender ideology galore!
March 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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In my data science courses I harp on the fact you need domain knowledge and experts to go with your programming skills to do good work. DOGE is the perfect example of a bunch of "programmers" w/ no domain knowledge fing everything up but people buying their lies because "we're computer geniuses"
March 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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So, I am 100% certain that having more free time would give my brain the space to do amazing things, but having a full time job means I don't have the time or energy leftover to be that amazing person, AND most of my creative ideas come to me when I'm working, not when I'm idling.
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I worked on it earlier today and I had Mail, Outlook, Safari with 30+ tabs, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Music, News Explorer, Fantastical, and Reminders all open at the same time and everything worked fine

On a Mac with only 16Gb of RAM

As I said, it’s just mundane
March 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Cancer death rates in young children in the UK have fallen by more than 80% since 1950.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/canc...
March 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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what an incredible way to tell on yourself lol
Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"
March 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM