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Memories and appreciation for the full data stack
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Emily Thompson

May 2022

Don’t just run your data team like a product team, run it like a company that needs to scale
A minor change in framing.
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Emily Thompson

April 2022

Hiring Data Scientists With Intention
Reducing bias in your hiring process
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Emily Thompson
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Tara Robertson
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Thinking about evolving your data stack
Why does everything feel so difficult?
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Emily Thompson
DLSG Pro Tip: Superdecks
Making people believe you're a presentation magician.
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Emily Thompson

March 2022

Growing Data Teams from Reactive to Influential
Measuring progress towards company-wide data maturity
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Emily Thompson
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Solidarity in the small stuff
Finding the time to prioritize less exciting work
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Emily Thompson

February 2022

Data Team Branding
Winning the org over through spaghetti tactics
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Emily Thompson
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Productizing Analytics: A Retrospective
Lessons learned from trying to have a metrics layer cake and eating it too.
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Emily Thompson

January 2022

The Five Stages of Interview Grief
Unicorns aren't real. Unicorns aren't real.
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Emily Thompson
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Ready for work
When people approach me about interview techniques, I often give this advice: Treat it like dating. So here is my profile!
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Emily Thompson
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Message in a bottle
Wine with a splash of intentional information loss
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Emily Thompson
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