Category: Data
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Slackometer Hello World
Project Slackpose gives me one more excuse for hyperlocal exercise and number crunching in lockdown. Last time, I briefly touched on balance analysis. This time, I look at tracking slackline distance walked with my newly minted slackometer. Inferring 3D Position I’m working only with 2D pose data (a set of pixel locations for body joints)…
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7 Wastes of Data Production
Update: there is a more recent talk & summary of this content at 7 wastes of data production – when pipelines become sewers. I realised recently that this is one of the lenses through which I look at the data engineering world, but I had never expressed these (lean) wastes explicitly. This post might be…
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Governments’ Handling of COVID App Data
I was able to contribute to this article from FST Media: Exposing the fault lines in governments’ handling of Covid app data. I talked about the need for citizens to have trust in the collection and use of data, lest lack of trust undermine the utility of the data. If the risks aren’t properly managed,…
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Guiding the Evolution of Data Mesh with Fitness Functions
I presented this webinar with Zhamak Dehghani – see the recording Guiding the Evolution of Data Mesh with Fitness Functions. There was great engagement with the topic and we captured some questions and further thoughts on this mini-blog post, published a little later. This presentation brought together the idea of architectural fitness functions from the…