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What is Data Governance? A Practical Guide to Building Trustworthy Data in the Age of AI

From unclear ownership to missing standards, Charlotte Ledoux breaks down the simple governance practices that help organisations trust their data and…

Dec 11 • Data Tinkerer and Charlotte Ledoux

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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in November 2025

Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across in November 2025.

Dec 3 • Data Tinkerer

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November 2025

How Snap Rebuilt Its ML Platform to Handle 10,000+ Daily Spark Jobs

Inside Prism, the system that turned scattered Spark workflows into a unified, ML-ready platform.

Nov 20 • Data Tinkerer

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From Data Analyst to Senior DS Manager at Skyscanner

How a mechanical engineer found data through robotics. Data led to modelling. Modelling led to managing teams at Skyscanner.

Nov 13 • Data Tinkerer and Jose Parreño Garcia

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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in October 2025

Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across in October 2025.

Nov 6 • Data Tinkerer

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October 2025

From Dental Cleaning to Data Cleaning: How I Pivoted to Healthcare Analytics

How a simple Google search led to SQL. SQL led to a new career. And hat career led to teaching others on LinkedIn Learning

Oct 23 • Data Tinkerer and Thais Cooke

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From Marketing to Data Engineering: How I Made the Switch

How one marketer followed the trail of tracking pixels into pipelines and built a career turning messy data into usable systems.

Oct 16 • Data Tinkerer and Alejandro Aboy

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How Dropbox Made AI Evaluation Work at Scale

Every prompt, retriever and model now has to earn its merge.

Oct 9 • Data Tinkerer

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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in September 2025

Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across in September 2025.

Oct 2 • Data Tinkerer

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September 2025

The Data Analyst’s Dilemma: Accuracy vs Speed

When is "good enough" actually better than "perfect"?

Sep 25 • Data Tinkerer

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How Shopify Uses Change Data Capture to Serve Millions of Merchants

From batch queries to streaming 100k records per second during peak load

Sep 18 • Data Tinkerer

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How Netflix Used Deep Learning to Slash Video Quality Control Time by 90%

Neural networks, synthetic pixel generators and a smarter pipeline

Sep 11 • Data Tinkerer

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