Randy Au

data-quality

Our most important skill, spotting and questioning assumptions

2 days ago • 5 min read

data-culture

The "art" part of setting metrics

9 days ago • 6 min read

Moving data around still sucks

15 days ago • 4 min read

technical-culture

Things are simple until they are complex

16 days ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Novelty at work is a weird thing

23 days ago • 5 min read

Reflections on building forum software

a month ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Adding a little BB to the bs

a month ago • 5 min read

data-culture

Live user-on-page activity, the analytics feature that wasn't

a month ago • 5 min read

Somehow we're in an age of spellcasting now

a month ago • 5 min read

data-culture

Counterfactual analysis, an (organizationally) unloved method

a month ago • 7 min read

measurement

The Measurement of Loudness

2 months ago • 10 min read

So you've been asked to "take over" some old data pipeline...

2 months ago • 8 min read

TopPost

Code review for data (and non-SWE) folks

2 months ago • 11 min read

How to have way too many hobbies too!

2 months ago • 8 min read

measurement

The era of unscientific management

2 months ago • 8 min read

technical-culture

Dashboard rot as org attention grave markers

3 months ago • 7 min read

data-culture

Please write docs with a theory of mind

3 months ago • 9 min read

hobby

Hobby report: A printed violin

3 months ago • 3 min read

TopPost

Your data work is part of work politics

3 months ago • 7 min read

tooling

Daylight savings broke software (again) and other Time News!

3 months ago • 6 min read

career

Rediscovering joy in silly computer stuff

3 months ago • 6 min read

metrics

Velocity straight into a cul-de-sac

4 months ago • 5 min read

statistics

Surveys aren't getting easier to do

4 months ago • 6 min read

measurement

Measuring UX friction in practice

4 months ago • 8 min read

A silly desktop motor device for me (and y'all)

4 months ago • 3 min read