Randy Au

learning

How does MP3 compression do its thing?

5 days ago • 10 min read

measurement

Measuring how much of the sky is visible

12 days ago • 7 min read

data-culture

New data analysis can be faster, but MUST be grounded in slowness

19 days ago • 8 min read

More fun with world generation

24 days ago • 6 min read

measurement

So how does lightning locating work?

a month ago • 9 min read

The fun challenge of enterprise product research

a month ago • 6 min read

data-culture

No infrastructure is permanent, but it's up to us

a month ago • 6 min read

hobby

Learning By Building: Fantasy World Generators

2 months ago • 9 min read

Learning By Building: Trading Platforms

2 months ago • 7 min read

Silly projects for vacation posting!

2 months ago • 3 min read

Unstructured data is still a pain in the butt (but less impossible now)

2 months ago • 6 min read

data-quality

Our most important skill, spotting and questioning assumptions

2 months ago • 5 min read

data-culture

The "art" part of setting metrics

2 months ago • 6 min read

Moving data around still sucks

3 months ago • 4 min read

technical-culture

Things are simple until they are complex

3 months ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Novelty at work is a weird thing

3 months ago • 5 min read

Reflections on building forum software

3 months ago • 6 min read

data-culture

Adding a little BB to the bs

3 months ago • 5 min read

data-culture

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

3 months ago • 5 min read

Somehow we're in an age of spellcasting now

4 months ago • 5 min read

data-culture

Counterfactual analysis, an (organizationally) unloved method

4 months ago • 7 min read

measurement

The Measurement of Loudness

4 months ago • 10 min read

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

4 months ago • 8 min read

TopPost

Code review for data (and non-SWE) folks

4 months ago • 11 min read

How to have way too many hobbies too!

4 months ago • 8 min read