Moses

George Moses Horton, MyselfI feel myself in needOf the inspiring strains of ancient lore,My heart to lift, my empty mind to feed,And all the world explore.I know that I am oldAnd never can recover what is past,But for the future may some light unfoldAnd soar from ages blast.I feel resolved to try,My wish to prove, my calling to pursue,Or mount up from the earth into the sky,To show what Heaven can do.My genius from a boy,Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;But could not thus confined her powers employ,Impatient to…

The data gatekeeper is dead, long live the…oh no what have we done?Photo by Nick Beer via Shutterstock.A silent alarm rings in my head whenever I hear someone utter the phrase, “data is everyone’s responsibility.”You can just as easily translate this to mean that “data is no one’s responsibility,” too. This, readers, is what I call the “data tragedy of the commons.”Here’s why.The term tragedy of the commons comes from economic science and refers to situations where a common set of resources is accessed without any strong…

Kanye West once again wiped off all his Instagram posts, but he returned with a new Stories post. The rapper shared a cryptic message in which he seemed to put himself in the same league as the Bible’s Moses. Ye also seemed to suggest that those around him were concerned about his sleep schedule or lack thereof. West’s Insta Stories post featured white text on a simple black background, similar to many of his posts in recent weeks. West wrote, “No one asked Moses how much he slept.” Kanye apparently wanted his followers…

Even with the most well-designed data platforms, systems will break. Without embracing risk, you’re playing with fire.Image courtesy of Daniel Jerez on Unsplash.Say it with me: broken data is inevitable.It doesn’t care about how proactive you are at writing dbt tests, how perfectly your data is modeled, or how robust your architecture is. The possibility of a major data incident (Null value? Errant schema change? Failed model?) that reverberates across the company is always lurking around the corner.That’s not to say…

Image: Jamie McCarthy / Staff (Getty Images)In a new interview with SiriusXM’s John Fugelsang, John Boyega spoke candidly about his experience with racist fans and his treatment at the hands of the Star Wars franchise.Boyega states that there was no playbook for what he experienced, but he’s sure that what happened to him helped inform Star Wars when its next Black star began to receive the same kind of hatred, namely Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Moses Ingram, who plays the Inquisitor Reva. Instead of stepping back and letting fandom…

Self-serve systems are a big priority for data leaders and a principle of nearly every modern data strategy, but what exactly does it mean?Photo by Onesix on UnsplashData self-service, the ability for stakeholders in the organization to answer their own business questions with data, is a top initiative for nearly every data leader I’ve spoken to this year.It’s so foundational to creating a data-driven organization, that most of the questions surrounding it focus on the “when” rather than the “why.”That’s why we were…

Or, defining what success looks like for data leadersImage courtesy of author.As analytics professionals, we deal in data: serving ad-hoc reports on a minute’s notice, pulling queries for executives, and generally forecasting company performance across a variety of metrics. But how can we be truly successful if we don’t measure our own performance, too?In this article, we discuss six important steps to setting goals for our own data teams, from taking time for exploration to avoiding vanity stats while maintaining a…

Innuendo aside, “big” data is getting smaller and faster. Data leaders need to adjust to the new paradigm.Image courtesy of Elur/Shutterstock.At some point in the last two decades, the size of our data became inextricably linked to our ego. The bigger the better.We watched enviously as FAANG companies talked about optimizing hundreds of petabyes in their data lakes or data warehouses.We imagined what it would be like to engineer at that scale. We started humblebragging at conferences, like weight lifters talking about…

"Lady in the Lake" has found its new star. As reported by Deadline, Moses Ingram has signed on to star alongside Natalie Portman in the upcoming Apple TV+ series. The actress is best known for her recent role as Inquisitor Reva in the "Kenobi" series on Disney+. Ingram is replacing Lupita Nyong'o who was originally attached to star in the series but dropped out in May. Ingram, who scored an Emmy nomination for her role in Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, will star alongside Natalie Portman in the series, which comes from…

When racism shows up in fandom, it becomes an issue that everyone has to deal with, but the burden falls hardest on fans of color. While social media support is great, and videos addressing racism are even better, it’s simply not enough. Something’s got to change.In late May, Lucasfilm released the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and held its premiere at Star Wars Celebration, the first of the franchise’s official conventions since 2019. Fans were thrilled to see Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen return to square…