Austin Bradley
@datasense.bsky.social
HS science teacher turned data wrangler for edu nonprofit. Proud wife guy.
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Austin Bradley
@datasense.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Happy to see 🦋 gaining momentum!
About me:
I'm Austin, I'm a non-profit guy & former HS Science teacher 👨🔬
Studied International Affairs (always happy to chat politics & 🌍 )
I now work as a data & financial analyst 👨💻
I'm a big fan of travel✈️, learning languages 🇩🇪 🇪🇸, soccer ⚽ & building things 👷♂️
About me:
I'm Austin, I'm a non-profit guy & former HS Science teacher 👨🔬
Studied International Affairs (always happy to chat politics & 🌍 )
I now work as a data & financial analyst 👨💻
I'm a big fan of travel✈️, learning languages 🇩🇪 🇪🇸, soccer ⚽ & building things 👷♂️
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
Mulling on a thought. As a data professional, I feel it's my responsibility to make sure my business colleagues understand the processes their data goes through. I'm uncomfortable with stakeholders saying "I don't know how it works, it just does!" Not sure though if this is normal.
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Mulling on a thought. As a data professional, I feel it's my responsibility to make sure my business colleagues understand the processes their data goes through. I'm uncomfortable with stakeholders saying "I don't know how it works, it just does!" Not sure though if this is normal.
I just realized I'm a chronic sufferer of SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE 🐍
Apologies to all who my malady has afflicted
Apologies to all who my malady has afflicted
August 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I just realized I'm a chronic sufferer of SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE 🐍
Apologies to all who my malady has afflicted
Apologies to all who my malady has afflicted
Inversely correlated with Al evangelism, too (at least in my experience)
August 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Inversely correlated with Al evangelism, too (at least in my experience)
Just wait till we get kids cutting off the back of their pants so it doesn't soak up water, while letting the front still cover the shoes. That was my sophomore uniform.
The youth are learning the consequences of early 2000’s fashion
August 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just wait till we get kids cutting off the back of their pants so it doesn't soak up water, while letting the front still cover the shoes. That was my sophomore uniform.
Nothing like a carefully laid out plan of all the things you were going to tackle before a slate of meetings that gets completely derailed by a random request that should have been quick but ended up taking you to Mordor and back.
August 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Nothing like a carefully laid out plan of all the things you were going to tackle before a slate of meetings that gets completely derailed by a random request that should have been quick but ended up taking you to Mordor and back.
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I think all the time that this is the "science reform" we need to be having. Discrimination in science probably costs us more in scientific insight and scientists' well-being than anything else. AND these toxic patterns are not independent of fraud because toxic cultures create fraud pressures
We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sexual harassment is rife at US Antarctic research bases, fresh survey finds
More than two-thirds of people polled had witnessed sexual harassment or assault on the ice.
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think all the time that this is the "science reform" we need to be having. Discrimination in science probably costs us more in scientific insight and scientists' well-being than anything else. AND these toxic patterns are not independent of fraud because toxic cultures create fraud pressures
Just yesterday we had a conversation in my nonprofit about removing the icon & link from the list of social media sites we include in our email signature.
Should have happened a while ago, but it's better late than never.
Should have happened a while ago, but it's better late than never.
Half of #charities (51%) have either left or cut back
on their use of X (a huge increase from
the 18% last year). The rise in part due to 60% of large charities & 65% of LGBTQIA+ charities parting ways with X.
Source: @zoeamar.bsky.social' Charity Digital Skills Report:
charitydigitalskills.co.uk
on their use of X (a huge increase from
the 18% last year). The rise in part due to 60% of large charities & 65% of LGBTQIA+ charities parting ways with X.
Source: @zoeamar.bsky.social' Charity Digital Skills Report:
charitydigitalskills.co.uk
The Charity Digital Skills Report - Charity Digital Skills Report
The Charity Digital Skills Report is the annual barometer of charities’ digital skills, attitudes and behaviours.
charitydigitalskills.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just yesterday we had a conversation in my nonprofit about removing the icon & link from the list of social media sites we include in our email signature.
Should have happened a while ago, but it's better late than never.
Should have happened a while ago, but it's better late than never.
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This week on Counting Stuff, I was cooking a bunch and was thinking about how we live in a bunch of DAGs but honestly despite knowing how to manage data DAGs, we all hate tracker tools #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/we-have-dags...
www.counting-stuff.com/we-have-dags...
We have DAGs for our data, but also for our work
It's easy to not realize we manage a DAG surrounding... ourselves
www.counting-stuff.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This week on Counting Stuff, I was cooking a bunch and was thinking about how we live in a bunch of DAGs but honestly despite knowing how to manage data DAGs, we all hate tracker tools #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/we-have-dags...
www.counting-stuff.com/we-have-dags...
I may have just successfully convinced our head of tech that, no, we in fact *do not* need to spend 5 figures for a consultant firm to engage in a "discovery process" to "assess how AI can enhance our workstreams." AMA
July 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I may have just successfully convinced our head of tech that, no, we in fact *do not* need to spend 5 figures for a consultant firm to engage in a "discovery process" to "assess how AI can enhance our workstreams." AMA
Very curious if board members are aware of how much organizational time and energy they take up.
There are certain aspects of the dominant organizational leadership model that continues to confound me. This is absolutely one of them.
There are certain aspects of the dominant organizational leadership model that continues to confound me. This is absolutely one of them.
July 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Very curious if board members are aware of how much organizational time and energy they take up.
There are certain aspects of the dominant organizational leadership model that continues to confound me. This is absolutely one of them.
There are certain aspects of the dominant organizational leadership model that continues to confound me. This is absolutely one of them.
"You've Got to Survive to Thrive: What Doom Taught Me About Mission Alignment, Resource Management, and Task Prioritization"
July 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"You've Got to Survive to Thrive: What Doom Taught Me About Mission Alignment, Resource Management, and Task Prioritization"
Enjoying this chain of QT's and responses over coffee ☕ before going into the "spreadsheet mines" ⛏️ as my wife and I like to call them 😅 #databs
This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*
July 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Enjoying this chain of QT's and responses over coffee ☕ before going into the "spreadsheet mines" ⛏️ as my wife and I like to call them 😅 #databs
Just spent the past 20 minutes trying to organize data, getting increasingly frustrated at each pass because no matter how many times I tried to get the error count down to zero there were always just a *few* that were off.
July 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just spent the past 20 minutes trying to organize data, getting increasingly frustrated at each pass because no matter how many times I tried to get the error count down to zero there were always just a *few* that were off.
I don't want to say that my recent experiences at work are radicalizing me *against* the star schema per se, but boy is it funny to walk through someone else's construction project and realize that they had one hammer in hand...so every problem immediately became a nail.
June 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I don't want to say that my recent experiences at work are radicalizing me *against* the star schema per se, but boy is it funny to walk through someone else's construction project and realize that they had one hammer in hand...so every problem immediately became a nail.
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The Data Council ‘25 talks are now online, which is great because even when you attend you can’t be everywhere all at once. I’ll highlight a couple below, but there are plenty of other great talks. #databs
Data Council Oakland '25 - YouTube
youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Data Council ‘25 talks are now online, which is great because even when you attend you can’t be everywhere all at once. I’ll highlight a couple below, but there are plenty of other great talks. #databs
Trying to (kindly) remind my business colleagues that, just like with real objects in the physical world, if you don't put the data in the place where it goes it won't magically appear there when you go to look for it.
May 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trying to (kindly) remind my business colleagues that, just like with real objects in the physical world, if you don't put the data in the place where it goes it won't magically appear there when you go to look for it.
+1 for eye masks. Once I started using them, I completely stopped waking up in the middle of the night. A shockingly simple solution, honestly.
Slept with an eye mask and earplugs for the first time… wow this is what I’ve been missing 😳
May 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
+1 for eye masks. Once I started using them, I completely stopped waking up in the middle of the night. A shockingly simple solution, honestly.
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Another episode, this time about reconfigured, an AI-assisted journaling tool. If you wish you had a better tool to capture your thoughts as you go through an analysis, have a listen!
#dataBS #datasky
#dataBS #datasky
New episode! Thanks to @thesnappingdog.bsky.social and his cofounder Niko for sitting down to talk to us about their AI-assisted journaling tool, reconfigured.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2CFM...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2CFM...
S04E03 - AI-assisted journaling with reconfigured - with Richard Makara and Niko Korvenlaita
Half Stack Data Science · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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The discussion and engagement was so good on this over the last few weeks that I went ahead and added 2 whole new sections to this blog post (worth checking out if you already read this!):
I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.
I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.
May 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The discussion and engagement was so good on this over the last few weeks that I went ahead and added 2 whole new sections to this blog post (worth checking out if you already read this!):
I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.
I reflect on the discussions and fun that we had as well as provide more resources and a call to action.
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This week on Counting Stuff, a bit about how everyone has the ability to do logs analysis, because it's not about tech but storytelling and domain knowledge #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...
www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...
Everyone is capable of doing logs analysis
It all starts from something most of us has. Just powered up and tooled up.
www.counting-stuff.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This week on Counting Stuff, a bit about how everyone has the ability to do logs analysis, because it's not about tech but storytelling and domain knowledge #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...
www.counting-stuff.com/everyone-is-...
One of my favorite underappreciated features of Spotify is the "don't play this artist" setting.
As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable.
The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.
As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable.
The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.
May 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
One of my favorite underappreciated features of Spotify is the "don't play this artist" setting.
As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable.
The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.
As far as my app is concerned, Chris Brown, Eric Clapton, and DJ Khaled have never touched a microphone, a guitar, or a turntable.
The unfortunate thing is this setting isn't available for podcasts.
Just renewed my powerbi cert! Every year I forget how straightforward it is and accidentally overstudy for it, but it's hard to be mad at myself about it.
May 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Just renewed my powerbi cert! Every year I forget how straightforward it is and accidentally overstudy for it, but it's hard to be mad at myself about it.
Had a business leader tell me they could cry today when I shared a dashboard I'd built for her because it shows her information she's been asking for "for literally years now."
So yeah, that felt pretty good
So yeah, that felt pretty good
May 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Had a business leader tell me they could cry today when I shared a dashboard I'd built for her because it shows her information she's been asking for "for literally years now."
So yeah, that felt pretty good
So yeah, that felt pretty good