Twitter allows you to easily reach an audience outside your followers, but it isn’t intuitive

8 min readDec 6, 2020

There’s an element of shame and self-justification in your hesitation to share about your relationship problems with others. But you know if you describe them out loud, you’d struggle to find healthy, meaningful reasons to stay with your partner.

I was once asked to pull user level data that wouldn’t fit into an Excel worksheet because it was more than one million rows. I knew it was going to be a nightmare for my stakeholder to load into Excel because of memory constraints. I asked why this data was needed and based on the context I was able to provide the view my stakeholder really wanted with a few thousand rows of data.

For example, the company’s website recently had a drop in visitors. The marketing department asked you to help identify a possible cause. You breakdown the website visitors by channel and see a drop from organic search. At this point you can show the results to your stakeholder and you would be done.

Honey — I promise to be a better version of myself next week. Maybe. In the meantime, I’m going to get a pedicure and forget this week, or year, ever existed. I’d go to Victoria’s Secret, but I think they’re out of biz. Besides, everyone is using thongs for masks so they’re probably out of stock anyhow. Sorry. XO

“Because all the things I want to change in my life, I keep waiting for them to change. But I don’t have control of those things. The only thing I have control over is myself. So, if I want anything to change, I have to be the one to do it.”

I know you might want this relationship to work out so badly, but your health comes first. Without your health, you’d end up with nothing — having a relationship certainly can wait.

It’s common for a stakeholder to ask for one thing but mean something else because they can’t articulate what they want. A great data analyst will dig deeper to understand what’s driving the request and deliver what is actually needed.

You grow an audience by being known for a few topics. A limited number of topics allows you to dedicate your time as a writer to going deep into these subjects. Depth creates mastery in a specific topic. You will grow an audience as a writer when you become a master rather than a dabbler.

If all these 4 signs apply to you, it’s time to get your head out of denial and assess your situation for what it is. The longer you let yourself go along with the motions, the more damaging it is for your well-being and mental health.

7. His bum is way cuter (and smaller) than yours truly. This is usuallly a ‘pro,’ but today as I sit mindlessly inhaling a family-size bag of tortilla chips, I’m pissed about it.

For example, let’s say you support the marketing department for an online retail company. The marketing manager would like to make changes to the website and asks what KPIs should be used to measure success. Since you took the time to understand the business you’re able to ask the right questions to recommend appropriate KPIs such as conversion rate and average order value to measure success.

The most common architecture pattern is the layered architecture or known as the n-tier architecture. It is widely known by most software architects, designers, developers. Although, there are no specific restrictions in terms of the number and type of layers that must exist, most layered architecture consists of four tiers: presentation, business, persistence and database as follows.

Simply showing a table of numbers without explaining the context and business impact is not useful. Explain to your stakeholder how the numbers relate together using charts to show trends and point out relevant information. Data literacy is a problem in many companies and being able to communicate results a stakeholder can understand and use to make decisions are essential skills of a great analyst.

You might be gaslighting yourself because you’ve been gaslit for a long time by your partner. You’re possibly under the influence of many cognitive biases and your perception of your relationship has become so muddled that you can’t clearly tell right from wrong anymore.

Finally, I had a moment to hear those thoughts — the ones that played the victim’s song. With 3 entire days to myself, that song became clearer and clearer, to the point where the words no longer seemed like my own.

Twitter allows you to easily reach an audience outside your followers, but it isn’t intuitive

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