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“Because I had to”

I started my career as an entrepreneur. I built a web agency in my 20’s, and sold it in 1999. From 2000–2012 I worked for…

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The shocking truth about audience data: it will surprise you

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Caravel: Airbnb’s data exploration platform

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Apache Phoenix — A Conversation with PMC Chair James Taylor

This week, I sat down with James Taylor…

Analyzing Your Stripe Data, Part 1: Measuring Subscription MRR

Used by 10,000+ companies to process massive transaction volumes, Stripe has become a core part of the payments infrastructure of the internet. And because of the importance of this transactional data, it should absolutely…

My Favorite Paradox

We live in the age of Big Data. Free-to-play games collect 300gb of data per day. Websites track every pixel you touch…