Jenna Jordan
@jennajordan
Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart. Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums. Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
I'm headed back to Las Vegas this fall for #dbtSummit! This year I'll be facilitating a peer exchange with Eric Guroff called "Building dbt projects in rough terrain: creating a trailguide for dbt pioneers"
Why yes I did drug Bella yesterday and today. Repetition proves trazodone gives her stinky toots.
I also really enjoyed Leigh Warner's session "Draw Before You Code" - she talked about how to solve the same kind of problem I've approached from the librarian's frame of the reference interview but from a visual designer's frame of the requirements tree. 5/8
Ratio PBC's own Eric Guroff gave a fantastic presentation about state & local health data reporting. Many of the attendees approach government health data from either end of the pipeline - as data producers at the start of the pipeline or data consumer at the end of the pipeline... 3/8
From the boat ride the night before (complete with trivia over dinner) to the "cursed chart" competition that closed out a day full of informative sessions, Data Camp really did feel more like a camp for healthcare data nerds than a conference. 2/8
In the summer we go to camp.... Out-Of-Pocket's Data Camp, that is. They had the s'mores and everything! Last year's inaugural Data Camp was so fun the Ratio PBC team came back to Boston for seconds, and the OOP team really hit it out of the park this year. 1/8
For any army that are also fans of @adapalmer.bsky.social's Terra Ignota, I have another one for ya... Jimin at the Mexican National Palace is my headcannon for Sniper if they were to ever play The Little Prince.
For Game of Thrones fans that are also army, this outfit plus a glorious new hairdo during the BTS world tour made Jimin Targaryen instant headcannon:
Perhaps not quite what you are looking for but I adore my hammock swing, I bought two since my house came with two hooks where a porch swing used to hang. It is my favorite spot for knitting, reading, and sometimes coffee too
Your mother-in-law would like my best friend’s pottery: ruckusceramics.com
#dbt has always had community champions, but thanks to Bolaji Oyejide it's now an official program! I remember discussing the seeds of this idea with @jthandy.bsky.social at Coalesce 2024, and it's so exciting to see it now become a reality.
I went to Carolina FiberFest this weekend and took 2 weaving workshops. Behold my first ever attempts at weaving:
These hammock swings have got to be one of my favorite knitting purchases.
Bella gets to have a doggie sleepover with her bff this weekend and I get to start a brand new shawl. We being cozy in prep for the incoming colder weather.
Spending my evening watching the Olympics (almost time to watch Alyssa Liu!) and winding yarn.
Getting brunch at a local diner and spied some familiar faces on the photo wall…
In our family the tale of the spaghetti sauce sauce recipe is told every Christmas Eve, along with a re-count of how many years the spaghetti sauce has been made for Christmas Eve dinner (I forget exactly but ~70 years). We all got the recipe on tea towels for Christmas one year. It shall live on!
Celebrated Imbolc yesterday by making some candied oranges. Should be ready tonight to dip in chocolate (for those that held together) or coat with sugar (for the rest). My first attempt at candying fruit… I hope they are worth it!
If you were able to attend my talk - thank you! I hope you enjoyed it and learned enough to start thinking like a librarian... or at least I hope I convinced you that you need a librarian's perspective on your data team (so hire one!).
A week ago I delivered my talk at @datadaytexas.bsky.social: "Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives from a Time-Honored Tradition". While my co-speaker Amalia Child couldn't make it due to the winter storm, I'm glad I was still able to present and bring a librarian's perspective to data folks.
Now, at last, the finale to the finale… the data town hall hosted by @joereis.bsky.social and Matthew Housley… time for some friendly debate!
Last talk of the day before the town hall, Paul Blankley argues in “Agents are eating the semantic layer” that LLMs have graduated beyond needing semantic layers - let the LLM write the sql with the context that is captured by the semantic layer.