data

Data Disasters (work in progress)

A real-world companion to statistics 101 exploring disasters in data management, analytical reasoning, and workflow through counterexample and data simulation

Launching the Data Disasters project

From academic training to real world data analysis

97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Contributed six chapters on tops ranging from data design, development, validation, and democratization

Embedding column-name contracts in data pipelines with dbt

dbt supercharges SQL with Jinja templating, macros, and testing -- all of which can be customized to enforce controlled vocabularies and their implied contracts on a data model

Causal design patterns for data analysts

An informal primer to causal analysis designs and data structures

Generating SQL with {dbplyr} and sqlfluff

Using the tidyverse's expressive data wrangling vocabulary as a preprocessor for elegant SQL scripts. *(Image source [techdaily.ca](https://techdaily.ca))*

Introducing the {convo} package

An R package for maintaining controlled vocabularies to encode contracts between data producers and consumers

Column Names as Contracts

Using controlled dictionaries for low-touch documentation, validation, and usability of tabular data