Local government needs more young people but they won't hire them because they'd rather reinforce ageist tropes that years of "experience" = skill
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Using the term "enterprise" in a government context gives me the ick
This is the ideal data science syntax. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Staying mad about how R's tidyverse has a better syntax for data science than Python's pandas API is going to cost me valuable brain space and maybe even job opportunities, but I know I'm right because both R and Python are converging to tidypolars
it would be very cool if state and local tech agencies hired more in-house talent and didn't give millions to consulting firms
I'm finding that many people new to #DataScience may know git/GitHub, but have a tough time understanding how to use git workflows for collaboration - it's not something that gets taught sadly
Managers who ask questions >>>>> managers who talk more
Public sector tech/data is *struggling* at a local level. I told a city govt tech worker they could deploy a service using docker and they said that was "too technical"
I'm terrified that our city is seriously considering using OpenAI-powered search for our open data portal without any responsible AI policies in place
Eli PoussonThe Baltimore City Data Center of Excellence Monthly Meetup is this Friday, 6/23 @ 12pm + features a talk by KC Kelleher on databases + the Board of Estimates.
Teams link to and a longer description are both on my LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7077334199438860288/ #CivicTech #Baltimore
