Amanda Alvarez

@gecky.me

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For the past 2.5 years, I've been splitting my time between running all things data at a startup, supporting short-term data needs for a variety of commercial, public, & nonprofit teams, and building the data strategy+tools that power civic tech projects like dataindex.us & essentialdata.us. 1/3

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I asked a smart, but very non-technical friend to look over my consultancy site today for feedback from the perspective of someone very good at their domain who might need data help some day. The response was amazing. #databs

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the bear activity I see and hear about in my neighborhood. This makes me think about all the bear activity in my neighborhood that I don’t see or hear about. 😬🐻

I’d be less annoyed about this match heading for extra time if the English didn’t play such incredibly boring football. Hopefully Norway can hurry up and score in the next 3 min so I can move on with my life.

I distinctly remember the day my 7th grade Humanities teacher practically yelled at us, “You have got to learn how to bullshit! You’re never going to get anywhere in life if you don’t know how to bullshit!” This was the intro to a series of daily writing exercises.

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Do you ever get a random word stuck in your head? Today, it’s “corpuscular” Except I really was trying to remember the word “crepuscular” 🙃

Still bitter about Mexico’s elimination yesterday. Annoyed about the corruption that’s put Balogun on the pitch today (he didn’t deserve that red, but this just isn’t legit). And now the US is playing like ass.