Hey, I'm Mike 👋
This is where IÂ write. Mostly (but not strictly) about data.
I'm gonna keep things short for now. More about me to come soon.
Until then, check out my latest posts below.
Technical Tools You Need to Become a Data Analyst
This Site's About More Than Data
Tomorrow: My Least Favorite Word
I'm Writing About Data Again
The Return
Website Changes
Cool Things I Found 8/19 to 8/25
My July Running Challenge
Cool Things I Found 8/12 to 8/18
New Note-taking Idea
Cool Things I Found 8/5 to 8/11
Making Ice Cream
Slowly Changing Dimensions
A quote on eduction vs training
Cool Things I Found 7/29 to 8/4
Mission 31-31
Cool Things I Found 7/22 to 7/28
I Lied Yesterday
Writing Today
Make Your Move
Writing and Stripe
Two Biggest Project Roadblocks
Short Paragraphs
Best Ideas
Reckless With Words
Marble Racing
Don't Overoptimize
New Challenges
Lessons From Claude Shannon's Life
Do Goals Matter?
Takeaways From a Podcast I Like
Some HTML/CSS Magic
I Gave a Stranger $200
How to Have More Interesting Ideas
Can You Answer This Near Impossible Question?
How to Travel New Lands Without Standing Up
Numbers Are Cool... Sometimes
Sell the Prevention, Not the Cure
Shorter is Better Than Longer
Triple Threat In Life
Feeling Good From the Little Things
My (Current) Dorky Pleasure
The Itch I Can't Scratch
Phases
One vs Multiple Lives
Creativity At Work
Focus on the Outcome, Not the Tools
Embrace The Novice
My Biggest Enemy
The Beginning
First World Problems
Texting And Driving: America's New Pastime
Why I Write
The Data Soft Skill You Didn't Know Mattered
Move Out of The Way SQL
My "I Know Nothing" Mentality
How Flexible Are You?
What Being a Data Analyst Means To Me
The Biggest Lesson I Learned In 2023
How I Optimize SQL Queries
Why Speed Matters
How I Deal With Long SQL Scripts
My Favorite Quotes From Thinking Better
The Two Types of People in the Data World
My Mission To Improve My Critical Thinking Skills
All Data Analysts Need Creativity
Two Habits That Make Me a Better Data Analyst
An Important Lesson I Learned From Excel
My Crazy 6 Month Transformation
Why Math Makes Me a Better Data Analyst
The 7 Reasons Why I Became a Data Analyst
I Wanna Fight My Applebee's Waitress
How I Learn Quickly and Effectively - Part II
The Power of Reflection
A Dirty Data Lesson From the Anus
4 SQL Formatting Tips to Debug Your Code Faster
The 4 Ways Luck Helped Me Land a Data Analyst Job
5 Strategies I Use to Write Captivating Hooks
An Important Lesson From My First Month as a Data Analyst
Before Dorky Data I was a Physics Dork
I've got some big, big plans...
Run. do it.
7 Lessons From My First Week as a Data Analyst
The Last Day of this Challenge
I'm a Data Big Shot Now
Pygame Mini-Game
Using Pygame for the First Time
A New Adventure Awaits
Sorry, But I'm a LinkedIn Influencer Now
i can read
Don't Use LinkedIn For Learning
Why I'm Happy This Challenge Evolved
An Important Life Lesson on Failure
Damn, Just Give Me Some Space
GIve Me a Break -- Please
Becoming a SQL Savant in One Week
Your Data Projects Sucks Because of This
Don't Make This Mistake When Practicing Data Skills
Running My Way to Success (Literally)
Bash is Cooler Than Python -- I Said it
I'm the LeetCode Loser
Screw Data Projects -- I'm Done
I'm Done Being a Data Simp
To Be or Not To Be... A SQL God
Optimizing Some Python API Request Code
Look Ma! I'm on a Podcast
My Mission to Seduce the Beautiful World of Bash
Some Learning Advice From a Data Dork
The James Bond of Binary Trees
Starting an Adventure With a Cutie Named Vim
A Playdate With Some Python Stacks
How I Learn Quickly and Effectively
Using Python to Find a JSON File's Hierarchy
My Next Musical Mini-Project
Challenge: Tell Me How This Python Function Works
Using the Linux Crontab Command Like a Pro
Using JSON Format in MySQL
4 Python Habits I Wish I Knew Earlier
Using Python to Create a Dictionary
Algorithm Time Complexities
Using the Openpyxl Python Library
A Major Programming Milestone
A Python Web Scraper and Database Updater
My Most Important Blog Post Ever
Let's Talk About SQL
Iterative vs Recursive Functions
My First Time Using Google's Firebase
Every Project Has Its Challenges -- That I Hate
Exploring the Sympy Library
How to Use Strptime() and Strftime() From Python's Datetime Library
A Lil Chat About Life (it won't bore you... I think)
Inserting Data Into MySQL Using Python
Hello LinkedIn
Using Python to Create a Table in MySQL
Creating a Python Algorithm to Score My Taste in Music
Finishing My Spotify Python Project
My First Time Writing Code Documentation
Statistics Jargon
I'm a Math Genius, Dude
My Meeting with a Lambda Expression
Creating A Word Cloud in Python
My First Time With Web Scraping
3 Ways to Visualize Data Distribution
what do you Mean?
The Connection Between Programming and Writing
Using Python to Find Songs with Featured Artists
Using Python to Change CSV Headers
The Lazy (Yet Genius) Coder
Probability and Independence for Independence Day
Expected Value: An Old Friend Returns
66 Days of Math and Programming: An Adventure in the Making
Losing My Python Virginity (Again)
My Biggest Math Regret
Does Tweet Length Matter?
Rebuilding the ConvertKit Dashboard
Why I’ve built Dorky Dorky (even if you don't care)