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SeattleDataGuy’s Newsletter is a personal blog at seattledataguy.substack.com about data and career. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
One commenter quotes this newsletter's post on why data analytics tools struggle, citing poor data modelling and growth marketers who need to understand database structure. The comment does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn About End-To-End Data Flows (Data Engineering, MLOps, and Data Science).
What Hacker News says?
> Growth marketers wanted more autonomy to manage their data, but were not necessarily willing to put the extra effort into: (i) understanding the structure of a database (dozens of tables), (ii) practice lightweight data modeling. This highlights the primary issue for most tools in the data analytics space: poor data modelling, leading to the exposed data being "too difficult to use in Business Tools". I've gathere…
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on “Post YC Post Mortem”Submitted Building data infrastructure that will last as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Dbt and Why Are Companies Using It? as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends I Saw Consulting in 2020 and How I Helped Save My Clients Money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Warehouse Isn't Integrated Just Because the Tables Are in One Place as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When and Why to Automate: A Data Engineer's Perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Shadow IT? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cataloging Data Catalogs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is MLOps and Why You Should Implement It into Your ML Pipelines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walking Through Data Warehouse Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Write Better SQL: Advanced SQL Episode 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From 9-to-5 to Building a Career Portfolio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoDB Is Great for Analytics; Until It's Not (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to the Basics: What Is Columnar Storage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Habits of Effective Data Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Don't Want to See in the Data World in 5 Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should You Use Apache Airflow? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are Companies Hiring Fewer Data Scientists and Are Data Engineers Taking Over as a story · 1 points
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