Sarah Harris

I'm going in a couple of weeks when the tour gets to Bristol. Also excited, it was my favourite musical as a kid, especially Tevye's scary ass dream!

thank you!!

exactly! data detective work is fun :)

There are tools that can do basic reporting, tools that can build ok (but not great) models, and tools that can help with coding - but none that I've yet found that can do the proper legwork that makes up the majority of the job

also a data analyst - also voted #2.

The main issue I'm seeing at the moment is that clients are expecting that we quote quicker turnarounds/cheaper prices as they think we should be cutting corners with gen AI - even though, as yet, it can't come close to doing what we do - not accurately anyway

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Painted for Cheltenham Paint Festival

Painted for Swindon Paint Fest

Homage to Douglas Adams - painted for a college in Worcestershire

Painted for Robins FC youth football team in Swindon

I just saw the author/comedian
@callybeaton.bsky.social
post that women our age weren't raised to say that we are proud of our work / what we do (I'm doing her a slight disservice as she is 2 years younger than me)

But she's right, we should be able to.

Here's some recent work I'm proud of:

not sure why those pics went on a separate post - never mind - I'm better with a paint brush than with social media, clearly :D

YouTube video by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Ribbon Cutting to Open the National Air and Space Museum - July 1, 1976

This is extraordinary. To cut the ribbon at the opening of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC in 1976, they got the Viking spacecraft, then orbiting Mars, to send a signal to the arm from the engineering model of the Viking lander. And poof! It burnt through the ribbon.

Noice

To be fair, he did warn us all that we were never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.

oof

Middleman and Leverage

You've just listed 4 of my favourite shows of all time, one I've never got around to but keep meaning to, and 2 I've never heard of. I'd better check out the 2!

You'd hope. Huh?

Labour have a lot of work to do before the next general election to turn this ship around. I think, and hope, that it's possible, but not if they keep insisting on hurtling full steam towards the iceberg.

Thank you, my favourite hoopy frood:)

Thank you, all done in 6 hours so I had to go all out. Pleased with how it ended up though.

Oh no, not again!

I had fun painting this today at Norton College in Worcester, I'm hoping it will encourage some of the kids to give the books a read :)

#HitchhikersGuide #42

I used to have a proper antique one, but my oldest son "borrowed" it from me years ago and has no intention of ever giving it back, it seems. This new one was a gift to me from his girlfriend, so presumably he told her about the first one.

One of my birthday presents this year was this cool phrenology head. I've called him Dom because he kind of reminds me of Dominic Cummings :D

Not belated. My birthday is today :) I just did my big day out a day early because I wanted to hit a matinée and they don't do them on Sundays.

Leigh Bowery exhibition at the Tate Modern

Operation Mincemeat at the Fortune Theatre

Tim Burton exhibition at the Design Museum - ack.ack!

Fancy birthday dinner at the Stablehand

Highlights from my birthday trip to London town yesterday

(It's impossible to pick 4! Facebook got 80)

That's a huge amount. You guys have made such a difference, and kept memories alive of your super cool dad.

Possibly my movie of the year so far.

VERY glad I went in blind, as having watched the trailer since I got home, it would have spoilt so much.
So avoid the trailers, peeps, and go see this banger!

(stick around at the end too. mid creds AND post creds)

#SinnersMovie

You know what I do for a living :) I look into stats pretty carefully. These are directly from the NHS and as far as I can tell they haven't changed the way they are measuring them any time recently.

I'm not the QR podcast (it's fab though), but I've been impressed with the NHS stats over the last 6 months or so, waiting lists down, loads of extra appts, cancer pathway sped up significantly.

So, helping the currently sick, but taking away from longer term sick/disabled. 2nd part not so good!

Easily in my top 10 albums of all time, maybe top 5

Thanks for sharing :)

Thank you! It was a 3 day job, Fri-Sun, although I didn't start the actual painting until around 3pm on the Friday as I had to prep/protect the work area and get everything sketched up onto the wall first, which always takes a loooong time.

Thank you :)

Thank you :) I really wasn't expecting this to be so popular on here! Bluesky seems to have much more engagement than instagram these days