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Danny D. Leybzon
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Dec 5, 2022

Danny’s Guide to Medellín

General I spent November 2022 living in Poblado, the gringo/expat/tourist/rich local neighborhood of Medellín. In my time there, I ate a lot of food, did a lot of dancing, and spent at least a bit of time exploring the city. Upon letting my friends know that I’d be spending time in…

Medellin

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Danny’s Guide to Medellín
Danny’s Guide to Medellín
Medellin

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Jul 12, 2022

User Manual for Danny D. Leybzon

How To Effectively Work With Me — Introduction I wrote this post after spending hours reflecting on, analyzing, and discussing communication strategies that I have seen other people use with me and which I have found to work well for them. …

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User Manual for Danny D. Leybzon
User Manual for Danny D. Leybzon

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Published in Better Programming

·May 29, 2022

Pointers, Strings, and (im)mutability in Python

A tale of improbable functionality in Python — I recently had a funny experience that turned out to be a great education in the mutability of objects, especially strings, in Python. …

Python

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Pointers, Strings, and (im)mutability in Python
Pointers, Strings, and (im)mutability in Python
Python

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Feb 8, 2022

Holon Village: 2022

From Radical Self-Reliance to Communal Effort — Last year, we birthed something beautiful. This year, it’s time to help our baby grow up. Holon Village, a Renegade Burning Man camp organized with the intent of getting more people to experience the magic of Burning Man, is going to be returning to the Playa twice this summer: once…

Burning Man

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Holon Village: 2022
Holon Village: 2022
Burning Man

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Jul 21, 2021

Holon Village

Making co-created experiences at Burning Man accessible — We have a once-a-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build something amazing together. This labor day weekend, for the first time in decades, tens of thousands of people will gather at Black Rock Desert without a sanctioned Burning Man event occurring. There will be art cars but no Department of Mutant Vehicles (DMV)…

Burning Man

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Holon Village
Holon Village
Burning Man

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Apr 15, 2021

Ski Cult

An ephemeral intentional community outside of Taos, NM — Seventeen people. Three months. A property in the middle of nowhere. And a vision of testing what organizing a co-living space would be like, without the need to commit to buying a property or even signing a lease. What started as a vague idea to rent a small cabin close…

Communal Living

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Ski Cult
Ski Cult
Communal Living

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Feb 11, 2021

Your RDBMS won’t scale

Are you building a data-driven web application that needs to serve data to your users with low latencies? Are you using MySQL, Postgres, or another traditional RDBMS as the backend for that web application? If so, you’re inevitably going to run into scalability issues as your dataset expands and your…

Postgres

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Your SQL database won’t scale
Your SQL database won’t scale
Postgres

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Jul 11, 2020

More than just pretty graphs

The importance of great data visualization — All too often, outsiders think that the job of data analysts and scientists is just number-crunching. Those of us who have actually practiced the science and art of extracting insights from data know that the job is at least as creative as it is analytical. The role of the data…

Data Science

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More than just pretty graphs
More than just pretty graphs
Data Science

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Published in Nightingale

·May 29, 2020

Bad Data Visualization in the Time of COVID-19

These three data viz pitfalls, which have proliferated during the pandemic, are instructive for data designers and consumers alike — To paraphrase a popular idiom: there are lies, damn lies, and data visualizations. This saying holds especially true in times of high pressure, such as in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In these uncertain times, rational people turn to data to help inform their opinions and decisions. …

Data Science

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Bad Data Visualization in the Time of COVID-19
Bad Data Visualization in the Time of COVID-19
Data Science

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Apr 15, 2020

Orwell was a socialist

Stop using his books to attack socialist policies — I’ve gotten into more than my fair share of internet debates. I have strong opinions about everything from superior voting systems (instant-runoff voting) to the right level of "doneness" for steaks (medium rare but on the rarer side; this is a hill I will die on). …

Politics

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Orwell was a socialist
Orwell was a socialist
Politics

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Danny D. Leybzon

Danny D. Leybzon

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Data Specialist, Reading Enthusiast, Amateur Adventurer

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