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How to Build the Cheapest End-to-end Data Pipeline

Using only Stitch, AWS and Google, build out a complete data pipeline for any small organization at a fraction of the cost of traditional…

6 min readFeb 16, 2021

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The Most Important Analysis for Any Digital Fundraiser

The segmentation that provides an at-a-glance view for your entire program

5 min readFeb 11, 2021

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The Most Important Analysis for Any Digital Fundraiser

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Top 5 SQL tips I didn’t get in DS bootcamp

Things I only learned after a couple years on the job

3 min readJun 17, 2020

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Your mind visualizing a DB after 10 years writing SQL

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Ask your donors for the right amount

How non-profits can maximize small-dollar fundraising using machine learning

8 min readJun 5, 2020

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Ask your donors for the right amount

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What is the story of your data?

How to transform your raw data into decisions

13 min readApr 29, 2020

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Hallowed halls of a library

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Joel Shuman

How will Machine Learning help me? Two hypothetical Machine Learning projects

The most important questions people have about machine learning are the hardest ones to answer. People don’t wonder about the nuts and…

10 min readApr 20, 2020

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How will Machine Learning help me? Two hypothetical Machine Learning projects

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Joel Shuman

Questions I’m going to ask you on our first data science consulting phone call

Let me set the scene: You are a person with data that holds a lot of value. It could be the clicking habits of people on your website; the…

8 min readApr 8, 2020

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Digging into the data

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How to understand the most important graph in machine learning

Using the Quantile Validation plot to explain how a model is ultimately implemented.

5 min readApr 7, 2020

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How to understand the most important graph in machine learning

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Joel Shuman

The 1980s saw the most total suffering worldwide — and the 90s weren’t much better

During the great human population boom over the last 200 years, the population rose from 1.1 billion in 1820 to nearly 8 billion today. At…

3 min readFeb 12, 2020

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The 1980s saw the most total suffering worldwide — and the 90s weren’t much better

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Joel Shuman

Joel Shuman

Data scientist and pythonista, former fundraising analyst for Bernie 2020. I help non-profits improve their digital fundraising. For more go to shoveldata.me

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