Why Analytics Sucks
When I was a data scientist at Airbnb, I once received an ad-hoc request to identify Olympians that had accounts on Airbnb. No context given, just a colorless request in Slack. After a day of painstakingly scraping the web and munging data in SQL, I dumped the data into a table in our data warehouse, sent it off, then promptly moved onto other work.
