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Howdy datalancers 👋 

It’s almost the weekend! For some, that means time to work on passion project, for others it means diving into work or chatting with other datalancers 😄 

Updates

The third round of invites has rolled out! If you’ve already been invited, don’t forget to introduce yourself. If you’re still waiting, just know that we’re about halfway through the list of folks who’ve signed up!

What we’re learning from each other:

This week, a bunch of great questions were asked and discussions had. Here’s some of the best answers from the questions of the day and your lovely peers:

• How do you work with slow moving/responding clients?

  • Set a reminder in Google Tasks to ping the client and follow up till I do not hear back from them.
    

• What’s your fave BI tool and why? 📊 

  • Hex

  • Tableau

  • Signa

  • count.co

  • zenlytic.com
    

• How do you source new clients? 🤝 

  • Word of mouth

  • Upwork

  • FB/LinkedIn

  • Networking/Peers

  • Reddit

• Does anyone have a source they use for contract templates? (between data consultancy <> contractors or between data consultancy <> clients) 📝 

  • https://commonpaper.com/

  • Legal Zoom

  • Previous contracts

Just for fun

Here’s some of the data that folks have found most interesting:

• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_Admin_Log

  • https://github.com/mihaitodor/wikipedia_logs_crawler

  • https://github.com/mihaitodor/datasets/tree/master/wiki_logs

• Hardware data for smart devices

• https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Shout outs

Thanks to Tyler, Eleanor, and Simo for asking great questions ✨ 

And thanks to Kimberly Johnson for give the most insightful response on Upwork I’ve seen to date.

Your collective participation is what makes the datalancers group a great place to be 😊 

til next time,
Danielle