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dataquine/README.md

Lesley Duff aka Data Quine

Who am I? πŸ™‹πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

Scottish senior web and software developer now exploring whether the third act of my professional life is working with data. Currently unemployed and looking for my next role. Graduate of the (last ever!) @CodeClan Professional Data Analysis course, DR22 remote cohort. From this course I have obtained a Professional Development Award in Data Science, SCQF Level 8.

What's the plan?

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley

A career changer. I was 4 weeks into a 14 week course retraining when CodeClan sadly went into liquidation BBC News: Digital skills academy CodeClan goes into liquidation. The instructors were brilliant. Through Scottish government intervention the course continued via a different company CodeBase but with some of the same instructors.

What I want, what I really, really want. "I want" doesn't get, so pretty please πŸ™

Unemployed due to cuts in government funding of charities and looking for work either in #Glasgow or preferably #Remote. #Disabled and have found working from home since #COVID-19 tremendously enabling as it reduces some barriers for me.

Ideally meaningful work that tackles inequality and/or improves the lives of people in #Scotland. Previously I've worked in #Education, #SocialWork and #SocialCare sectors, all have been incredibly rewarding in ways other than money.

Open minded as to role or job title, I'm a developer to my core but now with added skills in data manipulation. Would love to use code where I'm deluged with data. Current skills more at the engineering end but I'm doing my best to learn what I can of the other disciplines and will continue to find out about whatever is necessary to do the job at hand. I practice what I preach regarding lifelong learning - self-funded on the data analytics course so I put my money where my mouth is.

What are my super powers? πŸ¦ΈπŸ»β€β™€οΈ

  1. Finding things out.
  2. Connecting people with information and each other.
  3. People keep telling me I'm "patient" and "good at explaining technical things to non-technical people".
  4. Automating drudgery and repetitive tasks. Let the machines do the donkey work, save the humans for the intelligence bit.
  5. Solving problems and putting solutions in place to help prevent difficulties in the future.

In case you were wondering

'Quine' means woman or girl in Doric - a variety of Scots spoken in the North-East of Scotland.

PS It's "Data Quine" not "Date a Quine". Quite, quite different.

Tell me more, tell me more

Lesley Duff on LinkedIn

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  1. scotsport scotsport Public

    ScotSport - sports facilities in Scotland

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  2. cancer_in_scotland cancer_in_scotland Public

    Final individual project of CodeClan DR22 Professional Data Analysis Course.

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    Dirty Data Project

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  4. pda_lesley_duff pda_lesley_duff Public

    Portfolio of work submitted for SQA qualification Data Science, SCQF 8

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  5. dataquine dataquine Public

    Config files for my GitHub profile.

  6. hello-world hello-world Public

    Hello World is an old programmer thing...and I'm an old programmer.