How Cross Sections was started
As time goes, my repertoire of data newsletters to-reads grows, such as Data Elixir, Data is Plural, The Batch from deeplearning.ai, and so on. They are awesome in curated content, each with their perspectives, be it data science, visualization, or AI.
Yet I was keen to see personal reflections by data practitioners. I want to adopt their best practices, avoid their pitfalls, and bask in the warm glowing light of this fast-growing industry.
Then I realized I could write it myself - because everyone could have a unique and valuable experience. It might include learnings and reflections I wish I knew earlier, recent good reads, plus valuable resources I chanced upon. It may include conversations with experienced data practitioners in the industry at some point too. It focuses on data science, data visualization/art, and communication - fields in which I’ve had years of first-hand experience – often working with the best and brightest, and hopefully have some valuable opinions.
Cross Sections is a first-person perspective newsletter that acknowledges and serves the multi-faceted you from the multi-faceted me.
It’s for the explorers who love to discover new data topics, the aspirants navigating career changes into the data industry, and the hybrids whose interests or vocations cannot be defined by a pigeonholed category.
See you in the new edition!