What a fantastic comment! Thank you so much! I am very good at what I do, but I'm also aware of how little what I do means to most folks.
If I could make the insights I try to communicate resonate outside of a traditional PDF, then I do not exaggerate in that I would die happy 🤣
Let's collaborate! Our data is never perfect but it's always fantastic for taking a step towards furthering human understanding!
If you happen to know of some basic data sets that might emulate what you've already produced in any extent, that might be helpful for me to work out the foundation in advance. If the data you've already published is available for me to toy with, that would work. I'm not sure where to get "some random data".. 😂 I believe I can reproduce all of these charts in any flattering or desirable way.
The hard work part.. the impactful / intimidating part.. the profitable part.. we'll have to set that aside and stay technical at first. But that is all why I am here.
Ultimately you can spend any amount of time or money refining data. So of course scope is just as relevant in your line of work as is in mine. Referring to development. Technical debt in my case equates to.. R&D debt.. for you.. is there a term for too much analysis?
Yes, I can send you the data for the GFOA article from this year. Do you have signal? DM me and we can exchange contact info. I could probably recreate the data from the IHS articles, but I don't have that readily available.
Typically statistical analysis is pretty standardized and I'm almost always working on a tight deadline, so there is not too much time burn opportunity 🤣 For the GFOA article I wasted a lot of time trying to develop a language model but I failed. I had been thinking I could "vibe code" something because people boast about how good and easy it is but that was not my experience of it. But I only did that because it wasn't for a client the whole article was an independent flex 💪
The most time consuming part of the work I produce is the big picture insights but that's a result of me being a big nerd who is semi-constantly consuming information related to my projects. I don't bill for that part 🤣
