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Kat Hempstalk

The Prefect Pipeline Code for Building a Basic Data Lake

Earlier this month I wrote an article about building a basic data lake with Prefect and AWS, and promised a follow- up post where I’d share…

5 min readAug 18, 2021

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Kat Hempstalk

The challenge of separating work and play when working from home

In early 2020 — like most people worldwide — I suddenly found myself in the position of permanently working from home. Initially, it was…

4 min readMar 8, 2021

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The challenge of separating work and play when working from home

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Kat Hempstalk

Don’t treat data like a fancy dinnerset

My mother has a fancy Noritake dinnerset that she keeps for special occasions. It’s a gorgeous blue and white set, made of fine porcelain…

2 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Don’t treat data like a fancy dinnerset

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Kat Hempstalk
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The Startup

The Case Against Self-Service Data and Analytics

Damn. You just discovered the latest sales report doesn’t include the new category of product and you know it’s going to take forever for…

7 min readFeb 12, 2021

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The Case Against Self-Service Data and Analytics

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Kat Hempstalk
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The Startup

Building a Basic Data Lake With Prefect, S3, Glue, and Athena

I’m currently working with an indoor sensor startup, Smooth Sensors, and one of our challenges so far has been bespoke data analysis: when…

7 min readJan 13, 2021

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Building a Basic Data Lake With Prefect, S3, Glue, and Athena

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Kat Hempstalk
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The Startup

WTF Is a Data Lake?

A few days ago I was chatting to a programmer friend about being able to quickly build a basic data lake for some sensor data (more on…

7 min readJan 4, 2021

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Loch Ness — not a data lake.

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Kat Hempstalk

It is done.

6 months ago I decided to build my own guitar, today… I finished that guitar. So, so, happy.

3 min readSep 5, 2017

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It is done.

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Kat Hempstalk

Home automation with a Broadlink RM Mini 3 and Google Home

NB: There is now a better way of using the RM Mini 3 with Google Home — simply install the Broadlink ihc app, hook up the RM Mini into the…

5 min readSep 2, 2017

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Home automation with a Broadlink RM Mini 3 and Google Home

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Kat Hempstalk

The scary bits of my guitar

After what seemed like an eternity, all the bits and pieces finally arrived. Unfortunately the company I ordered from forgot to pack one of…

6 min readAug 29, 2017

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The scary bits of my guitar

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Kat Hempstalk

Soldering up a storm

Whilst most of the parts for my electric guitar are taking the slow boat out of the US to NZ, some of the smaller parts arrived earlier…

5 min readAug 6, 2017

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Soldering up a storm

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Kat Hempstalk

Kat Hempstalk

Machine Learning, AI and Data Expert. By day I work training machines to think, by night I plot to take over the world. All views expressed here are my own.

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