Basically what I’m doing right now with someone else’s tools. Coming from IT I’m actually surprised how solid these tools are from a pure availability point of view, and how the company gets value out of something with basically the smallest amount of infrastructure required to support it. I’m producing a bunch of scheduled and ad-hoc reports as a data analyst and improving the tools used in the process, “automating” is the buzzword used although that has a very different definition to me from a sysadmin background.
I am guilty of this. I have a set of fucking ghastly macros that do monthly number crunching for me. Currently moving it all into SQLite and R.
Basically what I’m doing right now with someone else’s tools. Coming from IT I’m actually surprised how solid these tools are from a pure availability point of view, and how the company gets value out of something with basically the smallest amount of infrastructure required to support it. I’m producing a bunch of scheduled and ad-hoc reports as a data analyst and improving the tools used in the process, “automating” is the buzzword used although that has a very different definition to me from a sysadmin background.