Jonathan Dufault
it’s usually a data problem
Full-stack data engineer and scientist, turning questions into projects. Personal work circles around NLP, food science, Arduino, infrastructure, and cartoon cats. Code is maybe 40% of figuring something out. The rest is just staring at it until it makes sense.
Recent Projects
- Making Tempeh: An Unreasonably Thorough ApproachI have had so much trouble making tempeh. Crumbly, inconsistent results, batch after batch. So I decided to go clinical — document every step, measure every variable, and remove every excuse.
- Strategy is a StoryIn 2016, during my MBA at Cal State Long Beach, I competed in a semester-long business simulation competition. Five teams running fictional companies, making quarterly decisions on pricing, production, marketing, and R&D. I was the CIO for ours. When I downloaded the year 3 quarter 4 reports, I found the… Read more: Strategy is a Story
- The Price of a Hidden ColumnIn March I spent a weekend running test queries through Power BI Copilot on a Fabric F2 capacity, reviewing the diagnostic JSON to understand how to improve my reports. One of those diagnostics is the reason for this post. When I asked a question about product growth trends, the answer… Read more: The Price of a Hidden Column