Jonathan Dufault
it’s usually a data problem
Analytics engineer, turning questions into projects. Operations and supply chain: the reporting people run the business on, and the checking that happens before anyone acts on a number. Code is maybe 40% of figuring something out. The rest is just staring at it until it makes sense.
Recent Projects
- Tell It Who You AreThis is a post about food. I arrived in France two months ago. My husband had his usual grocery routine. People vary in their tastes but core products remain the same. It’s how we choose who we are. In Tennessee I bought California olive oil and Huy Fong sriracha as… Read more: Tell It Who You Are
- We Were Developing Great Data EngineersA supply chain analytics team designed around credibility, a bridge between operations, technology and data science, and the day it turned out we were training data engineers.
- How do you count a million milk crates?We were losing hundreds of thousands of milk crates a year. At $4 a piece, it was half a million dollars. Conventional wisdom was that the majority of the loss was stores using them for storage, or people taking them home for furniture or their garage, but the volume we… Read more: How do you count a million milk crates?