Greetings, my name is Ryan Collingwood and this one of my corners of the internet. If you’d like to connect you can find me at the following places:
How do I describe myself
👨🔧 Boundary spanner between Business and IT concerns. I’ve lived: Product Management, Consultancy, Iteration Management, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Software Developer, Quality Assurance, to where it started as IT Support. Everyday I practise a bit of all this to deliver pragmatic and maintainable solutions.
📊 I love the decision journey both as a contributor and a coordinator: from the wrangling, modeling, sampling, digging for insights, and the all important communication of insights and further actions.
👨🏫 I get a kick out of teaching others to fish the many water bodies of data (be they ponds, lakes, or swamps).
Things I’d love to share with you
Data Contracts: Consensus as Code
I shared some thoughts at PyCon Australia 2023 on an approach to improving data quality as part of my role as the Head of Data and Analytics for a fashion retailer. Taking the principles and spirit of collaboration of Data Contracts and applying them in a pragmatic way that works within in my reality. The slides for my talk are available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AJKHWJ4_qX-FgsfUjlmnW1jfwNdJJq7PojEiJ2WznoA/edit