About me

Hi, I'm Andrew, a Data Professional. Welcome to my corner of the web.

I've been in Data and Analytics for over a decade and a half, where I've done a few different things, from building dashboards to Machine Learning to now doing Data Engineering. Most of my content comes from my experience working in Data.

I started this site to share how I'd solved a problem or something I'd discovered that I thought others might find helpful. It's something of a Digital Garden 🌱 and something of a place to document the things I don't want to forget.

Some of the stuff I know and like to write about:

• SQL
• Python
• Databricks
• Data Modelling
• Query tuning
• Machine Learning

Contact

It's neat to hear from people who've read my site. If you want to get in touch, you contact me by email: andrew dot villazon at gmail dot com

About this site

This site is built in Gatsby and uses Tailwind CSS for styling. Gatsby is a static site generator that uses the JavaScript framework React. Almost all of this site is Markdown files that Gatsby has turned into pages.

The site has gone through a couple of iterations, but if you're interested in reading about the initial experience working with Gatsby, I documented it here.

Acknowledgments

This site wouldn't be possible without those who took the time to share what they know with others.

Here are a few of them:

• Tania Rascia - The inspiration for this site, both in terms of design and implementation. I've lost count of the times I've read Tania's source code. If you're an aspiring Web Developer, her site is well worth the visit.
• Code Concisely - For the excellent tip on using the Gatsby File API for automatic page generation. Saved a lot of mucking about in gatsby-node.js
• Tim Addison - For the awesome suggestion on styling Gatsby Markdown pages with Tailwind.
• Josh W. Comeau - For the informative and detailed guide to implementing dark mode in a react site.