Keeping Up with the Technologies
October 30, 2025
An attempt to stay focused when technology tries to outrun you.
Court Street Data
Playlists and Pirates
August 28, 2025
A practical guide to building a product activation funnel
Introducing Chat990
May 22, 2025
A quest to validate, build, and test business intelligence in philanthropy, powered by AI.
Is riding the subway safe?
February 20, 2025
Comparing safety across different modes of transportation within New York City.
The plight of the data team
January 30, 2025
There exists a never-ending quest for knowledge in organizations, with data teams drowning in quick questions while chasing the elusive dream of self-service. Our current systems for distributing and accessing information aren't working - and what we might want to try instead.
So you want to work in data
January 16, 2025
Then stop thinking about data.
Deploy fast, deploy often
December 05, 2024
Making the case for incremental, compounding personal growth and its parallels to the product development lifecycle.
Long live williamdecesare.com
October 31, 2024
Navigating the intricacies of an AWS deployment for my personal website.
williamdecesare.com is dead
October 17, 2024
Making the case for a personal website and redeveloping my own from scratch.
BI Migrations: A step-by-step guide
September 18, 2024
Lessons learned from countless ups, downs, and in-betweens.
The 2024 U.S. Open (source analytics)
August 29, 2024
A quick and dirty way to fuel my obsession with tennis, for free.
Engineering an Olympic Medal Tracker and Message Bot with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
August 07, 2024