About
Hello world!
An old programmer thing…and I’m an old programmer.
Fit like? I’m sharing my journey in application development, data analytics/engineering and science from my base in bonnie Scotland. I self-funded to retrain in Professional Data Analysis and have a formal qualification in Data Science. I’m adept at automating data processing and analysis.
| Name | Lesley Duff (She/her) |
| Location | Glasgow, Scotland |
What would I like?
Work in Glasgow or fully remote in UK.
I love coding in and the #RStats community.
What makes me different?
At Data Quine, my brand reflects my Scottish heritage.
“In the Doric dialect of north-east Scotland, ‘quine’ is a young woman1.”
As an older developer, with broad general experience I’ve been through numerous changes of technology. I can tell you lots of ways not to do something if you want systems that last beyond hype-cycles. I worked for a long time for a charity so know how to deliver on low-to-no budgets and adopt and adapt open-source code for productivity. I’ve worked in innovation in Education, Social Work and Social Care.
I’m also disabled and share the many struggles navigating the world not built for the likes of me and the broken systems that are barriers.
I’m dedicated to using technology to help improve lives and narrow inequality in Scotland.
Scottish perspective
Born and bred in Scotland. I have a deep understanding of our culture and politics, the local context that makes data meaningful and computer systems effective for a local audience. Many people can do data analysis and tell you what the given data says. More rarely someone like myself can help tell you what’s missing from Scottish datasets. Who/what should be there and isn’t?
What’s coming wishlist
- Technical tutorials on modern development through the filter of decades of experience
- Case studies from my recent projects
- Insights from the Scottish data community
- Open source tools I’m using or building
- Rants about data quality and barriers to access
- Adventures into the world of self-employment
Funny ha ha or funny peculiar?
Yes. Humour is an Olympic sport in Glasgow, I hope to be a gold medalist.
Here’s a plot I created of Scotland. It was part of trying to learn how to make a hexagonal grid map using R then wondered…
“What if Scotland was made from honeycomb”.
Contact
Contact me via any of my social media links at the end of this page.
Anything else?
If you say Data Quine out loud it sounds like “Date a quine”.
The double meaning amuses me on a number of levels and helps me to identify north-east fowk in my audience.
So to slightly misquote Elliot in the film ET…
I’m keeping it.