Setting up shop
⁂Lab note April 2026
Senior Analytics Engineer·Toronto
Diego Tejada Cardenas
Statistical imagination applied to the unmeasurable.
An economist’s lens·a data engineer’s craft
diego-tc.com · Toronto · MMXXVI
Writing
Essays & lab notes, shelved together on purpose
Pride vs. arrogance across cultures
§Essay April 2026
Projects
Selected work, pressed between double rules
Plate I · Case study
Toronto Animal Shelter Analytics
Adoption-outcome analysis of Toronto’s shelter data — the original portfolio project, and still the honest one.
Plate II · Interactive tool
The Analyst Scout Dossier
An interactive self-assessment that scouts the analytics craft the way a club scouts a player. It also lives in the writing index — that dual life is deliberate.
Plate III · Practice
Analytics Engineering Work
The day craft: warehouse models, dashboards built to be trusted, and pipelines that stay boring on purpose.
About
In brief
I trained as an economist, which means I can’t meet a messy human question without wanting a model for it. That curiosity carried me through data analysis and into analytics engineering — pipelines and dashboards by day. The rest of the time I build things, measure what resists measuring, and write down what the numbers won’t say on their own.
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