Randy Au
As of Sept 29, 2025 and until further notice. Randy is looking for work due to a layoff. Considering full time, consulting, contract and fractional engagements. Contact him for resume and details.
Randy Au writes the weekly Counting Stuff newsletter, which covers topics in data science, quantitative UX Research, with occasional excursions into other fun nerdy topics. He’s been working close to 20 years in the data/product building space and has seen some things.
There’s been a new post every Tuesday morning since 2020. There are also posts for paid subscribers every other Thursday (or so).
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Talks & Conferences
Talks that Randy’s given at various events. He also prefers to write new talks every time he’s asked to speak somewhere.
- Sept 2025 - Organizer of Data Behind the Scenes Conference
- 2023 - PyData NYC “Solving the problems in front of you”
- 2022 - NormConf “Everything is on fire and you should contribute”
Classes Taught
- Apr 2025 - Fundamentals of Logs Analysis for User Research - for the Quant UX Association, 25 students
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Approaching Significance is a Discord for data folk to hang out in, with the explicit goal of having roughly 50/50 split between data conversations and non-data fun conversations like hobbies, cute pets, and food. The primary rule is we don’t allow jerks and trolls.
Come join and meet all the friendly people there.
Supporting the newletter
The newsletter has a free post every Tuesday. Every 2-3 Thursdays there’ll be a post for paid subscribers. There’s other ways to support my work if you do not want to subscribe.
- Become a paid subscriber for as low as $5/mo, click “Subscribe & support” in the corner
- A one-time donation/tip
- Buy some swag
List of articles
Randy’s making an effort to collect posts into useful buckets. Make sure to hit the “Load More” button because the page paginates pretty quickly.