The Data Desk · a comic by VerticalServe

The Data Desk

A lighthearted weekly comic about data, AI and the people in the meeting. If you’ve ever found fourteen definitions of revenue, waited a week for access, or opened final_v2_USE_THIS.xlsx, you’ll feel at home.

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The Data Desk Ep. 7: The Interview
Ep. 7

The Interview

“Can I at least create a repo?” 😅

Vibe coding made big things fast. It also made small things… big.

Drop your shortest string reverse in any language.

Vibe codingPython
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The Data Desk Ep. 6: AI Everywhere
Ep. 6

AI Everywhere

“Where’s your AI?” “In training. Your session starts at nine.” 👕

Every AI rollout gets a launch, a slogan, and maybe a badge. The part that makes it stick is the training.

Who actually taught your team to use AI: training, or trial and error?

AI adoptionFuture of work
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The Data Desk Ep. 4: Running Hot
Ep. 4

Running Hot

“Revenue is a feeling, Carl.” 🔥

When the intern turns the AI’s creativity all the way up. (“Temperature” is a real AI setting: turn it up and answers get more creative, turn it down and they stick to the facts.) Creative is great for brainstorming. Finance prefers nonfiction.

What’s the most creative answer an AI has given you at work?

GenAILLMs
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The Data Desk Special: SaaS Is Dead?
Special

SaaS Is Dead?

SaaS is dead? 🪦

AI can rebuild your ticketing tool in a day. So cancel the license, save $150K, done… right? Then someone asks who runs it at 2 AM. Who patches it. Who passes the audit. Who builds version 2. Building got cheap. Owning didn’t.

Is AI killing SaaS, or just moving the bill?

Build vs buySaaS
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The Data Desk Ep. 2: Talk to Your Data
Ep. 2

Talk to Your Data

“Talk to your data” works best when your data agrees with itself. 📊

Which metric causes the longest meeting on your team?

AnalyticsAI
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The cast

Meet the team

Everyone at The Data Desk is a data object. Which one sits next to you?

The Data Desk cast: Deploy Dave, Synergy Sam, C-Suite Carl, Notebook Nina and Ava the AI agent
Intern Iggy · InternAlready changed three settings. Asking questions later.
Policy Paige · People & CultureRead the whole handbook. Twice. For fun.

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