Shaun Davis

Most leaders I meet don’t have a data problem. They have a clarity problem. Here’s how I help them cut through the noise and turn data into action ⬇️

Jonni Walker. Blast from the past. Beautiful stuff

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

@FreightAlley Shouldn’t every week be roadcheck week? What are the enforcement folks doing all the other weeks?

Roadcheck week is delivering some of the tightest truckload conditions in years. Truckload spot rates hit a new cycle high on the 7-day at $3.14/mile and have been $3.29 & $3.18/mile on Monday and Tuesday. Truckload spot rates are expected to remain robust the rest of the week. 100 days of summer, the strongest season in trucking, kicks off next week and shippers that didn't prepare for tight markets and surging rates are in deep trouble.

Someone made a small hardware device for the desk that monitors Claude token usage. Calls it Clawdmeter. Kinda genius.

The most influential CEO and company you’ve never heard of: Brian Sikes, CEO of Cargill

@neilcybart Never understood how to set them up

RSS feeds. You folks still use / look at them?

“Holland” is only about 17% of the Netherlands by area, but the name became shorthand for the whole country internationally.

Some data viz feedback: Exclude current month Change the donut to bar with reference line — if the splits are always the same it does tell me anything What are the priors compared to? Same month / day prior year, etc Total crash number bars should have prior year as a reference line

SONAR releases a new carrier safety and fleet intelligence dashboard. This dataset tracks market-wide safety and fleet data, including all inspection and Out of Service info, broken up by state. Market-wide crashes. And a new improved fleet data dashboard, which shows all new carrier registrations by type, State, and year of registration.

@gonzalezloumiet @AegisSales Glad to give free advice 🤣

@DataShaun @AegisSales Thanks for this. Keep it coming!

Tallahassee: Florida’s Bridge for Business, Innovation, and Growth Florida is now the 15th largest economy in the world. The question isn’t whether Florida will keep growing. The question is whether the Capital Region positions itself to capture that growth, or watches it pass by… We have every reason to lead. We sit at the geographic center of the Southeast, within a half-day’s drive of Jacksonville, Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Mobile, and New Orleans. We’re the seat of state government in the third-largest state in the country. And we have assets most regions would build a decade-long strategy to acquire: the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee State College, a maturing healthcare ecosystem anchored by TMH, FSU Health, and HCA Capital Regional, a growing technology and applied data sector, and a steady pipeline of talent flowing out of our universities every year. I think what sets us apart is the opportunity to connect them, to think and act as one region rather than a collection of institutions operating in parallel. The Capital Region can be the front door to Florida. A place where companies come not only to do business in Tallahassee, but to use Tallahassee as a bridge into Florida and the broader Southeast. A coordination point for healthcare innovation, applied research, talent development, and business expansion. The capital of the 15th largest economy in the world should function like one. That’s the work underway at the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, in close collaboration with the State of Florida, the Office of Economic Vitality, Choose Tallahassee, Visit Tallahassee, the Florida SBDC, Domi Station, the Capital City Chamber of Commerce, LaunchTally, the Florida Tech Council, and the private sector partners who are building this region every day. @TalChamber @FSU_Health @TallyState @atFAMU @LaunchTally @FloridaC100 @AmbitionAccel @FLChamber @ChooseTLH @DomiStationTLH @TMHFORLIFE @NationalMagLab @Danfoss @SelectFLA

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@gonzalezloumiet @AegisSales Two counties on either side of a border with distinctly different manufacturing %’s speak to an arbitrary policy effect: Incentives Insurance Etc

@DataShaun @AegisSales IMO: Healthcare + Innovation What are your thoughts?

The difference between Florida panhandle counties and AL / GA counties made me curious. Lines like that speak to policy and insurance, not logistics. From @grok The sharp manufacturing employment drop-off at the AL/GA–Florida panhandle border (visible on the ACS map) is driven by state-specific policy and cost differences, despite nearly identical geography and demographics: •Sky-high hurricane insurance in Florida: Commercial property/business interruption premiums are dramatically higher in the panhandle than just across the line in AL/GA (Florida’s market is in crisis with insurer exits, massive deductibles, and elevated coastal risk pricing). This raises operating costs enough to deter or limit many traditional factories. •Stronger manufacturing-specific incentives north of the border: Alabama and Georgia offer aggressive, targeted programs (cash payroll rebates, big job/investment tax credits, machinery exemptions, rural bonuses) that have built auto/parts/metal clusters and pulled supply chains south. Florida’s incentives are solid but lean more toward aerospace/defense/tech, not broad heavy industry. •Permitting and regulatory edge: AL/GA generally have faster industrial-site approvals and fewer coastal-zone hurdles than Florida’s stricter environmental/growth rules. Result: AL/GA counties maintain higher % manufacturing jobs; Florida’s panhandle grows in absolute terms (esp. defense niches) but gets diluted by tourism/military dominance + these cost barriers. It’s not anti-manufacturing — it’s state-line economics at work.

@RobertMSterling Some dude had pure terror at this sight yesterday at the grocery store

PSA FOR DADS ⚠️ Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Your wife might tell you not to worry about getting her a present. It is very important that you do not—under any circumstances—listen to her. Don’t ask how I learned this for myself. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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@dggoldst Be sure to put it between the passengers so that it makes them uncomfortably close to a stranger when using it

Airplane designer 1: How can we position the outlet so a phone charger has the greatest chance of falling out? ​Designer 2: On the ceiling ​Designer 1: But then it's too easy to see ​Designer 2: Downward at an angle? ​Designer 1: Perfect!

Florida region is too large. Should be at least 3 sections. #IYKYK