DATA ANALYST HUMOR

Somewhere between the first VLOOKUP and the fourth "quick sync," every data analyst arrives at the same realization: the data was never the hard part. People are the hard part. Data Analyst Humor is a deadpan field guide to the space between what the data says and what everyone insists it should say. Across twenty-eight illustrated dispatches — grouped into six unflinching sections on meetings and stakeholders, dashboards and reporting, data quality and cleaning, tools and software wars, deadlines and "quick" requests, and corporate life and buzzwords — this book catalogs the recurring absurdities of life inside a spreadsheet: the meeting that could have been a message, the KPI threshold negotiated back to green, the column named "Miscellaneous2," the VLOOKUP that breaks at row 40,001, and the Friday-afternoon "quick pull" that becomes a Tuesday-morning apology. Written in a dry, self-deprecating, observational voice — think The Office meets corporate reporting hell — and paired with a flat-illustration companion image for every dispatch, this collection is funny because it's true, not because it's exaggerated. Each entry closes with its own deadpan "law": a small, hard-won piece of wisdom for anyone whose job title contains the word "insights." Whether you're a data analyst, BI developer, reporting specialist, or just someone who has ever been asked to "make the good number bigger," Data Analyst Humor is the book you'll read in one sitting, quote in your next standup, and forward to your team's Slack channel — no caption necessary.