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		Hello, I’m Samantha. I spent the past 6 years designing data for <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphiq" target="_blank">Graphiq</a>, a knowledge graph provider with multiple data products, and then for <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa" target="_blank">Alexa</a>. I am a designer with an engineering mindset and a degree in marketing analytics. The unique combo made it possible for me go deep in technology like a computer scientist, and also understand people like a social scientist<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote">1</a></sup>.
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		I see data being the superpower of our time, and I hope to grant it to more people with my work and my writing.
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	<h6>About This Site</h6>
	<p>This is a static <a target="_blank" href="//pages.github.com/">GitHub Page</a> generated using <a target="_blank" href="//jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>, designed and coded by me. The baseline alignment is created using <a target="_blank" href="//sassline.com/"><span class="small-caps">SASSLINE</span></a>. The fonts are served by <a target="_blank" href="//typekit.com/">Adobe TypeKit</a>. Icons are from <a href="//fontawesome.com/" target="_blank">Font Awesome</a>. The source code can be found on <a target="_blank" href="//github.com/moyicat/moyicat.github.io">GitHub</a>.</p>
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					Originally described by <a href="//twitter.com/johnmaeda" target="_blank">@johnmaeda</a> in his <a href="//tinyletter.com/designandvc" target="_blank">Design & VC newsletter</a>. <a href="#fnref:1" class="reversefootnote">↩</a><br>
					<em>“Designers who can go deep in technology like a computer scientist, and who can also understand people like a social scientist, are the designers who can think and create at the scale of millions of users. They are the ones who can manage the shifting standards and technologies that seemingly change every week. They are the ones the world needs right now.”</em>
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