Confessions of a Data Guy

JANUARY 19, 2023

I remember those days, oh so long ago, it seems like another lifetime. I haven’t used Pandas in many a year, decades, or whatever. We’ve all been there, done that. Pandas I mean. I would dare say it’s a rite of passage for most data folk. For those using Python, it’s probably one of the […] The post Replacing Pandas with Polars.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 26, 2023

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 31, 2023

Introduction Big data is revolutionizing the healthcare industry and changing how we think about patient care. In this case, big data refers to the vast amounts of data generated by healthcare systems and patients, including electronic health records, claims data, and patient-generated data. With the ability to collect, manage, and analyze vast amounts of data, […] The post The Impact of Big Data on Healthcare Decision Making appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

With all the recent data events I have put together I inevitably run into new data engineers who are either finishing up college or looking to transition into a data engineer or data scientist position. In fact I have talked to several newly graduated engineers who are struggling to find work. A few told me… Read more The post How To Hire Junior Data Engineers appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.

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Simon Späti

JANUARY 3, 2023

I used VS Code, Sublime, Notepad++, TextMate, and others, but the shortcut with cmd(+shift)+end, jumping with option+arrow-keys from word to word, needed to be faster at some point. I was hitting my limits. Everything I was doing I did decently fast, but I didn’t get any faster. Vim is the only editor you get faster with time. Vim is based solely on shortcuts.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 31, 2023

Kickstart your Machine Learning career with these curated GitHub repositories.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 12, 2023

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one and a half out of eight topics in today’s subscriber-only issue, Inside Pollen's Transparent Compensation Data. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you also missed this week’s deep-dive on Becoming a Fractional CTO. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 30, 2023

Introduction Azure Functions is a serverless computing service provided by Azure that provides users a platform to write code without having to provision or manage infrastructure in response to a variety of events. Whether we are analyzing IoT data streams, managing scheduled events, processing document uploads, responding to database changes, etc. Azure functions allow developers […] The post How to Develop Serverless Code Using Azure Functions?

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 17, 2023

2022 is coming to an end. What is the state of data infra? Are Snowflake and Databricks still fighting over total cost of ownership? Is everyone switching to DuckDB? Are data engineers all learning Rust? Let’s try to answer these questions. Our team is putting together an all day event focused on helping answer some… Read more The post What Is The State Of Data Engineering And Infrastructure In 2023 appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Start Data Engineering

JANUARY 12, 2023

Introduction Sample project Code design patterns 1. Functional design 2. Factory pattern 3. Strategy pattern 4. Singleton, & Object pool patterns Python helpers 1. Typing 2. Dataclass 3. Context Managers 4. Testing with pytest 5. Decorators Misc Conclusion Further reading References Introduction Using the appropriate code design pattern can make your code easy to read, extensible, and seamless to modify existing logic, debug, and enable developers to onboard quicker.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 26, 2023

Impress your friends and loved ones by perfecting your ChatGPT prompt engineering game with this incredibly useful resource.

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Confessions of a Data Guy

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rust has been on my mind a lot lately, probably because of Data Engineering boredom, watching Spark clusters chug along like some medieval farm worker endlessly trudging through the muck and mire of life. Maybe Rust has breathed some life back into my stagnant soul, reminding me there is a big world out there, […] The post Using Rust to write a Data Pipeline.

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Jesse Anderson

JANUARY 9, 2023

If you haven’t heard, Confluent announced they’re buying Immerok. This purchase represents a significant shift in strategy for Confluent. I started a Twitter thread with some of my initial thoughts, but I want to write a post giving more analysis and opinions. In short, I still echo the sentiment from my original tweet “This was always the way it should have been.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 30, 2023

Introduction We are all aware of the Internet’s explosive expansion as a primary source of information and a platform for opinion expression. It has now become essential to gather and analyze the ever-expanding data that follows. While in the past, manual analysis of data has been possible and even served us well, the same cannot […] The post Top 10 Applications of Sentiment Analysis in Business appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Confluent

JANUARY 6, 2023

Introducing fully managed Apache Kafka® + Flink for the most robust, cloud-native data streaming platform with stream processing, integration, and streaming analytics in one.

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 27, 2023

Managing network solutions amidst a growing scale inherently brings challenges around performance, deployment, and operational complexities. At Meta, we’ve found that these challenges broadly fall into three themes: 1.) Data center networking: Over the past decade, on the physical front, we have seen a rise in vendor-specific hardware that comes with heterogeneous feature and architecture sets (e.g., non-blocking architecture).

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 24, 2023

Effective solutions exist when you don't have enough data for your models. While there is no perfect approach, five proven ways will get your model to production.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 19, 2023

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get the full issues, twice a week: subscribe here. Update on 20 January: less than a day after publishing this article, Google announced historic layoffs that will impact ~12,000 positions.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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databricks

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is a collaborative post from Databricks and wisecube.ai. We thank Vishnu Vettrivel, Founder, and Alex Thomas, Principal Data Scientist, for their contributions.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 31, 2023

Introduction In today’s world, machine learning and artificial intelligence are widely used in almost every sector to improve performance and results. But are they still useful without the data? The answer is No. The machine learning algorithms heavily rely on data that we feed to them. The quality of data we feed to the algorithms […] The post Practicing Machine Learning with Imbalanced Dataset appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2023

Summary Business intelligence has gone through many generational shifts, but each generation has largely maintained the same workflow. Data analysts create reports that are used by the business to understand and direct the business, but the process is very labor and time intensive. The team at Omni have taken a new approach by automatically building models based on the queries that are executed.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 27, 2023

My view from the train window ( credits ) Dear Data News readers it's a joy every week to write this newsletter, we are slowly approaching the second birthday of this newsletter. In order to celebrate this together I'd love to receive your stories about data —can be short or long, anonymous or not. This is an open box, just write me with what you have on the mind and I'll bundle an edition with it.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 23, 2023

Get your hands on these gems to learn Python, data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning.

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 24, 2023

Modern data stack consultant plays an important role in companies looking to become data-driven. They help companies design and deploy centralized data sets that are easy to use and reliable. They do so by using cloud based solutions that help automate data pipelines and processes with less code than in the past. But in order… Read more The post Do You Need A Modern Data Stack Consultant appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Simon Späti

JANUARY 9, 2023

In part I, The Open Data Stack Distilled into Four Core Tools, we discussed how to quickly set up a data stack, tackling end-to-end data analytics challenges. As a manager or developer working with data at a mid- to large-sized enterprise, you might ask why aren’t we using any of these tools. In this article, we dive into what mid-to-large-sized companies are using instead, the struggle of setting up a Modern Data Stack (MDS) for an enterprise size, and the opportunities of a free-of-charge and

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 31, 2023

Introduction YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator. It is a powerful resource management system for a horizontal server environment. It is designed to be more flexible and generic than the original Hadoop MapReduce system, making it an attractive choice for companies looking to implement Hadoop. It allows companies to process data types and run […] The post YARN for Large Scale Computing: Beginner’s Edition appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2023

Summary The most interesting and challenging bugs always happen in production, but recreating them is a constant challenge due to differences in the data that you are working with. Building your own scripts to replicate data from production is time consuming and error-prone. Tonic is a platform designed to solve the problem of having reliable, production-like data available for developing and testing your software, analytics, and machine learning projects.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summer in coming ( credits ) Hey, new Friday, new Data News edition. I'm so happy to see new people coming every week. Thank you for every recommendation you do about the blog or the Data News. This kindness for my content gives me wings. This week I don't want to be late, so let's start the weekly wrap-up. I got less inspired this week, it means shorter edition.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 20, 2023

Is ChatGPT useful for Python programmers, specifically those of us who use Python for data processing, data cleaning, and building machine learning models? Let's give it a try and find out.

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Seattle Data Guy

JANUARY 19, 2023

Good Design Is Easier to Change Than Bad Design – The Pragmatic Programmer Programming is just one aspect of the difficulties of tech work for data engineers. Creating simple yet robust systems that help manage your data infrastructure is equally important. This challenge of building a simple yet robust data infrastructure remains even with no-code/low-code solutions.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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