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5 Data Analyst Projects to Land a Job in 2024

KDnuggets

Here’s how to stand out from the competition, impress employers, and get a job in data analytics.

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Bidirectional Data Sharing Between Snowflake and Salesforce Data Cloud Is Now Generally Available 

Snowflake

Snowflake and Salesforce are happy to share that bidirectional data sharing between Snowflake, the Data Cloud company and Salesforce Data Cloud is now generally available. In September, we proudly announced that organizations could begin leveraging Salesforce data directly in Snowflake via zero-ETL data sharing to unify their customer and business data, accelerate decision-making and help streamline business processes.

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Data News — Week 24.14

Christophe Blefari

Lost between ideas ( credits ) Hey, new Data News edition. I hope you will enjoy this week selection after skipping last week one. I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of tasks I had on the desk—and I'm still. But here we are. Before jumping to the news, I want to let you know that I have improved the Recommendations page and the weekly emails with the recommendation should arrive soon.

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Rolling history logs in Spark History UI

Waitingforcode

Stream processing is great but it brings some gotchas that are not obvious. Logs are one of them.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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5 AI Courses From Google to Advance Your Career

KDnuggets

Start your AI journey today with these courses from Google.

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Coalesce to Enable Simplified Data Transformation Development and Management Natively on the Data Cloud

Snowflake

Data transformation is the process of converting data from one format to another, the “T” in ELT, or extract, load, transform, which enables organizations to get their data analytics-ready and derive insights and value from it. As companies collect more data, from disparate sources and in disparate formats, building and managing transformations has become exponentially more complex and time-consuming.

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Adding Anomaly Detection And Observability To Your dbt Projects Is Elementary

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Working with data is a complicated process, with numerous chances for something to go wrong. Identifying and accounting for those errors is a critical piece of building trust in the organization that your data is accurate and up to date. While there are numerous products available to provide that visibility, they all have different technologies and workflows that they focus on.

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The Psychology of Data Visualization: How to Present Data that Persuades

KDnuggets

This article discusses the psychology of data visualization, including the principles and techniques that underpin the creation of persuasive and effective visuals.

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Monte Carlo Releases Mastering Data Quality And Your ABCs, World’s First-Ever Children’s Book on Data Quality

Monte Carlo

Good Night Moon. Where The Wild Things Are. The Cat in the Hat. And now, from the mind of Barr Moses, comes the historic next children’s literary classic: Mastering Data Quality And Your ABCs. A follow up to 2022’s Data Quality Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to Building Reliable Data Pipelines published by O’Reilly Media , Mastering Data Quality And Your ABCs educates the next generation of data and AI engineers about the importance of highly reliable data.

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Cloudera Named a Visionary in the Gartner MQ for Cloud DBMS

Cloudera

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Cloudera as a Visionary among all vendors evaluated in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. This recognition underscores Cloudera’s commitment to continuous customer innovation and validates our ability to foresee future data and AI trends, and our strategy in shaping the future of data management.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Unity Catalog Governance in Action: Monitoring, Reporting, and Lineage

databricks

Databricks Unity Catalog ("UC") provides a single unified governance solution for all of a company's data and AI assets across clouds and data.

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The Only Interview Prep Course You Need for Deep Learning

KDnuggets

Dive into the 50 most popular deep-learning questions to get you ready for your interview.

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INFOGRAPHIC : The Power of Planning and Estimating in Agile

Knowledge Hut

Estimating and planning is an important aspect of the Agile methodology. Every plan will help in building a platform to develop a project and estimation will help in filling the gap and remove the hindrances in the software development process. The Agile Methodology roughly provides an idea of how a project manager can plan and estimate to make project success.

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FedRAMP In Process Designation, A Milestone in Cybersecurity Commitment

Cloudera

It’s been said that the Federal Government is one of, if not the largest, producer of data in the United States, and this data is at the heart of mission delivery for agencies across the civilian to DoD spectrum. Data is critical to driving the innovation and decision-making that improves services, streamlines operations and strengthens national security.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Need for Speed: cuDF Pandas vs. Pandas

Towards Data Science

A comparative overview Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Computer Science

KDnuggets

These GitHub repositories provide valuable resources for mastering computer science, including comprehensive roadmaps, free books and courses, tutorials, and hands-on coding exercises to help you gain the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in the ever-evolving field of technology.

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Real-Time Pharmaceutical Authorization

Confluent

Use Confluent data streaming platform to enable real-time pharmaceutical approvals – with healthcare compliance, improved patient safety, and automation for greater efficiency and cost savings.

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Simplifying Data Governance in AI-driven Financial Services

databricks

In the era of rapid data growth and increasing pressure on financial institutions to utilize data for AI or genAI models, data governance.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Navigating Your Data Platform’s Growing Pains: A Path from Data Mess to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

A set of strategies and guiding principles to effectively scale your data platform while maximizing its business impact.

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The Rise of Chief AI Officer

KDnuggets

The C-suite of business, technology, and data executives sees a new addition – the CAIO (Chief AI Officer). But what does this role mean for the organizations? Let’s find out!

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How Technical Architect Bergur Helps Customers Win with Data Streaming

Confluent

Our latest Confluent Champion post explores how Technical Architect Bergur Ziska helps customers win with data streaming.

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Illuminating the Future: Unveiling Databricks power in analyzing electrical grid assets using computer vision

databricks

Innovation in the Power and Utilities industry is all but a necessary step to move forward with the evolution of the national power.

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The Ultimate Guide to Apache Airflow DAGS

With Airflow being the open-source standard for workflow orchestration, knowing how to write Airflow DAGs has become an essential skill for every data engineer. This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of DAG writing features with plenty of example code. You’ll learn how to: Understand the building blocks DAGs, combine them in complex pipelines, and schedule your DAG to run exactly when you want it to Write DAGs that adapt to your data at runtime and set up alerts and notifications Scale you

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Data Engineering Weekly #165

Data Engineering Weekly

Intuit: How Intuit data analysts write SQL 2x faster with the internal GenAI tool The productivity increase with GenAI is undeniable, and several startups are trying to solve the Text2SQL generation problem. Intuit wrote an exciting article about what it learned from rolling out the internal GenAI tool. My key highlight is that Excellent data documentation and “clean data” improve results.

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5 Common Python Gotchas (And How To Avoid Them)

KDnuggets

Explore some of Python’s sharp corners by coding your way through simple yet helpful examples.

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Confluent Named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape Reports

Confluent

Learn why Confluent was named a Leader in the analytic stream processing and event brokering software markets. We believe we innovate every industry with real-time stream processing and analytics, cloud-native Apache Kafka®, and robust developer tooling.

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Leverage Google Gemini on ThoughtSpot AI-Powered Analytics

ThoughtSpot

Over the past couple of years, ThoughtSpot and Google have collaborated on a series of seamless user experiences—enabling deployments on Google Cloud Platform, creating the ability to live query entire Google BigQuery analytics catalogs, and integrating key Looker Modeling functionality just to name a few. This type of co-innovation helps mutual customers get the most value out of their data.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

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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Precisely Women in Technology: Meet Ewelina Rauer

Precisely

The Precisely Women in Technology (PWIT) network was first established to bring the women of Precisely together to create more opportunities for learning and engagement. Throughout the years, the program has grown, and it now provides mentorship opportunities, a book club, networking events, and more. Each month, a woman from the program is featured to share more about her experience as a woman in tech, her career journey, and the advice she has for other women navigating the same industry.

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Distribute and Run LLMs with llamafile in 5 Simple Steps

KDnuggets

Do you want to know how to run LLMs on your computer without installing a lot of dependencies or writing code? Well, you're in luck! By the end of this tutorial, you will have successfully run an LLM using llamafile and interacted with it through a user-friendly interface.

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Carbon Emissions of End-User Devices: Part One - SWD Method by David Rees

Scott Logic

Introduction This series of blog posts discusses the methods of estimating carbon emissions of end-user devices. Specifically, this looks at web user interfaces, such as websites and web applications, and the devices we use to access them. After intending to write a single blog post, the research journey prompted me to reconsider how to present this to an audience.

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Guide To Testing in DevOps: Concepts, Best Practices & More

Knowledge Hut

In today's competitive software development environment, DevOps enables smooth interaction and cooperation between development and operations teams. The two groups collaborate in DevOps, sharing responsibilities to achieve their primary objective: frequent & faster delivery of rising software that meets customers changing needs. DevOps practices in collaboration with relevant tools and techniques, motivate organizations to complete tasks as effectively as possible.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m