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Challenges You Will Face When Parsing PDFs With Python – How To Parse PDFs With Python

Seattle Data Guy

Most of us will turn to Python and our trusty list of Python libraries and start plugging away. Of course, there are many challenges… Read more The post Challenges You Will Face When Parsing PDFs With Python – How To Parse PDFs With Python appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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AWS Lambdas – Python vs Rust. Performance and Cost Savings.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Someone on Linkedin recently brought up the point that companies could save gobs of money by swapping out AWS Python lambdas for Rust ones. While it raised the ire of many a Python Data Engineer, I thought it sounded like a great idea. At least it’s an excuse to […] The post AWS Lambdas – Python vs Rust.

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Python Essentials for Data Engineers

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Introduction Data is stored on disk and processed in memory Running the code Run on Codespaces Run on your laptop Using python REPL Python basics Python is used for extracting data from sources, transforming it, & loading it into a destination [Extract & Load] Read and write data to any system [Transform] Process data in Python or instruct (..)

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Isolated Python Environments using Docker

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction While working with multiple projects, there are chances of issues with versions of packages in python; for example, a project needs a new version of a package, and another requires a different version. Sometimes the python version itself changes from project to project.

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Python Files within Snowflake Python Procedures

Cloudyard

Read Time: 1 Minute, 36 Second Snowflake’s support for Python stored procedures allows data engineers and scientists to leverage Python’s vast ecosystem directly within Snowflake. This capability enables advanced analytics, custom data processing, and seamless integration of Python libraries.

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Building cost effective data pipelines with Python & DuckDB

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KISS: DuckDB + Python = easy to debug and quick to develop 4. Cost calculation: DuckDB + Ephemeral VMs = dirt cheap data processing 4.3. Processing data less than 100GB? Use DuckDB 4.4. Distributed systems are scalable, resilient to failures, & designed for high availability 4.5.

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A New Python Package Manager

KDnuggets

Manage Python projects, run scripts and tools, handle dependencies, and install packages—all with the uv tool.

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