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Data AnalysisPosted onJanuary 18, 2021January 18, 2021

Data Warehouses are the Past, Present, and Future

The death of the data warehouse, long prophesied, seems to always been on the horizon yet never realized. Much like cold fusion power and fully…

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Data EngineeringPosted onDecember 21, 2020December 21, 2020

The Year in Data and Analytics – 2020

Deep breath. In and out. I’ve been doing a lot of that in 2020, and I know I’m not alone. I hesitated to write a…

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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 28, 2020November 28, 2020

What is Apache Airflow? An Overview

Workflow management platforms are what data engineers use to schedule and coordinate the steps in a data pipeline – an activity sometimes referred to as…

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CollectionsPosted onNovember 23, 2020November 23, 2020

Free Books and Courses for Data Analysts

A collection of free books, courses, and videos for data analysts and analytics engineers. dbt Fundementals dbt is the hottest thing in the “T” in…

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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 15, 2020November 15, 2020

Loading Data from S3 to into Snowflake

Loading data that’s been stored in an S3 bucket into a Snowflake data warehouse is an incredibly common task for a data engineer. In an…

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UncategorizedPosted onApril 27, 2020May 29, 2020

Taking Work Seriously, Not Personally

Sometimes I think that there’s nothing good about getting older. Workouts take just a bit more time to recover from, life’s responsibilities multiply, and you’re…

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Data EngineeringPosted onFebruary 17, 2020

Software Engineers do not Need to Become Managers to Thrive

Though the title of this post may sound obvious to some, it’s not how most organizations function. Many excellent software engineers are led to believe…

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UncategorizedPosted onFebruary 9, 2020

Nostalgic for the Future

He described his partners as “nostalgic for the future,” like many computer hobbyists of the day, and their discussions were frequently those of visionaries. Lee…

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Data EngineeringPosted onJanuary 15, 2020January 17, 2020

The Misunderstood Data Engineer

Data Engineers are a hot commodity in 2020, but it’s surprising how misunderstood they are. Are they a software engineer with a hyped up job…

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Data AnalysisPosted onJanuary 3, 2020January 3, 2020

Plotting Hours of Daylight in Python with Matplotlib

For those of us in the higher reaches of the Northern Hemisphere or the lower reaches of the Southern Hemisphere, winter means a severe lack…

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