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CollectionsPosted onOctober 30, 2019February 26, 2020

Free Data Science Books

A collection of free books to help you learn data science, or touch up your skills. Topics include data science foundations, statistics, Python, R, deep…

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CollectionsPosted onOctober 30, 2019

Public Datasets for Data Science

Looking for public datasets for your next data science or machine learning project? Here are some of the best. AWS Public Data Sets Bureau of…

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Data EngineeringPosted onOctober 16, 2019

POST and GET Requests in Python

Whenever you visit a website, fill out a signup form, or request data from an API, you’re most likely making an HTTP POST or GET…

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Data EngineeringPosted onOctober 12, 2019October 16, 2019

Cron Expression Tutorial

Cron is perhaps the most universally used scheduling tool in the data engineering community. It has been battle tested over decades on Linux and Unix…

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Data SciencePosted onSeptember 24, 2019November 18, 2019

Learning Data Science For Free

Thanks to community, university and corporate supported efforts, learning about data science has never been easier or cheaper. In fact, as long as you’re not…

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Remote WorkPosted onSeptember 23, 2019December 17, 2019

Remote Friendly Data Jobs are Hot

Recently, I started posting remote friendly data science, data engineering and analytics jobs. It began as a handful of jobs I ran across in my…

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Data SciencePosted onAugust 28, 2019December 9, 2019

Why it’s Difficult to Evaluate Data Science Candidates

I’ve hired a number of data scientists, data engineers and analysts over the years and interviewing and evaluating potential data scientists has proven to be…

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Data EngineeringPosted onAugust 25, 2019August 25, 2019

MinneBOS 2019 Data Science and Analytics Conference

Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the MinneBOS 2019 data science and analytics conference in Boston. The folks at MinneAnalytics…

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Data EngineeringPosted onAugust 15, 2019December 9, 2019

Unloading Data from Redshift to S3

In a previous post, I wrote about using the COPY command to load data from an S3 bucket into a Redshift table. In this post,…

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Data EngineeringPosted onJuly 28, 2019August 25, 2019

Python 2 vs 3 – Time to Upgrade

Python is a programming language that’s popular with software engineers, data engineers and data scientists alike. The 2.x branch of Python (aka “Python 2”) was…

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