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Data EngineeringPosted onNovember 14, 2019November 15, 2019

Modular ELT

A while back, I wrote a post on why ELT is preferable to ETL with Amazon Redshift and other modern data warehouses such as Snowflake…

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Data AnalysisPosted onNovember 5, 2019December 9, 2019

Designing Data Teams

In the last few years, there’s been a noticeable shift at cutting edge organizations in how data teams are structured. No longer is data engineering…

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Data EngineeringPosted onOctober 31, 2019November 15, 2019

It Takes 3 Things to Get Value From Machine Learning

When I read about the $30 Million dollar series C funding raised by Crunchbase this morning, it reminded me of a common struggle I see…

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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 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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Data EngineeringPosted onJuly 22, 2019December 12, 2019

Making Sense of Amazon Redshift Pricing

Considering building a data warehouse in Amazon Redshift? It’s a great option, even in an increasingly crowded market of cloud data warehouse platforms. If you’re…

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Data EngineeringPosted onJuly 10, 2019February 23, 2020

Don’t Hire Data Scientists Until You Have Data Engineers

If you don’t yet have a data science team, you may have moments of panic feeling that you’re falling behind. It’s true, data science and…

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