SF Data Weekly - Benford's Law, Pulsar and Earworms

One of the makers of The Coronavirus App, who’s received countless emails asking whether the data that the app displays could be trusted, uses Benford’s Law to examine the data.

Even though Kafka gets more press, Pulsar is another very capable open-source messaging system often used to build data pipelines. This piece looks at the differences between the two platforms and identifies the (few) use cases where Pulsar might be a better choice.

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Redshift now supports automatic refresh and query rewrite capabilities to simplify and automate the usage of materialized views. The automatic refresh feature helps administrators to keep materialized views up-to-date, while the automatic query rewrite feature enables end-users to easily benefit from improved query performance.

A lot of hard work went into this exhaustive list of Python repositories that are useful for a variety of applications, including data analysis.

Picture the most chaotic project you’ve ever worked on that was saved at the last minute by an overhaul of project planning. How about doing that before the project started? This piece examines that radical thought.

Some great examples of Data Studio dashboards that go beyond the basics – worth a look for anyone designing dashboards.

A tutorial for generating Bar Chart Race Video (popular everywhere on the Internet now) using Python with a single function and a few lines of code.

Three different ways of constructing a chloropleth map and why H3 hexagons might be the way to go.

To help our teams easily discover and understand this data better, Uber built Databook, an in-house platform that surfaces and manages the metadata related to various data entities such as datasets, internal dashboards, business metrics, and more.

Melodies stuck in your head, often referred to as “ earworms ,” are a well-known and sometimes irritating phenomenon. How Google built a recognition system that can search for a song based on humming the tune.

A basic but complete review of best practices for a Data Science resume.

Here are this week’s jobs:

Experimentation Staff Data Science Tools Engineer - Uber

Software Engineering III, Data Scientist - ThermoFisher Scientific

AWS Data Engineer - Rivian