SF Data Weekly - NextGen Brackets, Snowflake Organization and DataViz Art

Despite widespread interest and popularity, the design of a single elimination tournament leaves much to be desired when researching teams, predicting outcomes, and analyzing results. Using data visualization to transform paper brackets into interactive data experiences.

Glue now supports protocol buffers (protobuf) schemas in addition to JSON and Avro. This piece explains protobufs and shows how to use them with Glue.

Here are 8 of the best product integrations for e-commerce stores. From web design to payment processing, these options can help you start your business off on a smart foot! [Sponsored]

Madison, an analytics engineer at Winc, explains how she prefers to organize her Snowflake data warehouse.

A Conflict-free Replicated Data Type is a data structure that simplifies distributed data storage and multi=user applications. This website is devoted to explaining CDRTs and sharing resources and research.

MetricFlow provides a set of abstractions that allow you to define, build, and maintain metrics in reusable SQL.

Khuyen explains, with an example, how to use his data science template to organize your data science project.

Analyzing and visualizing loans provided by the Paycheck Protection Program.

Explaining the art of data visualization with examples that include code.

Uber has one of the largest deployments of Apache Kafka® in the world. This is a short overview of how they secure their Kafka instances.

How Airbnb estimates the impact of a change on their business without a randomized control experiment.

The basics of being a data analyst - and how you may already be one.

Here are this week’s job picks:

Data Analyst - Zynga

Data Engineer - Dremio

Data Scientist - Comcentric