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January 14 · Issue #222 · View online |
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Our pick this week is a well-reasoned piece explaining why Scrum is the wrong approach for managing data science projects. We also have a two-part series on analyzing character networks from books and movies using graph theory, and the announcement for the 2022 Iron Viz data visualization contest. Stay healthy!
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Don’t Make Data Scientists Do Scrum | by Sophia Yang | Jan, 2022 | Towards Data Science
The author characterizes Scrum’s marketing success as the Kardashians of the software development management framework world, so it’s no surprise that she thinks it isn’t the right approach for data science project management.
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Define error handling for Amazon Redshift Spectrum data | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Redshift Spectrum allows you to query open format data directly from an Amazon S3 data lake without having to load the data into Amazon Redshift tables. This piece explains how to build handlers to manage a number of common errors when ingesting S3 data.
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Integrate.io Launch Event | Jan 27th, 2022 | Xplenty
A world-changing product is on the way. Changing the way e-commerce companies power their business with data integration. [Sponsored]
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Why Google Treats SQL Like Code and You Should Too | by Galen B | Jan, 2022 | Dev Genius
The author has worked at Google for the past two years, and during that time, he came to understand why Google’s approach towards managing SQL code makes a lot of sense for any SQL developer.
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Five Tips For a Healthier Postgres Database in the New Year
Craig’s year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
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Mining & Modelling Character Networks — Part I | by Vatsal | Jan, 2022 | Towards Data Science
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3 Python Libraries for Effective EDA that You Might Have Missed | by Chi Nguyen | Jan, 2022 | Towards Data Science
How DataPrep, Seaborn and SweetViz make the Exploratory Data Analysis process easier and quicker.
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10 Practical Learnings from Looker’s JOIN@Home 2021 | Google Cloud Blog
The 10 most important takeaways from Looker’s 2021 user conference.
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Iron Viz 2022 Global Qualifier: Visualizing the Arts
Iron Viz is the Iron Chef of Tableau data visualization. This piece describes the 2022 contest’s theme and how you can be part of it.
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Crafting a COVID Visualization: How I Processed Pandemic Anxiety and Grief with Yarn | Nightingale
How the author created a physical data visualization of COVID, and how she made her COVID experience part of that craft project.
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Data Culture in the wild with Seattle Seahawks, VMWare, and Jaguar Land Rover
Leaders from three different organizations share examples of how they created a data culture to support their data-driven companies.
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