SF Data Weekly - ProAm, GPU Pipelines and Vertical Line Charts

Analytics is like the writing profession: the basics are easy to get started with and it’s an art, so there are few barriers to entry and anyone can call themselves a “writer.“ How to become a "real” data analyst.

DALI is a Python library that interfaces with Nvidia GPUs to accelerate data processing. This piece describes how to use it. Here’s Part 1 explaining the theory behind it.

As the world undergoes a digital transformation, APIs are becoming increasingly important. As a business owner, staying up-to-date on the latest API trends is essential. [Sponsored]

Grafana is a open source analytics and visualization platform. This piece is a step-by-step showing how to visualize Redshift performance using Grafana.

Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a git repository. 

Five advanced SQL concepts worth knowing.

Key statistical concepts for the data analyst or data scientist.

How the author’s mind was changed about the value of vertical line charts after asking his followers on Twitter to give him good examples.

After looking at Geopandas and Altair, this series turns to Folium for creating Choropleths.

How Airbnb applied qualitative learning, human labeling and machine learning to iteratively develop Airbnb’s Community Support Taxonomy.

How the Lyft data science team helps to provide meaningful financial incentives to Lyft drivers.