SF Data Weekly - Visualizing Visualization Libraries, Databricks and Snowflake

Graphics and visualization developers often get presented with a simple yet difficult question: “Which visualization library should I use?” This piece includes examples, well-executed comparison grid ranking libraries on level of abstraction and API design, and some brief code examples.

A deep look at two sometimes confusing Spark features: DataFrames and lazy evaluations.

How ZS, an AWS consultancy, migrated a client from an on premises Teradata database to Redshift, using AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) for schema migration, and AWS Snowball for data migration.

This is the first article in a series of short pieces looking at different considerations for implementing and deploying Snowflake. The second piece examines Snowflake deployment options, the third looks at access control, and the last article discusses data security.

A deep dive into using EarthPy to plot and work with spatial raster and vector data, with code examples using openly available Landsat data.

Time series forecasting is a often done in Python, R or Julia, but that doesn’t mean that good old SQL can’t get the job done, and this piece provides an example of how to train a model with pure SQL.

How to better understand the requirements and plan accordingly? How to organize and track the progress? What’s the framework to document your project? This piece gets into the soft skills needed to pull off a successful data science project, and it’s applicable to many more use cases.

See how to combine a Donut Chart with a Bubble Chart and get the best of both worlds to create Bubble Donut Chart.

The visx project is a collection of data visualization primitives written in Typescript for React. Airbnb has just released version 1.0 as an open source project, and this piece reviews the different primitives with examples.

This year’s ArcGIS StoryMaps competition is a collaboration between Esri and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Participants in the competition will create a story that addresses one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article introduces the judges and has a link to join an informational webinar.