SQL is Code, Code Review Manners, High-Impact Habits
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I Think I Know Why You Can’t Hire Engineers Right Now sums up what’s important, right out of the gate. Engaging workplaces provide:
- Cool stuff to work on.
- Smart people to work with.
- Some degree of repeatability in work environment.
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I don’t think we talk about code reviews enough. And so: 7 Code Review Manners we should all adopt.
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There is something for all of us here in this post on the 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers. For me personally, the “growth opportunities” highlighted that I’d like to focus on this year include:
- Write down what makes you tick… work styles, expectations of your directs, values and motivations, areas of feedback you are working on and decision-making preferences.
- Follow up and follow through.
- Take a beat before delivering feedback.
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Teams talk a lot about replacing traditional (Tableau) dashboards with code. Here’s a walkthrough of exactly what it looks like to build a dashboard with Plotly and Dash.
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At first, I thought, Why, but it doesn’t take long to think of all kinds of interesting use case for dsq, a commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet.
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A Linear Algebra Reference Guide with examples in NumPy.
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“Scrum… is like the Kardashians of the software development management framework world.” Ouch. Don’t Make Data Scientists Do Scrum.
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tplot
is a Python package for creating text-based graphs. Like we need encouragement to present from the command line. -
How I Built a Shed is from 2020 and it isn’t about data engineering, but I really enjoyed it.