Data Vault's Biggest Value Add

It might be safe to say that every data practitioner has heard about the star schema for data modeling, and perhaps even the snowflake schema. These approaches to data modeling "normalize" the database by reducing redundant data in each table, so that it lives separately.

For example, here's a basic …

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Structuring the Job Hunt pt 1

I have a new project that I'm swirling around in my brain.

I've recently started the job hunt, and quickly became frustrated with the tools at my displosal for networking and thinking about my professional development. We've all seen beautiful visualizations detailing the journey to the offer. And there are …

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Go with the (ML)Flow

I hate to admit it, but when I first started using programming for predictive analytics, I was super disorganized. Which model performed best again? Guess I gotta go back and run all my cells in my "modelling notebook" over again... and clean them all up. GUILTY. 🙋‍♀️ It was pretty evident …

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Introducing Zipmigo

Please welcome to the world my new 👶, zipmigo! Zipmigo is a python package that aims to help analysts download and unarchive zipfiles remotely.

I was recently given the opportunity to develop some notebooks for teaching GIS and spatial econometrics in python for a professor of mine. Having taken the course …

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