Photo by Nicolas Thomas on Unsplash By Reseun McClendon In general, a scientific experiment is any process in which measurements and tests are used within a (typically) controlled environment to support or refute a hypothesis. Experiments can also be used to “evaluate the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried” (Chugh 2022). Hypotheses are unsupported propositions,…
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Photo by Natalie Pedigo on Unsplash Onboarding at most companies would be a great bit for a comedian. For many, we have just accepted the fact that it’s not a great experience where you will likely spend the first two weeks just trying to get access to email. But it doesn’t have to be this…
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Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash All signs point towards an auspicious future for data engineering. Dice’s 2020 tech jobs report cites Data Engineering as the fastest growing job in 2020. Increasing by a staggering 50%, while Data Science roles only increased by 10%. You can rest assured that the influx of data engineering will not regress anytime soon.…
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Photo by Marcin Jozwiak on Unsplash We recently wrote about ETLs and why they’re important. We wanted to provide an outline for what ETL tools are. You could refer to these ETL tools as workflow tools that help manage moving data from point A to point B. Two of these popular workflow tools are Luigi by Spotify and…
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This April a 1.5 billion dollar medicare scheme took advantage of hundreds of thousands of seniors in the US. In reality, this is just a small sliver of the billions of dollars healthcare fraud costs both consumers and insurance providers annually. Healthcare fraud can come from many different directions. Some people might think of the…
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In the age of digital, the traditional way of advertising is slowly fading away — this means fewer brochures and more Facebook videos, fewer mailers and more personalized e-mails. An article on The Balance lists some of the cons of previous traditional advertising methods, which include hard to quantify results, expensive legwork, and unappealing hard-sell…
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If you haven’t gone through a technical interview, then you might not know what a system design interview round is like. A system design interview round will often only involve one or two big questions in which the interviewer will ask you to design a system or app that usually already exists. These rounds are…
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We wanted to follow up our previous piece about how to grow as a data scientist with some other skills senior data scientists should have. Our hope is to bridge the gap between business managers and technical data scientists by creating clear goals senior data scientists can aim for. Both entities have to take on…
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The role of a data scientist still varies from company to company and even team to team. This makes it much harder for companies to create a standardized growth plan for their data scientists. Without having a clear growth plan, there is a risk that these talented computer wizards will get stuck. They might provide…
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Operating a data science team is not something that can just be learned by watching lectures and videos on Coursera and Udemy. Don’t get us wrong, they are great places to learn data science and machine learning theory with practice problems. However, they don’t teach good business practices, and how to operate a data team…
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