All Hands on Data #37
This is your friendly reminder that you have less than one week to secure a present for Valentine's Day. May we suggest a Data newsletter....
Can ChatGPT Write Better SQL than a Data Analyst?
Has anyone else been a bit worried about ChatGPT taking their job from them? In this article, Marie takes the fight back to ChatGPT and wins. Chalk this one up to the humans. - Steven Johnson
Jupyter Notebooks Are Not Made for Sensitive Data Science Collaboration
In what is, hopefully, a surprise to no one, Jupyter Notebooks are not ideal for data privacy or security concerns. Jupyter Notebooks are so clean and easy to use, it can be hard to remember that at times. - John Forstmeier
The Real Value of Data Observability
As with every field, specialization brings expertise but also introduces silos that can lead to communication degradation and ownership issues. Data observability has emerged as a solution to these problems by helping data teams troubleshoot incidents, improve communication and trust, boost efficiency, and lower maintenance costs. - Katt Baum
What Does a QA Team Do in Software Development?
As the QA Engineer for Shipyard, this article speaks to what I do. It's nice to see a simple and concise breakdown of what QA does and why it is important. - Jon Davidson
Big Data is Dead
Jordan does an excellent job of dissecting how most businesses really don't need all of the data they have on hand. Big Data is “when the cost of keeping data around is less than the cost of figuring out what to throw away.” I thought his insights from running product at BigQuery were eye opening for how little data actually gets used. - Blake Burch
Using Rust to write a Data Pipeline. Thoughts. Musings.
As someone who is very intrigued and bullish on the future of Rust as a language, I have had some reservations over whether it would be a good fit in the data space. This article provides a non-trivial example of a data pipeline being written in Rust, and my takeaway: It's not as smooth and easy as Python, but it's not much more cumbersome - Wes Poulsen