All Hands on Data #52
Today marks All Hands on Data's Birthday! As a present, we hope you enjoy these articles from the team.
Palantir Foundry - The Data Operating System That is Not Talked About Enough
Several aspects of Palantir's commercial Foundry product are laid out by the author in a highlight of a company not often discussed in the data space. Although there are lots of more commonly thought of products in the data space, the piece highlighted to me that there are likely many more lesser known or industry-specific but equally powerful data tools out there. - John Forstmeier
The Art of Prompt Design: Use Clear Syntax
This article provides useful tips on how to provide guidance to LLMs to produce easily parsable responses. Many SaaS companies (including Shipyard) have been incorporating more AI into their applications. Ensuring that the structure of the output is consistent makes processing the responses programmatically much more effective. - Katt Baum
20+ Amazing (And Free) Data Sources Anyone Can Use To Build AIs
This could be a fun way to ride the AI train even more by giving folks more data sources to continue AI development - Angel Catalan
Working with data: Organising data
Gives a good guide for data organizing and even considers version control. This could be helpful for growing companies - Johnathan Rodriguez
The Dean Meets Socrates: Mastering the Art of Questioning
I enjoyed the application of the Socratic Method to get at the "art of thinking like a data scientist," especially as it relates to data. For example, this article provides a basic framework for data practitioners to deliver the right data to the right people based on what they want to accomplish using it. - Shawn Fergus
Zero ELT could be the death of the Modern Data Stack
While I'm usually not a fan of claims that "X will kill Y", I thought this article did a great job of emphasizing the "could". Zero ETL/ELT is the latest in a slew of marketing terms the data industry is being presented with. If it takes off, it could simplify the process of getting access to clean data and render multiple tools useless in the process. But for it to do that, I think we'd have to kill off APIs in general.... which doesn't seem as likely. - Blake Burch