Discover state-of-the-art approaches to building RecSys — # 1 Problem of Information Overload All of us are no stranger to search engines and recommender systems. Without them, we would get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of information being created every second. This information could take different data formats —text, images, audio, video etc. Fundamentally, these systems can, given a large catalog of information…

Full video tutorial showing how to spin up a data platform on Azure with Terraform — Terraform In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to spin up an Azure Data Platform using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool called Terraform, complete with deployment pipelines on Azure DevOps. Resources All code in the video can be found at the Github repo: GitHub - natworkeffects/terraform-iac You can't perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. You signed out in another tab or…github.com

Automate your deployment workflow with Github Actions — Github Actions Github Actions is a new workflow automation tool for building, testing, and deploying your code directly from Github. If you’re already using Github for your code repository, there’s no need to integrate a third-party tool to automate common developer workflows. Simply place a Github Actions .yml file in your repository…

Featuring report development in Power BI Desktop and publishing reports to Power BI Service — Welcome back to the final part of the Minimum Viable Streaming Dashboard series. In this post we’ll cover how to build a Power BI report, using the Push dataset we created back in Part 2. To refresh your memory, we currently have an Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) job running in…

Featuring Push datasets and the Power BI REST API — Welcome back to Part 2 of the Minimum Viable Streaming Dashboard series, where we continue our discussion on real-time dashboards and how to configure them in Power BI. Back in Part 1, we talked about Streaming datasets and how they utilize a temporary cache to store data. …

A trilogy about developing real-time streaming dashboards and their use cases in Power BI. — Most of us are familiar with the idea of a traditional dashboard, a compilation of key metrics and charts, displayed to provide useful information for decision-making. Majority of these dashboards are powered by underlying datasets that refresh at scheduled intervals (weekly, daily, or hourly). At any given point, the dashboard…

A piece featuring why work as a data analyst can lose its meaning. — In my recent post, Data Analyst Primer, I elaborated on how demand for data analysts is growing and highlighted the steps you can take to get a foot in the door, and land that first entry-level job. The purpose of today’s article is to offer a different perspective, a pessimistic…

An essentials guide for aspiring data analysts, priming you with the key skills you need to know to become one. — Back in the summer of 2018, I was just starting my first internship as a Data Analyst. Data science was all the rage back then, with the data scientist being heralded the sexiest job of the 21st century. …