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From Dental Cleaning to Data Cleaning: How I Pivoted to Healthcare Analytics
How a simple Google search led to SQL. SQL led to a new career. And hat career led to teaching others on LinkedIn Learning
Oct 23
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From Marketing to Data Engineering: How I Made the Switch
How one marketer followed the trail of tracking pixels into pipelines and built a career turning messy data into usable systems.
Oct 16
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Alejandro Aboy
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How Dropbox Made AI Evaluation Work at Scale
Every prompt, retriever and model now has to earn its merge.
Oct 9
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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in September 2025
Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across in September 2025.
Oct 2
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September 2025
The Data Analyst’s Dilemma: Accuracy vs Speed
When is "good enough" actually better than "perfect"?
Sep 25
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How Shopify Uses Change Data Capture to Serve Millions of Merchants
From batch queries to streaming 100k records per second during peak load
Sep 18
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How Netflix Used Deep Learning to Slash Video Quality Control Time by 90%
Neural networks, synthetic pixel generators and a smarter pipeline
Sep 11
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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in August 2025
Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across last month.
Sep 4
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August 2025
How Grab Shrunk Real-Time Queries from 5 Minutes to 1 with FlinkSQL and Kafka
With SQL as the interface, analysts and engineers can now explore streams and deploy pipelines in under 10 minutes.
Aug 21
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How Uber Built an AI Agent That Answers Financial Questions in Slack
Inside Finch - the AI agent that finds the right data, runs the query and delivers secure, real-time answers where the team already works.
Aug 14
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What the Data Crowd Was Reading in July 2025
Tools, techniques and deep dives worth reading that I came across last month.
Aug 7
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July 2025
How to Show Impact as a Data Analyst
Because “delivered insights” won’t get you hired. Here’s how to prove your work actually changed something.
Jul 31
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