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Data Literacy
beginner
Write SELECT queries with JOIN and GROUP BY
Excel & Spreadsheets
beginner
Build a dynamic dashboard with pivot tables and slicers
SQL Analytics
intermediate
Write window functions (ROW_NUMBER, LAG, LEAD)
BI Tools
intermediate
Build an interactive dashboard from a SQL source
Python for Data
intermediate
Clean and transform a messy dataset with pandas
Data Storytelling
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Build a stakeholder dashboard with a narrative structure
ML for Analytics
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Build a churn prediction model
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5 Data Schema Design Mistakes That Quietly Create Future Bottlenecks
Medium · Programming 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
5 Data Schema Design Mistakes That Quietly Create Future Bottlenecks
And how to fix them before your database becomes the reason everything feels slow Continue reading on Medium »
The Reality of IPOs: What I Learned Parsing 2,655 SEC Filings
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Reality of IPOs: What I Learned Parsing 2,655 SEC Filings
The filing was 847 pages long. I found the revenue number on page 312, buried inside a footnote that referenced a table three sections… Continue reading on Medi
The Reality of IPOs: What I Learned Parsing 2,655 SEC Filings
Medium · Python 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Reality of IPOs: What I Learned Parsing 2,655 SEC Filings
The filing was 847 pages long. I found the revenue number on page 312, buried inside a footnote that referenced a table three sections… Continue reading on Medi
I Built an AI to Measure Football Miracles. The Greatest One Is Moroccan.
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I Built an AI to Measure Football Miracles. The Greatest One Is Moroccan.
A century and a half of results, an Elo model, and 40,000 simulated tournaments — to answer a question every fan has shouted at a screen… Continue reading on Me
Vertica vs VoltDB (Volt Active Data): Key Differences, Use Cases & How to Choose in 2026
Dev.to · Andrew 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Vertica vs VoltDB (Volt Active Data): Key Differences, Use Cases & How to Choose in 2026
If you're building a modern data stack that requires either high-throughput transaction processing or...
Data Analytics (AI/ML) ROI 101: Why Investments in Data Analytics (AI/ML) Vanish into the ‘Black…
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Data Analytics (AI/ML) ROI 101: Why Investments in Data Analytics (AI/ML) Vanish into the ‘Black…
Overview of the Data Analytics (AI/ML) ROI 101 series of articles Continue reading on Medium »
Self-Hosting Airflow at Home: Automating Stock Price Data Collection
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Self-Hosting Airflow at Home: Automating Stock Price Data Collection
I ran Airflow at home to pull live stock data. Here’s how I did it and what I learned. Continue reading on Analytics Vidhya »
Simon Willison's Blog 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column`
Research: Mapping SQLite result columns back to their source `table.column` It would be neat if arbitrary SQL queries in Datasette could be rendered with additi
PGx Testing: The Genetic Blind Spot in Modern Prescribing
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
PGx Testing: The Genetic Blind Spot in Modern Prescribing
Why pharmacogenomic testing may become one of the most underused tools in pain management, behavioral health, and primary care Continue reading on Medium »
Reflections on Anthropic’s Self-Service Data Analytics Playbook
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Reflections on Anthropic’s Self-Service Data Analytics Playbook
The bottleneck in self-service analytics is not the AI. Continue reading on Medium »
You Don’t Need a Modern Data Stack You Just Need a Good Server
Medium · AI 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
You Don’t Need a Modern Data Stack You Just Need a Good Server
For the last decade, if you asked a startup how to count their daily active users, the answer was a $15,000-a-month Rube Goldberg machine. Continue reading on T
You Don’t Need a Modern Data Stack You Just Need a Good Server
Medium · Programming 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
You Don’t Need a Modern Data Stack You Just Need a Good Server
For the last decade, if you asked a startup how to count their daily active users, the answer was a $15,000-a-month Rube Goldberg machine. Continue reading on T
7 Funções de Excel que Descobri no Início da Minha Jornada em Análise de Dados
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
7 Funções de Excel que Descobri no Início da Minha Jornada em Análise de Dados
Recentemente comecei minha transição para a área de Análise de Dados e tenho dedicado parte do meu tempo a estudar ferramentas e conceitos… Continue reading on
10 SQL Interview Problems That Tripped Me Up
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
10 SQL Interview Problems That Tripped Me Up
The exact patterns that decide most data engineering SQL screens, with explanations that build real intuition. Continue reading on Medium »
SQL Window Functions Explained: The Most Powerful SQL Feature Every Data Analyst Should Master
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
SQL Window Functions Explained: The Most Powerful SQL Feature Every Data Analyst Should Master
Real-World Window Function Examples Every Analyst Should Know Continue reading on Medium »
Why the World Cup Favorite Almost Never Wins
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why the World Cup Favorite Almost Never Wins
The best team on paper has lost more World Cups than it’s won. Continue reading on AI & Analytics Diaries »
Encore Launches Diamond Currency Intelligence Application : A New Era of Risk-Aware Trading for…
Medium · Startup 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Encore Launches Diamond Currency Intelligence Application : A New Era of Risk-Aware Trading for…
Risk analytics meets the diamond trade — built for importers, exporters, and traders across India Continue reading on Medium »
Why did my DataFrame lose rows? Debugging silent pandas pipeline failures
Dev.to · Vimal Nakrani 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Why did my DataFrame lose rows? Debugging silent pandas pipeline failures
Pandas and polars pipelines fail silently — a merge adds nulls, a filter drops rows, a cast changes dtypes, and nothing crashes. Here's how to find which step d
How Excel Is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Dev.to · Fidelis Tuwei 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How Excel Is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Before I thought Excel was just something accountants use to make tables look neat. I was wrong —...
Building My First End-to-End ETL Pipeline with Airflow, BigQuery, and Docker
Dev.to · Tanmay 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Building My First End-to-End ETL Pipeline with Airflow, BigQuery, and Docker
Recently, I completed my first full Data Engineering project: building an end-to-end ETL pipeline...
Rethinking Leadership: Why Modern Governance Needs Ethical Statecraft and Data
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Rethinking Leadership: Why Modern Governance Needs Ethical Statecraft and Data
Moving past rhetoric to build a data-driven, value-centric ecosystem for future policymakers. Continue reading on Medium »
Pinterest Data Engineer Interview Question — Data Engineer
Medium · Python 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Pinterest Data Engineer Interview Question — Data Engineer
Find Top Categories and Highly Active Users by Country Continue reading on Medium »
Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
Medium · Machine Learning 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
A coffee shop conversation about why data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data — and why that’s actually the most important… Continue reading on Med
Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
A coffee shop conversation about why data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data — and why that’s actually the most important… Continue reading on Med
Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
Medium · Python 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Data Cleaning & Preprocessing
A coffee shop conversation about why data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning data — and why that’s actually the most important… Continue reading on Med
How to Build a LinkedIn Profile Scraper: The Honest Technical Guide
Dev.to · Omar Eldeeb 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How to Build a LinkedIn Profile Scraper: The Honest Technical Guide
A practical, honest guide to building a LinkedIn profile scraper: why there's no public API, how public pages embed JSON-LD, and the legal reality.
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
My OIBSIP Internship Journey with Oasis Infobyte
Over the past few weeks, I had the opportunity to complete the Data Science / Machine Learning internship under the OIBSIP program by… Continue reading on Mediu
Your Pipeline Is 28.0h Behind: Catching Climate Sentiment Leads with Pulsebit
Dev.to · Pulsebit News Sentiment API 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Your Pipeline Is 28.0h Behind: Catching Climate Sentiment Leads with Pulsebit
Your Pipeline Is 28.0h Behind: Catching Climate Sentiment Leads with Pulsebit We just...
Predictive BI Won’t Eliminate the Data Worker. It Will Make Their Context More Valuable.
Medium · AI 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Predictive BI Won’t Eliminate the Data Worker. It Will Make Their Context More Valuable.
Every few years, the data world gets a new promise that sounds like liberation. Continue reading on Medium »
Predictive BI Won’t Eliminate the Data Worker. It Will Make Their Context More Valuable.
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Predictive BI Won’t Eliminate the Data Worker. It Will Make Their Context More Valuable.
Every few years, the data world gets a new promise that sounds like liberation. Continue reading on Medium »
NVIDIA Is Paying People to Host Mini Data Centers on Their Homes.
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
NVIDIA Is Paying People to Host Mini Data Centers on Their Homes.
The pitch sounds almost too good. Because it might be. Continue reading on Medium »
Financial Statement Timeframe Patterns: A complete guide
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Financial Statement Timeframe Patterns: A complete guide
When you first encounter a raw financial dataset, whether from an SEC filing, a Bloomberg feed, or a company’s investor relations page… Continue reading on Medi
The Day I Stopped Memorizing Databricks and Started Understanding It
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The Day I Stopped Memorizing Databricks and Started Understanding It
A simple shift in mindset that made learning Databricks feel less overwhelming and more practical Continue reading on Medium »
Data science portfolio projects that are not toy notebooks
Dev.to · I Want To Learn Programming 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Data science portfolio projects that are not toy notebooks
A Titanic notebook will not get you hired. Here is what a real data science project shows, handling messy data, avoiding leakage, honest validation, and a clear
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Best Practices: A Step-by-Step Framework Using Modern Visualization…
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Best Practices: A Step-by-Step Framework Using Modern Visualization…
Before building a machine learning model, before writing a single line of predictive code, there is a step that separates mediocre data… Continue reading on Med
ZDNet 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The wearable health boom is creating a data overload for doctors - what happens next
Patients have never had more information about their health, but much of it is unusable. Here's why.
Towards Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Solving the 3Blue1Brown String Probability Problem (Without AI)
Let's practice data science thinking through a probability problem The post Solving the 3Blue1Brown String Probability Problem (Without AI) appeared first on To
I will convert pdf to word, scanned image to word or google docs
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
I will convert pdf to word, scanned image to word or google docs
I am very proficient in using (MS Word), (MS Excel), and (Adobe Acrobat) to convert pdf to Word or google docs. I am creative and fast… Continue reading on Medi
Cookies Are Dying. Your Analytics Shouldn’t Die With Them.
Medium · Startup 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Cookies Are Dying. Your Analytics Shouldn’t Die With Them.
If you run a website, you’ve probably noticed the slow unraveling of the old analytics playbook. Cookie consent banners annoy visitors, ad… Continue reading on
ClickHouse® Projections and Skip Indexes - The Hidden Query Optimization Challenge
Dev.to · Kanishga Subramani 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
ClickHouse® Projections and Skip Indexes - The Hidden Query Optimization Challenge
ClickHouse® offers powerful query optimization features such as Projections and Data Skipping Indexes...
# How I Cut SQL Query Time from 45 Seconds to 8 Seconds
Dev.to · DanielNnadi 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
# How I Cut SQL Query Time from 45 Seconds to 8 Seconds
When I joined the data team at an automotive parts company, the inventory query everyone relied on...
How I Built a Python Demand Forecasting Model That Saved $18,000
Dev.to · DanielNnadi 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How I Built a Python Demand Forecasting Model That Saved $18,000
Emergency procurement was happening 23 times per month at the automotive parts company where I work....
Elevate Your Career with Data Analytics + Gen AI
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Elevate Your Career with Data Analytics + Gen AI
Step into the future of analytics with the Data Analytics with Gen AI course at the Institute of Data Science and Analytics, Janakpuri… Continue reading on Medi
Picking a Data Store in 2026: 5 Questions Before You Reach for Postgres
Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Picking a Data Store in 2026: 5 Questions Before You Reach for Postgres
Postgres is the right default until it isn't. Five questions that tell you when to reach for something else, before you're locked in.
Outbox or CDC in 2026: The Decision That Shapes Your Whole Pipeline
Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Outbox or CDC in 2026: The Decision That Shapes Your Whole Pipeline
Transactional outbox vs Debezium-style CDC. Coupling, ordering, ops cost, a decision matrix, and the hybrid path most teams end up running.
How to Learn SQL for Data Analysis
Medium · Data Science 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How to Learn SQL for Data Analysis
SQL is one of the most practical skills in data science. If Python helps you analyze data, SQL helps you reach the data in the first place. Continue reading on
Two Beautiful Ideas the Market Already Killed
Medium · Python 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Two Beautiful Ideas the Market Already Killed
“Free” arbitrage and the bot that read the weather. Two flawless hypotheses on paper, two lessons in why efficient markets give you… Continue reading on Medium
Data Engineering Described
Dev.to · John Otienoh 📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Data Engineering Described
Source: Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O'Reilly...