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Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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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
intermediate
Build a stakeholder dashboard with a narrative structure
ML for Analytics
advanced
Build a churn prediction model

Dev.to · ruth mhlanga
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Data Infrastructure in a Digital Exile
The Problem We Were Actually Solving As a data engineer, I've spent years building data...

Dev.to · ruth mhlanga
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Wrong Assumptions About Geo-Located Data Infrastructure
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our problem wasn't "how to store and query data from...

Dev.to · ruth mhlanga
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Over-Engineered Solution Was Never the Real Problem
The Problem We Were Actually Solving As a data engineer, I've often found myself trying to...

Dev.to · Ameer Adeigbe
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Validating 1 million rows in 0.41 MB of RAM (how I built a streaming data validator in Python)
Every Python developer working with large files has hit this wall at least once. You have a CSV with...

Dev.to · Deepanshu Garg
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How I Went from SQL Beginner to 119/120 — 40 Practice Exercises That Made the Difference
When I started learning SQL, I could write SELECT * FROM table and that was about it. The problem...

Dev.to · Charles Wu
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
From TP to AP: How OceanBase Materialized Views Support HTAP
Incremental refresh, join MVs, and nested pipelines for hybrid workloads. In real-time analytics,...

Dev.to · Iman
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Stop Using .iterrows(). Here's What Actually Fast Looks Like
You're looping over a DataFrame. It feels natural. It's killing your performance. # What most...

Dev.to · Alex Merced
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Headless BI: How a Universal Semantic Layer Replaces Tool-Specific Models
Your organization uses Tableau for executive dashboards, Power BI for operational reports, and...
Simon Willison's Blog
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2
Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2 "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts. Tags: datasette , datasette-agent

Dev.to · Alex Merced
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Data Virtualization and the Semantic Layer: Query Without Copying
Every data pipeline you build to move data from one system to another costs you three things: time...

Dev.to · Mariano Barcia
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Data fails first
The strange thing was that the first real scaling problems had nothing to do with scale. Or at least,...

Dev.to · Linhua Zhong
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
At what headcount does an internal data flywheel begin to compound meaningfully?
Having observed dozens of internal data initiatives across SMBs, I've noticed consistent thresholds...

Dev.to · Alex Merced
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
What Are Lakehouse Catalogs? The Role of Catalogs in Apache Iceberg
This is Part 7 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 6 covered the write process and...

Dev.to · Linhua Zhong
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Data flywheel for small businesses (no ML PhD required)
{ "platform": "ig-carousel", "hashtags": [ "enterprise-AI", "AI-onboarding", ...

Dev.to · Alex Merced
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Partition Evolution: Change Your Partitioning Without Rewriting Data
This is Part 4 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 3 covered metadata-driven performance....

Dev.to · E. Mitev
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Stop Scraping Betting Sites: How to Build a Real-Time Sports Tracker in Python
If you have ever tried to build a sports dashboard, an arbitrage scanner, or an automated trading...

Dev.to · Sedat Anak
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Sentiment Scoring for Finance News: A Practical Intro
A practical introduction to sentiment scoring for finance news

Dev.to · Alex Merced
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Performance and Apache Iceberg's Metadata
This is Part 3 of a 15-part Apache Iceberg Masterclass. Part 2 covered the metadata structures of all...

Dev.to · Apache SeaTunnel
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Selective CDC with Apache SeaTunnel: How to Capture Only the Database Changes You Need
1. Overview In modern data architectures, real-time capture and processing of data changes...

Dev.to · pickuma
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Building a Monte Carlo Retirement Simulator in Python
How to model thousands of possible market paths instead of trusting one average return — a working Python approach to retirement projections and the assumptions

Dev.to · pickuma
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Why Enterprise AI Fails: Fragmented Data, Not Model Choice
Enterprise AI rollouts stall on data fragmentation, not weak models. A developer's breakdown of the entity resolution, schema alignment, and permission work cop
Dev.to · Raizan
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Temporal vs n8n vs Airflow for Data Pipelines
A practical guide covering temporal vs n8n vs airflow for data pipelines.

Dev.to · Argon Loop
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Runtime Governance Evidence Anchors in 2026: A Public Ledger for Budget and Accountability Decisions
TLDR Runtime governance breaks when one dataset is asked to support two different...

Dev.to · Victor Feitosa
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How to Merge Multiple Excel Files into One with Python
Every month, the same thing happens in offices everywhere: someone has to open 12 monthly reports...

Dev.to · Hayrullah Kar
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Automating Magento BI Dashboards in Google Sheets (Ditch Static CSVs)
While Magento maintains robust e-commerce capabilities, its native dashboard lacks the dynamic...

Dev.to · Matt Lewis
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Data Ingestion: RSS Feeds, Knowledge Base, S3 Vectors, and Metadata Filtering
This is the second in a series of posts documenting the architecture, implementation, and lessons...

Dev.to · SweepBase
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
What I learned scraping 141 crypto cardholder agreements
An honest dev write-up of the dataset behind a market-structure analysis on BIN sponsor concentration across 141 crypto cards

Dev.to · Sedat Anak
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Storing and Querying Time-Series Price Data Efficiently
Storing and querying time-series price data efficiently

Dev.to · Ramiro
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Metabase 61: AI fun police, build questions and dashboards with MCP, and much more!
In v60 we put AI features in all plans, including Open Source. With v61, we give you the controls for...

Dev.to · Michael
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How GBase 8a Rough Index Works: Block‑Level Pruning for 10x Faster Queries
The Rough Index is a lightweight, built‑in indexing mechanism of GBase 8a's columnar storage engine....
Simon Willison's Blog
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1
Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1 More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme; color col

Dev.to · Shai Karmani
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The Power BI Setting That Makes Semantic Models Safer
Outbound Access Protection for semantic models changes Power BI governance from report permissions to workspace-level network controls.

Dev.to · VesselAPI
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How to Measure a Ship's CO Emissions From Land
How to Measure a Ship's CO₂ Emissions From Land Here's a question that sounds simple until...

Dev.to · Mike Burgh
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Share Query Results Without Exposing Your Database
Someone asks for data. You run the query. Now what? Export to CSV, attach it to an email, hope...

Dev.to · peisen yan
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Scatter Plots with Linear Regression in R (with Multi-Panel Layouts)
A complete R tutorial for creating publication-ready scatter plots with linear regression, including multi-panel layouts using layout() and automatic R²/p-value

Dev.to · Dinesh_gowtham
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Athena Queries Broke the Bank: How We Saved $1200 by Fixing 3 Simple Mistakes
The Surprising Cost of Athena Queries We started by investigating our Athena queries,...

Dev.to · likithasree Yarabarla
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How I built a free carbon credit risk model using NASA satellite data, dbt, and Streamlit
I spent 3 weeks building an open-source pipeline that scores permanence risk for every blue carbon...
Dev.to · kazutaka kobayashi
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Bypassing Scraper Latency: Building a Real-Time Economic Indicator (REI) Tracker with Python
How to beat government statistic latency by building a high-frequency price tracker using Python and SearchApi.

Dev.to · Gowtham Potureddi
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
chime Data Engineering Interview Questions: Full Prep Guide
chime data engineering interview questions mirror how neobank and consumer-fintech teams vet...

Dev.to · Forrest Miller
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
37.9% of places in pasted travel plans had trip-risk issues
I analyzed an early ValidaTrip corpus of pasted trip plans to answer a narrow question: How often...

Dev.to · soy
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
PostgreSQL: New Time-Series Extension & Replication Monitor; DuckDB in Production
PostgreSQL: New Time-Series Extension & Replication Monitor; DuckDB in Production ...

Dev.to · Manveer Chawla
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Can ClickHouse DELETE Data? A 2026 PR-by-PR Analysis
TL;DR ClickHouse has supported DELETE operations since 2018. As of 2026, it ships four...

Dev.to · StiiWann
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Fentanyl Poverty: Building a Big Data Pipeline to Map America's Overdose Epidemic
The United States is in the grip of an opioid crisis. Between 2019 and 2023, fentanyl-related...

Dev.to · Roberto B.
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Understanding Correlation in PHP: Pearson vs Spearman vs Kendall Tau
Correlation helps you understand whether two variables move together and how strongly they are...

Dev.to · Datainteg
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
I Built Airflow DAG Studio — A Visual Drag-and-Drop Builder for Apache Airflow DAGs
Most Airflow problems don’t start in production. They start inside a large DAG file. One duplicate...

Dev.to · Mukhtar
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Turn Your Email Into a SQL Database
Your inbox is data. Query it like data. The 2-Minute Version: # Install and ingest your...

Dev.to · Mohamed Hussain S
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Why Real-Time Analytics Eventually Changes Your Database Architecture
A lot of systems begin with a single database. Usually PostgreSQL. And honestly, in the beginning,...

Dev.to · Guilherme Cavalcante
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
A data platform tracking news and social media across 167 cities in Rio Grande do Norte for under R$5/month.
I put a data pipeline into production paying 30x less than a traditional setup would require. Over...
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