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Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Excel, SQL, Power BI, Tableau — turn raw data into business decisions
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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 · zhongqiyue
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Why regex wasn't enough for data extraction (and what I used instead)
I spent three weeks trying to extract invoice data from a pile of PDFs sent by different vendors....

Dev.to · Elishiba Muigo
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
To anyone who has basic computer knowledge will tell you they know Excel, many will just say it's a...

Dev.to · Team Growbix Ai
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
GrowbixAI Analytics – Smarter Decisions with AI 📊
Track your business performance, monitor conversions, and optimize your sales funnel with powerful...

Dev.to · hw lu
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How to Create Charts from CSV Files Without Excel
CSV files are everywhere: analytics exports, sales reports, product usage logs, survey results,...

Dev.to · Bob Oner
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
From Data Quality Checks to Analytics-Ready Parquet with Python
In the first article, I walked through a small Python data quality ETL starter that reads messy CSV,...

Dev.to · I Want To Learn Programming
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Pandas vs SQL, when to use each
Pandas and SQL overlap a lot, so which should an analyst reach for? A practical comparison of where each one wins, with the same operations side by side.
Dev.to · Gabriel Henrique
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Your ETL Pipeline Wasn't Built for AI — Here's How to Fix It in 2026
Your ETL Pipeline Wasn't Built for AI — Here's How to Fix It in 2026 You've got a...

Dev.to · analytic kit
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
2025 Guide to the Best Web3 Growth Analytics for Crypto Teams
Cookie-based analytics misses every on-chain interaction outside your front end — and for Web3 teams,...

Dev.to · Sebastian Casvean
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Track Medium Follower Growth and Social Graph Snapshots
Track Medium Follower Growth and Social Graph Snapshots Follower count is vanity. Useful...

Dev.to · Joey Lynne Hernandez
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
From Dashboards to Autonomous Action: Why You Need to Attend Google Cloud Labs
The era of passive data analytics is over. Today, the most forward-thinking data teams aren't just...

Dev.to · rodrigo da silva
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Building on Brazilian public data: a developer's field guide (CNPJ, CEP, Congress, BACEN)
After working with Brazilian government data for a while, I've found the landscape confusing to...

Dev.to · Zenovay
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Retention cohort analysis with plain SQL
Everyone wants a retention chart and most reach for a tool. You can get the core cohort triangle from...

Dev.to · ahmet gedik
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Running Ad-Hoc Video Analytics on Parquet Exports with DuckDB
How we run heavy ad-hoc analytical queries over tens of millions of viral-video snapshots by exporti

Dev.to · Bid Canvas
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
The Beta-Binomial trick for not overreacting to a tiny sample
It's the third quarter. A team that shoots 40% from three on the season is sitting at 4-for-20 (20%)...

Dev.to · Tzvi Gregory Kaidanov
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Dynamically Generating SQL Joins for Tables Based on a Common Column
Introduction SQL databases often contain many tables that are related through common columns, such as...

Dev.to · Matheus Dallacort
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Starting a Migration: Shifting from a Legacy Data System to a Modern Data Stack
Hello, DEV community! I’m currently working as a developer/engineer, and our data architecture...

Dev.to · Joy Andati
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Nobody grows up dreaming of pivot tables. But as the meme above knows too well, the spreadsheet was...

Dev.to · Datta Sable
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How I Engineered a 10M-Row Autonomous AI-BI Agent Using DuckDB
This article was originally published on dattasable.com. In the modern data landscape, the gap...

Dev.to · Fritz Larco
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Extract data from Databases into DuckLake
Introduction In the evolving landscape of data engineering, DuckLake is emerging as a...

Dev.to · Narruxsystems
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Why Data Warehousing Is the Foundation of Algorithmic Trading
Most conversations about algorithmic trading focus on the algorithm — the model, the signal, the...

Dev.to · Guatu
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Grafana Dashboards: Information Density vs Readability
Stop cramming every metric into one screen. A practical look at balancing information density and performance in Grafana dashboards.

Dev.to · circobit
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Construire un Système d'Inférence de Types pour des Données Web Désordonnées
Les tableaux web sont des chaînes de caractères. Tout est une chaîne. Mais quand on exporte en JSON...

Dev.to · Nicholus Mush
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Data Processing in Python
title: Data Processing in Python — Tools & Patterns published: false tags: [python,...

Dev.to · Safdar Wahid
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
SQL vs NoSQL Performance Optimization Considerations
TLDR; SQL excels at complex queries and transactions – joins, aggregations, ACID...

Dev.to · PHILIP KAPLONG
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Why Excel Is Still King in Data Analysis
Excel is a computer program built by Microsoft that lets you organize information in a grid of rows...

Dev.to · Kanishga Subramani
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
100 Days of ClickHouse® – Day 6: Importing CSV Files into ClickHouse®
CSV files are one of the most common formats for storing and exchanging data. Whether you’re working...

Dev.to · Pratik Dhanave
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Architecture Over Alerts: How We Cut BigQuery Costs by 57%($12M) for a Fortune 500
I helped redesign a large BigQuery-based enterprise data warehouse and cut spend by 57%. The biggest...

Dev.to · It's pronounced W3SHY
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Microsoft Excel is an extremely popular tool used by many companies and other types of organisations...

Dev.to · Haji Rufai
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
I Built a Columnar File Format in Pure Python — a tiny, readable Parquet
I rebuilt the core ideas behind Parquet — encodings, compression, row groups, projection & predicate pushdown — in ~3,000 lines of pure Python. 91% smaller than

Dev.to · SM
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
There's No Good Programmatic Source for African Macro Data — So I Built One
If you've ever tried to get structured, current, programmatically accessible macroeconomic data for...

Dev.to · Patrick Omondi Masese
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
My Week 1 Reflection in Data Science & Analytics Before starting my Data Science and Analytics...

Dev.to · Mistry Khateyi
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel is applied in real world data analysis.
My initial entry into data analysis was my belief that it would require me to learn a complex...

Dev.to · kelvin gikonyo
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel is used in Real-World Data Analysis.
My first week at LuxDevHQ has been an enlightening one as I got to be introduced to the world of Data...

Dev.to · WebmasterID
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Dashboards Should Improve the Operating Picture
Dashboards Should Improve the Operating Picture is a practical operating principle, not a...

Dev.to · Leah Kivuti
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
How Excel Is Used in Real-World Data Analysis: My First Week Learning Excel
When I started learning Excel as part of my Data Science & Analytics course, I assumed it was...

Dev.to · Paul Onyango
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
From Network Cables to Data Pipelines: My 8-Month Journey from IT Support to Data Analytics
May 25, 2026. This is not just another date on my calendar. This marks the beginning of one of the...

Dev.to · Adrian Alexandru Stinga
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
3w ago
Someone Is Keeping Score of Your Society's Pain
The Grievance Catalog: Why Your Population's Pain Is Already on File Adrian Alexandru Stinga | Lead...

Dev.to · sheldon oscar
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
How excel is used in Real-World Data Analysis.
Introduction to excel Excel is a spreadsheet application made by microsoft part of...

Dev.to · Paul Onyango
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Week 1 of My Data Analytics Journey: Discovering the Power of Excel in Real-World Data Analysis
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis As I begin my journey into Data Science and Analytics,...

Dev.to · Kevin
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
HOW EXCEL IS USED IN REAL DATA ANALYSIS
Microsoft Excel and Its Importance in Data Analysis Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application...

Dev.to · Trevor Karuma
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Microsoft Excel When I decide that I would pursue data science as a career path, I knew...

Dev.to · Okpanachi Ogwu
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Hello DEV! 👋 | Physics Grad Journeying into Python & Data Science
Hello everyone! 👋 I'm excited to finally join the DEV community. I hold a First Class Honors degree...

Dev.to · Brian Kiprop
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Before this week, I thought Excel was just a fancy calculator with boxes. But after three days of my...

Dev.to · BRIAN KIPKORIR
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Microsoft Excel
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis Microsoft Excel is one of the most popular spreadsheet...

Dev.to · Maureen Kipkosgei
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
How Excel is Used in Real-World Data Analysis
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet tool that is used to organize, format, analyze and store data in...

Dev.to · Farhan Rehman Sherief
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
How I Used Python to Analyse 40,000 Human Gut Cells and Uncover What Makes Crohn's Disease Different from Colitis
A step-by-step walkthrough of my multi-sample single-cell RNA sequencing project — written for anyone...

Dev.to · Raj Kundalia
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
Why 95 Reviews Beats 20 Reviews — Even When Both Score 95%
Understanding Wilson Score, confidence intervals, and the mysterious 1.96. Originally published on...

Dev.to · Victor Minbeom Joo
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
⚡ AI Lesson
4w ago
A practical SQL query tuning playbook: execution plans, joins, indexes, and the traps
How I approach SQL tuning end to end — reading execution plans, the cost model, query rewrites, index strategy, the three join algorithms, the implicit-cast tra
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