Insight Extractor’s Data Engineering and Science Newsletter #2

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The purpose of this newsletter is to promote continuous learning for data science and engineering professionals. To achieve this goal, I’ll be sharing articles across various sources that I found interesting. Following articles made the cut for today’s newsletter:

  1. Amazing data storytelling example from Ben Evans. Ben starts from a basic premise around “Amazon is not profitable” that a lot of people argue about. He then goes on a data storytelling journey with publicly available data-sets around his chosen premise. Must read! here
  2. What kind of data scientist am I? Elena Greval from Airbnb wrote this excellent article in 2018 but it’s still relevant to understand 3 different flavors of data scientist. Read here
  3. What does it mean to be a data science leader or manager? Eric Weber’s short post on Linkedin on what does it mean to be a leader. IC’s should exhibit these traits for faster career growth especially if you are the sole data person in a decentralized structure. Read here
  4. Functional data engineering: In the blog post here, Maxime Beauchemin explains how to apply functional programming concepts to data engineering.
  5. Interested in growth analytics? Think about this interview question from Andrew Chen: How would you 10x the growth of Product X? LinkedIn post here

Thanks for reading! Now it’s your turn: Which article did you love the most and why?

3 types of data scientist
3 Types of Data Scientist (Source)

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