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.What I love about Scrum for Data Sciene.

I love the Scrum mechanism for all data roles: data engineering, data analytics and data science. The author (Eugene) shares his perspective based on his experiences. I love that the below quote from the blog and you can read the full post here

Better to move in the right direction, albeit slower, than fast on the wrong path.

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2. Building Analytics at 500px:

One of the best article on end to end anayltics journey at a startup by Samson Hu. Must read! Go here (Note that the analytics architectures have changed since this post which was published in 2015 but read through the mental model instead of exact tech tools that were mentioned in the post)

3. GO-FAST: The Data Behind Ramadan:

A great example of data storytelling from Go-Jek BI team lead Crysal Widjaja. Read here

4. Why Robinhood uses Airflow:

Airflow is a popular data engineering tool out there and this post provides really good context on it’s benefits and how it stacks up against other tools. Read here

5. Are dashboards dead?

Every new presentation layer format in the data field can lead to experts questioning the value of dashboards. With the rise of Jupyter notebooks, most vendors have now added the “notebooks” functionality and with that comes the follow-up question on if dashboards are dead? Here’s one such article. Read here

I am not still personally convinced that dashboards are “dead” but it should complement other presentation formats that are out there. The post does have good points against dashboards (e.g data is going portrait mode) and you should be aware about those to ensure that you are picking the right format for your customers. The author is also biased since they work for a data vendor that is betting big on notebooks and so you might want to account for that bias while reading this. Also, I had written about “Are dashboards dead?” in context of chat-bots in 2016 and that hypothesis turned out to be true; you can read that here

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