PinnedZach QuinnNew To My Work? Start HerePlus this week’s most engaging story (refreshed weekly).Feb 10, 20231Feb 10, 20231
Zach QuinnBeware 3 Cursed Data Job Search TrapsData science job scams that target new graduates, including 1 that could cost you 20k.5d ago5d ago
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceExecute A Multi-CSV Backfill From Google Cloud Storage In 50 SecondsLeverage the Python Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery APIs to bulk download, transform and upload CSV files in < 1 minute.Oct 28Oct 28
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceWhat Makes Data Engineers Say “No”How to reject a data engineering request without ever saying the word “no.”Oct 23Oct 23
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceThe 1 Question New Data Engineers Never Ask (But Absolutely Must)Either afraid or stuck in old habits, new engineers fail to ask important probing questions; how devs can think critically.Oct 212Oct 212
Zach QuinnWhy Floridians Don’t Fear Hurricanes Even Though You DoWe’re not crazy; we’re crazy prepared.Oct 91Oct 91
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceJupyter v. VS Code — The Petty IDE Battle That Really Shouldn’t MatterBut since it does: 3+ years’ of development opinion from a data engineer who works in both Jupyter Notebook and VS Code IDEs.Oct 71Oct 71
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceParse 12 Months Of Credit Card Statements In 3 MinutesHow to use Python to read multi-page PDFs, transform unstructured data and SQL to format the final result in BigQuery.Sep 30Sep 30
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceCorrupted File… Or Just Zipped?How to identify, decode and work with zipped files in bytes form in Python.Sep 23Sep 23
Zach QuinninPipeline: Your Data Engineering ResourceAm I Coding Too Fast?How to discover, increase and maintain development pace to churn out code that works as efficiently as you do.Sep 16Sep 16