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Career Data Science

How to Close Your Data Science Skill Gap: Insights from an Industry Expert

Navigating the ever-evolving landscape of data science can be a daunting task. Aspiring data scientists often wonder how to break into the industry, while experienced professionals seek strategies to stay competitive. Fortunately, Jared Rand, an experienced data science hiring manager, shares insights to address these concerns. Here’s how you can close your data science skill […]

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Second Opinion

Maximizing Efficiency and Cost Control in PySpark

PySpark, a Python library integrated with Apache Spark, has revolutionized big data analytics with its speed, scalability, and efficiency. It offers a wide array of data transformation, analysis, and machine learning capabilities, making it a go-to tool for handling large datasets and real-time data streaming. However, as a data scientist, it is crucial to balance […]

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Second Opinion

Is Google’s Search Generative Experience a Win for Programmers?

Google has a long history of creating waves in the tech world with its innovative ideas and algorithms. Its latest venture, the Search Generative Experience (SGE), is no different. On paper, it’s an ambitious move that aims to evolve the way users engage with search results by offering AI-generated mini-articles. However, it also raises questions […]

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Fill Skill Gaps Projects

Product Roadmap: Fill Skill Gaps

The vision for Skillenai has always been to build tools that allow users to identify and fill their skill gaps. Now that a robust data science article aggregation service has been completed, Skillenai is ready for the next step on that journey. Here’s what the Skill Gap product will look like when completed. Onboarding Workflow […]

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ChatGPT Toy Projects

Storytelling kids toy powered by ChatGPT

My son is turning 5 years old in 6 weeks and I want to build him the most powerful toy robot the world has ever seen. This robot’s superpower will be…chatGPT. Requirements Plan Hardware Inspiration Software Inspiration First Story My prompt Write a story for a 5 year old about monsters and transforming robots where […]

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Motivation

System for Promoting Healthy Habits

I’m a goal-oriented person. When I started this blog about 2 months ago, I set a simple goal of growing the domain authority of Skillenai. To achieve my goal, I set about writing articles on Skillenai and other sites. I got good feedback on my first few articles and landed some nice guest blog opportunities. […]

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Data Science Leadership

Build a Data Science Team from Scratch

Is your organization beginning it’s analytics or AI journey? One of the first steps will be building a data science team to help develop and deploy machine learning models. I was lucky to have the opportunity to be the first data scientist at a tech startup. In this article, I will share how we built […]

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DAGs Data Engineering

How to Improve a DAG

This post is part of a collaboration between Alisa Aylward of Alisa in Techland and Jared Rand of Skillenai. View Jared’s post on Alisa in Techland here. Discover the worst data pipeline ever and how to improve it’s DAG. Learn to remove cycles and handle dependencies efficiently. What is a DAG? DAG stands for directed […]

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Coding Data Science Python

Singleton Fails with Multiprocessing in Python

A singleton is a class designed to only permit a single instance. They have a bad reputation, but do have (limited) valid uses. Singletons present lots of headaches, and may throw errors when used with multiprocessing in Python. This article will explain why, and what you can do to work around it. A Singleton in […]

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Blog Rankings

Designing a Blog Ranking System

Every year a slew of top blog lists are published for every topic under the sun (think “Top 10 Blogs in Data Science for 2020”). Most are manually curated, many are biased by the business interests of the publisher, few are data-driven, and none give you a voice. This article is my plan for solving […]