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Requirements Gathering

15th October 202415th October 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

Requirements gathering is the process of understanding and documenting what characteristics a project must or should have. This is an important part of the project for success, after all if …

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Export BigQuery table to Google Cloud Storage

10th October 202415th October 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

A code example for how to write BigQuery SQL to export a table to Google Cloud Storage in csv and parquet file formats. Parquet CSV

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Data Ops Crash Course

8th October 202415th October 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

Data Ops, AKA Dev Ops for data. Essential content for learning about improving the velocity of development and effective maintenance of data products (products produced by data teams). Christopher Bergh …

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Pandas for data analysis – Video mega guide

7th October 20246th October 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

Pandas is the go to library in Python for analysing and manipulating data. This post lists some useful video resources for learning this package. Brandon Rhodes – Pandas From The …

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Physical Health Tracker – September 2024

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Physical Health Tracker – August 2024

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Using SQL in Google Sheets

11th August 202410th August 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

SQL is a great language for analysing and slicing and dicing data. The folks at Google who build Google Sheets appreciate this too. So much so that they have built …

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Execute queries in BigQuery in parallel using python

10th August 202410th August 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

An example of how to run multiple queries in parallel.

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Copying BigQuery tables to a new dataset with bq command line tool

28th July 202428th July 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

With the bq command line tool moving multiple tables at a time from one BigQuery dataset to another can be done with a few lines of code. The tool can …

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Using SQL in pandas with duckdb

7th July 20247th July 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

A code snippet showing how to use SQL to query a pandas dataframe using duckdb. See this post by duckdb. SQL logic, functions and syntax fit my brain better than …

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