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Data analysts as Cartographers

27th March 202527th March 2025 M SmithLeave a comment

In my downtime I often play in my mind with different ways of explaining various parts and aspects of working with data. One recurring idea is the metaphor that compares …

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Digital Analytics Masterclass

3rd March 20253rd March 2025 M SmithLeave a comment

For those interested in the field of Digital Analytics I have put together this project based curriculum to take someone from “digital analytics curious” to having the technical skill set …

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Running SQL Queries on a schedule in BigQuery | Part 2b: Cloud Functions

4th February 20254th February 2025 M SmithLeave a comment

In this part of the series we will walkthrough how to set up a query to run at a regular interval using Python and Cloud Functions. This is useful particularly …

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Physical Health Tracker – 2024 review

9th January 20259th January 2025 M SmithLeave a comment

Taking a look back at how my exercise and workout routines went over the year. If you are interested in how I record all of these stats then check out …

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MarquinSmithDotCom – A year in review 2024

6th January 20256th January 2025 M SmithLeave a comment

What Changed This year I made some changes to the infrastructure and analytics used on marquinsmith.com . Digital Ocean, who I use to host this WordPress website have increased there …

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A personal health tracking tool

6th December 20246th December 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

For a little while now I have been using a personal health tracking tool to monitor my progress in various areas such as strength exercises, weight management and mental hygiene …

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Data Analysis

Load a broken csv file into duckdb

21st October 202421st October 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

Some CSV files have issues with them. Below is a code snippet to save the information in a csv file into a duckdb database, ignoring all the ‘broken’ rows.

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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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Business

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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