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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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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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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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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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Simple logging to SQLite database from python

5th July 20245th July 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

A lightweight example of saving some logs to an SQLite database in a python script.

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From email to data warehouse – Google Edition

4th July 20246th July 2024 M SmithLeave a comment

Use the Google technology stack to automatically load csv files received over email into BigQuery. In the data world, sending data over email is something that has been around for …

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