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Data Digest: Managing and Analyzing Modern Data

Expanding data democratization, learning data science, and new ways to measure data’s impact.

Welcome to the Age of the Engineer-Data Scientist

The growing enthusiasm for a new hybrid role raises significant questions. We answer them here.

Data Stories: Trends in Solar and Wind Power

Working in solar power production, the growth of wind power, and where green power is concentrated.

Data Digest: Education and Data Ethics

Teaching ethics to data scientists, researching solutions to biased algorithms, and debate about the future of AI and privacy regulations.

Move Over Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers Have the Sexiest Job

Why the analytics engineer will displace the data scientist as the world’s sexiest job, and how the modern data stack plays a part in this trend.

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: From Buzz to Reality

Enterprises are adopting more robust privacy and data protection regulations, but there are limits to an approach based solely on privacy-enhancing technologies. Here are four things to keep in mind.

Data Digest: Delivering Effective, Modern Data Governance

Managing today’s risks, implementing effective data governance, and cleaning up messy data sets.

Data Stories: Fancy Charts and Simple Charts

Creating fancy spiral plots, an argument against box plots, and how to use simple charts effectively.

Q&A: Classification, Clustering, and ML Challenges

In this Q&A, we look at two key machine learning approaches -- what they are, how they’re used, and the challenges of implementing them -- with Naveed Ahmed Janvekar, a senior data scientist at Amazon.