How to become a dbt Certified Developer
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- Technical 5
- Personal 5
- Technology 3
- Motivation 2
- Career 2
- Project Management 2
- Presentation 2
- Programming 1
- Networking 1
- Data Science 1
Technical
SQL Readability (2020)
Scenario: You submitted a Pull Request (PR) for a sophisticated contribution to production (prod), that you spent several hours working on.
Why I Upgraded my Website from HTML -> Jekyll
My initial blog started off with several considerations as a website. Should I create a website? If I create the website, how much would I have to pay for a ...
Quickly Getting Started with Google Maps API w/Python (July 2018 Platform)
You probably want to harness the power of Google Maps API for application development. Moreover, your are coding in Python.
Resources for creating Tableau Visualizations through Python
I have not personally tried to create Tableau visualizations through Python, but there does exist a python library called TabPy.
Personal
Next 5 years – Another Raul’d-Map (2026 Roadmap)
Just like Donald Trump, here we go again…
Where have I been? A recap of ‘21-‘22
Where have I been?
Next 5 years – Another Raul’d-Map (Roadmap)
2020–Never heard of it. Just kidding. 2020 was truly, yes I will repeat it, “unprecedented times” for us all.
COVID-19 - Information Resources during ‘Dark Winter’
In this article, I list out my resources for reliable COVID-19 updates & research. Moreover, I discuss what holds for Americans after COVID-19. Side n...
Joining #Masks4All against Coronavirus
I am a avid viewer of Lex Fridman’s podcasts and other misc. content, particularly his Youtube videos. I recently watched one of his videos on “Face Masks fo...
Technology
The Premature Evals Trap: Why AI Metrics Are Lying to You
I watched a data team present their “AI evaluation framework” last month. Ninety percent accuracy on their test set. They were genuinely proud. Three weeks l...
The LLM Token Subsidy Whiplash: When AI Economics Meet Reality
The story of subsidized AI tokens is shaping up to be one of the most consequential economic whiplashes of the 2020s. We’re living through a pivotal moment w...
How GenAI is Reshaping Open Source Collaboration (And Why It Matters)
A few months ago, I was deep in a GitHub issue thread—one of those “I want to contribute but I’m completely lost” moments. The project was active, the docume...
Motivation
2019 Lookback and the #2020Vision
It’s been a while since I’ve produced some quality personal content. Moreover, I’ve noticed that it’s been 1 year since my time as a Data Analyst at Autodesk...
Career
Next Career Move, Striving for Full-Time Contributing Analytic and Technical Solutions
It’s been 1 week since I started the next part of my journey — a situation in which a lot of my coworkers appeared startled after responding “Nothing yet. I ...
Farewell, MobileIron
Today was my last day contracting for MobileIron. I was onboarded in August 2017 as the Business Application team’s Data Analyst for an ongoing project.
Project Management
SaaS Metrics
This document is a review and breakdown of Metrics Definitions and formulas related to SaaS Metrics, particulary 16 SaaS Metrics critical for business growth
Presentation
Transforming Analytics Support With AI
As a data professional with deep experience, I lead a team for a short stint and built two analytics platforms in the era of “Modern Data Analytics”, focusin...
Public Speaking Tips
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Programming
Opening your HTML code through VS Code
Being a past Sublime PC user, I would right click the html file and select Open in Browser. Pretty simple. However, now I would like to go through this proce...
Networking
Finding Data Professional Mentors or Meetups in San Francisco Bay Area
Though I never had the opportunity to be a part of, you either just finished your Data Analytics/Science bootcamp or class. #BelatedCongrats!
Data Science
Summarizing ‘What Do Compressed Deep Neural Networks Forget?’
“What do Compressed Deep Neural Networks Forget” by Sara Hooker and others is 2020 published Arxiv.org article (also found here) discusses the tradeoffs betw...