What’s the missing link to getting that first job? — It’s no secret that bootcamps don’t fully prepare you for a job in data science. Having gone through my share of data science courses/bootcamps/MOOCs on Udacity, Udemy, Coursera, EdX, and General Assembly, I can attest that no interviewer ever said, “I see on your resume that you took a data…

Effortlessly spin up a notebook backed by a big data cluster — 2020 is a great year to dive into big data with Jupyter and Spark clusters. All of the top 3 cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) have configured, managed services to spin up clusters, pre-loaded with Jupyter and Spark. …

Connect Jupyter Notebooks to terabytes of data — I remember my first data science project, analyzing a 6.5MB file on ten thousand movies. It was magical to quickly find patterns from data from a few keystrokes and soon I was on the hunt to find other datasets to analyze. …