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Pragmatic and Standardized MLOps - Maria Vechtomova

2023-09-08 Listen
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Maria Vechtomova (Marvelous MLOps)

We talked about:

Maria's background Marvelous MLOps Maria's definition of MLOps Alternate team setups without a central MLOps team Pragmatic vs non-pragmatic MLOps Must-have ML tools (categories) Maturity assessment What to start with in MLOps Standardized MLOps Convincing DevOps to implement Understanding what the tools are used for instead of knowing all the tools Maria's next project plans Is LLM Ops a thing? What Ahold Delhaize does Resource recommendations to learn more about MLOps The importance of data engineering knowledge for ML engineers

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marvelous-mlops/

Website: https://marvelousmlops.substack.com/

Free MLOps course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

Mastering Data Engineering as a Remote Worker - José María Sánchez Salas

2023-08-18 Listen
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José's background How José relocated to Norway and his schedule Tech companies in Norway and José role Challenges of working as a remote data engineer José's newsletter on how to make use of data The process of making data useful Where José gets inspiration for his newsletter Dealing with burnout When in Norway, do as the Norwegians do The legalities of working remotely in Norway The benefits of working remotely

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmssalas Github: https://github.com/jmssalas Website & Newsletter: https://jmssalas.com

Free MLOps course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

Lessons Learned from Freelancing and Working in a Start-up - Antonis Stellas

2023-06-09 Listen
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Antonis' background The pros and cons of working for a startup Useful skills for working at a startup and the Lean way to work How Antonis joined the DataTalks.Club community Suggestions for students joining the MLOps course Antonis contributing to Evidently AI How Antonis started freelancing Getting your first clients on Upwork Pricing your work as a freelancer The process after getting approved by a client Wearing many hats as a freelancer and while working at a startup Other suggestions for getting clients as a freelancer Antonis' thoughts on the Data Engineering course Antonis' resource recommendations

Links:

Lean Startup by Eric Ries: https://theleanstartup.com/ Lean Analytics: https://leananalyticsbook.com/ Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-machine-learning/9781098107956/ Kafka Streaming with python by Khris Jenkins tutorial video: https://youtu.be/jItIQ-UvFI4

Free MLOps course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

Practical Data Privacy - Katharine Jarmul

2023-05-19 Listen
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Katharine Jarmul (Cape Privacy)

We talked about:

Katharine's background Katharine's ML privacy startup GDPR, CCPA, and the “opt-in as the default” approach What is data privacy? Finding Katharine's book – Practical Data Privacy The various definitions of data privacy and “user profiles” Privacy engineering and privacy-enhancing technologies Why data privacy is important What is differential privacy? The importance of keeping privacy in mind when designing systems Data privacy on the example of ChatGPT Katharine's resource suggestions for learning about data privacy

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharinejarmul/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kjam

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

Building Scalable and Reliable Machine Learning Systems - Arseny Kravchenko

2023-05-12 Listen
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Arseny's background Working on machine learning in startups What is Machine Learning System Design? Constraints and requirements Known unknowns vs unknown unknowns (Design stage) Writing a design document Technical problems vs product-oriented problems The solution part of the Design Document What motivated Arseny to write a book on ML System Design Examples of a Design Document in the book The types of readers for ML System Design Working with the co-author Reacting to constraints and feedback when writing a book Arseny's favorite chapter of the book Other resources where you can learn about ML System Design Twitter Giveaway

Links:

Book: https://www.manning.com/books/machine-learning-system-design?utm_source=AGMLBookcamp&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=book_babushkin_machine_4_25_23&utm_content=twitter Discount: poddatatalks21 (35% off)

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Building an Open-Source NLP Tool - Johannes Hötter

2023-04-21 Listen
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Johannes’s background Johannes’s Open Source Spotlight demos – Refinery and Bricks The difficulties of working with natural language processing (NLP) Incorporating ChatGPT into a process as a heuristic What is Bricks? The process of starting a startup – Kern Making the decision to go with open source Pros and cons of launching as open source Kern’s business model Working with enterprises Johannes as a salesperson The team at Kern Johannes’s role at Kern How Johannes and Henrik separate responsibilities at Kern Working with very niche use cases The short story of how Kern got its funding Johannes’s resource recommendation

Links:

Refinery's GitHub repo: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/refinery Bricks' Github repo: https://github.com/code-kern-ai/bricks Bricks Open Source Spotlight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rXzoLQy2U Refinery Open Source Spotlight demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMhN2f7YDg Discord: https://discord.com/invite/qf4rGCEphW Ker's Website: https://www.kern.ai

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Mastering Self-Learning in Machine Learning - Aaisha Muhammad

2023-04-07 Listen
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Aaisha’s background How homeschooling affects self-study Deciding on what to learn about Establishing whether a resource is good How Aaisha focuses on learning Deciding on what kind of project to build Find research materials Aaisha’s experience with the Data Talks Club ML Zoomcamp ML Zoomcamp projects Aaisha’s interest in bioinformatics Keeping motivated with deadlines Notes and time-tracking tools Drawbacks to self-studying Aaisha’s interest in machine learning Aaisha’s least favorable part of ML Zoomcamp Helping people as a way to learn Using ChatGPT as a “study group” Is it possible to use self-studying to learn high-level topics Switching topics to avoid burnout Aaisha’s resource recommendations

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaisha-muhammad/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZealousMushroom Github: https://github.com/AaishaMuhammad Website: http://www.aaishamuhammad.co.za/

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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The Secret Sauce of Data Science Management - Shir Meir Lador

2023-03-31 Listen
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Shir’s background Debrief culture The responsibilities of a group manager Defining the success of a DS manager The three pillars of data science management Managing up Managing down Managing across Managing data science teams vs business teams Scrum teams, brainstorming, and sprints The most important skills and strategies for DS and ML managers Making sure proof of concepts get into production

Links:

The secret sauce of data science management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbBfVHIh-38 Lessons learned leading AI teams: https://blogs.intuit.com/2020/06/23/lessons-learned-leading-ai-teams/ How to avoid conflicts and delays in the AI development process (Part I): https://blogs.intuit.com/2020/12/08/how-to-avoid-conflicts-and-delays-in-the-ai-development-process-part-i/ How to avoid conflicts and delays in the AI development process (Part II): https://blogs.intuit.com/2021/01/06/how-to-avoid-conflicts-and-delays-in-the-ai-development-process-part-ii/ Leading AI teams deck: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_CnqjugtsEbkIyOUKFHe48BeRttX0uJG Leading AI teams video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tbBfVHIh-38

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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SE4ML - Software Engineering for Machine Learning - Nadia Nahar

2023-03-24 Listen
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Nadia’s background Academic research in software engineering Design patterns Software engineering for ML systems Problems that people in industry have with software engineering and ML Communication issues and setting requirements Artifact research in open source products Product vs model Nadia’s open source product dataset Failure points in machine learning projects Finding solutions to issues using Nadia’s dataset and experience The problem of siloing data scientists and other structure issues The importance of documentation and checklists Responsible AI How data scientists and software engineers can work in an Agile way

Links:

Model Card: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993 Datasheets: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010 Factsheets: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07261 Research Paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ckaestne/pdf/icse22_seai.pdf Arxiv version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Starting a Consultancy in the Data Space - Aleksander Kruszelnicki

2023-03-17 Listen
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Aleksander’s background The difficulty of selling data stack as a service How Aleksander got into consulting The Mom Test – extracting feedback from people User interviews Why Aleksander’s data stack as a service startup was not viable How Aleksander decided to switch to consulting Finding clients to consult Figuring out how to position your services Geographical limitations Figuring out your target audience The importance of networking and marketing Pricing your services The pitfalls of daily and hourly pricing and how to balance incentives Is Germany a good place to found a company? Aleksander’s book recommendations

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alkrusz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/alkrusz Website: www.leukos.io

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Biohacking for Data Scientists and ML Engineers - Ruslan Shchuchkin

2023-03-10 Listen
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Ruslan’s background Fighting procrastination and perfectionism What is biohacking? The role of dopamine and other hormones in daily life How meditation can help The influence light has on our bodies Behavioral biohacking Daylight lamps and using light to wake up Sleep cycles How nutrition affects productivity Measuring productivity Examples of unsuccessful biohacking attempts Stoicism, voluntary discomfort, and self-challenges Biohacking risks and ways to prevent them Coffee and tea biohacking Using self-reflection and tracking to measure results Mindset shifting Stoicism book recommendation Work/life balance Ruslan’s biohacking resource recommendation

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslanshchuchkin/

ree data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Analytics for a Better World - Parvathy Krishnan

2023-03-03 Listen
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Parvathy Krishnan (Analytics for a Better World)

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Parvathy’s background Brainstorming sessions with nonprofits to establish data maturity Example of an Analytics for a Better World project The overall data maturity situation of nonprofits vs private sector Solving the skill gap Publicly available content The Analytics for a Better World Academy The Academy’s target audience How researchers can work with Analytics for a Better World Improving data maturity in nonprofit organizations People, processes, and technology Typical tools that Analytics for a Better World recommends to nonprofits Profiles in nonprofits Does Analytics for a Better World has a need for data engineers? The Analytics for a Better World team Factors that help organizations become more data-driven Parvathy’s resource recommendations

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parvathykrishnank/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/ABWInstitute Github: https://github.com/Analytics-for-a-Better-World Website:  https://analyticsbetterworld.org/

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Accelerating the Adoption of AI through Diversity - Dânia Meira

2023-02-24 Listen
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Dânia Meira (AI Guild)

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Dania’s background Founding the AI Guild Datalift Summit Coming up with meetup topics Diversity in Berlin Other types of diversity besides gender The pitfalls of lacking diversity Creating an environment where people can safely share their experiences How the AI Guild helps organizations become more diverse How the AI guild finds women in the fields of AI and data science Advice for people in underrepresented groups Organizing a welcoming environment and creating a code of conduct AI Guild’s consulting work and community AI Guild team Dania’s resource recommendations Upcoming Datalift Summit

Links:

Call for Speakers for the #datalift summit (Berlin, 14 to 16 June 2023): https://eu1.hubs.ly/H02RXvX0 Coded Bias documentary on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/de/title/81328723#:~:text=This%20documentary%20investigates%20the%20bias,flaws%20in%20facial%20recognition%20technology. Book Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction Book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Staff AI Engineer - Tatiana Gabruseva

2023-02-17 Listen
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Tatiana’s background Going from academia to healthcare to the tech industry What staff engineers do Transferring skills from academia to industry and learning new ones The importance of having mentors Skipping junior and mid-level straight into the staff role Convincing employers that you can take on a lead role Seeing failure as a learning opportunity Preparing for coding interviews Preparing for behavioral and system design interviews The importance of having a network and doing mock interviews How much do staff engineers work with building pipelines, data science, ETC, MPOps, etc.? Context switching Advice for those going from academia to industry The most exciting thing about working as an AI staff engineer Tatiana’s book recommendations

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatigabru/  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/tatigabru Github: https://github.com/tatigabru Website:  http://tatigabru.com/

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Navigating Career Changes in Machine Learning - Chris Szafranek

2023-02-03 Listen
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Chris’s background Switching careers multiple times Freedom at companies Chris’s role as an internal consultant Chris’s sabbatical ChatGPT How being a generalist helped Chris in his career The cons of being a generalist and the importance of T-shaped expertise The importance of learning things you’re interested in Tips to enjoy learning new things Recruiting generalists The job market for generalists vs for specialists Narrowing down your interests Chris’s book recommendations

Links:

Lex Fridman: science, philosophy, media, AI (especially earlier episodes): https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman Andrej Karpathy, former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, who's now focused on teaching and sharing his knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy Beautifully done videos on engineering of things in the real world: https://www.youtube.com/@RealEngineering Chris' website: https://szafranek.net/ Zalando Tech Radar: https://opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar/ Modal Labs, new way of deploying code to the cloud, also useful for testing ML code on GPUs: https://modal.com Excellent Twitter account to follow to learn more about prompt engineering for ChatGPT: https://twitter.com/goodside Image prompts for Midjourney: https://twitter.com/GuyP Machine Learning Workflows in Production - Krzysztof Szafanek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4Gqd95j6k From Data Science to DataOps: https://datatalks.club/podcast/s11e03-from-data-science-to-dataops.html

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Preparing for a Data Science Interview - Luke Whipps

2023-01-27 Listen
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Luke’s background Luke’s podcast - AI Game Changers How Luke helps people get jobs What’s changed in the recruitment market over the last 6 months Getting ready for the interview process Stage “zero” – the filter between the candidate and the company Preparing for the introduction stage – research and communication Reviewing the fundamentals during preparation Preparing for the technical part of the interview Establishing the hiring company’s expectations Depth vs breadth Overly theoretical and mathematical questions in interviews Bombing (failing) in the middle of an interview Applying to different roles within the same company Luke’s resource recommendations

Links:

Luke's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukewhipps/

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Indie Hacking - Pauline Clavelloux

2023-01-20 Listen
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Pauline’s background Pauline’s work as a manager at IBM What is indie hacking? Pauline initial indie hacking projects Getting ready for launch Responsibilities and challenges in indie hacking Pauline’s latest indie hacking project Going live and marketing Challenges with Unreal Me Staying motivated with indie hacking projects Skills Pauline picked up while doing indie hacking projects Balancing a day job and indie hacking Micro SaaS and AboutStartup.io How Pauline comes up with ideas for projects Going from an idea on paper to building a project Pauline’s Twitter success Connecting with Pauline online Pauline’s indie hacking inspiration Pauline’s resource recommendation

Links:

Website: https://wintopy.io/ Pauline's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pauline_Cx Pauline's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulineclavelloux/  Blog about Indiehacking: https://aboutstartup.io

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Doing Software Engineering in Academia - Johanna Bayer

2023-01-13 Listen
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Johanna’s background Open science course and reproducible papers Research software engineering Convincing a professor to work on software instead of papers The importance of reproducible analysis Why academia is behind on software engineering The problems with open science publishing in academia The importance of standard coding practices How Johanna got into research software engineering Effective ways of learning software engineering skills Providing data and analysis for your project Johanna’s initial experience with software engineering in a project Working with sensitive data and the nuances of publishing it How often Johanna does hackathons, open source, and freelancing Social media as a source of repos and Johanna’s favorite communities Contributing to Git repos Publishing in the open in academia vs industry Johanna’s book and resource recommendations Conclusion

Links:

The Society of Research Software Engineering,  plus regional chapters: https://society-rse.org/ The RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand: https://rse-aunz.github.io/ Research Software Engineers (RSEs) The people behind research software: https://de-rse.org/en/index.html The software sustainability institute: https://www.software.ac.uk/ The Carpentries (beginner git and programming courses): https://carpentries.org/ The Turing Way Book of  Reproducible Research: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Data-Centric AI - Marysia Winkels

2023-01-06 Listen
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Marysia Winkels (PyData)

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Marysia’s background What data-centric AI is Data-centric Kaggle competitions The mindset shift to data-centric AI Data-centric does not mean you should not iterate on models How to implement the data-centric approach Focusing on the data vs focusing on the model Resources to help implement the data-centric approach Data-centric AI vs standard data cleaning Making sure your data is representative Knowing when your data is good enough The importance of user feedback “Shadow Mode” deployment What to do if you have a lot of bad data or incomplete data Marysia’s role at PyData How Marysia joined PyData The difference between PyData and PyCon Finding Marysia online

Links:

Embetter & Bulk Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L---nvDw9KU

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From Data Science to DataOps - Tomasz Hinc

2022-10-21 Listen
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Tomasz’s background What Tomasz did before DataOps (Data Science) Why Tomasz made the transition from Data science to DataOps What is DataOps? How is DataOps related to infrastructure? How Tomasz learned the skills necessary to become DataOps Becoming comfortable with terminal The overlap between DataOps and Data Engineering Suitable/useful skills for DataOps Minimal operational skills for DataOps Similarities between DataOps and Data Science Managers Tomasz’s interesting projects Confidence in results and avoiding going too deep with edge cases Conclusion

Links:

Terminal setup video, 19 minutes long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2PSsnqgBiw Command line videos, one and a half hour to become somewhat comfy with the terminal: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhvC56v63IKioClkSNDjW7iz-6TFvLwS Course from MIT talking about just that (command line, git, storing secrets): https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Growing Data Engineering Team in a Scale-Up - Mehdi OUAZZA

2022-08-26 Listen
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Mehdi’s background The difference between startup, scale-up and enterprise Hypergrowth Data platform engineers in a scale-up environment What a data platform is and who builds it Managing the fast pace of a scale-up while ensuring personal growth Should a senior data person consider a scale-up or an enterprise? Should a junior data person consider a scale-up or an enterprise? Sourcing talent for hyper-growth companies and developing a community culture Generating content and getting feedback Generalization vs specialization for data engineers in a scale-up The ratio of work between platform building and use case pipelines Being proactive in order to progress to mid or senior level Caps and bass guitars MehdiO DataTV and DataCreators.Club (Mehdi’s YouTube Channel and podcast)

Links:

Mehdi's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiZxJB0xWfPBE2omVZeWPpQ Mehdi's Linkedin:  https://linkedin.com/in/mehd-io/ Mehdi's Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@mehdio Mehdi's data creators club: https://datacreators.club/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Freelancing and Consulting with Data Engineering - Adrian Brudaru

2022-06-17 Listen
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Adrian’s background Freelancing vs Employment Risk and occupancy rate in freelancing The scariest part of freelancing Adrian’s first projects Freelancing 5 years later Pay rates in freelancing Acquiring skills while freelancing Working with recruitment agencies and networking Looking for projects and getting clients Freelancing vs consulting Clarity in clients’ expectations (scope of work) Building your network Freelancing platforms Adrian’s data loading prototype Going from freelancing to making your own product (and other investments) The usefulness of a portfolio Introverts in freelancing Is it possible to work for 3 months a year in freelancing? Choosing projects and skill-building strategy (focusing on interests) Freelancing in Berlin Clients’ expectations for freelancers vs employees Working with more than one client at the same time Adrian’s freelance cooperative on Slack Other advice for novice freelancers (networking) Finding Adrian online

Links:

Github: https://github.com/scale-vector Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/berlindatacol-szn7050/shared_invite/zt-19dp8msp0-pP4Av3_fVFBbsdrzPROEAg

MLOps Zoomcamp: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp

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Getting a Data Engineering Job (Summary and Q&A) - Jeff Katz

2022-06-10 Listen
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Jeff Katz (JigsawLabs.io)

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Summary of “Getting a Data Engineering Job” webinar Python and engineering skills  Interview process Behavioral interviews Technical interviews Learning Python and SQL from scratch Is having non-coding experience a disadvantage? Analyst or engineer? Do you need certificates? Do I need a master’s degree? Fully remote data engineering jobs Should I include teaching on my resume? Object-oriented programming for data engineering Python vs Java/Scala SQL and Python technical interview questions GCP certificates Is commercial experience really necessary? From sales to engineering Solution engineers Wrapping up

Links:

Getting a Data Engineering Job (webinar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvEWG-S1F_M The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part I - Hello, World! blog: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world Mode SQL Tutorial: https://mode.com/sql-tutorial/

MLOps Zoomcamp: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp

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From Academia to Data Analytics and Engineering - Gloria Quiceno

2022-05-20 Listen
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Gloria’s background Working with MATLAB, R, C, Python, and SQL Working at ICE Job hunting after the bootcamp Data engineering vs Data science Using Docker Keeping track of job applications, employers and questions Challenges during the job search and transition Concerns over data privacy Challenges with salary negotiation The importance of career coaching and support Skills learned at Spiced Retrospective on Gloria’s transition to data and advice Top skills that helped Gloria get the job Thoughts on cloud platforms Thoughts on bootcamps and courses Spiced graduation project Standing out in a sea of applicants The cohorts at Spiced Conclusion

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gloria-quiceno/ Github: https://github.com/gdq12

MLOps Zoomcamp: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp

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Teaching Data Engineers - Jeff Katz

2022-05-13 Listen
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Jeff Katz (JigsawLabs.io)

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Jeff’s background Getting feedback to become a better teacher Going from engineering to teaching Jeff on becoming a curriculum writer Creating a curriculum that reinforces learning Jeff on starting his own data engineering bootcamp Shifting from teaching ML and data science to teaching data engineering Making sure that students get hired Screening bootcamp applicants Knowing when it’s time to apply for jobs The curriculum of JigsawLabs.io The market demand of Spark, Kafka, and Kubernetes (or lack thereof) Advice for data analysts that want to move into data engineering The market demand of ETL/ELT and DBT (or lack thereof) The importance of Python, SQL, and data modeling for data engineering roles Interview expectations How to get started in teaching The challenges of being a one-person company Teaching fundamentals vs the “shiny new stuff” JigsawLabs.io Finding Jeff online

Links: 

Jigsaw Labs: https://www.jigsawlabs.io/free Teaching my mom to code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWwfTXGjBM Getting a Data Engineering Job Webinar with Jeff Katz: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/getting-a-data-engineering-job-tickets-310270877547

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