Data Resources

Recommended Reading, Listening, & Watching

• Slides from a similar talk by Taylor at the 2019 Music City Tech Conference in Nashville
• How Data Teams Do More With Less By Adopting Software Engineering Best Practices - Thomas La Piana’s talk at the 2018 DataEngConf in NYC
• Locally Optimistic AMA: August 2019 with Taylor Murphy
• 4 Examples of the power of open source analytics
• Deploying your first dbt project with GitLab CI
• DataOps in a Cloud Native World
• The Three Levels of Data Analysis- A Framework for Assessing Data Organization Maturity
• Lessons learned managing the GitLab Data team
• Views on Vue Podcast with Jacob Schatz and Taylor Murphy
• The AI Hierarchy of Needs
• Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL
• The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics
• Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing
• Keep it SQL Stupid, a talk by Connor McArthur of Fishtown Analytics at DataEngConf SF ‘18 explaining dbt
• DevOps for AI
• How to Implement DataOps using GitLab
• What Can Data Scientists Learn from DevOps
• One Analyst’s Guide for Going from Good to Great
• The Value of Data: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Building a Data Practice
• Does my Startup Data Team Need a Data Engineer
• Data Science is different now (Note: this is why GitLab doesn’t have a Data Scientist yet.)
• Why You Don’t Need Data Scientists
• Resources Written by dbt Community Members
• Is your company too dumb to be data-driven?
• What does “self-serve” analytics mean to you?
• Models for integrating data science teams within organizations
• Building a Mature Analytics Workflow (Note: this explains the “Analytics is a subfield of software engineering” premise.)
• DataOps playlist on YouTube
• Data mesh at Flexport

Data Newsletters

• Algos & Ethics
• Analytics Engineering Roundup Newsletter
• The Batch
• Calogica
• The Carpentries
• Cloudera
• Counting Stuff
• DataEng Weekly
• Data Culture
• Data Elixir
• Data is Plural
• Data Science Newsletter
• Data Science Weekly
• Import AI
• Insight
• Lantrns Analytics (Product Analytics)
• MLOps Roundup
• Music and Tech
• Normcore Tech
• NumLock News
• One Shot Learning
• The Sequence
• SF Data
• This week in data

Data Blogs

• Airbnb
• Ask Good Questions
• Buffer Blog
• Calogica
• Data Ops
• Data.gov
• dbt Labs Blog
• Eugene Yan
• Fast Forward Labs
• Five Thirty Eight
• Go Data Driven
• Inner Join
• MBA Mondays
• Mode Analytics Blog
• Multithreaded
• Retina AI Blog
• Sisense Data Blog
• Silota
• StitchFix Algorithms Blog
• Wes McKinney Blog

Data Visualization Resources

• Data Revelations
• Data Visualization Catalogue
• Eager Eyes
• FiveThirtyEight’s DataLab
• Flowing Data
• From Data to Viz
• Gravy Anecdote
• JunkCharts
• Makeover Monday
• Perceptual Edge
• PolicyViz
• Storytelling with Data
• The Functional Art
• The Pudding
• VizWiz
• WTF Visualizations

Data Slack Communities

• Data Culture
• Data Science Community
• Data Viz Society
• dbt
• Great Expectations
• Locally Optimistic
• Measure
• Meltano
• Open Data Community
• Pachyderm
• Prefect
• PyCarolinas
• R for Data Analysis
• Software Engineering Daily
• Spectacles
• SQLFluff
• The Data School

Technical Learning Resources

• Chris Albon
• Codecademy
• DataQuest
• dbt Tutorial
• The Data School by Chartio
• Elements of Data Science
• HackerRank (Exercises)
• Khan Academy
• Mode SQL Tutorial
• Stanford University Mini-Courses
• Technically.dev Post on SQL
• Udacity
• W3Schools