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Data Science in Healthcare Event: Separating fact from fiction

Healthcare companies across the industry are jumping on the trend of creating data science teams, but many of them are jumping prematurely.
Lindsey Christensen
October 7, 2020
- Data
- Health Tech
- Events
Protecting User Data in HIPAA Compliant Staging Environments

How to populate your staging environment with data while keeping user data secure.
Sweta Sanghavi
March 6, 2020
- Health Tech
- Security
- Data
- Web
Kafka Basics: Tables vs Streams

Learn the difference between a Table and a Stream in Kafka and when to use them.
Edward Loveall
August 26, 2019
- Kafka
- Data
flatMap Your Job Queue

Make your job queue more performant, robust, and understandable by breaking it up into a pipeline of messages.
Joe Ferris
August 16, 2019
- Data
A Glossary for Data Engineering

We’ve been doing more data engineering for clients lately. Every time I say we’re doing that, I have to explain what it is and what we’re doing! A brief glossary to describe data engineering and some common practices and technologies in the data engineering ecosystem.
Joe Ferris
January 29, 2019
- Data
Better Date Manipulation in PostgreSQL Queries

Use interval and date_trunc to make working with SQL dates easier.
Derrick Carr
September 19, 2017
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- Data
- Web
Lean & Maintainable Reports with Heroku Dataclips

Write testable reports in SQL that don’t erode over time.
Oli Peate
August 21, 2017
- Data
- Heroku
- Rails
- Web
Data Migrations in Rails

A discussion about the reasons for using Active Record migrations vs. temporary rake tasks for data manipulations.
Elle Meredith
December 8, 2015
- Rails
- Data
- Suspenders
- Web
Let's Talk About Dials

When it comes to designing dashboards for web applications, people often turn...
Joanne Cheng
August 5, 2014
- Design
- Data
What Not to Ask

We love making software, but how do we make software that people love back?
Paul Smith
July 10, 2014
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