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Data Literacy
beginner
Write SELECT queries with JOIN and GROUP BY
Excel & Spreadsheets
beginner
Build a dynamic dashboard with pivot tables and slicers
SQL Analytics
intermediate
Write window functions (ROW_NUMBER, LAG, LEAD)
BI Tools
intermediate
Build an interactive dashboard from a SQL source
Python for Data
intermediate
Clean and transform a messy dataset with pandas
Data Storytelling
intermediate
Build a stakeholder dashboard with a narrative structure
ML for Analytics
advanced
Build a churn prediction model

Reddit r/artificial
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2d ago
ORBIS
The world is not lacking information. It is drowning in fragments. Markets move. Governments shift. Conflicts evolve. Supply chains fracture. Policy changes rip
TechCrunch AI
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5d ago
Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databa
Reddit r/artificial
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5d ago
Before I needed it, no one told me that "legacy tape management" was an entire industry.
We inherited roughly 6,000 LTO tapes from a business we bought last year. There was no documentation, no drives that could read half of them, multiple generatio
The Register
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6d ago
Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement
Court says Redmond can file briefs, take part in hearings amid challenge to the current path Big Tech's data spice uses to legally flow
The Register
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1w ago
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges
Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
Reddit r/artificial
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2w ago
Utah Data Center Brute Forced Through to Approval Despite Widespread Popular Opposition
A data center was forced through government approval in Utah despite the citizens widely opposing its impact on scarce water resources and numerous other object
The Register
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2w ago
UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts
What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info
The Register
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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2w ago
NHS Palantir claims face scrutiny after data suggests uneven results
Campaign group says FOI figures show some trusts carried out fewer procedures than before
The Register
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2w ago
SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love
Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight

The Next Web AI
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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2w ago
France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival
France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a Fren
Reddit r/artificial
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2w ago
Aide dans mon travail
Bonjour je travail beaucoup sur du data cleansing au travail ce qui est assez long je dois exporter des sap pour mettre en forme et croiser la donnes sur de lar
The Register
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2w ago
Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion
Experts welcome contract review after claims NHS England missed chance to grow UK health tech market
ZDNet
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3w ago
The wearable health boom is creating a data overload for doctors - what happens next
Patients have never had more information about their health, but much of it is unusable. Here's why.
The Register
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3w ago
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt
PARTNER CONTENT Your genomics pipeline is probably failing 30% of the time and you're paying for all of it
The Verge
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3w ago
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use,

The Next Web AI
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3w ago
KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO
KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material

The Next Web AI
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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3w ago
Databricks is raising again at up to $175 billion, four months after closing at $134 billion
Databricks is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of between $165 billion and $175 billion, The Information reported on Monday. The round could
TechCrunch AI
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1mo ago
Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Meta may have one found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.

The Next Web AI
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1mo ago
UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract
A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contr
TechCrunch AI
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1mo ago
Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO
The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.
TechCabal
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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1mo ago
How every recharge fed Nigeria’s $5.8 billion telecom machine
Every time Nigerians buy airtime, renew a data bundle, pay for home broadband, or top up Internet for their businesses, they feed a telecommunication economy th
Reddit r/artificial
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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1mo ago
reddit brain goldmine - you are welcome
reddit.com/settings/data-request https://gamma.app/docs/Reddit-Brain-qt0g7e5vktlgifm Implementation Blueprint Your questions answered. Three steps to go from ze

The Next Web AI
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1mo ago
The long view of property valuation: e2Value on why historical context matters in a new era of AI
For many participants across insurance and property ecosystems, current valuation challenges did not emerge from a single moment or event. Multiple economic cyc
TechCrunch AI
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1mo ago
Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators — now it’s buying $2.8B more
Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.
The Verge
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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1mo ago
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver dat

The Next Web AI
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2mo ago
Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn
Bangkok’s Board of Investment cleared six major investments on Wednesday. Three of them are data centres. The headline is the TikTok number, but the larger stor
The Register
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2mo ago
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data
The Register
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2mo ago
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition
ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration
TechCabal
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2mo ago
MTN Nigeria says it saved $5.89 million on gas as diesel dominates energy mix
In 2025, diesel made up 58.11% of MTN Nigeria’s total energy consumption, far exceeding gas-powered Independent Power Producers (23.63%) and electricity from th
The Register
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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2mo ago
American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir
Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things Palantir has won a $300 million contract from the U
The Register
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2mo ago
Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US
Happy Earth Day! Datacenter growth in the US is helping keep aging fossil-fuel plants online longer, slowing the shift to a cleaner grid and worsening air pollu
The Register
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2mo ago
Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran
Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees Workday, Rippling, and Salesforce-owned Slack rank among the worst performers for e
The Register
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2mo ago
Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad
Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet Grafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem use
The Register
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2mo ago
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses
Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a s
The Register
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2mo ago
US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally
Report says authorities are flouting accounting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies Many US states and local authorities are viol
The Register
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2mo ago
Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller
ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Mate
Hacker News · AusiasTsel
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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3mo ago
Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language
I'm a multilingual reader (Catalan/Spanish/English/Italian), and I kept hitting the same wall: I'd hear about a book and have no way to
Hacker News · articsputnik
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10mo ago
Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse
Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse. 22 comments, 84 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · craneca0
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10mo ago
Data engineering and software engineering are converging
Data engineering and software engineering are converging. 66 comments, 108 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · kgwgk
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10mo ago
Positron, a New Data Science IDE
Positron, a New Data Science IDE. 51 comments, 165 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · amai
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11mo ago
Positron – A next-generation data science IDE
Positron – A next-generation data science IDE. 92 comments, 220 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · thaisstein
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1y ago
P-Hacking in Startups
P-Hacking in Startups. 141 comments, 306 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · andreasha
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1y ago
A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?. 113 comments, 215 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · tehlike
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1y ago
Gmail to SQLite
Gmail to SQLite. 114 comments, 338 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · nafey
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1y ago
Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite
Hi everyone! I wanted to share my analytics app with you. This project came from requirements to track certain very frequent events. I found that the cost to do
Hacker News · moonikakiss
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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1y ago
Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics. 120 comments, 378 points on Hacker News.
Hacker News · tobiadefami
📊 Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
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1y ago
Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser
Probly was built to reduce context-switching between spreadsheet applications, Python notebooks, and AI tools. It’s a simple spreadsheet that lets you talk to y
Hacker News · ingve
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1y ago
How about trailing commas in SQL?
How about trailing commas in SQL?. 268 comments, 227 points on Hacker News.
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