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Welcome to the Humans of Data newsletter — the one-stop destination for data teams worldwide to find the best curated content and to be at the top of their A-game.
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No-BS content from our diverse community of Humans of Data, behind-the-scenes stories from amazing data teams around the world, and a list of top events you just have to attend.
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Our top reads for you
Traversing the land of graph computing and graph databases
Akash Tandon
Graphs are an elegant representation of data. More importantly, graphs represent data in a way that’s closer to our mental models. These powerful data structures find applications across multiple industries and domains.
Why do graphs matter? When should you use graph databases? Can you use SQL for graphs?
Our in-house expert Akash Tandon answers these questions and demystifies graph tech for the humans of data.
Read on to find answers to your questions on graph databases.
Top 10 statistics mistakes made by data scientists
Norman Niemer
The article talks about some of the most common mistakes in statistics made by data scientists. Check this list often to make sure you are not making any of these while applying statistics to data science.
Read more here.
Announcing rLandsat, an R package for Landsat 8 data
Christine Garcia
Landsat is one of the best sources of free satellite data today. Managed by NASA and the United States Geological Survey, the Landsat satellites have been capturing multi-spectral imagery for over 40 years.
However, accessing data from these amazing satellites can be a pain. But fret not, for our data team has built an open-source R package (called rLandsat) to help users find, request and download Landsat 8 data.
And guess what? This package has been accepted by CRAN! 😱🎉
Read more here.
A blast from the past
How the Wright Brothers conquered the skies with data
Ayswarrya G
“Not within a thousand years would man ever fly.”
That’s what Wilbur Wright said when their experiments to achieve controlled flight kept failing. How did the Wright brothers achieve the impossible?
Here’s a hint—data had a large role to play in helping humans fly.
Read on to find out!
Humans of Data spotlight
450k Lines of Code & 130 Data Sets: 1 Year as a Data Analyst
Sourabh Banthia
With every edition of Human of Data, we will share a behind-the-scenes story of a fellow human of data. This edition’s story is that of Sourabh Banthia, a data analyst at SocialCops.
Read his story here.
Phew! You’re all caught up. Now go solve some problems. 😁
