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Data Engineering
13 May 2026 6 min

Apache Spark Explained for Beginners

A beginner's guide to Apache Spark: what it is for, how the driver, executors and cluster manager fit together, jobs, stages and tasks, lazy transformations and actions demonstrated on three million New York taxi trips, partitions, installing PySpark, and the mistakes beginners make.

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GCP
12 May 2026 9 min

Vertex AI Tutorial: ML on Google Cloud

Vertex AI is now called Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and its machine learning tools work as before. This tutorial follows one model from data to predictions, explains the contract your training code must follow, and trains a real model locally to show what testing on a later day reveals.

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Azure Data Factory
12 May 2026 8 min

Mapping Data Flows in ADF: Transformations Without Code

Mapping data flows let you design transformations on a canvas in Azure Data Factory and run them on Spark clusters the service manages. This guide explains how they work, walks through one flow stage by stage with real row counts, and sets out when a data flow is the right tool.

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Career Guidance
11 May 2026 5 min

Portfolio Building: Projects That Impress Recruiters

Recruiters and hiring managers spend minutes, not hours, on a portfolio, so a project has to show its value fast. This guide gives the rubric a reviewer applies to any tech or data project, a README structure based on GitHub's guidance, the licence checks most portfolios skip, and how to reuse each project.

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AWS
11 May 2026 6 min

Amazon Redshift Explained: The Cloud Data Warehouse

An introduction to Amazon Redshift, AWS's data warehouse: how a leader node, compute nodes and slices run a query in parallel, why data is stored in columns, how managed storage separates compute from storage, Serverless versus a provisioned cluster, how it differs from PostgreSQL, and what to learn first.

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Data Science
10 May 2026 8 min

Feature Engineering: A Practical Guide with Examples

Feature engineering, measured step by step on 17,379 hours of real bike-rental data: how encoding the hour, adding an hour-by-working-day interaction and two domain features cut a linear model's error from 131 to 73 rentals, why the same features hurt a tree model, and the leakage rules every new feature must pass.

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