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Generative AI
6 May 2026 11 min

Prompt Engineering: Techniques That Actually Improve Output

Most prompt advice is a list of tips. This guide takes one job, pulling three fields out of customer emails, and rewrites the prompt seven times, scoring each version on the same twelve emails. An example and a schema fixed the format; definitions and asking for evidence before the verdict fixed the meaning.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Spark vs Hadoop: What Changed and Why

What changed when Spark overtook Hadoop MapReduce: the three parts of Hadoop, the MapReduce model emulated step by step on three million taxi trips with its intermediate data written to disk, why in-memory processing and DAGs mattered, what Spark still borrows from Hadoop, and what that means today.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 9 min

Incremental Data Loading in Azure Data Factory

Incremental loading copies only what changed since the last run. This guide explains the four approaches Azure Data Factory documents, builds the watermark pattern step by step, runs it on a real table to show what it catches and what it silently misses, and says when to use change tracking, dated folders or windows.

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Interview Questions
6 May 2026 9 min

Statistics Interview Questions for Data Science

Statistics questions in data science interviews test judgement more than formulas. Eight common questions are worked here on 12,330 real online shopping sessions: skewed averages, standard error, p-values two ways, a bootstrap interval, a confounder in a weekend effect, multiple testing, outliers and sample size.

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Interview Questions
6 May 2026 10 min

Window Functions SQL Interview Questions

Interviewers use window functions to see whether you understand how SQL evaluates a query, not just the syntax. These nine questions, each answered with a query run on two years of real bike rentals, cover ranking ties, top N per group, running totals, the default frame trap, gaps and islands, and filtering.

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GCP
6 May 2026 9 min

Migrating to BigQuery: A Practical Playbook

Moving a warehouse to BigQuery is less a copy job than a proof: that the SQL still means the same thing and the numbers still match. This playbook follows Google's iterative method, then reproduces two steps locally: a translator that gets one statement wrong, and a copy that passes row counts while 23 rows differ.

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