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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 7 min

Wrangling Data Flows vs Mapping Data Flows in ADF

Azure Data Factory has two visual ways to transform data: mapping data flows, built as a graph, and wrangling with Power Query. Both run on Spark. This guide compares authoring, connectors, supported functions and limits, shows what each is good at, and explains how the choice carries into Microsoft Fabric.

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MLOps
6 May 2026 8 min

GPU vs CPU for ML: When You Actually Need a GPU

GPUs win on large, parallel maths and lose on small, scattered work. Measured on a laptop's integrated GPU and its CPU, the GPU ran at half the CPU's speed on tiny matrices, up to nine times faster on large ones, and nearly four times faster embedding sentences in batches, but slower one sentence at a time.

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MLOps
6 May 2026 5 min

How to Build an MLOps Portfolio That Stands Out

An MLOps portfolio is judged on evidence that a system works and keeps working, not on how many tools it names. This guide covers what to build, what reviewers look for, how to structure the repository and README, how to use GitHub's profile features, and a rubric for checking your own project.

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Data Analytics
6 May 2026 6 min

Data Visualization Best Practices and Common Mistakes

Data visualisation best practices built around the mistakes they prevent, with the distortion measured rather than asserted: a truncated axis that exaggerates a 4% change 25 times, circles that triple a difference, percent versus percentage points, choosing the chart for the relationship, dual axes, colour and clutter.

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Data Analytics
6 May 2026 6 min

Descriptive vs Diagnostic vs Predictive Analytics

Descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics compared in practice: one real bike-sharing dataset taken through all three, from what happened, to why the worst day happened, to forecasting the next six months and beating a simple baseline, with the limits of each type and where prescriptive analytics takes over.

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Data Analytics
6 May 2026 5 min

Excel for Data Analysis: Formulas That Matter

The Excel formulas that do most of the work in data analysis, shown as patterns on a sales table: looking up values with XLOOKUP, conditional totals with SUMIFS and COUNTIFS, cleaning text properly, handling errors without hiding problems, dynamic arrays with UNIQUE and FILTER, and readable formulas with LET.

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