Why I Chose to Rent a GPU Instead of Buying a $5,000 Computer
The one aspect of AI that we have all had to contend with is the cost. Whether it’s the hardware costs of purchasing machines or the inference costs of running models online, you can expect to pay
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Attention Excel Users and Business Owners: Allow Me to Introduce the FILTER() Function
Now, I know what you may be thinking – why use a function like FILTER() when pivot tables have a filter feature in them already? The spreadsheets for this tutorial are on my GitHub repository. That’s
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Using AI to Explain Economic Data: Building a FRED Dashboard with AI Commentary
Economic data is everywhere. Investors have come to expect monthly reports on inflation, unemployment, GDP growth, and consumer spending. When some reports hit the financial news, markets react violently,
Continue readingIs Learning Python Essential for Success as a Data Analyst?
You want to know which skills matter for data analysts (DAs) right now. LinkedIn is full of advice, but after reading countless posts, here are the skills you really need to focus on: SQL is non-negotiable.
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LET ME SET THE STAGE FOR THIS ARTICLE: THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU TO BUY HERE! BUT YOU DO WANT TO READ ON BECAUSE IT WILL LIKELY BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS! Are you a small- to medium-sized business (SMB)
Continue readingMastering USERELATIONSHIP() in DAX: A Deep, Practical, and Engaging Guide
How to unlock alternate relationships and take full control of your data model’s behavior Power BI’s data model is built on relationships—those invisible highways that let filters flow from
Continue readingWhy DAX Exists: Measures as Templates and Windows as Context
Do you struggle with DAX? If so, you’re not alone. The hardest part with DAX isn’t the syntax. It’s conceptualizing it mentally. What does “filter context” really mean? Why does a measure give
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Data Sources
Helpful Data Sources Use resources (below) to find datasets or data sources. The plan is to update this whenever I come across new sources. Be sure to check back or bookmark the page. Please
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Create Stock Charts in Two Lines of Code
Creating stock charts requires expensive software, or at least it used to. Now, you can simply create it right from a programming languages. Even better, you can do it all in two lines of code. Nice! What’s
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Grasping Loc and iLoc in Pandas
One of the first hurdles beginners face when learning Pandas is understanding the difference between loc. Will this work? If you did not guess that this operation would fail, you may want to run
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