The Data Geek

Welcome, Data Geeks! ??

It's that time of the week again to elevate your game with the latest and greatest in the world of data.

?? We've scoured the vast digital landscape to bring you the most popular content, best technical deep dives, hottest threads, promising job opps, and more in the data realm.

?? Whether you're a data engineer, architect, analyst, or data enthusiast, this is your passport to stay ahead of the curve. Let’s dive in!

Tech Talks and Trends ??

??? How Apache Arrow speeds big data processing

??? What Is Mistral AI? Le Chat and Mistral Large Explained

??? Monday Morning Data Chat - Data Mesh, Data Contracts, Modern Data Engineering Standards, Bitol, and more

??? Benchmarking Snowflake Cortex against Scikit-Learn on a real-life forecasting use-case

Deep Dives ??

??? Snowflake Search Optimization Service Best Practices

??? AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead (Long live AI Prompt Engineering ??)

??? The Hunt for the Missing Data Type

??? 6 Best Practices to Build Data Pipelines

Also ??

Simon Willison interview: AI software still needs the human touch (interesting analogy in this article!)

Data Job Hub ??

Senior Director, Business Intelligence and Analytics at Visa (San Francisco, CA, US)

Practice Director (AI/ML and generative AI) at Birlasoft (TX, US)

Lead Data Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group (Bristol, UK)

Data Architect at NV5 Geospatial (Denver, CO, US)

Data Engineer, Data Architekt, IT-Projektmanager at scitis.io GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany)

Data Engineer at Stomble (remote / Sydney, Australia)

Data Architect at C9Xperts (Bay Area, CA or Austin, TX, US)

Data Engineer at Anumana (Manchester, UK)

Snowflake Data Engineer at Infotech Spectrum Inc (Seattle, WA, US)

Junior Data Engineer at Cobry (Glasgow, UK)

Basketball Analytics Intern - Summer 2024 at Pacers Sports & Entertainment (Indianapolis, IN, US)

In case you missed it!

Snowflake partners with Mistral AI, taking its open LLMs to the data cloud

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