Data Pipeline Design Patterns - #1. Data flow patterns
Data pipelines built (and added on to) without a solid foundation will suffer from poor efficiency, slow development speed, long times to triage production issues, and hard testability. What if your data pipelines are elegant and enable you to deliver features quickly? An easy-to-maintain and extendable data pipeline significantly increase developer morale, stakeholder trust, and the business bottom line! Using the correct design pattern will increase feature delivery speed and developer value (allowing devs to do more in less time), decrease toil during pipeline failures, and build trust with stakeholders. This post goes over the most commonly used data flow design patterns, what they do, when to use them, and, more importantly, when not to use them. By the end of this post, you will have an overview of the typical data flow patterns and be able to choose the right one for your use case.
Apartment Market Surveys & Product Feedback: Real-World Notes from a 2x PropTech Entrepreneur | HelloData.ai
Over the past month, we finished a few pilots where the primary feedback was that our product was “too detailed” for on-site management teams. Here's how we found out why, and fixed the problem in 7 days.
Summarizing and Querying Data from Excel Spreadsheets Using eparse and a Large Language Model
Editor's Note: This post was written by Chris Pappalardo, a Senior Director at Alvarez & Marsal, a leading global professional services firm. The standard processes for building with LLM work well for documents that contain mostly text, but do not work as well for documents that contain tabular data (like spreadsheets). We wrote about our latest thinking on Q&A over csvs on the blog a couple weeks ago, and we loved reading Chris's exploration of working with csvs and LangChain using agents, chai
Learn how to implement strong authentication and SSO in Shiny apps with Descope. This guide integrates both OIDC and SAML with Posit Connect for seamless login.
In order to facilitate parsing of http requests and creating appropriate responses this package provides two classes to handle a lot of the housekeeping involved in working with http exchanges. The infrastructure builds upon the rook specification and is thus well suited to be combined with httpuv based web servers.
The rcrd class extends vctr. A rcrd is composed of 1 or more fields,
which must be vectors of the same length. Is designed specifically for
classes that can naturally be decomposed into multiple vectors of the same
length, like POSIXlt, but where the organisation should be considered
an implementation detail invisible to the user (unlike a data.frame).
Guest Blog: Reproducible Data Pipelines In R With {targets} - ESIP
Reproducibility is a huge challenge in science, especially as datasets grow larger and workflows become more complex. Enter targets — an R package that helps
A data workflow is the series of steps that turn raw data into something meaningful — think downloading, cleaning, analyzing and visualizing. You might already do this in R with a mix of scripts and notebooks. Some steps in your data workflow may also be manual and require no coding, such as data processing in Excel or uploading model output data to OneDrive.
A data pipeline, on the other hand, is an automated version of that workflow. It ensures that every step happens in order, only the necessary steps are rerun when data changes, and guarantees the results are reproducible every time. A well-structured pipeline ensures that anyone revisiting the analysis — including your future self — can rerun, verify and build on the work without extra effort or missing pieces.