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How to think about the ROI of data work

It happens at least once in the lifetime of every data leader or practitioner. You get asked to estimate the ROI of your work, team or of hiring one more person. If you're lucky you get away with a vague response around making the company more data driven.

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Evolving LinkedIn's analytics tech stack

As a result, the process was less tedious, easier to manage, and only cost a fraction of what we estimated for the manual route. The larger lesson we would point to here is to seize opportunities to save time, effort, and cost through automation, where feasible.

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https://www.castordoc.com/blog/what-is-analytics-engineering

As you read the title, you probably thought: "Great, and another job hits the stack: what on earth is an Analytics Engineer now?" You almost kept scrolling, but if you made it up to here, it's probably because the weird juxtaposition of "analytics" next to "engineer" caught your attention.

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Shopify's Unique Data Science Hierarchy Of Needs

By Phillip RossiYou've probably seen the "Data Science Hierarchy of Needs" (pictured below) before. Inspired by Maslow, it shows the tooling you would use at different levels in data science-from logging and user-generated content at the bottom, to AI and deep learning at the very top.While hierarchies like this one can serve as helpful guides, at Shopify, we don't think it always captures the whole picture.

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Shopify's Unique Data Science Hierarchy Of Needs

The Guide to Data Versioning

"I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth." "The truth doesn't have versions, okay?" - Something's Gotta Give (2003) Introduction What is Data Versioning? Why is Data Versioning Important? How is Data Versioning Implemented?