How to start a career in data –Between 2 bits ep 03
This week, our hosts explain what exactly makes them qualified to talk about data and technology. It’s been a long and winding journey for all of them, from secrets, crimes, and assassinations to lifeguards and singing chefs. You won’t want to miss this one! The hosts also share some wisdon on how to start a career in data.
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Talend job of the week
Parsing massive JSON files with a divide and conquer approach
Download the files for the job: https://res.cloudinary.com/talend/raw...
Quotes
“Overoptimization is something that I’ve seen quite a bit. Really normalizing databases to make them fast, and then in order to do a report, you have to first have a process that pulls the data and makes a flat table, and now you’ve destroyed all the optimization that you created by having a highly-normalized database. So that’s another problem that I have dealt with and have seen quite often. And I think it’s interesting now that it’s become less of a thing – you don’t really see that anymore because databases are more highly optimized off the shelf, and I think folks have realized that we have to use this data. It’s going to get used, so let’s model it in a way that’s actually usable.”
About Between 2 Bits
Between 2 Bits is a podcast about tech, data, and the people who work with those things on a daily basis. In each episode, our hosts discuss a wide range of hot topics that all organizations face, and show you some cool things you can do with data along the way.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction and main topic: meet our hosts!
30:05 Job of the week: Parsing massive JSON files
39:43 – 40:09 Outro