Perplexity acquires Carbon, Snowflake stock falters - Happy New Year Data Folks

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Orchestra Product Updates - Announcing Dataflow in GCP (Apache Beam)

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https://medium.com/@hugolu87/announcing-apache-beam-orchestra-supports-google-dataflow-63d2fda0c98e

• Build a Data Platform - don’t be a request monkey

• Data Engineers scaling a data function for the first time get hell-bent on answering as many ad-hoc requests as possible

• It is a better use of time to build a data platform anyone can use properly, with guardrails

• Airflow and other complicated, complex orchestration frameworks exclude people from this, leaving you doomed to write queries for data requests foreveer

• Orchestra is the answer to this problem. The best part is, it even runs dbt-core for you.

💡 Read more about the Orchestra dbt Core™️ integration here

Winter Data Conference

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Meme Drop

Medium 🧠

🧠 How to Start a Data Science Blog on Medium (link)

🧠 ELT with Fabric, Azure, and Databricks (link)

LinkedIn🕴

🕴 Wrapping Up 2024: Insights & Predictions for the Year Ahead (link)

🕴 The Data Waggle Dance: Lessons in Team Collaboration from the Hive (link)

News 📰

📰 Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire TruEra AI Observability Platform to Bring LLM and ML Observability to the AI Data Cloud (link) - note: from the archive, if you missed it this happened in May

📰 After the huge Snowflak stock shoot up, it’s down about 15% (link). Worth keeping an eye on.

**Editors Pick**

📰 Perplexity acquires Carbon (link)

YouTube and Podcast 🎥

🎥 The intersection of UI, exploratory data analysis, and SQL (link)

Special 💫

💫 Azure Data Ramblings (nice find) - link

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💫 Startup Funding Dataset (link)

Jobs 💼

💼 Senior Analytics Engineer (Finance) at KOHO (link)

💼 Senior Data Analyst at Mon Ami (link)

💼 Senior/Lead Analytics Engineer at GetGround (link)

💼 Senior Analytics Engineer at Focal Systems (link)

💼 Sr. Engineer for Analytics Platform at Trade Republic (link)

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