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Here’s what we have for you in this edition:

Top Tutorial: Ship a production-style Airflow pipeline that pulls live Amazon engineering book data, transforms it with Python, and loads to MySQL on a daily schedule. TaskFlow, custom operators, GitHub Actions, and monitoring included. Read the blog

From the Community: Super Store Sales dashboard in Power BI, SQL-driven retail analysis, a new Learning Assistant, plus threads on hidden data-cleaning bugs, avoiding overfitting, Python debugging, and how culture influences AI work. Join the discussion

What We’re Reading: The AI–Coding Paradox and why experience still matters; Natural Language Visualization and when it helps; LangChain for Developers and simpler agent workflows. Learn more

Ready to move from simulated pipelines to a real-world data workflow? In this tutorial, you’ll build an automated Airflow pipeline that pulls live engineering book data from Amazon, transforms it with Python, and loads it into MySQL on a daily schedule. You’ll use the TaskFlow API, custom operators, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and monitoring best practices to create a production-style ETL system you can trust and scale.

Super Store Sales: Nisha’s Power BI project features clean, compelling visualizations and clearly communicates sales and profit trends by year, category, country, and segment, together with lessons learned from the project.

Retail Sales Analysis: J-Lynn’s project showcases well-structured data-cleaning steps, efficient SQL queries, and comprehensive explanations of each action taken, along with the insights gained.

Announcing a New Learning Assistant in the Community: Discover who recently became a new Learning Assistant in the Community and learn how you can participate in this program.

Data Cleaning Caveats: Read Israel’s explanations in this thread to see how one tiny, hard-to-detect character can break an entire data-cleaning workflow and cause errors—and learn how to identify and fix such issues step by step.

Detecting and Avoiding Overfitting in Machine Learning Models: Share your approaches to revealing and preventing overfitting when training your machine learning models. What strategies have you found most reliable?

Debugging and Fixing Python Code: Join your peers in the discussion on how to debug and fix eventual errors in Python code. What steps do you usually take to identify and resolve issues?

Effects of Cultural Differences on AI and Machine Learning Projects: Anjali provides curious examples of how cultural differences can influence AI and ML projects, particularly in communication styles, timelines, and data ethics.

The AI–Coding Paradox: AI can write code quickly, but this piece explains why seasoned developers still matter. It breaks down how experience helps steer AI, avoid hidden issues, and turn rough drafts into real, reliable systems.

Natural Language Visualization: Imagine creating charts just by describing them. This article explores how NLV speeds up the visualization process, where it shines, and where it still falls short.

LangChain for Developers: A clear look at how LangChain makes building autonomous agent workflows easier. Great read if you’re curious about smoother data connections and more efficient AI-powered development.

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