The Dataquest Download
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Hello, Dataquesters!
Here’s what we have for you in this edition:
Top Read: Learn how Kubernetes scales your containerized apps with self-healing deployments and hands-on practice. Read the blog
Community Highlights: From forecasting productivity with decision trees to designing truthful visualizations. Join the discussion
Project Walkthrough: Learn how to clean and analyze real survey data using Python and pandas, while diving into the fascinating world of Star Wars fandom. Try the project
Docker solves the “works on my machine” problem, but what happens when you need multiple containers running 24/7? That’s where Kubernetes comes in. In this tutorial, you’ll learn why Kubernetes exists, how its core components work, and get hands-on experience deploying an app that heals itself when things break. It’s the next step for anyone ready to scale their container skills.
From the Community
Forecasting Employee Productivity with Decision Trees: Dimitar’s project demonstrates an end-to-end workflow, from data cleaning and exploration to modeling and interpretation, all supported by excellent code, visuals, and clear explanations.
Balancing Small Changes on a Plot While Staying Truthful: Learn how to highlight the impact of small changes in your charts while keeping your visualizations accurate and starting at zero.
Resolving Questions and Issues: Review the updated guidelines on how to quickly resolve technical, certificate, or account issues, report bugs, or provide feedback.
Project Tutorials
Star Wars Survey Analysis Using Python and Pandas: Learn how build professional-quality visualizations that tell a compelling story about Star Wars fandom, demonstrating how proper data cleaning and thoughtful visualization design can transform raw survey data into stakeholder-ready insights. Learn more
Finding Heavy Traffic Indicators on I-94: Learn how to build multiple visualizations that tell a comprehensive story about traffic patterns, demonstrating how exploratory data analysis can reveal insights that summary statistics alone might miss. Learn more
Analyzing Startup Fundraising Deals from Crunchbase: Learn how to process large CSV files efficiently by chunking, optimizing memory, and using encoding strategies, then turn the data into a fast, searchable SQLite database. Learn more
What We're Reading
How AI is Affecting the Job Market: This article explores how AI is transforming the job market by automating routine tasks while creating demand for new roles.
Onions & Standard Deviation: A beautifully designed interactive data story from The Pudding that uses the problem of cutting onions to explain standard deviation and data visualization concepts.
GPT-5 Coding Cheat Sheet: OpenAI’s quick guide on using GPT-5 for coding—prompting, function calls, and tool use.
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