Finish Slime #28

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From Gut-Feel to Data-Real: 9 Small Steps Towards Being Data-Driven

Becoming data-driven sounds heavy work, but becoming more data-driven is actually easy. Just get inspired by these nine small steps.

How the Best Chief Data Officers Create Value

While this article focuses on CDOs, there is no reason anyone could not use the same methods to create value with data; you can, too.

Harlequin - The DuckDB IDE for Your Terminal.

DuckDB is hot right now; Harlequin is a perfect CLI/ Terminal IDE to pair with DuckDB.

Good Data To Growth: An Introduction to the GDG Model

Arpit created a lovely model around building up data skills inside a company. It’s an interesting model to remember when starting your data journey.

Tackling Data's Biggest Culture Problem

The data contract seems to be rising, and Gable.ai is about to leverage that; read this to understand what data’s biggest problem is and how data contracts will solve it.

158: The Orchestration Layer as the Data Platform Control Plane With Nick Schrock of Dagster Labs

This interview offers a great view into Nick Schrock's history and what led him to found Dagster Labs, the company behind Dagster.

SQL join flavors

Inner, outer, cross, interlaced, full, null, empty - all those SQL flavors!