Cris Crawford articles - 43 total
ChatGPT is my first mentor
I've always struggled with the idea of mentorship. I've never had a mentor before now. Now I...
Swapping in elasticsearch to the proto-OLIVER
In the last video of the llm-zoomcamp, which I didn't post about, I reformatted the code to make it...
Generating a result with a context
In this video, 1.4 from the llm-zoomcamp, we start by reviewing what happens when we ask the LLM a...
Setting up the database and search for RAG
In video 1.3 of the datatalksclub's llm-zoomcamp, we're focusing on retrieval. In this video, I set...
Learning how to make an OLIVER
I'm going to make an OLIVER. An On-Line Interactive Vicarious Expediter and Responder. It's an app...
cryptogram-assistant
I wrote this in React at the start of my new learning journey back in 2021. The goal was to be able...
I'm learning something new!
I've been learning React Native from a tutorial. It's a great tutorial - just slightly fast-paced and...
Final project part 6
In this post I'll wrap up my final project and give some thoughts on the entire project. This was the...
Final project part 5
dbt is the main part of my data engineering project for Data Talks Club's data engineering zoomcamp....
Final project part 4
In this part of the project I'm going to create a fact model in dbt. Yikes is that hard. First of...
Final project part 3
I'm ready to start the process of putting my files from the temporary directory back into Google...
Final project part 2
In my last post, I uploaded the voter database to Google cloud storage. Then, using a jupyter...
Final project part 1
I've started my final project for Data Talks Club's data engineering zoomcamp. I'm using the...
RisingWave workshop
To prepare for the RisingWave workshop of the data engineering zoomcamp, I downloaded the workshop...
Visualization in dbt
Here's my learning in public post about Google's Looker Studio. This was the final video from the dbt...
Production and CI/CD in dbt
This is what I've learned about taking a dbt project into production and running Continuous...
GroupBy and Join in Spark
In the next three videos for the Data Engineering Zoomcamp, we learned about Spark internals and the...
Spark SQL for taxi trip data
Today we learned about how you can use Spark to execute SQL commands. As an example, we took the...
Spark functions
We learned about Spark dataframes in the Data Engineering Zoomcamp and how to write Spark functions....
Spark: Introduction
This week in Data Engineering Zoomcamp we're working on batch processing using Spark. Spark uses...
Testing and documenting DBT models
In this video we learned how to test and document dbt models. We also learned about the codegen...
Building a project in DBT
For Week 4 of DataTalksClub's data engineering zoomcamp, we had to install dbt and create a project....
Introduction to dbt
This was by far the hardest part of the data engineering course given by DataTalksClub. The...
Incremental loading in dlt
This is my final post about dlt (data load tool) for now. I've been writing about a workshop given by...
Normalizing data with dlt
This is the second in a series of posts about dlt. It was given as part of the Data Talks Club's data...
Extracting data with dlt
Last week we learned about dlt (data load tool) in a workshop conducted by Adrian Brudaru and hosted...
Colab and DuckDB
Last week we had a dlt (Data Load Tool) workshop in Data Engineering class. I'll talk about dlt in...
Deploying the Model from BigQuery
This didn't go so well. Well actually it did! I'm editing this post to say that I found a Dockerfile...
BigQuery Machine Learning
I'm wrapping up Week 3 of the Data Talks Club Data Engineering Zoomcamp. This week was all about...
BigQuery best practices
This post covers two categories of BigQuery best practices—cost reduction and query performance. ...