In today’s cloud-driven world, security is more crucial than ever. As a DevOps professional, it’s your responsibility to keep your infrastructure, applications, and data secure from the myriad threats that come with the convenience of the cloud. In this post, we’ll explore the most common cloud security issues and provide practical best practices to help you stay ahead of them.…
Category: Technical
Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline for a Django Project: A Step-by-Step Guide
Live demo: link GitHub Repo: link In this article, we’ll walk through how to set up a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a Django project. We’ll explain the key concepts, the tools we used, and the steps involved without overwhelming you with too much code. By the end of this guide, you’ll understand how we automated our…
Cloud Server Migration: Industry Standard Comprehensive Guide and Checklist
Recently, I have been told by my cloud provider that they are shutting down my current cloud package, but they offered me an alternative package for free. The catch? I had to migrate my server on my own. I was mildly annoyed by the thought that now I am gonna have to spend a weekend migrating and testing! However, I…
Course 6: Share Data Through the Art of Visualisation, Course Overview plus Module 2: Create Data Visualisation with Tableau
Tableau is a business intelligence and analytics platform that helps people visualize, understand, and make decisions with data. In this part of the course, you’ll become well-versed in Tableau’s dynamic capabilities and learn to inject creativity and clarity into your visualisations, ensuring that your findings are easy to understand. Learning Objectives
Course 6: Share Data Through the Art of Visualisation, Course Overview plus Module 1: Visualise Data
Course Overview Welcome to the sixth course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate! In this course, you’ll learn how to create data visualisations. Visualisations, along with compelling data storytelling, will help you communicate the meaning of a dataset to your audience. Sharing the results of an analysis is one of the most important parts of an analyst’s job. This course…
Course 5: Analyse Data to Answer Questions, Module 4: Perform Data Calculations
Calculations are a common task for data analysts. In this part of the course, you’ll explore formulas, functions, and pivot tables in spreadsheets and queries in SQL, all of which will help with your calculations. You’ll also learn about the benefits of using SQL to manage temporary tables. Learning Objectives Functions with multiple conditions Conditional functions and formulas perform calculations…
Course 5: Analyse Data to Answer Questions, Module 3: Aggregate data for analysis
VLOOKUP core concepts Spreadsheet functions can be used to quickly find information and perform calculations using specific values. VLOOKUP, or Vertical Lookup, is one such function that vertically searches for a certain value in a column to return a corresponding piece of information. In this reading, you’ll examine the intricacies of this extremely useful function so you understand how it…
Course 5: Analyse Data to Answer Questions, Module 2: Format and adjust data
In this module, you will learn about converting data from one format to another, data validation and adjust the data for our analysis. One of the ways to help ensure that you have an accurate analysis of your data is by putting all of it in the correct format. This is true even if you have already cleaned and processed…
Course 5: Analyse Data to Answer Questions, Module 1: Organise data for more effective analysis
Organising data makes the data easier to use in your analysis. In this part of the course, We’ll learn the importance of organising your data through sorting and filtering. We’ll explore these processes in both spreadsheets and SQL as you continue to prepare your data. Learning Objectives Course content Course 5 – Analyse Data to Answer Questions Module 1: Organise…
Course 4: Process Data from Dirty to Clean, Module 4: Verify and Report Results
When we clean data, you make changes to the original dataset. It’s important to verify the changes we make are accurate and to let your teammates know about the changes. In this part of the course, we’ll learn to verify that data is clean and report our data cleaning results. With verified clean data, we are ready to begin analysing!…