Oh! I think I am a Recovering Data Scientist!

In 2017, I started my first job as an Engineer Intern in the Predictive Analytics team, and after a year, I was promoted to Data Engineer. But to be honest, I was never sure if the titles I got can really describe my role in ChannelAdvisor since I was the first Data Engineer in our company. There were no clearly defined responsibilities in this role at the beginning and the responsibilities changes based on the tasks I did.

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Combine R Shiny and Dash using Docker Compose

The problem I faced I am a R user who love using R Shiny to do any interactive visual related projects. My colleague who is more familiar with Python love to use Dash to do his dashboard tasks. One day, our manager asked us if we two could work together to create an internal dashboard. We looked at each other and started thinking which path is easier, have me learn Dash from the beginning or have him learn R Shiny from the beginning?

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The benefits of using version control

Version control or source control is a tool that helps users keep track of all the changes on files in a project. It is like a time capsule, it allows users to go back to the versions saved before. That is, no matter what horrible mistakes you make on your files, you can always go back to the last clean state and pretend nothing happened. It is not only good for personal use but also for a group of people collaborating together on the same project.

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