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Welcome to the Grokem community: how to ask a question that gets answered
Welcome, and thank you for being here early. This is a place to ask the questions the articles do not answer. A few habits make a question easy to answer: Say what you are trying…
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- Portfolio projects that are not another Titanic notebook?
The article A data portfolio that shows how you think, not just what you built has a checklist for exactly this.
- My API client keeps getting 429 Too Many Requests. How should it retry?
More on cursors, retries and backoff in Call a paginated API reliably in Python, including a script you can run.
- How do you keep UTM campaign names consistent across a team?
Four spellings of one campaign is the usual symptom of having no written rule. What works in practice is boring: One short document with…
- A retry of my nightly load doubled the rows for that day
Testing it by running the job twice on purpose is exactly the check we suggest in Idempotent pipelines: why re-running a job should be safe.
- SQLite 'database is locked' when two scripts write at the same time
For anyone arriving here later, the article SQLite: 'database is locked' and how to fix it walks through the same causes with a script you…
- GA4 shows fewer purchases than my order database. Is that normal?
A gap is normal; the two sources are not counting the same thing. Your database records every order that was placed. GA4 records what a…
- Do you write a measurement plan before you add tracking? How long is yours?
There is a worked example in Write the measurement plan before you write the tracking code, with the one-page layout people describe here.
- What SQL do junior analyst interviews actually ask?
Six SQL interview questions, worked through covers exactly these topics with data and output, so you can compare your own answers.
- I know Excel well but no SQL. What is a sensible order to learn things?
You already think in tables, which is most of the work. A route that suits an Excel background: SELECT, WHERE and ORDER BY – the same as…
- Welcome to the Grokem community: how to ask a question that gets answered
Agreed, thank you Kwame. We added that to the question guidelines of each space.