🗞️ Weekly Updates With Resources

Welcome Data and AI pros!

Welcome to your weekly briefing on Data & AI: industry updates, career resources, portfolio-building opportunities, and community events - all curated for aspiring Data, ML & AI professionals.

This week’s updates in the Data & AI world:

• Podcast: Join a live recording with Data Engineering expert, Andreas Kretz!

• Skills: Join an LLM workshop with a Langchain Ambassador, Hai(50 seats only)

• Industry read: Learn about AI agents from Chip Huyen

• Free workshop: Improve your resume with our career coach, Timur.

• LinkedIn highlight: Talk about your portfolio project effectively with Sai!

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Upcoming events with Data experts

Join us for a live podcast recording with your favorite Andreas Kretz!

Andreas Kretz is a seasoned Data Engineering expert, coach, and founder of LearnDataEngineering.com. ​He teaches over 200k aspiring engineers on Youtube and Linkedin.

Join us this Thursday, Jan 16th, 10 AM PT and learn about:

• ​Blueprint for Data Platforms: Get access to Andreas’ actionable framework for designing and managing data platforms effectively.

• ​Why Data Engineering Fuels Analytics and AI: Explore real-world examples showing how data engineering empowers advanced analytics and AI models.

• ​Critical Engineering for LLM and RAG Applications: Gain technical insights into building applications powered by LLMs and RAG.

• ​Interactive Q&A Session: Get your questions answered directly by Andreas, leveraging his years of industry expertise.

Register for the event here: here 

This week’s highlight resource

How to talk about your Data Analytics Project? By coach, Sai!

Check out the beautiful cheat sheet made by our coach Sai on communicating your impact and findings from your project! It’s your chance to showcase not just your technical skills but also your problem-solving abilities and business impact!

Here are key things you should include:

• Start with the problem/objective!

• Describe your role if you collaborated with others

• Talk about the dataset you used

• Walk through the process

• Highlight the key insights

• Share your challenges from the experience

• Talk about the tech stack

• And of course, make it relevant to your target role!

Read the entire post HERE.

Free Data Career Workshops

Join us for a free Resume Optimization Workshop for Data Roles!

As a valued subscriber, you're getting first access to book your spot for our upcoming Resume Optimization Workshop for free.

• Only 150 total seats are available - and they'll go quickly

• Newsletter subscribers get exclusive early access before the public release.

• 5 attendees will be selected for live resume reviews ($100 value)

• Get expert guidance from coach Timur to transform your resume on the spot

• BID Pro members get priority access (another reason to upgrade!)

Don't wait - once these spots are gone. Secure your seat now before we open registration to the public: here!

P.S. Want your resume "roasted" live during the workshop? Submit it here for a chance to be one of our 5 lucky winners!

AI engineering

On AI Agents by Chip Huyen

AI-powered agents are an emerging field with no established theoretical frameworks for defining, developing, and evaluating them. This post is a best-effort attempt to build a framework from the existing literature, but it will evolve as the field does.

Chip Huyen recently published a 8000-word note on agents, covering:

1. An overview of agents

2. How the capability of an AI-powered agent is determined by the set of tools it has access to and its capability for planning

3. How to select the best set of tools for your agent

4. Whether LLMs can plan and how to augment a model’s capability for planning

5. Agent’s failure modes

Read the entire article: here

High-Value Portfolio workshop (Limited 50 seats only)

🤖 Build your own End-To-End LLM Project with an industry expert

In-production AI applications require a robust evaluation framework. Period. This is a workshop, where Hai teach you everything about evals and LLM as judge with the latest research.

What’s included?

1. Intro to production-grade eval frameworks (online and offline)

2. We will build an AI editor for Break Into Data's content (to deploy it!)

3. You will learn how we can capture user feedback.

4. You will use an out-of-the-box judge to judge the system (judges library)

5. You will learn how to create your own judge

   You will get access to materials and recordings! As well as a Q&A session.

Sign up for $35 while the seats last! (Limited to first 50 people) - Link 

P.S. Free for BID PRO members.

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