Heather Woods

Data for good.

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projects showing how data can improve our lives.

Are we losing our spring days?

An end-to-end data analytics project

This project combines some of my favorite technologies - open data, cloud computing, and Jupyter notebooks. All to answer the question "Are milder spring temperatures being replaced by hotter ones?" #openscience

What is a data engineer?

One concrete way to explain the fuzzy concept of caring for data

I often get puzzled looks when I say that I work as a data engineer. Here's one way to think about the value a data engineer adds: clean data is as valuable as clean drinking water.

Feeling overwhelmed by a big data snow storm?

Data engineering techniques can help your project get more value out of your data faster

When facing big data, cloud data engineering techniques save time and money by pinpointing useful data among billions of observations.