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AI Engineer Lab

Why Your RAG Evaluation Is Wrong

Most RAG evaluations measure the wrong thing, on the wrong data, with a judge that rewards the wrong behaviour. Here is what to measure instead.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate3 min readPython · Ragas · OpenAI API
Video
AlgoStrategy

Why Most Backtests Lie

Backtests fail in a consistent direction — optimistic. Here are the five structural reasons, with a detection method for each. Educational research only.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate2 min readPython · Polars
Career Lab

Power BI Developer to Fabric Engineer: A Roadmap

A staged plan for moving from report development into platform engineering on Microsoft Fabric — including an honest read on which existing skills carry over.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate2 min readPower BI · Microsoft Fabric · SQL
Modern Data Stack

DuckDB vs pandas vs Polars: When Each One Wins

A practical decision guide based on workload shape rather than benchmark scores — because the fastest tool depends on what you are actually doing.

BeginnerDifficulty: Beginner2 min readDuckDB · Polars · pandas
Career Lab

The Analytics Portfolio That Actually Gets Interviews

Three real projects beat thirty notebooks. What hiring managers screen for, and the structure that survives a five-minute skim.

BeginnerDifficulty: Beginner2 min readSQL · Python · Power BI
Automation Lab

Automation That Survives Monday Morning

Most business automations break quietly within a month. Idempotency, error handling and observability are what separate a demo from a system.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate2 min readPython · n8n · Power Automate

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