dremio-oss VS kaggle-environments

Dremio - Dremio is a data lakehouse based on the open-source Apache Iceberg table format. It offers different compute instances to process data that lives in your S3 bucket. You pay for S3 storage independently.

Dremio core is actually fully open source: https://github.com/dremio/dremio-oss

I have been using Dremio to query large volume of CSV files: https://docs.dremio.com/software/data-sources/files-and-dire...

Although having them in some columnar format is much better for fast responses.

GitHub: https://github.com/dremio/dremio-oss

As a Developer Advocate for Dremio I spend a lot of time doing research on technology and best practices around engineering Data Lakehouses and sharing what I learn through content for Subsurface - The Data Lakehouse Community. One of the major topics I've been diving deep into is the topic of Data Lakehouse Table Formats, these allow you to take the files on your data lake and group them into tables data processing engines like Dremio can operate on.

Hearing about all these components sounds great, but what everyone wants isn't to have to setup and configure all these components but instead have a platform and tool that brings this all together in an easy to use package, and that platform is Dremio. With Dremio you can work with the data directly from your data lake. No copies, easy access, high performance.

And as u/pych_phd said, it's not just Databricks, Snowflake and Azure who make these claims, even AWS, GCP, Dremio and I'm sure many others are too.

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For my home projects I generate parquet (columnar and very well suited for DW like queries) files with pyarrow and use https://github.com/dremio/dremio-oss (https://www.dremio.com/on-prem/) to query them on lake (minio or just local disk or s3) and use Apache Superset for quick charts or dashboards.

If you are interested in Data Science, you may want to look at Kaggle competitions. https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

Secondly, if you feel like you do not have enough skills or a lack of practice answering problem statements, there are a lot of good websites where you can find interesting projects. I would recommend starting participating in some Kaggle competitions or download some free Google datasets and start playing with them.

For reference: Kaggle is a Google product. You can see the list of current competitions here.

You could try Kaggle competitions, or participating in forecasting markets (as you stated) is another option. You don't need any specific skill set to be a forecaster, the rules of the bet are stipulated and from there it's just based on your ability to predict the outcome. You could also try your hand at investing in the stock market, or try and make money betting on sports games. If you're very good at this stuff I'm sure you can make a lot of money doing it. The thing to keep in mind is that generally video games are much much easier than real life

As to the specifics of your projects, that's up to you. Try browsing Kaggle; check out some of the work we have on The Pudding; check out some journalism examples to see what you can try to build on or improve.

You might want to look at kaggle competitions.