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Email a daily report with an attachment using Python smtplib
To email a report from Python, build the message with the standard library's EmailMessage, attach the file with add_attachment, and send it with smtplib.SMTP, upgrading to TLS with starttls() before logging in. Keep the…
Paying for upskilling with a loan or EMI: a checklist
Before you borrow for a data course, compare three numbers: the total you will repay, the monthly EMI against your take-home pay, and what happens to the loan if you stop the course early. The EMI itself is simple…
Economics graduate to data scientist: econometrics that transfers
An economics graduate moving into data science already has the part many self-taught candidates lack: a trained instinct for confounding, identification and what a regression coefficient actually means. The gaps are…
E-commerce RTO: find where COD orders come back and what it costs
RTO rate is the share of shipped orders that come back to origin undelivered, and it must be measured on a mature cohort: orders shipped long enough ago that every one of them has either been delivered or returned. Then…
E-commerce category analyst: GMV, assortment and the sale calendar
An e-commerce category analyst tracks how one product category, say kitchen appliances or women's ethnic wear, performs on a marketplace or brand website, and explains why its sales moved. The daily inputs are traffic…
E-commerce case interview questions on returns, COD and baskets
E-commerce case questions test whether you know how an online order actually flows — placed, confirmed, shipped, delivered or returned, refunded — and can pick the metric that isolates a problem before proposing a fix.…
ECE or electrical engineer to FDE: debugging skill that transfers
An ECE or electrical engineer is closer to forward deployed engineering than the job titles suggest: an FDE's work is largely diagnosing a system in someone else's environment, under time pressure, and explaining what…
DPDP Act 2023 basics for data analysts: what changes in your work
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 changes a data analyst's work mainly at five points: when you request or share an extract, when you join datasets for a new purpose, when you paste data into an AI or…
How to document AI-assisted work in your appraisal
To document AI-assisted work in your appraisal, describe the outcome first, then your role in it — the question you framed, the checks you ran, the errors you caught — and mention the AI tool as the method, not the…
Compare Diwali sales year on year by aligning to the festival
To compare festive sales across years, stop comparing October with October. Diwali moved from Thursday 31 October in 2024 to Monday 20 October in 2025, so a calendar-month comparison mixes build-up days, the festival…
Direct vs regular mutual fund plans: measure the cost gap from NAVs
Every Indian mutual fund scheme has a direct plan and a regular plan. Both hold the same portfolio, but the regular plan pays distributor commission out of a higher expense ratio. That cost is visible in public data.…
Digital marketing executive to marketing analyst in India
The move from digital marketing executive to marketing analyst rests on one demonstration: that you can go past platform dashboards: joining ad spend to CRM outcomes by UTM, computing cost per qualified lead instead of…
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