--- title: Best Towards Data Science posts — March 2022 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Towards Data Science posts from March 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/tds/best-of/2022/03 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/tds/best-of/2022/03 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Towards Data Science posts — March 2022 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Towards Data Science posts from March 2022, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Towards Data Science — March 2022 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/my-favorite-vs-code-extensions-of-2022-a9mcpzy6t "My Favorite VS Code Extensions of 2022") Article Towards Data Science · 4y My Favorite VS Code Extensions of 2022 The Atom One Dark theme is my favorite because the colors have useful contrast and look great. VSCode Great Icons look so much better than the default, and the folder icons make it easier to tell which directory I’m in. I find this especially useful when writing React components where a lot of the boilerplate code gets repetitive. 131 6 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/fall-in-love-with-your-environment-setup-gpsmhq975 "Fall in Love with Your Environment Setup") Article Towards Data Science · 4y Fall in Love with Your Environment Setup A Python developer’s guide to the optimal setup for collaboration, production readiness and time saving. The setup instructions for recommended tools can be found in the python-dev-setup repo, which will be referenced throughout the article. The variety of options available for accomplishing the 5 key tasks of environment setup can be overwhelming. I have tested these tools across operating systems to ensure optimal setup no matter your OS. 59 1 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/anomaly-detection-in-sql-lsqi1kc4k "Anomaly Detection in SQL") Article Towards Data Science · 4y Anomaly Detection in SQL Anomaly Detection with Z-Scoring is a simple, unsupervised statistical technique for flagging outliers. Z-scoring is a powerful, minimalist anomaly detection model that can be implemented quickly and flexibly in the data warehouse. The model is based on a fictitious transaction-level table in Snowflake. 12 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-dos-and-don-ts-of-dashboard-design-rlyy3wiem "The Dos and Don’ts of Dashboard Design") Article Towards Data Science · 5y The Dos and Don’ts of Dashboard Design Dashboards are a great way to share data in a visual format. Tableau, Cognos Analytics, and Python are a few tools used to create dashboards. 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