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Airflow

Asked for in 9 job posts at 5 companies across Canada.

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Job posts asking for Airflow, by week, last 16 weeks

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Job posts asking for this skill, by week
Week of	Job posts
Jul 20	0
Jul 27	0
Aug 3	1
Aug 10	1
Aug 17	0
Aug 24	0
Aug 31	0
Sep 7	0
Sep 14	1
Sep 21	0
Sep 28	3
Oct 5	0
Oct 12	0
Oct 19	1
Oct 26	0
Nov 2	1

Who's hiring

Companies with posts that ask for it

FFaire3
CClutch2
WWealthsimple2
CCohere1
LLoopio1

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Impact projects

Real problems in Canada, from public data. Build something that helps, and prove Airflow while you do it.

AI-suggestedUN SDG 11

Average asking rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in Calgary shifted from $1700 in 2022 Q3 to $1890 in 2026 Q2, affecting housing affordability for tenants.

Average asking rent for a 2-bedroom apartment, Calgary (quarterly, dollars per month)

Average asking rent for a 2-bedroom apartment, Calgary (quarterly, dollars per month)
Period	Value
2022 Q3	$1,700
2022 Q4	$1,760
2023 Q1	$1,790
2023 Q2	$1,840
2023 Q3	$2,010
2023 Q4	$2,130
2024 Q1	$2,090
2024 Q2	$2,150
2024 Q3	$2,050
2024 Q4	$1,950
2025 Q1	$1,920
2025 Q2	$2,020
2025 Q3	$2,010
2025 Q4	$1,930
2026 Q1	$1,900
2026 Q2	$1,890

What to build: Build an Apache Airflow data pipeline that automates the daily ingestion of Calgary rental market data for housing advocates.
How it practises Airflow: Practice writing Directed Acyclic Graphs, scheduling tasks, and managing dependencies between data extraction steps in Airflow.
Proof to submit: Submit a public repository containing the DAG definitions and execution screenshots.

Data: Statistics Canada table 46-10-0092-01

AI-suggestedUN SDG 13

Greenhouse gas emissions from industries and households in Alberta shifted from 265130 kilotonnes in 2009 to 271415 kilotonnes in 2023, impacting environmental regulators and local communities.

Greenhouse gas emissions from industries and households, Alberta (yearly, kilotonnes of CO2 equivalent)

Greenhouse gas emissions from industries and households, Alberta (yearly, kilotonnes of CO2 equivalent)
Period	Value
2009	265,130 kilotonnes
2010	273,996 kilotonnes
2011	285,154 kilotonnes
2012	290,700 kilotonnes
2013	300,770 kilotonnes
2014	303,757 kilotonnes
2015	295,870 kilotonnes
2016	278,406 kilotonnes
2017	291,330 kilotonnes
2018	291,567 kilotonnes
2019	292,346 kilotonnes
2020	271,006 kilotonnes
2021	275,547 kilotonnes
2022	273,636 kilotonnes
2023	271,415 kilotonnes

What to build: Build an Apache Airflow pipeline to schedule and monitor the automated ingestion of environmental datasets for sustainability researchers.
How it practises Airflow: Practice orchestrating data workflows, setting up retry policies, and handling task failures within Airflow operators.
Proof to submit: Submit a public GitHub repository showing the DAG code and a recorded workflow run.

Data: Statistics Canada table 38-10-0097-01

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Projects to prove it AI-suggested

Daily Financial Market Data Aggregation Pipeline
An automated workflow that orchestrates the daily ingestion, transformation, and validation of multi-source stock exchange data feeds. It provides quantitative finance analysts with clean, ready-to-use research tables every morning.
Enterprise Customer 360 Aggregation Workflow
A scheduled orchestration DAG that combines fragmented customer support tickets, purchase records, and marketing clicks into unified data marts. It enables business intelligence teams to maintain authoritative customer profiles.
Automated Compliance Retention and Data Masking Pipeline
A data governance workflow that identifies personally identifiable information in raw cloud stores and applies anonymization transforms. It helps corporate privacy officers comply with data protection regulations across data lakes.