By Reseun McClendon Today, your enterprise must effectively collect, store, and integrate data from disparate sources to both provide operational and analytical benefits. Whether its helping increase revenue by finding new customers or reducing costs, all of it starts with data. Data analysts, data scientists, engineers, and managers all require a robust data storage solution for…
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If you haven’t started looking for ways to improve your data analytics budget for 2023, then you’re probably already behind. The truth is that between all of the various economic indicators and investor letters, everyone is looking to improve audit all parts of their business. Especially where there has likely been bloat. One of those…
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At my very first job in data, I was an analyst on a finance team. I was working with a senior engineer who had built out several new automated processes and was managing a data warehouse and several other applications. We were supporting 4-5 financial analysts who were relying on our data to report to…
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If you’ve worked as a DBA or data engineer, then you’ve likely had to deal with data access requests. These basic data requests can go from quick requests to endless data access requests that bog down entire data teams. This has been heavily driven by the fact that companies want to be data-driven. Meaning an…
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Photo by Nicolas Thomas on Unsplash By Reseun McClendon In general, a scientific experiment is any process in which measurements and tests are used within a (typically) controlled environment to support or refute a hypothesis. Experiments can also be used to “evaluate the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried” (Chugh 2022). Hypotheses are unsupported propositions,…
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Photo by Natalie Pedigo on Unsplash Onboarding at most companies would be a great bit for a comedian. For many, we have just accepted the fact that it’s not a great experience where you will likely spend the first two weeks just trying to get access to email. But it doesn’t have to be this…
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Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash By Reseun McClendon Data Governance is the set of principles and procedures an organization uses to manage data during its life cycle. More specifically, data governance encompasses all that is done to ensure data is private, secure, accurate, available, and usable. The data life cycle may include the data’s acquisition, use, and disposal…
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It can be easy to take certain tools for granted when you work for companies with mature infrastructure. One of my favorite tools at Facebook was iData. iData was Facebook’s data discoverability tool. It provided a lot of functionality that I have started to miss. This included the baseline functions you would expect including the…
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Databricks is a company that aims to make managing big data easy. By utilizing Apache Spark as its core processing engine, Databricks aims to make managing and processing big data easy. As one of the leading providers of big data solutions, Databricks has made a name for itself in the industry. What is Databricks? So,…
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“Why do we still struggle to answer basic questions like how many customers are still active or what exactly is the company’s churn?” This was a question posed to a panel I was sitting on at the Snowflake Summit. Several panelists provided different answers and all come from very different perspectives. Truth be told I…
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