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Essential Skills for Data Engineers in the Age of AI

If you work in data, then AI is everywhere at this point.  But whether AI is hype or reality doesn’t change the fact that data engineers will play a major role in ensuring that the data sets that are utilized for the growing use cases are usable both by machines and humans. Whether that data…
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August 8, 2024 0
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How To Data Model – Real Life Examples Of How Companies Model Their Data

How companies data model varies widely. They might say they use Kimball dimensional modeling. However, when you look in their data warehouse the only part you recognize is the word fact and dim. Over the past near decade, I have worked for and with different companies that have used various methods to capture this data.…
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May 31, 2024 0
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Why Data Analysts And Engineers Make Great Consultants

Many data engineers and analysts don’t realize how valuable the knowledge they have is. They’ve spent hours upon hours learning SQL, Python, how to properly analyze data, build data warehouses, and understand the differences between eight different ETL solutions. Even what they might think is basic knowledge could be worth $10,000 to $100,000+ for a…
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May 27, 2024 0
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7 Great Embedded Analytics Solutions – Which Embedded Analytics Solutions Should You Use?

Big data is big business these days. Organizations that hope to get ahead in crowded markets must utilize data from a variety of often highly disparate sources to understand how they’re performing and what customers are saying about them. However, data without the right analysis and reporting tools is just a waste of digital storage…
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January 3, 2024 0
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Planning Your Data Roadmap For 2024 – Elevating Your Data Strategy

It’s that time of year again. When data leaders, VPs and Directors need to start planning out their data roadmap. Of course, this brings up an important question, how should you start planning out your data roadmap? Especially if you’re data team has found itself stuck in the data service trap. Simply providing data and…
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December 27, 2023 0
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How To Set Up Your Data Analytics Team For Success – Centralized vs Decentralized vs Federated Data Teams

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Success in the data world hinges on team setup. I’ve delved into onboarding and standards in previous articles, but never into the structure of data teams. Typically, there are three configurations: Centralized, Decentralized, and Federated. Most companies I’ve seen use a mix of these. While the newest tech breakthroughs…
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September 13, 2023 0
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How To Scale Your Data Team’s Impact Without Scaling Costs 

Photo by Lukas As you increase your analytical processes and abilities, you’ll unavoidably increase costs. But there are definite ways to avoid having your costs grow at an unsustainable rate. This is the topic of a panel at the Modern Data Stack Conference featuring Maura Church, ex-director of data science and data engineering from Patreon.…
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March 14, 2023 0
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Do You Need A Data Warehouse – A Quick Guide

Photo by Fotis Fotopoulos on Unsplash Recently several consulting calls started with people asking, “Do we need a data warehouse?” This isn’t a question about whether you need data warehouse consultants, but instead whether you should event start a data warehouse project. Which is a very fair question. Not every company needs a data warehouse.…
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February 2, 2023 0
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5 Alternatives To Building Dashboards With Looker

.Companies generate far too much data to visually grasp exactly what is happening via spreadsheets. Data visualization is the way that access to this data has been made available to everyone within a company. No longer is the IT department the gatekeeper to useful information about your customers, users, visitors, and funnels. One popular solution…
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June 19, 2022 0
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7 Great ETL Tools For 2022

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Companies in all industries and of all sizes now deal with an ever-increasing amount of data, far beyond human comprehension. This vital information is rendered practically useless unless you have an efficient way to process and analyze it to reveal valuable insights within the clutter. The ETL (extract, transform, load)…
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April 9, 2022 0