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looker alternatives

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
alternatives to fivetran

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
analytics consulting projects

3 Key Types Of Data Projects You Will Need To Take On As A Head Of Data Analytics

Data and analytics teams are often responsible for several key pillars in a company. This can pose a challenge when you’re the head of data and analytics and you need to pick your next data project. Where do you even start when you’re constantly bombarded with requests from your management team. In this article I…
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March 19, 2022 0
data strategy consulting

Where to Start Building Data Strategy for a Small Business

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash Depending on your outlook, your small business might be inspired or intimidated by data science. No matter which end of the spectrum you’re on, one thing you can’t afford to do is ignore it. Data may be the single most important thing you can use to boost profits and cut…
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February 26, 2022 0
trino consulting

Reviewing Varada And How It Can Improve Trino’s Performance

Companies are continually setting up programs and initiatives to become more data-driven. Millions are being spent on new infrastructure, hiring employees, and creating processes to drive value with data.  The need for better tooling, faster data, and experienced data professionals will become even more important as data sources, size, and speed grow. However, eventually, the…
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February 11, 2022 0
modern data stack consulting

The Baseline Datastack – Going Beyond The Modern Data Stack

Billions of dollars have been put into investing into companies that fall under the concept of “Modern Data Stack. Fivetran nearly has one billion dollars funding them, DBT has 150 million(and is looking to raise more), Starburst has 100 million…and I could really go on and on about all the companies being funded. So that means every company has…
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January 31, 2022 0
modern data stack consulting

How To Set Up Your Data Strategy For 2022 – Part 1

Photo by Anika Huizinga on Unsplash Billions of dollars have been put into investing into companies that fall under the concept of “Modern Data Stack”. Fivetran nearly has one billion dollars funding them, DBT has 150 million(and is looking to raise more), Starburst has 100 million…and I could really go on and on about all the companies being…
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January 16, 2022 0
tableau consulting

5 Great Data Visualization Tools for 2022 – From Looker To Sigma Computing

Your business’s digital presence is generating an incredible amount of raw data. 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. Data visualization is a way of…
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December 12, 2021 0
data engineering consulting

What Is Snowflake And Why You Should Use It For Your Cloud Data Warehouse

Source https://unsplash.com/photos/sb7RUrRMaC4 Snowflake is a cloud data platform. To be more specific it’s the first cloud built data platform. Its architecture allows data specialists to not only create data warehouses but also cloud data lake-houses because it can manage both structured and unstructured data easily. Being that Snowflake is based in the cloud, this means that it…
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July 26, 2021 0
spark consulting data

What is Apache Spark? And Why Use It?

Photo by Jakub Skafiriak on Unsplash Born out of frustration with the only open source distributed programming implementation of the time, Apache Spark was created in the UC Berkeley AMPLab in 2014 to replace it’s predecessor Hadoop MapReduce. MapReduce was robust but burdened by excessive boiler plating, serialization and deserialization. MapReduce was created to anticipate node…
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May 29, 2021 0