Tag: analytics

Real-time Analytics Vs Stream Processing – What Is The Difference?

One of the holy grails that many data teams seem to chase is real-time data analytics. After all, if you can have real-time analytics, you can make better decisions faster. However, there often is a conflation between real-time data analytics and stream processing.  These are two different concepts that are crucial to understanding how to…
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September 3, 2024 0
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How To Run A Data Team As A New Head Of Data

What would you do if you became the head or director of data for a 1,000-person company? Yesterday, you were plugging along as an analyst, and now, suddenly, you have all these new responsibilities. Figuring out where to start is part of the job. You’d probably feel a strong temptation to freak out. Who wouldn’t?…
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August 1, 2024 0
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9 Habits Of Effective Data Managers – Running A Data Team

Running a successful data team is hard. Data teams are expected to juggle a combination of ad-hoc requests, big bet projects, migrations, etc. All while keeping up with the latest changes in technology. In the past few years I have gotten to work with dozens of teams and see how various directors and managers deal…
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July 2, 2024 0
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Apache Druid’s Architecture – How Druid Processes Data In Real Time At Scale

Recently, I wrote an article diving into what Druid is and which companies are using it. Now I wanted to do a deeper dive into Apache Druid’s architecture. Apache Druid has several unique features that allow it to be used as a real-time OLAP. Everything from its various nodes and processes that each have unique…
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March 11, 2024 0
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5 Real-Time Data Processing and Analytics Technologies – And Where You Can Implement Them

No matter your industry, you’ll often need to make split-second business decisions in the digital age. Real-time data can help you do just that. It’s information that’s made available as soon as it’s created, meaning you don’t need to wait around for the insights you need. Real-time data processing can satisfy the ever-increasing demand for…
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March 1, 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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Finding The Right ETL/ELT Solution – What Is Estuary And Should You Use It?

Data warehousing would be easy if all data were structured and formatted in the data source. Maybe we wouldn’t even need to build a data warehouse. But as anyone who has worked with data from more than one source knows, that’s rarely the case. Businesses today need to pull data from a plethora of sources,…
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November 29, 2023 0
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Common Pitfalls in Deploying Airflow for Data Teams

If you’re a data engineer, then you’ve likely at least heard of Airflow. Apache Airflow is one of the most popular open-source workflow orchestration solutions that gets used for data pipelines. This is what spurred me to write the article “Should You Use Airflow” because there are plenty of people who don’t enjoy Airflow or…
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November 27, 2023 0

Why Is Data Modeling So Challenging – How To Data Model For Analytics

Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash Learning about how to data models from basic star schemas on the internet is like learning data science using the IRIS data set. It works great as a toy example. But it doesn’t match real life at all. Data modeling in real life requires you fully understand the data…
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August 9, 2023 0
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Data Warehouses Vs Operational Data Stores Vs Data Lakes – How To Store Your Data For Analytics

Photo by Leif Christoph Gottwald on Unsplash A few months ago, I uploaded a video where I discussed data warehouses, data lakes, and transactional databases. However, the world of data management is evolving rapidly, especially with the resurgence of AI and machine learning. There are numerous other methods that technical teams are utilizing to handle…
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August 3, 2023 0