In a previous article, we talked about the lost art of questioning and its importance when working with data and information to find actionable insights. In this article, we will expand on this topic and explain how questioning differs depending on what stage in the process you are from transforming data and information into insights.
At Talend, we tend to describe poorly organized, unhealthy data as “digital landfills.” But we don’t often talk about actual landfills. That’s right, the ones filled with trash. As anyone watching real estate prices will know, land is a finite resource. It’s crazy to think that we’re still dedicating land to storing our garbage, where it will sit releasing pollutants and greenhouse gases for decades to come.
At Mercado Libre, we are obsessed with unlocking the power and potential of data. One of our key cultural principles is to have a Beta Mindset. This means that we operate in a “state of beta”, constantly asking new questions of our data, experimenting with technologies and iterating our business operations in service of creating the best experiences for our customers.
Without a central place to manage models, those responsible for operationalizing ML models have no way of knowing the overall status of trained models and data. This lack of manageability can impact the review and release process of models into production, which often requires offline reviews with many stakeholders.
At the DataOps Unleashed 2022 virtual conference, AWS Principal Solutions Architect Angelo Carvalho presented How AWS & Unravel help customers modernize their Big Data workloads with Amazon EMR. The full session recording is available on demand, but here are some of the highlights.
As an ISV company selling a SaaS application, you have built analytics into your software because you know customers highly value insights into the data that's held within your application. Giving your customers business intelligence (BI) and analytics within your application offers them a window of insight into the data to help them optimize their business. You deliver more value which boosts end user adoption and means your client buys for longer.
In this series of demystifying the tech trends, my colleagues and I will be looking at busting the buzzwords to help you keep on track. Concerned about puzzling parlance, analytics argot, techie terminology – or plain old jargon? This series breaks down words and concepts to give you the deepest insight and understanding into how to talk the talk in the world of tech, so you can engage in conversations with the confidence of being data literate.
I am so pleased to announce that Talend has acquired Gamma Soft, a change data capture market innovator. This is a significant enhancement in the capabilities Talend can provide its customers and partners. Talend’s company vision is to take the work out of working with data, and we're thrilled to add Gamma Soft’s technology to our offerings to do this. Change data capture (CDC) technology is highly sought after by many companies.
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of search indexes and related SQL SEARCH functions in BigQuery. This is a new capability in BigQuery that allows you to use standard BigQuery SQL to easily find unique data elements buried in unstructured text and semi-structured JSON, without having to know the table schemas in advance. By making row lookups in BigQuery efficient, you now have a powerful columnar store and text search in a single data platform.
