The COVID-19 pandemic has changed nearly everything. It’s affected nearly all Americans, and as such, it’s impacted every organization they interact with, both B2C and B2B. One industry that has had its operations turned upside down is the grocery industry. Grocery stores and their consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers and partners had to improvise and adapt nearly overnight to accommodate the changing demands of shoppers.

Every professional has used Microsoft products in their work life. The ubiquity of Microsoft Office in the enterprise is one of the main reasons many analytics users are familiar with Power BI, given how the company bundles its business intelligence software with other licenses in the same way Excel and PowerPoint comes with Office.

Over the past few months, we’ve been considering how to create a platform that’s accessible to everyone. With that said, we’re happy to announce that you can now use Keboola Connection for free! No contract, no talking to our (albeit incredibly lovely) sales team - just jump in and start building.

The design and training of neural networks are still challenging and unpredictable procedures. The difficulty of tuning these models makes training and reproducing more of an art than a science, based on the researcher’s knowledge and experience. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that the training procedure of machine learning models includes multiple hyperparameters that affect how the training process fits the model to the data.

In a Slack discussion, the two CEOs explain why the Fivetran-dbt integration is great for data analytics engineering enthusiasts. After the recent launch of Fivetran dbt Transformations, both the Fivetran and Fishtown Analytics teams received questions about the newly available feature. (Fishtown is the team behind dbt.) Fivetran CEO George Fraser and Fishtown Analytics CEO Tristan Handy addressed those questions on Slack, and discussed the harmonious relationship between the two companies.

Growing heavy civil construction business brings on a modern data stack of Fivetran, BigQuery and Looker to gain a competitive edge. Want to hear more from Emery Sapp & Son's Clayton Hicklin? Join him and a number of other incredible data professionals at the 2020 Modern Data Stack Conference October 21-22. Register here.

Although automation testing is becoming more popular, there remain certain difficulties for automation teams, including selecting which test cases to automate. According to the World Quality Report in 2019, 24% of teams encounter obstacles prohibiting them from deciding on the right test scenario. This article will detail how to choose test cases for automation and maximize your testing journey.

Javascript is a funny language. It claims to be (and very much is) a single-threaded language (i.e., it executes statements in order, one at a time, one after another, in a synchronous fashion). Despite just having the one native thread to work with, it somehow allows you to write concurrent, asynchronous code that is non-blocking in nature.

Understanding the data we collect is essential—it allows us to identify trends and uncover answers about our world. However, stories in our data frequently go untold. Large datasets are hard to share between research communities due to their size, security restraints, and complexity. Even if these datasets are accessible to users, the tools needed to query them often require deep technical knowledge.

October happens to be the month to celebrate World Smile Day when Harvey Ball, the inventor of the smiley face declared this day as such to give people a reason to smile. This month, BigQuery users have a lot of new reasons to smile about with the release of new user-friendly SQL capabilities now generally available.