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It is Time to Rebundle the Modern Data Stack

When you look closer at the Modern Data Stack (MDS) you need to brace yourself. The number of tools companies use for their databases, user administration, data extraction, data integration, security, machine learning, and a myriad of other use cases has grown astronomically. Matt Turck, VC at FirstMark, composes a yearly infographic of the hot tools in the datascape: And this is just a shortlist of both the most popular and fastest-growing tools.

Does Your Company Need a Data Observability Framework?

You have been putting in the work, and your company has been growing manifold, Your client base is growing more than ever, and the projects are pouring in. So what comes next? it is now time to focus on the data that you are generating. When programming an application, DevOps engineers keep track of many things, such as bugs, fixes, and the overall application performance. This ensures that the application operates with minimum downtime and that any future errors can be predicted.

How to Broadcast a Report in Yellowfin

In this video you will learn the basics of using Broadcast, including the differences between Broadcast, Smart Task, Personal Broadcast, and FTP Schedule. You will learn how to set up a Continuous Schedule broadcast with the correct time and frequency settings, or how to configure a broadcast triggered by an Alert, complete with delivery rules. You will also learn the differences between sending the broadcast in various formats, including a link that takes the viewer back to your live and updated report.

Extracting Maximum Value From All Of Your Company's Data

How can you activate all your company's data to deliver the maximum marketing value? In this interview, Hightouch's Founder and Co-CEO Kashish Gupta and Warner Music Group's Customer Intelligence Platform Director Tom Dinneny weigh in on this question and more. They discuss the value of separating compute and storage, current industry trends, and their partnership with Snowflake.

Accelerating Projects in Machine Learning with Applied ML Prototypes

It’s no secret that advancements like AI and machine learning (ML) can have a major impact on business operations. In Cloudera’s recent report Limitless: The Positive Power of AI, we found that 87% of business decision makers are achieving success through existing ML programs. Among the top benefits of ML, 59% of decision makers cite time savings, 54% cite cost savings, and 42% believe ML enables employees to focus on innovation as opposed to manual tasks.

Episode 1 | Data Pipelines | Data Journey | 7 Challenges of Big Data Analytics

Where does a data journey begin? With the data pipeline. Thomas Hazel begins this 7-part series on solving the biggest data analytics challenges today by starting with the building, scaling and maintenance of data pipelines. Avoid building the Taj Mahal … every 6 months … and join the data journey with us to learn about the unique approach ChaosSearch has taken.

How to solve four SQL data modeling issues

SQL is the universal language of data modeling. While it is not what everyone uses, it is what most analytics engineers use. SQL is found all across the most popular modern data stack tools; ThoughtSpot’s SearchIQ query engine translates natural language query into complex SQL commands on the fly, dbt built the entire premise of their tool around SQL and Jinja. And within your Snowflake data platform, it’s used to query all your tables.

Successful Data Projects Start with Understanding Business Problems

Too many organizations start their data projects at the wrong end of the pipeline. Although challenges with data quality, integrity, access, and visibility are all important issues to address, a project should never start with the data. The reality is that all investments in data are meaningless if no business value can be gained. And this requires starting at the other end of the spectrum - evaluating the business problem to identify how data can help drive change within the organization.

Supercharge Yellowfin with 100+ Interactive Charts from FusionCharts

Yellowfin converts your data into visual Reports and then helps you to create Dashboards and Stories to present these reports to your customers. The Reports are usually a combination of data fields and charts. Charts are a significant component of any report. They help customers understand the data quickly and give your report or presentation clarity and authority.