“Letting the data speak for itself” is a well known phrase with a hard truth: Data presented on its own rarely communicates meaning for itself. For most people, it’s the context behind the numbers, the story, that helps us understand and care to act.

Chronicle, Google Cloud’s security analytics platform, is built on Google’s infrastructure to help security teams run security operations at unprecedented speed and scale. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re bringing more industry-leading Google technology to security teams by integrating Chronicle with Looker and BigQuery.

Real-time analytics can keep you up-to-date on what’s happening right now, such as how many people are currently reading your new blog post and whether someone just liked your latest Facebook status. For most use cases, real-time is a nice-to-have feature that won’t provide any crucial insights. However, sometimes real-time is a must. Let’s say that you run a big ad agency.

Most companies offering any kind of service or product answer this question from consumers or potential clients all the time: "How much does it cost?" Or, the much harder question: "How much will it cost if I choose these services with these extras for my particular company/house/yard/situation, etc.?" The tough part is that pricing services or software usually involves too many variables.

Working with raw or unprocessed data often leads to poor decision-making. This explains why data scientists, engineers, and other analytic professionals spend over 80% of their time finding, cleaning, and organizing data. Accordingly, the ETL process - the foundation of all data pipelines - devotes an entire section to T, transformations: the act of cleaning, molding, and reshaping data into a valuable format.

Data warehouses are a particular kind of database. Learn how they are uniquely suited to analytics.

At Crux Informatics, our mission is to get data flowing by removing obstacles in the delivery and ingestion of data at scale. We want to remove any friction across the data supply chain that stops companies from getting the most value out of data, so they can make smarter business decisions. But as you may know, if you’re in the business of data, this industry never stands still. It’s constantly evolving and changing.