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How HomeToGo Is Building a Robust Clickstream Data Architecture with Snowflake, Snowplow and dbt

Snowflake

In this guest blog post, HomeToGo’s director of data, Stephan Claus, explains why the company migrated to Snowflake to meet its data needs. This article is based on Stephan’s presentation during the Snowflake Data World Tour 2022. Something that is especially handy is Snowflake’s support for semi-structured data.

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Leverage Faster, More Efficient Search in Snowflake

Snowflake

All features rolled out in public preview in October 2022 are now generally available, including the ability to select specific columns for search optimization; faster searches in VARIANT, ARRAY, OBJECT, and GEOGRAPHY data types; and faster substring searches in string columns. ADD SEARCH OPTIMIZATION ( without the ON clause ).

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Best Morgan Stanley Data Engineer Interview Questions

U-Next

A solid understanding of relational databases and SQL language is a must-have skill, as an ability to manipulate large amounts of data effectively. A good Data Engineer will also have experience working with NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB or Cassandra, while knowledge of Hadoop or Spark would be beneficial. What is AWS Kinesis?

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Machine Learning Made Easy: Q&A with Snowflake Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Strategy Ahmad Khan

Snowflake

Why AI has everyone’s attention, what it means for different data roles, and how Alteryx and Snowflake are bringing AI to data use cases There’s a llama on the loose! With all the hoopla around AI, there’s a lot to get up to speed on—especially the implications this technology has for data analytics.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

Cloudera

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

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5 Examples of Bad Data Quality in Business — And How to Avoid Them

Monte Carlo

TABLE OF CONTENTS Unity Technologies’ $110M Ad Targeting Error Unity Technologies, notable for its popular real-time 3-D content platform, experienced a significant data quality incident in Q1 2022.

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3 Use Cases for Real-Time Blockchain Analytics

Rockset

However, analyzing the data generated on the blockchain by these dApps is challenging. The appeal of blockchain - namely, open access, permissionless access, privacy and transparency - renders the on-chain data relatively basic, with only simple transaction details recorded.