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Creating Value With a Data-Centric Culture: Essential Capabilities to Treat Data as a Product

Ascend.io

Treating data as a product is more than a concept; it’s a paradigm shift that can significantly elevate the value that business intelligence and data-centric decision-making have on the business. Data Pipelines Data pipelines are the indispensable backbone for the creation and operation of every data product.

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Experts Share the 5 Pillars Transforming Data & AI in 2024

Monte Carlo

Gen AI can whip up serviceable code in moments — making it much faster to build and test data pipelines. It can show me how it built that chart, which dataset it used, and show me the metadata.” Embedding conversational AI capabilities into business intelligence products is an example of a good starting point.

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The Rise of the Data Engineer

Maxime Beauchemin

I joined Facebook in 2011 as a business intelligence engineer. Instead, Facebook came to realize that the work we were doing transcended classic business intelligence. Data is simply too centric to the company’s activity to have limitation around what roles can manage its flow.

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The Top Data Strategy Influencers and Content Creators on LinkedIn

Databand.ai

Mico’s ability to help companies gain ROI from their business intelligence investments has been sought out by Fortune 500 companies. Vin is also a course instructor at HROI Certification Training, teaching courses in data and AI technical strategy, value-centric data, and transitioning from a tactical to strategic mindset.

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How Airbnb Standardized Metric Computation at Scale

Airbnb Tech

Furthermore, pipelines built downstream of core_data created a proliferation of duplicative and diverging metrics. When a metric is defined in Minerva, authors are required to provide important self-describing metadata. The tool clearly shows the step-by-step computation the Minerva pipeline will follow to generate the output.

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The Ultimate Modern Data Stack Migration Guide

phData: Data Engineering

This typically results in long-running ETL pipelines that cause decisions to be made on stale or old data. Business-Focused Operation Model: Teams can shed countless hours of managing long-running and complex ETL pipelines that do not scale. This enables an automated continuous integration/continuous deployment system (CI/CD).

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

AltexSoft

With its native support for in-memory distributed processing and fault tolerance, Spark empowers users to build complex, multi-stage data pipelines with relative ease and efficiency. More files within a workload mean more metadata to parse and more tasks to schedule, which can significantly slow down processing.