Towards Data Science

JUNE 8, 2023

This post will focus on the most common team ownership models including: data engineering, data reliability engineering, analytics engineering, data quality analysts, and data governance teams. Why is data quality ownership important? The governance team treats every team output as a data product.

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 6, 2023

This post will focus on the most common team ownership models including: data engineering, data reliability engineering, analytics engineering, data quality analysts, and data governance teams. Table of Contents Why is important to answer who is responsible for data quality?

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 29, 2023

The term data lake itself is metaphorical, evoking an image of a large body of water fed by multiple streams, each bringing new data to be stored and analyzed. Instead of relying on traditional hierarchical structures and predefined schemas, as in the case of data warehouses, a data lake utilizes a flat architecture.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 25, 2023

Data engineers add meaning to the data for companies, be it by designing infrastructure or developing algorithms. The practice requires them to use a mix of various programming languages, data warehouses, and tools. While they go about it - enter big data data engineer tools.

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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 30, 2024

This data can be structured, semi-structured, or entirely unstructured, making it a versatile tool for collecting information from various origins. The extracted data is then duplicated or transferred to a designated destination, often a data warehouse optimized for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP).

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 24, 2023

By accommodating various data types, reducing preprocessing overhead, and offering scalability, data lakes have become an essential component of modern data platforms , particularly those serving streaming or machine learning use cases. See our post: Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses.

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Knowledge Hut

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Data Transformation and ETL: Handle more complex data transformation and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, including handling data from multiple sources and dealing with complex data structures. Ensure compliance with data protection regulations. Define data architecture standards and best practices.

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 31, 2023

Understanding the “rise of data downtime” With a greater focus on monetizing data coupled with the ever present desire to increase data accuracy, we need to better understand some of the factors that can lead to data downtime. We’ll take a closer look at variables that can impact your data next.

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Monte Carlo

AUGUST 25, 2023

Different vendors offering data warehouses, data lakes, and now data lakehouses all offer their own distinct advantages and disadvantages for data teams to consider. So let’s get to the bottom of the big question: what kind of data storage layer will provide the strongest foundation for your data platform?

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Edureka

JULY 5, 2024

It effectively works with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server to allow users to publish bookmarked, cleaned-up data sources that can be accessed by other personnel within the same organization. This capability underpins sustainable, chattel data cleansing practices requisite to data governance.

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Striim

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In an ETL-based architecture, data is first extracted from source systems, then transformed into a structured format, and finally loaded into data stores, typically data warehouses. This method is advantageous when dealing with structured data that requires pre-processing before storage.

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 14, 2023

In an effective data mesh, data governance tools need to be standardized,” said Kineret. And part of that is data observability and data quality. What’s next for data at BlaBlaCar As the BlaBlaCar data leaders look to the future, they plan to apply more data mesh principles across their teams.

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The Modern Data Company

MAY 8, 2023

Data lakes, data warehouses, data hubs, data lakehouses, and data operating systems are data management and storage solutions designed to meet different needs in data analytics, integration, and processing. Potential downsides of data lakes include governance and integration challenges.

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The Modern Data Company

MAY 8, 2023

Data lakes, data warehouses, data hubs, data lakehouses, and data operating systems are data management and storage solutions designed to meet different needs in data analytics, integration, and processing. Potential downsides of data lakes include governance and integration challenges.

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The Modern Data Company

MAY 8, 2023

Data lakes, data warehouses, data hubs, data lakehouses, and data operating systems are data management and storage solutions designed to meet different needs in data analytics, integration, and processing. Potential downsides of data lakes include governance and integration challenges.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 16, 2024

At the center of it all is the data warehouse, the lynchpin of any modern data stack. In this blog post, we’ll look at six innovations that are shaping the future of the data warehousing, as well as challenges and considerations that organizations should keep in mind. Data lake and data warehouse convergence 2.

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AltexSoft

JUNE 26, 2023

From the perspective of data science, all miscellaneous forms of data fall into three large groups: structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Key differences between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Note, though, that not any type of web scraping is legal.

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DareData

JANUARY 30, 2023

AWS Glue: A fully managed data orchestrator service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Talend Data Fabric: A comprehensive data management platform that includes a range of tools for data integration, data quality, and data governance. Introduction to Designing Data Lakes in AWS.

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Monte Carlo

APRIL 1, 2021

is whether to choose a data warehouse or lake to power storage and compute for their analytics. While data warehouses provide structure that makes it easy for data teams to efficiently operationalize data (i.e., Data discovery tools and platforms can help. Image courtesy of Adrian on Unsplash.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 27, 2023

Top ETL Business Use Cases for Streamlining Data Management Data Quality - ETL tools can be used for data cleansing, validation, enriching, and standardization before loading the data into a destination like a data lake or data warehouse.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 23, 2023

One reason for this is that dependencies usually exist outside of the marketing team, such as marketing ops serving as a liaison, and marketing campaign teams are the “consumer” in the integration/modeling/data warehouse activities. Data models also help with data governance and legal compliance, as well as ensuring data integrity.

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AltexSoft

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The pun being obvious, there’s more to that than just a new term: Data lakehouses combine the best features of both data lakes and data warehouses and this post will explain this all. What is a data lakehouse? Data warehouse vs data lake vs data lakehouse: What’s the difference.

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Snowflake

MARCH 30, 2023

A 2016 data science report from data enrichment platform CrowdFlower found that data scientists spend around 80% of their time in data preparation (collecting, cleaning, and organizing of data) before they can even begin to build machine learning (ML) models to deliver business value. Enter Snowpark !

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Monte Carlo

JUNE 14, 2023

The modern data stack era , roughly 2017 to present data, saw the widespread adoption of cloud computing and modern data repositories that decoupled storage from compute such as data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. They also recently acquired Apache Flink , another streaming solution.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

erwin Data Catalog creates a central metadata repository with full versioning and change management that represents all the connected data that has been automatically harvested and cataloged. erwin produces data lineage and enables IT teams to enforce data governance. Data governance processes are integrated.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 24, 2021

Data Warehousing: Data warehousing utilizes and builds a warehouse for storing data. A data engineer interacts with this warehouse almost on an everyday basis. Data Analytics: A data engineer works with different teams who will leverage that data for business solutions.

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ProjectPro

JANUARY 31, 2022

As the demand for big data grows, an increasing number of businesses are turning to cloud data warehouses. The cloud is the only platform to handle today's colossal data volumes because of its flexibility and scalability. Launched in 2014, Snowflake is one of the most popular cloud data solutions on the market.

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AltexSoft

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Data integration defines the process of collecting data from a number of disparate source systems and presenting it in a unified form within a centralized location like a data warehouse. So, why is data integration such a big deal? Connections to both data warehouses and data lakes are possible in any case.

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AltexSoft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

One of the innovative ways to address this problem is to build a data hub — a platform that unites all your information sources under a single umbrella. This article explains the main concepts of a data hub, its architecture, and how it differs from data warehouses and data lakes. What is Data Hub?

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Ascend.io

JULY 17, 2023

If you work with data, you’ll have come across the term data mesh by now. This decentralized but interconnected approach to structuring data has become increasingly popular since the term was coined by Zhamak Dehghani 4 years ago. There’s no return to the old days of siloed data warehouses.

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AltexSoft

AUGUST 22, 2022

A data fabric is an architecture design presented as an integration and orchestration layer built on top of multiple disjointed data sources like relational databases , data warehouses , data lakes, data marts , IoT , legacy systems, etc., to provide a unified view of all enterprise data.

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AltexSoft

JULY 29, 2022

Snowflake: an evolving ecosystem for all types of data. A cloud-native data platform, Snowflake comprises a data warehouse suitable for massive sets of structured and semi-structured data, a powerful SQL query engine, and a set of additional services — such as authentication, access control, metadata and infrastructure management, and more.

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ProjectPro

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With SQL, machine learning, real-time data streaming, graph processing, and other features, this leads to incredibly rapid big data processing. DataFrames are used by Spark SQL to accommodate structured and semi-structured data. The bedrock of Apache Spark is Spark Core, which is built on RDD abstraction.

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AltexSoft

MAY 12, 2023

What is unstructured data? Definition and examples Unstructured data , in its simplest form, refers to any data that does not have a pre-defined structure or organization. It can come in different forms, such as text documents, emails, images, videos, social media posts, sensor data, etc.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So, what is data quality exactly? As your datasets start to grow beyond what can be manually inspected, there’s a transition to using dbt for more structured data testing. Column-level tests are manually added to validate data integrity and ensure specific data quality standards.

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AltexSoft

MARCH 14, 2023

As the volume and complexity of data continue to grow, organizations seek faster, more efficient, and cost-effective ways to manage and analyze data. In recent years, cloud-based data warehouses have revolutionized data processing with their advanced massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities and SQL support.

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phData: Data Engineering

JULY 18, 2023

With the birth of cloud data warehouses, data applications, and generative AI , processing large volumes of data faster and cheaper is more approachable and desired than ever. First up, let’s dive into the foundation of every Modern Data Stack, a cloud-based data warehouse.

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