AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 3, 2023

When global technology company Lenovo started utilizing data analytics, they helped identify a new market niche for its gaming laptops, and powered remote diagnostics so their customers got the most from their servers and other devices.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

BMW Cloud Efficiency Analytics (CLEA) is a homegrown tool developed within the BMW FinOps CoE (Center of Excellence) aiming to optimize and reduce costs across all these accounts. In this post, we explore how the BMW Group FinOps CoE implemented their Cloud Efficiency Analytics tool (CLEA), powered by Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Athena.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

At Tableau Conference 2024 in San Diego today, Tableau announced new AI features for Tableau Pulse and Einstein Copilot for Tableau, along with several platform improvements aimed at democratizing data insights. Tableau pitched its unveiling of Tableau Pulse last year as the harbinger of a new era of proactive analytics.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

6) Data Quality Metrics Examples. 7) Data Quality Control: Use Case. 8) The Consequences Of Bad Data Quality. 9) 3 Sources Of Low-Quality Data. 10) Data Quality Solutions: Key Attributes. This person (or group of individuals) ensures that the theory behind data quality is communicated to the development team.

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Alation

JUNE 28, 2022

This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to using native managed AWS services that BMS didn’t need to worry about upgrading, BMS was looking to offer an ETL service to non-technical business users that could visually compose data transformation workflows and seamlessly run them on the AWS Glue Apache Spark-based serverless data integration engine.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 5, 2025

In this post, well see the fundamental procedures, tools, and techniques that data engineers, data scientists, and QA/testing teams use to ensure high-quality data as soon as its deployed. First, we look at how unit and integration tests uncover transformation errors at an early stage. using Docker or local runners).

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 14, 2025

How dbt Core aids data teams test, validate, and monitor complex data transformations and conversions Photo by NASA on Unsplash Introduction dbt Core, an open-source framework for developing, testing, and documenting SQL-based data transformations, has become a must-have tool for modern data teams as the complexity of data pipelines grows.

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Alation

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Data analysts and engineers use dbt to transform, test, and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Yet every dbt transformation contains vital metadata that is not captured – until now. Data Transformation in the Modern Data Stack. How did the data transform exactly?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2024

Data analytics – Business analysts gather operational insights from multiple data sources, including the location data collected from the vehicles. You can also use the data transformation feature of Data Firehose to invoke a Lambda function to perform data transformation in batches.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 9, 2023

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This cut down significantly on analytical turnaround times. The CARTO Analytics Toolbox for Redshift is composed of a set of user-defined functions and procedures organized in a set of modules based on the functionality they offer. These table definitions are used as the metadata repository for external tables in Amazon Redshift.

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erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

An understanding of the data’s origins and history helps answer questions about the origin of data in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports, including: How the report tables and columns are defined in the metadata? Who are the data owners? What are the transformation rules? Data Governance.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

There are countless examples of big data transforming many different industries. There is no disputing the fact that the collection and analysis of massive amounts of unstructured data has been a huge breakthrough. If we talk about Big Data, data visualization is crucial to more successfully drive high-level decision making.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

One key component that plays a central role in modern data architectures is the data lake, which allows organizations to store and analyze large amounts of data in a cost-effective manner and run advanced analytics and machine learning (ML) at scale. To overcome these issues, Orca decided to build a data lake.

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Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Because of the criticality of the data they deal with, we think that finance teams should lead the enterprise adoption of data and analytics solutions. Recent articles extol the benefits of supercharging analytics for finance departments 1. A Strong Data Culture Supports Strategic Decision Making.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s a set of HTTP endpoints to perform operations such as invoking Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), checking task statuses, retrieving metadata about workflows, managing connections and variables, and even initiating dataset-related events, without directly accessing the Airflow web interface or command line tools.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 26, 2024

Solution overview The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture: The solution uses AWS Glue as an ETL engine to extract data from the source Amazon RDS database. Built-in data transformations then scrub columns containing PII using pre-defined masking functions. This saves time over manually defining schemas.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 2, 2024

You can use Amazon Data Firehose to aggregate and deliver log events from your applications and services captured in Amazon CloudWatch Logs to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and Splunk destinations, for use cases such as data analytics, security analysis, application troubleshooting etc.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With the ability to browse metadata, you can understand the structure and schema of the data source, identify relevant tables and fields, and discover useful data assets you may not be aware of.

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Cloudera

JUNE 30, 2022

These tools empower analysts and data scientists to easily collaborate on the same data, with their choice of tools and analytic engines. No more lock-in, unnecessary data transformations, or data movement across tools and clouds just to extract insights out of the data.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the open source adapters for dbt for all the engines in CDP — Apache Hive , Apache Impala , and Apache Spark, with added support for Apache Livy and Cloudera Data Engineering. The Open Data Lakehouse . Cloudera builds dbt adaptors for all engines in the open data lakehouse.

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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

Why should companies care about data governance? erwin’s 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation report found that better decision-making is the primary driver for data governance (62 percent), with analytics secondary (51 percent), and regulatory compliance coming in third (48 percent).

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt is predominantly used by data warehouses (such as Amazon Redshift ) customers who are looking to keep their data transform logic separate from storage and engine.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Modak’s Nabu is a born in the cloud, cloud-neutral integrated data engineering platform designed to accelerate the journey of enterprises to the cloud. Modak empowers organizations to maximize their ROI from existing analytics infrastructure through interoperability. Modak Nabu TM and CDE’s Spark-on-Kubernetes.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 27, 2023

With a unified data catalog, you can quickly search datasets and figure out data schema, data format, and location. The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides a uniform repository where disparate systems can store and find metadata to keep track of data in data silos. Refer to Catalogs for more information.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2023

Although Jira Cloud provides reporting capability, loading this data into a data lake will facilitate enrichment with other business data, as well as support the use of business intelligence (BI) tools and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. For InitialRunFlag , choose Setup. Choose Update.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The data in the machine-readable files can provide valuable insights to understand the true cost of healthcare services and compare prices and quality across hospitals. The availability of machine-readable files opens up new possibilities for data analytics, allowing organizations to analyze large amounts of pricing data.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Picture this – you start with the perfect use case for your data analytics product. And all of them are asking hard questions: “Can you integrate my data, with my particular format?”, “How well can you scale?”, “How many visualizations do you offer?”. Nowadays, data analytics doesn’t exist on its own.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. This was, without a question, a significant departure from traditional analytic environments, which often meant vendor-lock in and the inability to work with data at scale.

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Alation

APRIL 4, 2023

Alation delivers extended connectivity for Databricks Unity Catalog , the lakehouse company, and new connectivity for dbt Cloud by dbt Labs , the pioneer in analytics engineering. Now, joint users will get an enhanced view into cloud and data transformations , with valuable context to guide smarter usage.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

DataOps sprung up to connect data sources to data consumers. The data warehouse and analytical data stores moved to the cloud and disaggregated into the data mesh. But, through it all, Mohan says it’s critical to view everything through the same lens: gaining business value from data.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 12, 2023

Metadata store – We use Spark’s in-memory data catalog to store metadata for TPC-DS databases and tables— spark.sql.catalogImplementation is set to the default value in-memory. About the Authors Melody Yang is a Senior Big Data Solution Architect for Amazon EMR at AWS. test: EMR release – EMR 6.10.0

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Octopai

JANUARY 19, 2021

This is done by visualizing the Azure Data Factory pipelines’ full column-level with source-to-target traceability through different data transformations at the most detailed level. Octopai can fully map the BI landscape and trace metadata movement in a mixed environment including complex multi-vendor landscapes.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To speed up the self-service analytics and foster innovation based on data, a solution was needed to provide ways to allow any team to create data products on their own in a decentralized manner. To create and manage the data products, smava uses Amazon Redshift , a cloud data warehouse.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In legacy analytical systems such as enterprise data warehouses, the scalability challenges of a system were primarily associated with computational scalability, i.e., the ability of a data platform to handle larger volumes of data in an agile and cost-efficient way. Introduction. CRM platforms).

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