AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Add new product category records into Delta Lake UniForm table from Amazon EMR Go back to the Jupyter Notebook on Amazon EMR Workspace to add new records with a new product category ( Books ) into the Delta Lake UniForm table. Run the following cell and review the five records with Books as the product category. delta_uniform_db"."

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 10, 2022

Today, DataKitchen announced the release of the latest book in its groundbreaking DataOps series, Recipes for DataOps Success: The Complete Guide to An Enterprise DataOps Transformation. This book follows on the heels of its successful precursor, The DataOps Cookbook , which has been downloaded more than 14,000 times and counting. “As

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TDAN

APRIL 14, 2020

I know there is a bit of a bias when I dedicate this quarterly column to my own book … but, oh well. My latest book, The Rosedata Stone, has very recently been released.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

Laney, a former distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, studied how companies used their data when he was with the research firm. “We We found that companies that treat data more as an asset have a market-to-book value ratio that’s nearly two times higher than the market average. Anatomy of a data strategy.

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TDAN

APRIL 20, 2021

Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since 2016, and his The Data Modeling Addict column years before that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Lee described an AI travel agent driving increased bookings with an intuitive AI-powered product that 83% of users preferred over traditional search options, propelling daily profits above $1 million. However, this is only possible if you invest in technology that brings transparency and reliability to AI-performed or AI-assisted data work.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This column takes a look at a new book, The CDO Journey, by Peter Aiken, Todd Harbour, Kathy Walter, Ed Kelly, and Burt Walsh (Technics Publications 2020). When I read a data book, my goal is to find at least ten important messages that can impact how I approach the topic. I hit my ten […].

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TDAN

JANUARY 4, 2022

With everyone talking about becoming more data literate, it’s a wonder that there are no books on data literacy – until now.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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TDAN

JANUARY 14, 2020

Arent van ‘t Spijker’s first book, The New Oil was an enlightening and enjoyable read about how data is changing the way our organizations need to operate. Arent’s second book, very recently released, is titled Continuous Innovation.

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TDAN

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sometimes I like to read a book purely for pleasure, like a good Dan Brown or Stephen King novel, and sometimes I like to read a book to learn something new. There are not many books that I read for both pleasure and to learn new things. One exception is Telling Your Data Story: Data […].

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TDAN

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Doug has spoken many times at our Data Modeling Zone conferences over the years, and when I read the book, I can hear him talk in his distinct descriptive and conversational style. The Enrichment Game describes how to improve data quality and data useability […].

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TDAN

JANUARY 3, 2023

Breaking Bad with 3D Enterprise Systems is a book that details a practical and proven approach for building flexible applications. Blair Kjenner and Kewal Dhariwal combine several different techniques that allow project teams to create applications that not only met requirements, but could also handle new requirements with ease.

Enterprise 52

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TDAN

JULY 4, 2023

From Bob Seiner’s first book, Non-Invasive Data Governance, we learned how to get the benefits of data governance without making major changes to our job roles or functions. We avoid the “command and control” approaches and still have people responsible for the organization’s data without reorgs or undue employee stress.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I love books that make you think. We The People, by Kathy Rondon, leads us down the path of rethinking what we do with data today and also, for most of us, makes us realize that we often do not consider ethics when using data today to make business decisions. To quote Kathy, “Just because […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In reality MDM ( master data management ) means Major Data Mess at most large firms, the end result of 20-plus years of throwing data into data warehouses and data lakes without a comprehensive data strategy. Contributing to the general lack of data about data is complexity.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As a frequent reviewer of data and strategy books, I am always interested in understanding authors’ perspectives on data governance. Two recent books have ideas that are worthy of data governance professionals: “Rewired” by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney W. Wixom, Cynthia M. Beath, and […]

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The author of the book “Data Leadership” Anthony J. I know him as a practitioner of data management disciplines, but he also has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. When I first heard of the word Data Leadership, I assumed it was about […]. Algmin has a unique perspective he brings to the table.

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TDAN

JULY 2, 2019

Guided Steps to Data Vault Success through Building Business-Centered Models John Giles wrote The Nimble Elephant a number of years ago – it is a book about using existing data modeling patterns when working on agile teams.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Data-driven businesses can develop their own infrastructure and handle all of their data management processes in-house. However, there are a lot of third-party big data applications worth investing in. Businesses Must Use the Right Applications to Facilitate their Big Data Strategy in 2022.

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TDAN

MARCH 17, 2020

Top Data Management Problems The modern world functions on information. A primary aspect of data management is digitizing large amounts of documents, books, and reports that have been collected for hundreds of years. The Great Volume of Data The more that data is digitized and […].

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TDAN

JULY 5, 2022

There are many areas of data science and AI where we need to be satisfied with an answer that is not perfect and yet still provides business value. The data scientist’s problems are often not solved with straightforward statistics and are instead much more complex. When is an answer “good enough”?

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It has been eight years plus since the first edition of my book, Non-Invasive Data Governance: The Path of Least Resistance and Greatest Success, was published by long-time TDAN.com contributor, Steve Hoberman, and his publishing company Technics Publications. The book has now been translated into five languages with […].

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TDAN

APRIL 2, 2019

The Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK2) is the most comprehensive and objective book on data management. Comparable to what the PMBOK does for project management and the BABOK for business analysis, DMBOK2 provides a detailed framework for organizations to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For the CIO to be successful with this, there needs to be a comprehensive strategy that extends far beyond simply deploying new technologies. Many CIOs are now working with an IT environment that can deliver a modern data strategy but are struggling to unlock the full potential. billion in ads, and Walmart $2.1

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Anoop Kumar K M is a Data Architect at AWS with focus in the data and analytics area. He helps customers in building scalable data platforms and in their enterprise data strategy. His areas of interest are data platforms, data analytics, security, file systems and operating systems.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The background to this column is simple. A few weeks ago, Len Silverston and I wound up discussing the application of the insights, philosophy, and practices we have learned in our mutual study of Aikido and other martial arts. This led to Len setting me a challenge to write about how the teachings of 16th […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Mason, highly skilled in using data to inform transformational changes in a business, will share insights about leading data projects as well as field questions in a live discussion with attendees. Travelers Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer Mano Mannoochahr will discuss creating a data-first culture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These included metadata design and development, quantitative analysis, regression analysis, continuous integration, data analytics, data strategy, identity and access management, machine learning, natural language processing, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

“The reason that understanding is so difficult to build in baseball is because there’s an entire industry of people selling nonsensical ideas about the data all the time,” James said at the time. The first thing is having a data strategy, having a foundation of data, and then asking questions of it.”

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

To learn more about Amazon DataZone and how you can share, search, and discover data at scale across organizational boundaries. Joel Farvault is Principal Specialist SA Analytics for AWS with 25 years’ experience working on enterprise architecture, data strategy, and analytics, mainly in the financial services industry.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For those in the data world, this post provides a curated guide for all analytics sessions that you can use to quickly schedule and build your itinerary. Book your spot early for the sessions you do not want to miss. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (PDT) Ceasars Forum ANT318 | Accelerate innovation with end-to-end serverless data architecture.

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Cloudera

JUNE 13, 2024

There were thousands of attendees at the event – lining up for book signings and meetings with recruiters to fill the endless job openings for developers experienced with MapReduce and managing Big Data. This was the gold rush of the 21st century, except the gold was data.

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TDAN

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

My new book, Data Model Storytelling[i], describes how data models can be used to tell the story of an organization’s relationships with its Stakeholders (Customers, Suppliers, Dealers, Regulators, etc.), and how data models can be used to help organizations get from where they currently are to where they would like to be.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

This allows for transparency, speed to action, and collaboration across the group while enabling the platform team to evangelize the use of data: Altron engaged with AWS to seek advice on their data strategy and cloud modernization to bring their vision to fruition.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Working with cloud-native data ingestion platforms and databases enables Kubernetes to align applications, data pipelines, and databases. As noted in the book Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Strategy for Business Execution , “Standardize, to optimize, to create a compound effect across the business.”

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 15, 2019

Big data strategies are playing a vital role in the future of SEO. Some of the most prominent SEO thought leaders are offering new insights into the role of big data in digital marketing. He has written about the importance of big data. Neil Patel is one of the biggest SEO influencers in the world.

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