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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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

Furthermore, the introduction of AI and ML models hastened the need to be more efficient and effective in deploying new technologies. Similarly, Workiva was driven to DataOps due to an increased need for analytics agility to meet a range of organizational needs, such as real-time dashboard updates or ML model training and monitoring.

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

AI is transforming how senior data engineers and data scientists validate data transformations and conversions. Artificial intelligence-based verification approaches aid in the detection of anomalies, the enforcement of data integrity, and the optimization of pipelines for improved efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Yet as companies fight for skilled analyst roles to utilize data to make better decisions , they often fall short in improving the data supply chain and resulting data quality. Without a solid data supply-chain management practices in place, data quality often suffers. First mile/last mile impacts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It seeks to improve the way data are managed and products are created, and to coordinate these improvements with the goals of the business. According to Gartner, DataOps also aims “to deliver value faster by creating predictable delivery and change management of data, data models, and related artifacts.”

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Jen Stirrup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

They may also learn from evidence, but the data and the modelling fundamentally comes from humans in some way. Data Science – Data science is the field of study that combines domain expertise, programming skills, and knowledge of mathematics and statistics to extract meaningful insights from data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, this partnership model cannot keep pace with an always-changing technology landscape in which the skill gaps and lack of resources are increasing. The new models recognise this, drawing tech vendors to shift toward innovation-focused roles and become partners in the client’s success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Given the importance of sharing information among diverse disciplines in the era of digital transformation, this concept is arguably as important as ever. The aim is to normalize, aggregate, and eventually make available to analysts across the organization data that originates in various pockets of the enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Establishing data governance rules helps organizations comply with these regulations, reducing the risk of legal and financial penalties. Clear governance rules can also help ensure data quality by defining standards for data collection, storage, and formatting, which can improve the accuracy and reliability of your analysis.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 9, 2024

Companies still often accept the risk of using internal data when exploring large language models (LLMs) because this contextual data is what enables LLMs to change from general-purpose to domain-specific knowledge. In the generative AI or traditional AI development cycle, data ingestion serves as the entry point.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

“All they would have to do is just build their model and run with it,” he says. But to augment its various businesses with ML and AI, Iyengar’s team first had to break down data silos within the organization and transform the company’s data operations. For now, it operates under a centralized “hub and spokes” model.

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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. How does Data Virtualization manage data quality requirements?

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Ontotext

MARCH 27, 2024

For example, GPS, social media, cell phone handoffs are modeled as graphs while data catalogs, data lineage and MDM tools leverage knowledge graphs for linking metadata with semantics. Knowledge graphs model knowledge of a domain as a graph with a network of entities and relationships.

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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

So companies will be forced to classify their data and to find mechanisms to share it with such platforms.”. GDPR is also proving to be the de facto model for data privacy across the United States. You can request a demo of erwin Data Intelligence here.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In this post, we delve into a case study for a retail use case, exploring how the Data Build Tool (dbt) was used effectively within an AWS environment to build a high-performing, efficient, and modern data platform. It does this by helping teams handle the T in ETL (extract, transform, and load) processes. usr/local/airflow/.local/bin/dbt

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 9, 2022

DataOps involves close collaboration between data scientists, IT professionals, and business stakeholders, and it often involves the use of automation and other technologies to streamline data-related tasks. One of the key benefits of DataOps is the ability to accelerate the development and deployment of data-driven solutions.

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Sisense

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Every data professional knows that ensuring data quality is vital to producing usable query results. Streaming data can be extra challenging in this regard, as it tends to be “dirty,” with new fields that are added without warning and frequent mistakes in the data collection process. Now, let’s connect to Redshift.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2024

However, you might face significant challenges when planning for a large-scale data warehouse migration. Trace the flow of data from its origins in the source systems, through the data warehouse, and ultimately to its consumption by reporting, analytics, and other downstream processes.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

Prior to the creation of the data lake, Orca’s data was distributed among various data silos, each owned by a different team with its own data pipelines and technology stack. Moreover, running advanced analytics and ML on disparate data sources proved challenging.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2024

In this blog, we’ll delve into the critical role of governance and data modeling tools in supporting a seamless data mesh implementation and explore how erwin tools can be used in that role. erwin also provides data governance, metadata management and data lineage software called erwin Data Intelligence by Quest.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This is especially beneficial when teams need to increase data product velocity with trust and data quality, reduce communication costs, and help data solutions align with business objectives. In most enterprises, data is needed and produced by many business units but owned and trusted by no one.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

OntoRefine is a data transformation tool that lets you unite plenty of data formats and get them into your triplestore. Ensuring data quality with SHACL. Our previous step covers data format differences. Dealing with spreadsheets via OntoRefine. Surveyors already use spreadsheets. Everyone makes mistakes.

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Alation

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yet every dbt transformation contains vital metadata that is not captured – until now. Making this data visible in the data catalog will let data teams share their work, support re-use, and empower everyone to better understand and trust data. Data Transformation in the Modern Data Stack.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

OpenSearch Service also has vector database capabilities that let you implement semantic search and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs) to build recommendation and media search engines. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration effortless.

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Octopai

JUNE 9, 2024

They invested heavily in data infrastructure and hired a talented team of data scientists and analysts. The goal was to develop sophisticated data products, such as predictive analytics models to forecast patient needs, patient care optimization tools, and operational efficiency dashboards.

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erwin

JANUARY 11, 2019

Organizations have spent a lot of time and money trying to harmonize data across diverse platforms , including cleansing, uploading metadata, converting code, defining business glossaries, tracking data transformations and so on. So questions linger about whether transformed data can be trusted.

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Jet Global

MAY 28, 2019

A data warehouse stores transactional level details and serves the broader reporting and analytical needs of an organization – creating one source of truth for building semantic models or serving structured, simplified and harmonized data to tools like Power BI, Excel or even SSRS.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Background The success of a data-driven organization recognizes data as a key enabler to increase and sustain innovation. The goal of a data product is to solve the long-standing issue of data silos and data quality. It follows what is called a distributed system architecture.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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Ontotext

MARCH 20, 2024

Traditional data integration methods struggle to bridge these gaps, hampered by high costs, data quality concerns, and inconsistencies. Studies reveal that businesses lose significant time and opportunities due to missing integrations and poor data quality and accessibility.

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DataRobot Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

By enabling data scientists to rapidly iterate through model development, validation, and deployment, DataRobot provides the tools to blitz through steps four and five of the machine learning lifecycle with AutoML and Auto Time-Series capabilities. Train, Compare, Rank, Validate, and Select Models for Production.

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Octopai

AUGUST 11, 2024

Just as a navigation app provides a detailed map of roads, guiding you from your starting point to your destination while highlighting every turn and intersection, data flow lineage offers a comprehensive view of data movement and transformations throughout its lifecycle.

Metadata 40

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

Businesses face significant hurdles when preparing data for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The existence of data silos and duplication, alongside apprehensions regarding data quality, presents a multifaceted environment for organizations to manage.

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Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Leaders in healthcare seek to improve patient outcomes, meet changing business models (including value-based care ), and ensure compliance while creating better experiences. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges.

Data Governance 52

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Finally, data integrity is of paramount importance. Every event in the data source can be relevant, and our customers don’t tolerate data loss, poor data quality, or discrepancies between the source and Tricentis Analytics. Fixed-size data files avoid further latency due to unbound file sizes.

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Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It may well be that one thing that a CDO needs to get going is a data transformation programme. This may purely be focused on cultural aspects of how an organisation records, shares and otherwise uses data. It may be to build a new (or a first) Data Architecture. It may be to build a new (or a first) Data Architecture.

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