Sat.Apr 28, 2018 - Fri.May 04, 2018

article thumbnail

Metabase Self Service Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran - Episode 29

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Business Intelligence software is often cumbersome and requires specialized knowledge of the tools and data to be able to ask and answer questions about the state of the organization. Metabase is a tool built with the goal of making the act of discovering information and asking questions of an organizations data easy and self-service for non-technical users.

article thumbnail

New on Cloud Academy: Machine Learning on Google Cloud and AWS, Big Data Analytics, Terraform, and more

Cloud Academy

A 2017 IDC White Paper “recommend[s] that organizations that want to get the most out of cloud should train a wide range of stakeholders on cloud fundamentals and provide deep training to key technical teams ” (emphasis ours). Regular readers of the Cloud Academy blog know we’ve been talking about this for a long time. Future-proofing your organization requires technical excellence, collective experience, business context, and shared understanding.

article thumbnail

Investing in the Future of Engineering and Design

Zalando Engineering

Our cooperation with CODE University At Zalando, we strive to create an environment in which all our engineers, product, and design specialists feel they can inspire each other, make their ideas a reality, and contribute to providing the best possible platform for Zalando’s customers to have the ultimate customer experience. Part of this is making sure we understand what the future generation of product managers, interaction designers, and software engineers are thinking and what ideas and innov

article thumbnail

Disrupting Everything in BI Analytics

Cloudera

Global Technology Partner of the Year. A Cloudera contingent, including Business Development, Marketing, Sales, and Software Engineering just got back from Qlik Qonnections in Orlando, Florida where the vibe to #DisruptEverything was strong! Qonnections is the premier Business Intelligence (BI) conference that brings data lovers together to share insights and discover data in new ways.

BI 46
article thumbnail

Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.

article thumbnail

Recap of Hadoop News for April 2018

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop - April 2018 Big Data and Cambridge Analytica: 5 Big Picture Truths.Datamation.com, April 2, 2018. Cambridge Analytica is in the news headlines as people realize the fact that how Trump campaign and its donors used FB ads and created a sociopolitical shakeup.Let’s understand what big truths does the #deletefacebook movement reveal and what implications it has - i) This data leak is not due to any breach but is a quite common and nothing unusual.

Hadoop 40
article thumbnail

Our Dublin Tech Hub Turns Three

Zalando Engineering

Celebrating Zalando’s first international tech hub Three years ago, Zalando decided to start looking beyond Germany’s borders to tap into Europe’s pool of tech talent. Diverse and brilliant minds from other European cities and beyond contributed to cementing Zalando’s place as Europe’s most fashionable tech company. So, back in 2015, Zalando’s first move was across the Irish Sea, and now the team is very excited to celebrate its third anniversary!