Building an End-To-End Analytic solution in Power BI: Part 3 – Level Up with Data Modeling! | LinkedIn
When I talk to people who are not deep into the Power BI world, I often get the impression that they think of Power BI as a visualization tool exclusively. While that is true to a certain extent, it seems to me that they are not seeing the bigger picture – or maybe it’s better to say – they see just
(1) Data Modeling for Mere Mortals – Part 1: What is Data Modeling?! | LinkedIn
In recent years, I’ve done dozens of training on various data platform topics, for all kinds of audiences. When teaching various data platform concepts and techniques, I find one of the concepts particularly intimidating for many business analysts, especially those who are just starting their journe
Data Architecture Revisited: The Platform Hypothesis
Software systems are increasingly based on data, rather than code. A new class of tools and technologies have emerged to process data for both analytics and ML.
Star and Snowflake Schema in Data Warehouse with Model Examples
What is Multidimensional schemas? Multidimensional schema is especially designed to model data warehouse systems. The schemas are designed to address the unique needs of very large databases designed
What is the difference between a data lake and a data warehouse?
Confused by all the "data lake vs data warehouse" articles? Struggling to understand what the differences between data lakes and warehouses are? Then this post is for you. We go over what data lakes and warehouses are. We also cover the key points to consider when choosing your lake and warehouse tools.
Learn the key steps of deploying databases and stateful workloads in Kubernetes and meet cloud-native technologies that can streamline Apache Cassandra for K8s.
I got sucked into a data mesh Twitter thread this weekend (it’s worth a read if you haven’t seen it). Data meshes have clearly struck a nerve. Some don’t understand them, while others believe they’r
This post goes over what the term data warehousing means. This post provides a simple e-commerce relational data model and how it has to be changed to fit analytical queries. It also covers the reasoning behind wanting to use a data warehouse and how to choose an appropriate database for your project.
Uber's Journey Toward Better Data Culture From First Principles
Data powers Uber Uber has revolutionized how the world moves by powering billions of rides and deliveries connecting millions of riders, businesses, restaurants, drivers, and couriers. At the heart of this massive transportation platform is Big Data and Data Science that powers everything that Uber does, such as better pricing and matching, fraud detection, lowering ETAs, and experimentation. Petabytes of data are collected and processed per day and thousands of users derive insights and make decisions from this data to build/improve these products. Problems beyond scale While we are able to scale our data systems, we previously didn’t focus enough