Recently, while working on the next generation of the middleware for our advanced predictive analytics platform, I repeated found myself encountering situations in our business…
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Today it feels like everything is moving to the cloud. Even large enterprise data warehouses that many people thought would never leave the on-premise data…
In our advanced predictive analytics platform, we’ve built some very innovative techniques that let users model aggregated data using arbitrary grouping of target entities and…
There are a lot of definitions of Master Data Management out there today. “Master data management (MDM) is a technology-enabled discipline in which business and…
The transition from working daily in the office to the comfort, or sometimes discomfort, of our own homes, has presented many of us with some…
App GUIDs in Qlik Sense are unique for each environment. Different environment, different GUID. Different URL for the app. That is life in Qlik Sense.…
This is the third and final blog a part of my deep dive series for dimensional modeling. Today, I will focus on Bridge Tables in…
In our advanced predictive analytics platform, we rely on KNIME for virtually all of our ETL needs and large portions of our modeling. A single…
In this blog post, a part of my deep dive series, I will focus on Degenerate Dimensions in this post. When introducing the concept of…
As many organizations undergo the latest modernization cycle, many companies and agencies are turning towards cloud storage as a partial solution to help become a…
Agenda Introduction Part 1: Github setup and first commit Part 2: Clone repo to start a new local project References Introduction Some time ago, my…
When developing stand-alone workflows for my past KNIME related blog entries, I’ve often distributed their associated source data files by embedding them right in the…
In my previous post about Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCDs), I provided you an overview of the four most common SCDs types and how they are…
Today we will be using Talend to extract data from an AWS S3 bucket environment and load it as a new table in PostgreSQL. I…
My wife has a PhD in Global Public Health and her career has brought me and our two children all over the world. Many years…
In my previous post about the Cloud Data Hub / Data Science Architecture, I focused on the data lake. In this post, I will be…
Welcome to the fourth and final entry in my series on the dice game called Farkle. In parts one and two I covered the basic rules…
In my previous post about the Cloud Data Hub / Data Science Architecture, I focused on the interface between the Operational Data Store (ODS) and…
I recently worked on a hackathon team at my company. The purpose of the hackathon was to show how to use data science on Automated…
Have you ever imagined a world where transactional systems were able to focus solely on the tasks they were built to complete? Have you ever…