When we released BigQuery Pushdown for Dataprep on Google Cloud back in April, we knew that it was a highly anticipated ELT (Extract Load & Transform) feature that would help both design time and processing time. However, we did not expect it to be adopted so quickly. Our internal benchmark of 20x job acceleration was […]
More Bertrand Cariou • October 11, 2021 What makes Callahan such a unique digital marketing agency? They start with front-end data analysis to inform client strategy—in other words, gathering as much data as possible (far beyond what would be considered standard marketing sources) to understand the client’s baseline business and marketing operations. The goal is pinpointing exactly wherein lies the biggest opportunity […]
More Bertrand Cariou • July 21, 2021 We recently announced a new pricing model with multiple editions to enable any organization, be it companies with mature data engineering teams accustomed to managing modern data pipelines or companies with relatively new data engineering teams with little to no experience. We will now dive deep into each edition of the pricing model to help […]
More Bertrand Cariou • April 7, 2021 Designing a new cloud data warehouse on Google Cloud can feel like choice overload. There’s a variety of analytic services to consider that will help build your data pipelines, not to mention the many reporting solutions available for selection. And even after those choices are resolved, how do you integrate all these services? Or design […]
More Bertrand Cariou • April 2, 2021 Automatic data quality assessment is a Designer Cloud user favorite. Who wouldn’t want to give their eyes a rest from combing through data while Designer Cloud automatically points out possible data flaws? The feature is particularly useful when onboarding or integrating unfamiliar data. With unfamiliar data, it’s not only difficult to tell what errors might […]
More Bertrand Cariou • December 17, 2020 Google Sheets is one of the most widely-used spreadsheet tools. Still, many of its best features go undiscovered. Let’s take a closer look at building a drop-down list using data validation in Google Sheets. Why data validation matters Data validation is like the analytic version of copyediting. As much as you’re careful about the words […]
More Bertrand Cariou • December 13, 2020