Snowflake is a platform known for their separation of storage and compute, which makes scaling data more efficient. However, to get the most value from your investment in Snowflake’s Cloud Data Warehouse, your organization must break through the biggest bottleneck to analytics and AI: data preparation. Here are five data preparation best practices your organization […]
More David McNamara • November 4, 2020 Snowflake’s unique architecture allows organizations to store a wider variety of data formats and data types, including most SQL data types. The diversity of Snowflake databases and Snowflake types of data opens up new possibilities for creating insight-rich data using a data preparation platform like Designer Cloud. Whether you use Snowflake as a cloud data […]
More David McNamara • September 6, 2020 What is AI’s role in the data preparation process? It doesn’t take much more than asking Siri to clean your data to realize that we can’t sit back and let AI take care of all of our data preparation needs. In session 3 of the Data School with Professor Joe Hellerstein, Joe takes a look at how human intelligence, and artificial intelligence, can work together to make data cleaning easy and intuitive.
More David McNamara • May 19, 2020 Trifacta (acquired by Alteryx) started out as a company focused on creating a new and easy-to-use experience for structuring, cleaning, blending, and aggregating data. Over the years, we saw more and more of our customers using Designer Cloud not only to clean data, but to deploy data preparation recipes into data pipelines that feed analytics […]
More David McNamara • May 4, 2020 Now, we’re back for session two! In this video, we travel back in time to the early days of data transformation and take a closer look at how user interfaces have evolved over the years. What we find is that a lot has changed—and at the same time, not much has changed at all.
More David McNamara • April 13, 2020 The Challenge Your company provides analytics as a service to your customers. Each time you bring on a new client, it kicks off the process of gathering the client’s data, getting to know the formats and accessing the contents of the data, preparing that data for analysis by cleaning and standardizing problem areas, validating the […]
More David McNamara • March 24, 2020