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Data Engineering
Shayaan Saiyed

Data Transformation Explained

How do you structure and make data accessible for stakeholders to drive insights? The answer is data transformation. Discover more!

Illustration of information sorting process to represent data ingestion.
Data Engineering
Paul Lacey

Data Ingestion: What You Need to Know

Explore the essentials of data ingestion, its types, challenges, and its critical role in effective data analysis and informed decision-making.

Industry Insights
Sean Knapp

How We’re Helping Drive Efficiency & Reduce Spend

As we all navigate these uncertain times, one thing has never been more certain — the need to reduce spend. Dollars saved directly equates to employees kept, strategic investments continued, and savings passed on to customers. Finding unnecessary spend and inefficiencies across the business is more important than ever before.

Data Engineering
Sean Knapp

2020: The Year of the Citizen Data Engineer

Data scientists and data engineers play the primary role in accelerating a company’s data sophistication, providing both the technology and domain expertise from a sea of zeros and ones into valuable data products. As we reflect on 2019 and look forward to the year and decade ahead, we will examine

Data Engineering
Ascend.io

Four Anti-patterns in Balancing Data Teams

Let’s look at how managers of data teams can set the stage for a path that fuels speed and business results, by sorting out different aspects of what needs to get accomplished, and tagging four common mistakes as killer anti-patterns.

Data Engineering
Ascend.io

The Anti-Pattern in Big Data

Today’s scale of data creation and ingestion has reached magnitudes that have fueled an Icarus-like obsession with data-driven business decisions. The desire for velocity in analytical processing, machine learning, and visualization has only enlarged the gap between the vision of a data-powered intelligence engine and the actual tools used for

Data Engineering
Ascend.io

Where is the Value: Code or Data?

While your data team likely includes people with all three of these points of view, what really matters is the position of the leaders, and the pace with which the team is adapting to the real needs of the business. So while we’re rolling the dice with the alphas,

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