by Anastasia Gorbatenko | May 22, 2018 | Analytics |
Recently I discovered that the concept of Machine Learning often seems confusing or even mysterious, even to IT professionals. I conducted a small questionnaire asking my colleagues and friends what they knew and was surprised to get a number of different answers. Is...
by Thomas Evans | May 15, 2018 | AgileBI, Amazon Web Services, Analytics, Business Intelligence, CloudBI, Data Integration, General, Managed BI, Managed services, MongoDB, Open Source, Training |
If you’ve chatted with me in depth about BI/DW it’s highly likely I’ve mentioned Presto – an open source project I’ve been following for the last few years. Presto is a “SQL on anything” distributed SQL query engine which was...
by Thomas Evans | May 9, 2018 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, General, Visualisation |
If you’ve read through my blogs you would have seen I am a bit of a data geek (I’m probably in the right job for it). One site that I always find interesting is Google Trends, it’s essentially a way of finding out what’s hot and what’s...
by Melanie Butler | May 3, 2018 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, Training |
I’m normally cynical about data analysts who have started calling themselves Data Scientists. My view stems from roles where I have managed data warehouse teams and business intelligence data analysts. In extreme situations, we’d take on a lot of legwork for...
by Anastasia Gorbatenko | May 1, 2018 | Analytics, Uncategorized |
When I had just started university at the beginning of the 21st century our software engineering teacher stood in front of my class of future mathematicians and stated: “Life will force you to learn to code”. So I learned to write good code while I studied maths. When...
by Thomas Evans | Apr 24, 2018 | Analytics, General |
Recently I was surfing YouTube and came across a clip from Elon Musk titled: “Do You Trust This Computer?” It seemed like a weird question, so what computer are we talking about? Enter Google Deepmind. Deepmind was formed a mere 7 years ago, and acquired...
