Learn about Cursor, a new platform for collaboration around data, hosted platforms and BI artifacts. I sat down with Adam Weinstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Cursor, to learn about the platform. About Cursor Cursor offers a data search and analytics hub that makes disparate data accessible and actionable, enabling technical and business users alike to effortlessly get answers, collaborate and gain insights. Founded by a trio of data leaders from Salesforce, LinkedIn, and Pandora, Cursor’s easy-to-...

Is Data the New Oil? Concept originated by Clive Humby, the British mathematician who established Tesco’s Clubcard loyalty program. Humby highlighted the fact that, although inherently valuable, data needs processing, just as oil needs refining before its true value can be unlocked. Why it is the new oil Valuable commodity Different uses among many applications Currently the big buzz of most large companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, etc.) Quantity is generally better in bot...

Today we’re back with another guest from the Netherlands. I’m not sure what it is about the Dutch, but they’ve been on a roll with some helpful thought leadership when it comes to data. My guest is Rick van der Lans, a highly-respected analyst, consultant, author, and international lecturer specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence, big data, and database technology. I came across one of Rick’s whitepapers a few months ago on data virtualization. We got in touch and sat down to ...

Today’s episode will be transcribed using machine learning from webASR, a free service provided through the University of Sheffield’s Machine Intelligence for Natural Interfaces (MINI). Buyer Beware: This is not a perfect transcription! We highly recommend you listen to the episode. Segment [112.73 sec.-137.58 sec.], Speaker 004 All right everybody i'm here with dorothy's fitzpatrick e. me energy principle from go he is gonna join me today to talk about a topic that i'm really excited abo...

In this episode my friend Vikas Popuri and I chat about Google's paper comparing ML models to traditional DB indexes. (more…)

This episode reflects on some of the hottest topics from 2017 and their impact their data has on our lives this year and into 2018. Cryptocurrency Many of these data points come from here. Since the year began, the aggregate market cap of all cryptocurrencies combined has increased by more than 3,200% as of Dec. 18 Bitcoin went through the roof, hitting an all-time high of 1 BTC = $19,891 on 12/17/2017. BTC makes up 54% of the aggregate $589 billion market cap of all crypt...

Zip file of all the sample data, Maestro flows, and Tableau workbook I used to get a first impression: E022_maestro_demo_files. Screenshots Sample Flow from Tableau Field Selection Data Profiling Filters Join Clause Refresh / Run Flow File Output Options Pros: Has the clean, intuitive feel of Tableau. I did my hands-on test with no training or previous exposure Lots of features for a first release - joins, unions, type conversion, calculat...