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Choosing Between Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery

Posted on Nov 16, 2016

Choosing a data warehouse that meets your business needs doesn't have to be difficult. Here's an overview of Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery to help you choose between the two. ...

How Meteor Uses Segment Sources and Chartio to Drive Growth

Posted on Sep 14, 2016

Dan Ahmadi, Director of Growth at Meteor sat down with us and outlined how Meteor uses Segment Sources and Chartio to drive growth....

Using Data to Understand Metrics

Posted on Sep 08, 2016

An integral part of a Data Scientists role is to use data to inform and influence the direction of your company by making sense of data and answering questions. Learn how to use data to understand business metrics for success....

Leveraging Your Data Warehouse as a Competitive Advantage

Posted on Aug 31, 2016

Data warehouses are optimized to analyze data by turning massive amounts of data into analytics that are easy to understand. Learn the advantages in using a data warehouse for analysis and how they are a competitive advantage....

When to Invest in a Data Warehouse

Posted on Aug 25, 2016

A data warehouse, or a reporting database, is an online analytical processing (OLAP) database and acts as a layer on top of an operational database. Learn when you should invest in a data warehouse for your data stack....

How to Align Data with Business Strategies

Posted on Aug 23, 2016

Data plays a critical role in running a business. Sometimes, it can be difficult to turn technical aptitude into business insights. The secret is aligning data with strategies, learn how to align business and data strategies....