Connecting Data Systems and DevOps
In this post, we explain why anyone transforming their company into a data-driven organization should care about software development best practices, even if they don’t consider themselves a software company.
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Noteworthy Links: Strata Edition
Here are some links from around the internet to get you in a Strata state of mind.
Why Notebooks Are Super-Charging Data Science
There is little limit to what can be done with a notebook. As well as the data science work you might expect, such as manipulating and graphing data, we’ve used them for sharing work on analytical tasks such as motion detection in video. In this post Edd takes a look at why we’re seeing notebooks everywhere.
What Your Board of Directors Wants to Know About Big Data
In Fall 2014, Sanjay spoke about “Unlocking Business Opportunity from Big Data” to a group of former CEOs and senior business executives. This Throwback Thursday post shares some questions they had, and advice he gave.
Five Business Challenges Data Can Solve
In today’s business climate, executives understandably want to see both early results and a long-term direction. A data strategy helps meet business needs, while ordering work in a way that respects constraints and creates future opportunities.
Analyzing Caltrain Delays: What We Can Learn
In this post, we will explore some aspects of the train delay data we’ve been collecting from the Caltrain API over the past few months. The goal is to get our heads into the data before setting off on building a prediction model.
How to Choose a Data Format
It’s easy to become overwhelmed when it comes time to choose a data format. In this post Silvia gives you a framework for approaching this choice, and provide some example use cases.
Crossing the Development to Production Divide
We know what it’s like to deal with complex production deployments that cover the gamut from infrastructure upgrades, to feature deployments, to data migrations, where each step threatens to derail the plan. In this post she’ll give an overview of obstacles she’s faced (you may be able to relate) and talk about solutions to overcome these obstacles.
The Data Platform Puzzle
Building or rebuilding a data platform can be a daunting task, as most questions that need to be asked have open-ended answers. This post aims to help.