Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders

This is an audio blog on BI on the Cloud Data Lake and how to improve the productivity of data engineers. We'll dive deeper into the question; what’s the best measure of success for data pipeline efficiency? This is part 2 of a two part blog. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/business-intelligence-on-the-cloud-data-lake-part-2-improving-the-productivity-of-data-engineers

This audio blog is about business intelligence on the cloud data lake and why it arose and how to architect for it. This is Part 1 of a two part blog series. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/business-intelligence-on-the-cloud-data-lake-part-1-why-it-arose-and-how-to-architect-for-it

This audio blog is about the data lakehouse and how it is the latest incantation from a handful of data lake providers to usurp the rapidly changing cloud data warehousing market. It is one of three blogs featured in the data lakehouse series. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/all-hail-the-data-lakehouse-if-built-on-a-modern-data-warehouse

This is an audio blog about the perplexities of the Data Lakehouse and if it is, indeed, the "paradigm of the decade". To hear more of Eckerson Group perspectives on the data lakehouse be sure to check out the blogs from colleagues, Wayne Eckerson and Kevin Petrie, and the recording of our recent Shop Talk discussion. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/an-architect-s-view-of-the-data-lakehouse-perplexity-and-perspective

This audio blog discusses the Data Lakehouse, a marketing concept that evokes clean PowerPoint imagery, and why and how the New Cloud Data Lake will play a very real role in modern enterprise environments. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/data-lakehouses-hold-water-thanks-to-the-cloud-data-lake

This audio blog discusses cloud adoption and how data teams will migrate an increasing portion of their on-premises operational and analytics workloads to the cloud. They can best meet budget and project requirements by using data streaming technologies such as change data capture (CDC), which replicates real-time updates between data source and target. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/the-next-wave-of-cloud-migrations-needs-data-streaming

This audio blog is about how the CHOP’s data and analytics (DnA) team uses near real-time data and information to decide how to marshal its resources to contain the pandemic. The culmination of all of this work has been an enterprise COVID-19 dashboard that is distributed to enterprise leadership daily. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/chop-harnesses-the-power-of-data-analytics-to-address-the-covid-19-pandemic

This audio blog is about the emerging concept of the data mesh and how enterprises are working tirelessly to centralize diverse, ever-multiplying datasets by transforming mountains of data they don’t understand, into information that analysts do understand. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/the-data-mesh-re-thinking-data-integration

As of this writing, billions of consumers live in quarantine. They buy what they need online, comforting themselves with food, TV, and toilet paper. Nobody is splurging at the mall. To say the least, it is an interesting time to analyze discretionary consumer behavior. As Director of the Voice of Consumer Analytics at Adidas, Tiankai helps measure and manage the perception of a consumer brand that is mentioned on social media an average of 260,000 times per day. An amateur musician, Tiankai went viral himself lately with his series of “Quarantunes,” songs such as “Self Quarantine” and “Parent in Quarantine,” that poke fun at our homebound predicament. Tiankai recently spoke with Eckerson Group about the art and science of consumer analytics, the COVID-19 conundrum, and (of course) the role of creativity in modern data analysis.

This audio blog focuses on data storytelling and how it uses numbers, narrative, and visuals to communicate insights that would otherwise be hard to absorb. Originally published at: https://www.eckerson.com/articles/data-storytelling-part-i-telling-it-like-it-is-and-was-and-will-be