Dave Mariani

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Dave is the founder of AtScale and is the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout & at Yahoo! where he built the world’s largest multi-dimensional cube for BI on Hadoop. Mariani is a Big Data visionary & serial entrepreneur.

February 10, 2022

How to Turn Unstructured Medical Records Into Actionable Insights

Patient documentation has come a long way since the days of doctors writing patient notes with pen and paper. Today, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems can capture, exchange, and store medical records automatically. These advances have been significant for providers…

January 25, 2022

How Top Data Leaders Align AI & BI to Business Outcomes

Many organizations still view machine learning and big data analytics through a technical prism. Business leaders know that the fundamental value proposition of these methodologies is in achieving better business outcomes.  I had the pleasure to discuss this topic with…

November 1, 2021

Why You Need Next-Gen OLAP

Before You Break Up with OLAP While relationships can be challenging at times, they are hopefully worth the effort. When your significant other repeatedly leaves the cap off the toothpaste or leaves dirty dishes in the sink, it might drive…

October 28, 2021

The Universal Semantic Layer. More Important than Ever.

There’s been a lot of news lately about semantic layers. Google and Tableau announced their plans to connect Tableau to Looker’s semantic layer. It’s great to see the industry recognize the importance of the semantic layer in the new cloud…

September 9, 2021

How Analytics Governance Empowers Self-Service BI

Data governance is a broad topic with a lot of players offering commentary and strategy across the data and analytics space. Governance isn’t only about security and access control, or who can access what; it’s also about how data is…

August 26, 2021

Leveraging Calculated Measures in AtScale for Time Series Analysis

AtScale can help BI users and data scientists operate more efficiently by getting more from their semantic layer solution to support sophisticated analyses like predictions, forecasting, and analyzing pattern anomalies as examples. In this post, we’ll discuss how to leverage…

August 17, 2021

Making Raw Data Analysis-Ready with Dimensional Modeling

Turning raw data into analysis-ready data sets for Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics teams is a challenge for many organizations. While collecting and storing information is easier than ever, delivering data sets that are fully prepped for analysts and decision…

August 12, 2021

Building a Semantic Layer with AtScale on Amazon Redshift

Using AtScale to establish a semantic layer on Amazon Redshift delivers several important benefits to modern data and analytics teams. As a single source of governed metrics, and dimensions, AtScale extends the value of Redshift for business intelligence and data…

August 10, 2021

Breaking the Cognitive Bottleneck with Prescriptive Analytics

Modern organizations increasingly rely on their analytics programs to help them stay competitive. And, while most every organization is leveraging the massive amounts of data available from their enterprise applications and from 3rd party data providers, it is increasingly common…

August 5, 2021

AtScale in Action: How to Make Power BI Perform on Snowflake

Many enterprises today choose the Microsoft stack because it fits seamlessly with the Windows OS and existing business applications. That’s why AtScale has partnered with Snowflake to streamline reporting and analytics with Power BI. If you haven’t seen our previous…