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Updated March 4, 2019

Additional contribution by: Santanu Chatterjee, Trystan Leftwich, Bryan Naden. In the previous post we demonstrated how to model percentile estimates and use them in Tableau without moving large amounts of data. You may ask, "how accurate are the results and…

Updated March 4, 2019

Organizations have come to the realization that data is a core part of their strategy and a scalable distributed computing platform central to their technology investment. However, a challenge that big data practitioners face is what use case they should…

Updated March 4, 2019

Enterprise data management has changed immensely over the past few decades…we’ve lived through data warehousing and data marts, struggled with scaling to huge data volumes and slow query performance, so on and so forth. As time progressed, true Big Data…

Updated March 4, 2019

If your team has been trying to connect your Business Intelligence (BI) tools to your Hadoop environment, you're familiar with the typical issues: performance, security and the inability to model the data in a way that business users like to…

Updated March 4, 2019

Modeling Multi-Level Facts In our last Advanced Modeling blog post we looked at using bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships. In this post, we are going to expand that use case and look into how to model facts that apply…

Updated March 4, 2019

Part One - Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships Using Bridge Tables I have been fortunate throughout my career to work with a range of companies, from some of the largest enterprises in the world to smaller companies that are disrupting industries with…

Updated March 4, 2019

At the beginning of 2018 we predicted that cloud adoption would be one of the key strategic trends that would help enterprises succeed with Big Data. Managing on-premise data infrastructure requires a huge effort. And, as people become more adept…

Updated March 4, 2019

My previous blog highlighted some best practices to gain immediate value from all the capabilities that AtScale offers when using Tableau as your BI tool of choice. One of those best practices is to use AtScale-created date dimensions to improve…

Updated March 4, 2019

When we started AtScale five years ago, there were just five of us, driven by the desire to change the way enterprises deliver analytics to the business. AtScale was born out of necessity. At Yahoo!, my team and I had…

Updated March 4, 2019

Like many people these days, I really love data. I started my career in the 90s evangelizing business intelligence (BI) and invented one of the first BI platforms for the enterprise. For the past 10 years, at companies like Yahoo!…