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WestJet Airlines Scales Easily & Quickly With The Snowflake Data Cloud

WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. It is the second-largest Canadian airline, operating over 700 flights a day and carrying more than 22 million guests a year. Learn why Breyten Van Tonder, Senior Manager of Data Engineering at WestJet and his team utilize the Snowflake Data Cloud to enable their user community to be more analytical and innovative with their data.

The Human Side of the Equation - How Stories Bring Data to Life (Part 1)

As data science has taken center stage in a lot of organizations, many are relearning what they’ve already known – that dry, mathematical calculations don’t inspire and don’t stick. It’s the story that matters. In this first of a two-part blog series, we look at the history and neuroscience of storytelling and how it can help us understand data at a more human level.

Flow Creation in Edge Flow Manager

This video shows the usage of Edge Flow Manager’s flow designer and using the example flow it explains the concept of agent classes and publishing. It goes through the Dashboard view for agent classes and the canvas for the flow designer where processors, remote process groups and funnels are also explained. To see all of this in action, a very basic flow is created with two processors and published to the MiNiFi agents under the agent class the flow is designed for. After publishing, the means of tracking the flow deployment progress are also covered.

9 Key Features of Enterprise Data Visualization Software

Enterprise organizations with complex datasets, need to find ways to make their data more accessible and usable. One way to do this is through data visualization, which can help provide reporting that makes data more understandable and actionable. While the bare minimum requirement for data visualization BI software is good data visualization capability, there are more specific features that are often needed.

Simplify Metrics on Apache Druid With Rill Data and Cloudera

Co-author: Mike Godwin, Head of Marketing, Rill Data Cloudera has partnered with Rill Data, an expert in metrics at any scale, as Cloudera’s preferred ISV partner to provide technical expertise and support services for Apache Druid customers. We want Cloudera customers that rely on Apache Druid to know that their clusters are secure and supported by the Cloudera partner ecosystem.

Britive Provides a Unified Access Model Across Cloud and SaaS Platforms

Because conventional privileging and permissioning solutions were designed to run within on-premises data centers, they require dedicated IT security expertise to deploy and manage. Configuring them for multi-cloud environments is simply not workable. In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” Daniel Myers chats with Britive’s Field CTO John Morton, who explains how Britive has taken advantage of Snowflake’s compute and data-sharing capabilities to develop a solution that gives cloud-native, cloud-focused companies a new kind of cloud access management tool–one that easily scales as businesses grow and DevOps pipelines expand.

Does Financial Crime Increase During a Recession?

The dynamic and interconnected world of global ecommerce, crypto currencies, and alternative payments places increased pressure on anti-financial crime measures to keep pace and transform alongside these initiatives. Consumers worldwide are projected to use mobile devices to make more than 30.7 billion ecommerce transactions by 2026, a five-fold increase over the 6.1 billion predicted for 2022.

Scalable Python on BigQuery using Dask and NVIDIA GPUs

BigQuery is Google Cloud’s fully managed serverless data platform that supports querying using ANSI SQL. BigQuery also has a data lake storage engine that unifies SQL queries with other open source processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Tensorflow, and Dask. BigQuery storage provides an API layer for OSS engines to process data. This API enables mixing and matching programming in languages like Python with structured SQL in the same data platform.

Fraud Detection With Cloudera Stream Processing Part 2: Real-Time Streaming Analytics

In part 1 of this blog we discussed how Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC), the universal data distribution service powered by Apache NiFi, can make it easy to acquire data from wherever it originates and move it efficiently to make it available to other applications in a streaming fashion.