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What is data storytelling? The value of context & narrative in BI

By 2025, Gartner predicts data stories will be the most widespread way of consuming analytics. It’s far from a fad - it’s a part of modern analytics you can’t afford to overlook. However, are you still unsure of what data storytelling is, or why there's a sudden buzz?

The Data Chief: ThoughtSpot's Ajeet Singh on design thinking and disruption

At this point, we can pretty confidently project that the cloud isn’t going anywhere. In the last few years, we’ve seen critical production workloads move to the cloud en masse—and that’s only going to continue. Now that the shift has occurred, other companies will need to get on board as well. The question is no longer if a company should adopt cloud but when and how. Ajeet Singh, ThoughtSpot’s Co-founder and Executive Chairman, is no stranger to embracing change.

Retailers must leverage data to survive this pandemic

Jamie Kiser, COO and CCO at Talend, explains why retailers, striving to ensure they’re not missing out on future opportunities, must leverage one thing: data. By utilizing customer intelligence and better data management, retailers can collect supply chain data in real-time, make better orders to suppliers based on customer intelligence. While major industries from tech to the public sector felt COVID’s pain points, not many felt them as acutely as retail.

Democratizing Data Across a Dynamic Business With Qlik

The retail and manufacturing industries have had many new challenges due to COVID-19. As a leading action sports apparel company, La Jolla Group has persevered during this time. Now more than ever we rely on a holistic view of our forecasting, sales and production data. We have democratized this data empowering users from across the business to make well-informed business decisions, quickly. That’s where Qlik has shown real superiority over other platforms like Power BI and Tableau.

DataOps Unleashed Things You May Not Know About Apache Kafka but Should

Things You May Not Know About Apache Kafka but Should presented by Patrick Druley, Senior Solution Engineer at Confluent. In this session, you will learn about some of the common misconceptions, best practices, and little-known facts about Apache Kafka. Event Streaming has changed the way businesses think about data movement and integration. If you are new to Kafka or having been creating topics and developing clients for years, there's something for everyone in this fun and informative session.

DataOps Unleashed Dataops Automation and Orchestration With Fivetran, Dbt, and the Modern Data Stack

Dataops Automation and Orchestration With Fivetran, Dbt, and the Modern Data Stack presented by Nick Acosta, Developer Advocate at Fivetran. Many organizations struggle with creating repeatable and standardized processes for their data pipeline. Fivetran reduces pipeline complexity by fully managing the extraction and loading of data from a source to a destination and orchestrating transformations in the warehouse.

Why CDOs need a people change management champion on their team

CDOs are charged with leading their organizations to become more data-driven. In 2021, this mission is more critical as the distance between data-driven organizations and laggards widened. For many, this means accelerating digital transformation plans.. Last year, ten-year plans got compressed into a single year. Companies raced to implement new technologies - everything from digital payments, store fronts, chat bots, cloud databases, and augmented analytics solutions

Using BigQuery Administrator for real-time monitoring

When doing analytics at scale with BigQuery, understanding what is happening and being able to take action in real-time is critical. To that end, we are happy to announce Resource Charts for BigQuery Administrator. Resources Charts provide a native, out-of-the-box experience for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting of your BigQuery environments.