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Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses vs. Data Marts

Let’s precisely define the different kinds of data repositories to understand which ones meet your business needs. October 29, 2020 A data repository serves as a centralized location to combine data from a variety of sources and provides users with a platform to perform analytical tasks. There are several kinds of data repositories, each with distinct characteristics and intended use cases. Let’s discuss the peculiarities and uses of data warehouses, data marts and data lakes.

Why Hiring a Data Analyst Won't Solve Your Business Problems

As businesses increasingly leverage data-driven decision making, the ability to use and understand data at the company-wide level becomes mission critical. While tech behemoths like Netflix, Airbnb, and Spotify have strong data cultures built over the last decade, most companies often face challenges getting up and running with data.

George Fraser and Tristan Handy Discuss the Fivetran-Fishtown Partnership

In a Slack discussion, the two CEOs explain why the Fivetran-dbt integration is great for data analytics engineering enthusiasts. After the recent launch of Fivetran dbt Transformations, both the Fivetran and Fishtown Analytics teams received questions about the newly available feature. (Fishtown is the team behind dbt.) Fivetran CEO George Fraser and Fishtown Analytics CEO Tristan Handy addressed those questions on Slack, and discussed the harmonious relationship between the two companies.

Emery Sapp & Sons Builds Civil Infrastructure, Not Data Pipelines

Growing heavy civil construction business brings on a modern data stack of Fivetran, BigQuery and Looker to gain a competitive edge. Want to hear more from Emery Sapp & Son's Clayton Hicklin? Join him and a number of other incredible data professionals at the 2020 Modern Data Stack Conference October 21-22. Register here.