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Feature Engineering for Modern Data Teams

Feature engineering is a crucial part of any ML workflow. At Continual, we believe that it is actually the most impactful part of the ML process and the one that should have the most human intervention applied to it. However, in ML literature, the term is often overloaded among several different topics, and we wanted to provide a bit of guidance for users of Continual in navigating this concept.

Forrester study reveals how much you really win by using ThoughtSpot

Tell us if this analytics scenario sounds familiar: your organization employs an analyst team that uses old technology, desktop data visualization tools, or homegrown reporting systems to manually build out static dashboards and multiple weekly or monthly reports. As a result, the data analysts have to manually generate and update business reports regularly, and teams cannot keep up. In turn, the rest of the organization is unable to make timely business decisions.

Founder's Guide to Setting Up a Data Analytics Foundation

Business metrics guide founders and decision-makers to make the right call to push their ventures towards their goals. In the initial launch of a startup, the focus tends to be on revenue and profits. However, if a startup wants to scale up, it is important to broaden what metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) are monitored at each stage, so they can grow the business by using data instead of just intuition.

Democratizing Data Apps - Snowflake to Acquire Streamlit

Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the number of data apps being built on Snowflake, including large customer-facing apps from companies such as BlackRock, Instacart, Lacework, and others. We’re proud of the fact that our platform helps developers bring these applications to life faster, scale better, and provide more powerful insights to their users, whether they be employees, partners, or customers.

Manage the Demand of Stress Testing in Financial Services

Risk management is a highly dynamic discipline these days. Stress testing is a particular area that has become even more important throughout the pandemic. Stress tests conducted by authorities such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US are designed to keenly monitor the financial stability of the banking sector, especially during economic downturns such as those brought on by the pandemic.

Memory Optimizations for Analytic Queries in Cloudera Data Warehouse

Apache Impala is used today by over 1,000 customers to power their analytics in on premise as well as cloud-based deployments. Large user communities of analysts and developers benefit from Impala’s fast query execution, helping them get their work done more effectively. For these users performance and concurrency are always top of mind.