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BigQuery is capable of some truly impressive feats, be it scanning billions of rows based on a regular expression, joining large tables, or completing complex ETL tasks with just a SQL query. One advantage of BigQuery (and SQL in general), is it’s declarative nature. Your SQL indicates your requirements, but the system is responsible for figuring out how to satisfy that request. However, this approach also has its flaws - namely the problem of understanding intent.

Building a REST API? There’s a few things you’ll need to know before you get started. In this article, we break down the basics of REST APIs and tell you how they’re delivered, and what you need to do to create one.

Simone Clancy, Director of People Strategy at Yellowfin, and Jessica Maree, Program Director at VICT4W, had the opportunity to interview each other about leadership and mentoring, and share some valuable lessons they've learned.

When Apple launched its App Store in 2008, it opened a window of opportunity for thousands of software developers who rushed to invent the mobile-first world in which we all live today. Vendors that embraced the new paradigm, such as game developer Imangi, saw breakthrough success.

As your data operations evolve, they become messier. Diverse data sources and data models at their sources, multiple movements of data throughout your platform, and cobbled-up infrastructure, which has grown in complexity through every deployment have made it hard to identify, trace, classify, and understand your data assets. This can be as simple as an analyst spending hours trying to figure out where a data attribute in a table came from and whether it is trustworthy.

Hightouch and Fivetran turn your data warehouse into your customer data platform.

Getting your customer's data on the platform quickly and effectively is crucial for any business. How well you onboard new data will affect your success and your customer's experience. Effective onboarding affects so many aspects of a company's success that it's necessary to take a detailed look into all aspects of the process. The following is everything you need to know about data onboarding.

“More than 15 billion IoT devices will connect to the enterprise infrastructure by 2029.” Finding data is not going to be a challenge, clearly, but taking advantage of it all to drive business outcomes will be. Combining AI and machine learning (ML) with data collection and processing capabilities of the edge and the cloud may hold the answer.

Both businesses and governments have been forced to respond to the global pandemic by developing interactive user experiences and spatial applications using location-based data sets to visualize COVID cases, communicate confinement measures, and track vaccine rollout progress.