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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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What Do CIOs Have To Know About Business Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand how to make use of new business intelligence tools Image Credit: deepak pal. Modern CIOs need to understand that Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an company’s strategic and tactical business decisions.

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

The reasons are myriad, but one major factor is the challenge in managing, transforming and moving the vast amounts of data required for AI and analytics. As per a 2021 report from Fivetran and Wakefield Research, 85% of data leaders believe that flawed data management can lead to poor decision-making and lost revenue.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI).

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Falkon closes $16M round to automate sales workflows and analyses

TechCrunch

CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, support product research and expand the size of Falkon’s team from 20 to 30 employees by the end of the year. ” Image Credits: Falkon.

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Let Business Needs Guide Your Winning Data Team

CIO

The shortage of data science skills continues to frustrate organizations in their quest to become more data driven. CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO research found that data science/analytics is one of the top three tech-related skills CIOs are trying to hire – and 22% said it’s one of the three most difficult to fill.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO

But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. Self-service analytics typically involves tools that are easy to use and have basic data analytics capabilities. Users have freedom to slice and dice the data without technical know-how,” he says.

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