Perspective - Treasure Data Blog - Part 24

Perspective

February 27, 2015

Eliminating Schema Rot in MPP Databases Like Redshift

The MPP database is an incredible piece of technology. These databases run large-scale analytic queries very quickly, making them great tools for iterative data exploration. With a cloud offering like Redshift ...

February 17, 2015

StrataConf by the Numbers: As Hadoop Stoops, Machines Learn and Spark

With my third Strata + HadoopWorld conference around the corner, I decided to do a bit of data analysis to search for any overarching trends for this massive convention by/for/of data nerds. As a former data...

February 5, 2015

Learn SQL by Calculating Customer Lifetime Value Part 2: GROUP BY and JOIN

This is the second installment of our SQL tutorial blog series. In the first part, we set up the data source with SQLite and learned how to filter and sort data. This time, we will learn two other key concepts ...

December 5, 2014

Learn SQL by Calculating Customer Lifetime Value Part 1: Setup, Counting and Filtering

Motivation As far as technical skills go, SQL is a really nice skill to have for product managers and product marketers. Instead of constantly running into performance issues in Excel or begging "technical" pe...

October 30, 2014

From Business Analyst to Data Scientist: the 4 S’s

I used to work in finance as a quantitative analyst, a role best described as “data scientist in finance.” Because of that, my friends with a business background sometimes ask me how they can prepare themselves to become data scientists. “Do I need to know machine learning?” “R or Python?�...

A Cool Vendor

Our latest news has us really excited: prestigious research and analyst firm Gartner has named us one of four Cool Vendors in Big Data, 2014! With so many technology vendors launching in the past few years, we were thrilled that Treasure Data garnered a spot in the information technology and researc...

December 12, 2012

Attack of the Hadoop Hybrids

As if IBM and EMC crashing the Hadoop party wasn't strange enough, now it seems that every data warehousing, database and appliance vendor has a Hadoop co-existence story and, in many cases, a hybrid architecture that they claim provides a best of both worlds solution to data warehousing / big data ...

November 20, 2012

Data Warehousing or Big Data -What’s in a Name?

There is a clever article in this week's Information Week entitled Big Data Debate: End Near For Data Warehousing? The article asks a series of questions that can be reduced to “Will Hadoop supplant the enterprise data warehouse and relegate relational databases to data-mart roles?” This is cert...

October 30, 2012

CIOs say BI, Mobility and Cloud are Top Priorities

Every year Gartner produces one of the definitive surveys of IT priorities based on input from CIOs around the world. It is usually one of the most influential and most quoted surveys and this year's survey will be no exception. According to the latest published survey (September 2012), CIOs rated ...

October 16, 2012

Sorry Guys It’s Not Just About Big Data

McKinsey christened it, Forbes is writing about it, the Harvard Business Review just devoted 22 pages to it and the tech press is alive with it – “it” is big data of course. Treasure Data grew up with big data, distributed storage and processing architectures and handling thousands of concurre...

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