Enterprise Customer Data Platform - Treasure Data Blog - Part 34

Capture your Kinesis Stream Analytics Events in Treasure Data

With data-driven companies like Coinbase, Dash and Supercell all getting on board with Amazon Kinesis for real-time delivery of in-app data, handling billions of events per day, we can imagine why you too might...

We Analyzed Over 6 Million SQL Queries & Here’s What We Found

As part of our effort to improve product usability, I decided to take a look at how other analysts and TD users write their SQL. Like any other language, you can develop your own style over the years, and we should design our query editor accordingly......

Customer Highlight: Bringing Data Science to Mobile Shopping at Wish

Wish needed scalable data infrastructure that worked right out of the box. Back in early 2012, the recommendations based shopping app had grown from a data science experiment at ContextLogic into a full web and mobile e-commerce platform......

Wrangling Huge .CSVs Made Simple (with a little help from SQL)

Let's say you have a very large .csv (containing more than 80k rows) that you want to analyze and visualize. Usually, given only Excel and Tableau (or Looker, Chartio, etc.), you would have one of two options: Put it into Excel and run pivot tables, charts, and whatnot, OR Ingest the data di...

Dimensionality Reduction Techniques: Where to Begin

When dealing with huge volumes of data, a problem naturally arises. How do you whittle down a dataset of hundreds or even thousands of variables into an optimal model? How do you visualize data through countless dimensions? Fortunately, a series of techniques called dimensionality reduction aim to...

Importing and Exporting Google Spreadsheets with Treasure Data

Despite various business intelligence vendors’ campaigns against Excel and similar programs, spreadsheets continue to be the most popular business intelligence tool. In fact, they are more than a BI tool: Bec...

Opening up the Great Wide Open, Atlanta, March 16-17, 2016

It's not often the case that you get to combine both a cutting-edge technology conference with a market that, in many ways, is only just waking up to the possibilities of open source analytics. But that's exactly what the Great Wide Open Conference (GWOC) is and I'm glad I got to attend this year!...

The Analytics Hierarchy of Needs

Inspired by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, I wanted to create a similar idea around data science and analytics. Too many times do I see individuals putting the cart before the horse and trying to build a complex predictive analytics pipeline when they don't even know the basics of their customer's usa...

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