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Apache Superset Test Drive
I have lately been playing with some commercial BI & Dashboard tools. There is a certainly quite broad range when it comes to features, price, scalability, administration capabilities, how they...
User Manual for Jay at Work
I thought it would be a fun exercise to write a short document about what I index on for my day job and folks I work with. What matters most...
Snowflake Testimonial - Rent The Runway: Reinventing Retail with Data Driven Insights
In August, I spoke at the Snowflake analytics tour on the topic "Rent The Runway: Reinventing Retail with Data Driven Insights". I was also asked to provide an account of...
#1 news story on espn.com details something that happened on SportsCollectors.Net
In my 20's, I taught myself to code and I created what has become a fairly popular community for sports autograph collectors - SportsCollectors.Net. I have mentioned it a few...
Simulating Vertica's conditional_change_event
Lately my team has spent a bunch of time migrating our data warehouse from Vertica to Snowflake. While Snowflake has excellent support for analytic functions, Vertica has some functions that...
