Let’s face it, operating in a data-driven environment is hard. Teams, even small ones, can generate a painfully large number of batch processes that need to run on schedules. Drag-and-drop ETL tools become a maze of dependencies as business logic…

Today’s advanced analytics space is filled with tools to help users become more data driven. However, every use case is different, and there is not a single tool that is ready for each unique situation. The best solutions for a…

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THE IMPORTANCE OF SECURITY This post is the third in a series of posts about getting up and running with a Magpie Data Lake. In previous blog posts, we’ve discussed rapidly prototyping a data lake with Magpie, and automating loads…

In this blog post, we explore how a data analyst can know when to trust data and when to be skeptical. Using data integrity features in your modern data engineering platform should help you sort this quickly, and move on…