October 4, 2022
Getting Started with a Semantic Layer with Snowflake and AtScaleMore than 10 years after the explosion of big data analytics technologies, data scientists still spend nearly half their time on data preparation. Despite all their hard work preparing data for use, 86% of the data used to create insights…
September 29, 2022
The Rise of the Semantic Layer: Enabling Speed, Scale and Cost Effectiveness To Deliver Actionable Insights and AnalyticsIt’s hard to believe that just 15 years ago, big data and cloud technology emerged with the introduction of Hadoop and cloud vendor offerings. Over the past 5 years, most enterprises have moved to the cloud, motivated by the dual…
September 22, 2022
Using the Semantic Layer for AI/ML Product DevelopmentThe influx of data has increased exponentially over the last decade. As illustrated below, data creation is expected to grow by 86% by 2025 due to an increased digital footprint during the pandemic. [caption id="attachment_20629" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/[/caption] Many…
September 20, 2022
Why the Semantic Layer Is Critical to the Hub-and-Spoke Analytics ModelAtScale had the opportunity to collaborate with Andrew Brust, Founder & CEO of Blue Badge Insights, to explore the history of the semantic layer concept. This post is a summary of his perspective published in a recent whitepaper, The Semantic…
September 13, 2022
Announcement: Semantic Layer Summit Speakers, Sessions & SponsorsIt’s official! We're excited to announce the full lineup of speakers, sessions, and sponsors for the 2022 Semantic Layer Summit on September 28th. It is a FREE, fully virtual one-day event from 10:30AM - 4:30PM ET. There's a lot to…
September 8, 2022
How to Use a Semantic Layer and Augmented Intelligence to Empower Data ConsumersIn my talk with AI Evangelist, Ben Taylor, we discussed how to use a Semantic Layer and augmented intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap between AI and business intelligence (BI) teams to drive business impact. DataRobot is a powerful enterprise…
September 1, 2022
How to Go Beyond Data Storytelling to ML and AI StorytellingThis post written by Zach Eslami in collaboration with Jeff Curran. Storytelling is an art and a skill. Any good storyteller knows it’s always tricky finding that sweet spot to explain a concept so that it’s detailed, but doesn’t overwhelm.…
August 25, 2022
Moving From Correlation to Causation – the Next Big Step in AIJohn K. Thompson, Analytics Leader, Innovator, and Author of Building Analytics Teams and Data for All. Currently, when talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of enterprise class, commercial companies, it is more of an art than a science.…
August 11, 2022
How Trumid Enables Real-Time Analysis with BigQuery & LookerI recently hosted a live customer webinar with a Forbes Top 50 FinTech company that uses AtScale to support their data science initiatives. Trumid’s senior data engineer Colin Reid joined me to share insights into the problems his team is…
August 4, 2022
AtScale + Snowflake: Enable Dimensional Analysis in the Data CloudAtScale’s partnership with Snowflake has dramatically expanded our customers' data processing capabilities — guiding them toward analytics modernization. From delivering analysis-ready data to extending legacy tool services through dialect support, data practitioners can now deliver blazing-fast dimensional analysis to enable…
