Data Learning
How Data Engineers can win Friends and Influence People
To succeed in life, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” That advice seems counterintuitive to data engineers because it’s all about what you know: how to design data models, build data assets, and deliver data products. It…
Fear of Missing Out: A Data Engineer’s Dilemma
Fear of Missing Out, also known as “FOMO” in its more concise form, is a huge factor in one’s decisions and actions. In our personal lives, we don’t want to miss out on the latest news, hottest trends, or greatest…
3 Ways to Speed Up Looker Dashboards
As a computer science professor focused on database systems (and now CEO of a data learning platform, called Keebo), Looker’s in-database architecture has always resonated with me. It’s exactly what we teach as best practice in database classes: push your computation to where…
What is Data Learning and Why is it Important?
The top three technology disruptors of the past two decades have been mobile devices, social media, and cloud computing, all of which have since become ubiquitous. They play an essential part in our lives and have transformed the way we…