Analytics

Analytics | News, analysis, features, how-tos, and videos

Steampipe dashboards and benchmarks for your data

Use Powerpipe to visualize and validate data in your own Postgres, SQLite, DuckDB, or MySQL database.

Mar 27, 2024 8 mins

The world needs more (and better) open map data

The best map data and the most advanced mapping features have been proprietary. The Overture Maps Foundation aims to change that.

Mar 25, 2024 8 mins

Analytics Data Management Open Source

Evaluating databases for sensor data

Sensor data and IoT applications have special requirements that might be better served by a specialized database. Here’s what to consider.

Mar 18, 2024 7 mins

Databases Relational Databases Technology Industry

How a new database architecture supports scale and reliability in TiDB

TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works.

Mar 11, 2024 12 mins

Databases Relational Databases SQL

Why SQL still rules

So many programming languages have come and gone, but SQL remains. And it has a bright future still.

Mar 4, 2024 9 mins

Databases Relational Databases SQL

Google delivers Gemini LLM support to BigQuery data warehouse

BigQuery’s update will make it easier to prepare data for AI with speech-to-text and document processing.

Feb 29, 2024 2 mins

Data Warehousing Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

3 dynamic use cases for Apache Flink and stream processing

We live in a world in motion. Stream processing allows us to record events in the real world so that we can take action or make predictions that will drive better business outcomes.

Feb 27, 2024 6 mins

Analytics Development Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

What is NumPy? Faster array and matrix math in Python

Learn how this popular Python library accelerates math at scale, especially when paired with tools like Cython and Numba.

Feb 21, 2024 8 mins

Data Science Development Tools Python

How to run R in Visual Studio Code

If you’re an R programmer hoping to try GitHub Copilot, you’ll need to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Here’s how to set up and use VS Code for R.

Feb 15, 2024 11 mins

Analytics R Language Visual Studio Code

What is Microsoft Fabric? A big tech stack for big data

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end suite of cloud-based tools for data analytics, encompassing data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence.

Feb 9, 2024 10 mins

Business Intelligence Data Integration Data Science

Topics

About

Policies

Our Network

More