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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

The market for data warehouses is booming. While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Data Warehouse.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

When these systems connect with external groups — customers, subscribers, shareholders, stakeholders — even more data is generated, collected, and exchanged. The result, as Sisense CEO Amir Orad wrote , is that every company is now a data company. This is quantitative data. Qualitative data benefits: Unlocking understanding.

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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

Looking at the diagram, we see that Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of analytical methods applied to big data to surface actionable intelligence by identifying patterns in voluminous data. As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data.

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Building Better Data Models to Unlock Next-Level Intelligence

Sisense

We’re going to nerd out for a minute and dig into the evolving architecture of Sisense to illustrate some elements of the data modeling process: Historically, the data modeling process that Sisense recommended was to structure data mainly to support the BI and analytics capabilities/users.