What if machines could learn? This has been one of the most intriguing questions in science fiction and philosophy since the advent of machines. With modern technology, such questions…
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Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
The world of data can be chaos! New technologies, tools, products and the ever-changing industry dynamics—there sure is a lot to keep up with. So, what do you do to…
What happens in your brain when you read a map or untangle the meaning of a new word? A complex and rapid process of interpreting environmental stimuli, signals, and context…
Numbers are everywhere and drive our day-to-day lives. We take decisions based on numbers, both at work and in our personal lives. For example, an organization may rely on sales…
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Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
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The alternative data revolution isn’t about what alternative data to use. It’s about how to turn it into actionable insights. Road data for Pune, India, color-coded to show which roads…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
Here’s the definition of a data catalog and why a data catalog could be just the thing you need to meet the challenges of data and metadata management and collaboration.…
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Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
The world of data can be chaos! New technologies, tools, products and the ever-changing industry dynamics—there sure is a lot to keep up with. So, what do you do to…
What happens in your brain when you read a map or untangle the meaning of a new word? A complex and rapid process of interpreting environmental stimuli, signals, and context…
Numbers are everywhere and drive our day-to-day lives. We take decisions based on numbers, both at work and in our personal lives. For example, an organization may rely on sales…
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View All Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
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The alternative data revolution isn’t about what alternative data to use. It’s about how to turn it into actionable insights. Road data for Pune, India, color-coded to show which roads…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
Understand the DataOps principles, framework and learn how to implement DataOps within your organization Let’s start with a simple definition of DataOps (aka data operations). DataOps is a data management…
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Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
The world of data can be chaos! New technologies, tools, products and the ever-changing industry dynamics—there sure is a lot to keep up with. So, what do you do to…
What happens in your brain when you read a map or untangle the meaning of a new word? A complex and rapid process of interpreting environmental stimuli, signals, and context…
Numbers are everywhere and drive our day-to-day lives. We take decisions based on numbers, both at work and in our personal lives. For example, an organization may rely on sales…
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View All Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
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The alternative data revolution isn’t about what alternative data to use. It’s about how to turn it into actionable insights. Road data for Pune, India, color-coded to show which roads…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
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A beginner’s guide to the best of breed tools and capabilities for your Data Platform initiative If you Google “modern data platform”, you’ll immediately be bombarded with advertisements and lots of companies professing that they are the one true data platform. Not so helpful, right? So what the heck is a modern data platform? What does that even mean, andwhat…
We thought it would be easy enough to figure this out, but we couldn’t have been more wrong. At Atlan, we started out as a data team ourselves, driving data projects…
Background As a licensed digital peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform in South East Asia, Funding Societies | Modalku is subject to several regulatory and compliance requirements which factor into its data…
Background As a licensed digital peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform in South East Asia, Funding Societies | Modalku is subject to several regulatory and compliance requirements which factor into its data strategy. Data is becoming an increasingly valuable asset and gives rise to significant competitive advantages in the FinTech world. Indeed, without high quality data and upward reporting of meaningful management…
Modern metadata solutions, data quality frameworks, infrastructure, job roles, and other big changes are on their way. Just like every other realm, 2020 upended the data world. When COVID shut…
It’s time for a modern metadata solution, one that is just as fast, flexible, and scalable as the rest of the modern data stack 2020 brought a lot of new…
What do you think came first, newspapers or newsletters? Why do I ask? Not to establish which one’s better but to highlight that newsletters are the oldest and latest medium of knowledge distribution. Newsletters started in ancient Rome as hand-written pieces of information for a group of people, which were later transformed into newspapers for a wider audience. The culture…
If you’re an e-commerce, the COVID-19 crisis must have hit you hard. 😔 Navigating constantly changing lockdown regulations while monitoring the supply chain and ensuring the safety of your employees…
Discover how to successfully handle collaboration, security, team morale and management for remote data teams Going 100% remote for data teams is #$%*ing hard and chaotic. Miscommunications can become commonplace.…
Find out how your remote data team can 4x its productivity with scrum If you’re here, I’m hoping you’ve read my previous article on the toughest challenges that remote data team leaders faced with agile. Now let’s roll up our sleeves and dive right into the solutions. Like I mentioned in the previous post, our co-founders and I were on…
From collaboration and dependencies to productivity, find out what are the top challenges that remote data team leaders face with agile. Raise your hand if you’ve ever planned a data…
Understand the DataOps principles, framework and learn how to implement DataOps within your organization Let’s start with a simple definition of DataOps (aka data operations). DataOps is a data management…
Understand data integrity, how it’s different from data quality and data security and discover how to maintain it in your organization. If you make decisions solely based on data, you cannot go wrong. Right? Wrong. Say what? <I can see that you’re cocking your head sideways like a dog when it’s confused.> Even if you follow the data, you can…
Learn what a data lake is (definition) and how to get the best value from it with a data catalog. Much like the term suggests, a data lake is literally…
Learn about the definition and meaning of metadata, including how to best manage it (spoiler: it has everything to do with a metadata catalog). Let’s get meta about meta—because context…
Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. Three months later, he asks for the same report and gets completely different numbers. Why is this happening? Is the new report incorrect? Or was it the original report? Or…
Learn what data silos are (definition); why they pose the biggest challenge to your big data strategy, pipelines and dreams; and how to break them down. First things first, if…
Understand what data quality means and how data quality management can solve your bad data woes How is your data? If that very question makes you cringe, then you’ve come…
Understand how you can meet the challenges of ensuring data quality and accuracy with a modern data dictionary. Raise your hand if this has happened to you too. ✋ An example of the challenges that business analysts face with data sets Or this one. An example of the challenges that data scientists face with data sets Often, the humans of…
If you’re a Chief Data Officer, you know that one of the major challenges of managing data teams is knowing what’s latest in the ever-changing world of data! And while…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
Here’s the definition of a data catalog and why a data catalog could be just the thing you need to meet the challenges of data and metadata management and collaboration. Let’s understand the definition, use cases and value of a modern data catalog with a small story— Two data scientists walk into a library at the end of a long…
DataOps can help you bring together your data, team, tools and processes to become a truly data-driven organization Did you know that Gartner listed DataOps (i.e. data operations) as one…
If you’re a CDO (Chief Data Officer), you already know this—it’s an exciting time to be a CDO! The role is soaring in popularity and importance—the number of CDOs in…
The world of data can be chaos! New technologies, tools, products and the ever-changing industry dynamics—there sure is a lot to keep up with. So, what do you do to cut through the noise? Well… one way is to follow the greatest in the world of data science and simply hang on to their every word. We created a list…
As one of the most popular conferences for data scientists in India, The Fifth Elephant (organized by HasGeek) is an incredible opportunity to interact with data science practitioners, thought leaders…
The Fifth Elephant is one of India’s largest data science conferences with speakers from organizations such as Anaconda, Flipkart, Clustr, Gojek and more. At the event, the Atlan team interviewed some…
The Atlan Team met Ishita Mathur, a data scientist at Gojek, at The Fifth Elephant 2019 (organized by HasGeek). A community-led event, The Fifth Elephant is one of India’s most popular data science conferences with speakers from Gojek, Anaconda, Flipkart, Clustr, Simpl and more. The HasGeek team was kind enough to help our team set up interviews with some of…
No, this is not yet another uber-complex glossary for data terms. Think of the wiki as a fun, helpful encyclopedia for the data universe. Here’s our story. Why did we…
We like to think that air travel today is long or even dangerous, but it’s nothing compared to sea travel a couple of centuries ago. Imagine getting on a massive…
