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Data QnA: An exploration of a conversational query interface through the work of Stanley Kubrick
Data QnA is a recent feature from Google that builds on some underlying research from the Analyza – a system designed to parse, converse and interpret natural language queries across data. You may have seen this in action under the hood without realising it...
What does BigQuery Omni mean for the future of data?
GCP recently announced the private alpha of BigQuery Omni, a service that allows you to run BigQuery (Dremel) on data that resides in another cloud (S3 in AWS at the moment, Azure soon) using Anthos. It’s an interesting foray into what looks like one of the earliest...
The 2020 database showdown: BigQuery vs Redshift vs Snowflake
Last updated: 23rd September 2020 For updates, changes and errata please see the Changelog at the end of this post. What is this guide? – Designed as a fair feature comparison between the different products – An up to date guide (hopefully with regular...
Establishing data lineage practices with Google Tag Manager analytics events
In this post we’ll look at how to capture meta data from Google Tag Manager (GTM) from the tags that fire analytics requests. This post focuses on Snowplow specifically, however the same concepts can be easily adapted to Google Analytics or your other tool of...
Adventures with Event Bridge
What is Amazon Event Bridge? AWS describes Event Bridge as: … a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services. EventBridge...
Snowplow Inspector v0.2.15 Released
What’s New? This small release adds support for custom endpoint paths in POST requests. What does that mean? As Snowplow grows in popularity, it gets used more and more for different use-cases. Some of those use-cases involve using Snowplow as a third-party...
Server Side Tracking – What’s Old is New Again
Introduction: The Importance of Data Collection When we work with our clients on data and analytics; we strongly believe that the process of data collection is fundamental. Data quality should be the highest priority, and this can only be achieved through a robust and...
Data governance: on the offensive (#2 Data Maturity Series)
In my last post, we looked at why organisations often fail to engage data initiatives properly, leaving them stuck in first gear, or worse, spinning in neutral. We covered the concept of the data supply chain being comprised of a number of links, all of which need to...
Generating data insight: it’s a (supply) chain reaction (#1 Data Maturity Series)
It’s not the sort of statistic you’ll ever see in a sales deck, but the dirty secret of the data business is that most projects fail. In this new series of blogs, I want to take a look at where organisations go wrong and try to provide a better model for achieving the...
The life of Python: Highlights from PyCon AU 2019
Opportunities to actively engage and learn are vital to our work at Poplin Data so it was great to attend the recent PyCon AU 2019 with other members of the engineering team. The event brought together professionals, students and enthusiast developers to discuss the...
The importance of owning your own data
As Equifax prepares to pay out as much as $US700 million in compensation for its spectacular 2017 security breach, and cosmetics retailer Sephora apologises for a leak of Asia Pacific customer data, now is a good time to consider the advantages of data ownership....
Poplin Data Retail Week
This week Poplin Data was all about Retail and eCommerce as we had a series of events in Sydney. On Tuesday 23rd of July, we hosted the first in our Thought Leaders Breakfast series, where more than 70 people came to hear Catch Group Chief Product Officer Liron...
