My thoughts on Airbyte
What a great time to be alive in the data space. There are a plethora of data tools out there to make our jobs easier, at least in most...
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BigQuery vs. Snowflake showdown
As someone who regularly uses both BigQuery and Snowflake, there are aspects in each tool that behave differently, or that provide either...
Creating random values in a normal distribution in BigQuery
Some languages, such as R, have built in functionality to pull random numbers from a normal distribution. Other languages and...
Predictive modeling workflow in BigQuery vs. R Studio pt. 1: ad-hoc modeling
One of the advantages of BigQuery over other cloud data warehouses is the inclusion of machine-learning models within the SQL syntax. In...
Refactoring BigQuery public datasets pt. 1: nested and repeated in FDA food_events
Data munging is one of the most time consuming exercises in the data analysis process. It's not unheard of to spend 90% of the effort in...
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I've been working with and building data warehouses for almost twenty years. In 2021, I began working with Google BigQuery, due to it's simplicity and low barrier of entry. This blog is from the perspective of moving from a traditional data warehouse to GBQ.
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