Why is data democracy essential?
Today, data analysis still is the domain of a select group of people with specialized skills. Data engineers design, build, and maintain the systems that enable...
Data Analysts! Let’s play a game of “Reverse Never Have I Ever."
I would love to say the future of analytics is here, all your problems solved with the new AI dashboards (or Augmented Analytics). But first, what’s wrong with what we have today? Is the change even...
The Data Analyst role has long existed under different names throughout the evolution of companies ever since businesses realized at scale, data-informed decisions can be life or death to businesses....
The importance and demand for data have inspired lots of data tools and technological innovations to life. But with that also came extreme complexity. A16z’s modern data industry landscape is a good...
As a popular adage has it, data scientists spend 80% of their time preparing the data and only 20% building the models. If only this were true! In reality, the 80-20 split only applies to the time...
How modern data solutions utilize DAGs
The advent of big data introduced a plethora of technical requirements that were needed to define, store, process, and manage data. As data requirements have...
From Seoul to New Orleans
Did I go on a food trip? Yes, kind of but not really. Last month, I had the privilege to join the world’s analytics engineering community in New Orleans at Coalesce 2022 -...
Before Data as a Service (DaaS) was introduced in 2016, data engineers had to go through a manual process of connecting cloud storages (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, MinIO, etc) with Spark and...
Why create a single DAG based scheduler for databases?
When we set out to design Kaldea, including its single DAG based scheduler, we interviewed 100+ data scientists, data analysts, and data...
This is the fourth and final article in Kaldea’s culture guide. It covers being the customer.
When was the last time that we saw a product announcement for ‘data analysis’? Instead, we’ve seen a lot of advancement in data storage, pipeline, ETL, metric stores, governance, dashboards. The last...
This is the third in a series of four articles, publishing our full culture guide. It covers inclusivity and performing as a Kaldean.
Over the past couple of decades, the use of data and data management tools have evolved dramatically, and are continuing to evolve. We’ll tell the history of Big Data and data management tools,...
This is the second in a series of four articles, publishing our full culture guide. It covers transparency and contributing to Kaldea’s goals and mission.
Understanding “What is data vs metadata?” is a simple enough question, but it has more implications for data analysis than you might think. The scope and flexibility of the definition of data and...
Our culture is our people, their contributions and values, and, yet, it is greater than the sum of our people, a living and breathing organism evolving with new members and ever clarifying focus on...
With dbt’s recent announcement, Minerva 2.0, and Transform's launch, the metric store is a hot debate for companies that are looking to self-serve data and make it more accurate to its internal data...
Kaldea is a collaborative data analytics platform for teams who use some of their most sensitive data to source insight, understanding, and confidence for their colleagues and company. We’re...
The data architecture built around data-driven decision making has exploded in the last decade and, especially recently, has created a complex system of tools and applications for serving analytics...
