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dbt Webinar: Let’s Get in Gear for Coalesce!
Bringing communities together to connect, collaborate, and learn about dbt October 13 at 5:00pm BST (UTC +1) | Zoom Webinar | Sign Up Below hosted with dbt has been taking the world by storm. Over the last few months, many of you have asked for more! More content,...
Data And Drinks – Meet the Snowflake and Vantage Team
Bringing communities together to connect, collaborate, and learn about Snowflake 13 June 2022 | 5 pm | Legacy Yard, Umhlanga, Durban hosted with You’re invited to join Snowflake & Vantage for an evening of Drinks, Data & delicious nibbles on the 13th June at 5...
Roll out The Red Carpet – dbt is ready to Change the Way We Transform Data.
I got introduced to DBT when I started at Vantage Data nearly a year back and although I’ve heard of DBT before, I really didn’t understand the full capabilities until I got my hands dirty. Looking back, all I can say is WOW! Using DBT together with something like...
The dbt Bootcamp: Transform your Data using Data Build Tool
Description Are you looking for a cutting-edge way to extract load and transform your data? Do you want to know more about dbt aka Data Build Tool and how to use it? Well, this is the course for you. Welcome to The dbt Bootcamp: Transform your Data using Data Build...
dbt London Meetup!
Bringing communities together to connect, collaborate, and learn about DBT 25 May 2022 | 5pm | The Devereux hosted with All UK based folks, join the Vantage Data Team for some food, drinks and refreshments 🍻 and to chat all things data engineering and dbt. We...
Let’s Talk about Julia, Python’s Arch Enemy!
Now, don’t get me wrong, Python will always be the OG (well at least for the next while) but we can’t ignore the whispers in the Data Science community that Julia is pretty good. Python's popularity continues to be bolstered by a strong community of data engineers,...
Log4j Broke the Internet. Here’s what Happened.
I’m sure you must have seen the word “log4j” pop up on emails, messages and any sort of social media feed, everywhere! If you know a cyber security professional please give them a Christmas cookie and some words of encouragement- because the odds are high that they’re...
Tips on How to Increase Tableau Dashboard Performance
Tune your Tableau Workbook like a Gibson Guitar “My report is so slow!” How many times have you heard that from a client (or from yourself)?I’m sure I am not alone when it comes to the frustration of working with a slow Tableau dashboard! And of course, the client,...
We’ve tried out Snowflake’s SQL API (and we like it!)
Recently, cloud warehouse giant, Snowflake launched the Snowflake SQL API and we were very excited to try out this new addition! The Snowflake SQL API makes it possible for custom-built and third-party applications to call Snowflake’s Data Cloud through a REST...
Dashboards Are Dead, Long Live Contextual Analytics
In this post, I will be doing a deep dive into why contextual analytics should be the core of a business’s data-driven decision-making strategy. Gone are the days where reporting was done off hundreds of printed pages, multiple punch folders, a calculator, and a...