Most database engines have begun to supplement their SQL capabilities by offering Python query support to allow their more data science inclined users to embed advanced statistics or machine learning code into query pipelines or data visualization tools like Tableau. Snowflake has been bucking that trend — until now.
Blogs
Four Things Data Viz Practitioners Can Do to “Get Better at Design”
Learn tool-agnostic techniques for creating better data visualizations by improving your use of tooltips, space, lines, color and typography.
Fivetran Acquires HVR: You’re in for a Treat
Find out why Fivetran’s acquisition of HVR with is great news for organizations looking to optimize their data pipelines and streamline operations.
As We May See: The World after Dashboards
Dashboards are the past. Self-curating data experiences, leveraging AI to compile and represent data, are the future. Learn what's next after dashboards.
Streamline Authentication with Tableau's Connected Apps
Get a data leader’s crash course on Tableau’s new Connected Apps feature and learn how it streamlines authentication and improves security.
New Elements for Tableau Features for Increased Customizability and Ease of Use
The best-in-class extension for Tableau write-back and dashboard collaboration now makes it even easier for teams to enrich data together.
Log4j Vulnerability in Tableau – How to Fix / Workaround [unofficial]
The log4j vulnerability has impacted a number of services, including Tableau, but with a simple config change, you can disable some of log4j
’s problematic behavior. Learn how.
Data Science Trends to Rule 2022
Stay ahead of data science trends and learn how to approach the most promising technologies to drive innovation and gain competitive advantage.
Three Signs Your BI Dashboard Development Process Needs Help – and What to Do about It
Learn how common BI dashboard development issues result from mistakes made during planning and find out how what you can do to prevent them.
New Dashboard Collaboration and Security Features Added to Elements for Tableau
Elements now supports customizable user tagging and notifications, field-level access control for annotations and Okta Authentication.
Track and Understand Tableau Dashboard Usage with a Free and Open-Source Extension
Learn to use Tableau Usage Tracker, a free and open-source extension that enables you to measure and understand dashboard usage.
8 Best Practices for Working with Your Data Science Vendor — from Data Scientists
Get practical advice from Starschema data scientists to optimize your workflows for better productivity and results from your next project.
10 Tips for Tableau Dashboard Collaboration
Learn basic and extension-enabled Tableau techniques to streamline team communication and collaborate more effectively on dashboard content.
The Top 5 Jenkins Plugins You Should Have in 2021
Learn about the five essential Jenkins plugins that will help you boost productivity and deliver better-quality results.
What’s New in Tableau 2021.1: Snowflake Geospatial Support with Map Layers
Testing SQL Pool Performance in Azure Synapse Analytics
The feature set of Synapse Analytics is considerably richer than that of a “plain” old Azure SQL Database, but what benefits do we get from the smallest dedicated pool?
The COVID Tracking Project is Shutting Down in a Week. What Next?
The COVID Tracking Project has been one of the most successful citizen-driven data collection projects in history. Driven by The Atlantic and supported by an army of volunteers, it has collected the nuggets of information about testing and case counts, often beating federal and state authorities to the race...
Introducing the Starschema Worldwide Address Data Set in Snowflake
We’re happy to announce that, as part of our ongoing effort to democratize data, we’ve taken over as the provider of The Worldwide Address Data Set, a free and open global address collection on the Snowflake Data Marketplace.
Vaccine Tracking Added to The Starschema COVID-19 Epidemiological Dataset
In our effort to help organizations assess contingency plans and make informed, data-driven decisions in real-time as they respond to the global health emergency, we’ve added vaccine tracking from the University of Oxford to the Starschema COVID-19 Epidemiological Dataset.
StarSnow: HTTP Client for Snowflake SQL
Snowflake is an extremely SQL-friendly database: you can ingest, transform, and access your structured and semi-structured data directly from your SQL code. However, as a cloud-only data platform, it has some fundamental restrictions...
Tableau Services Manager (TSM) API — The Undocumented “Passwordless” Authentication
Monitoring with JMX: How to Integrate Tableau Server with InfluxDB
Monitor your infrastructure with InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes
DESIGN GUIDE PART 2: Framework & Layouts
DESIGN GUIDE PART 1: Framework & Layouts
Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with data and context
Getting through a challenging age with data - Starschema Blog - Medium
COVID-19 and the first war of data science - Starschema Blog - Medium
Arguing with Edward Snowden - Starschema Blog - Medium
Do the Rosling - Starschema Blog - Medium
Deploying TabPy in Enterprise: Scaling and Hardening in Kubernetes
Tableau Extensions Addons Introduction: Synchronized Scrollbars
Tableau External Services API: Haskell Expressions as Calculations
Text preprocessing in different languages for Natural Language Processing in Python
Get Ready for Tableau Catalog - Starschema Blog - Medium
Predictive maintenance helped win a war. Now, it can help you outpace the competition.
Mining your Tableau logs with Apache Drill - Starschema Blog - Medium
Scaling out Tableau Extracts — Building a distributed Tableau Hyper Cluster
A comprehensive guide to text pre-processing with python
Answering the big questions (this time, in chemistry)
Create a map of Budapest districts colored by income using folium in Python
PART 2 – Ever wondered how to draw a map of less common geographical areas? And color them based on some data? This pair of tutorials shows how to build this from scratch! First, you need to construct the…
Draw a map of the districts of Budapest using the Overpass API of OpenStreetMap and Python
PART 1 – Ever wondered how to draw a map of less common geographical areas? Perhaps even colour them based on some data? This is the first in a series of two tutorials that show you how to build this from…
Here’s how we upgraded our marketing analytics - Starschema Blog - Medium
ITSM Analytics - Starschema Blog - Medium
JIT fast! Supercharge tensor processing in Python with JIT compilation
Employee turnover dashboard for your HR department.
Tableau Version Control is here to make your life easier
Elevation, Voronoi and other spatial specialties in Tableau
Digging deeper into ensemble learning - Starschema Blog - Medium
PART 2 – Have you ever wondered how combining weak predictors can yield a strong predictor? Ensemble Learning is the answer! This is the second of a pair of articles in which I will explore ensemble learning…
Combine your machine learning models for better out-of-sample accuracy
PART 1 – Have you ever wondered how combining weak predictors can yield a strong predictor? Ensemble Learning is the answer! This is the first of a pair of articles in which I will explore ensemble learning…