Advancing Analytics

Not only are we sponsoring and speaking at DATA:Scotland, we're also sponsoring the official after party! 🎉 Join us and the DATA:Scotland team to wind down (and maybe get some networking in 🤓) after the conference. Remember your lanyard to give you access!

Last week saw the General Availability of dynamic functionality for Databricks Workflows, in the form of the parameterized ForEach activity, but what does that mean? And why should we care? For a long time we've been using external orchestration tools whenever things had to be flexible, metadata driven or simply at a large scale - but with these changes we have a cheap, flexible way of achieving some pretty complex orchestration inside of Databricks itself! In this video Simon looks at a quick pattern for running a medallion-style lake processing routine, all driven by some JSON metadata! https://hubs.la/Q02NmWB_0 #DataEngineering #DataLakehouse #Spark #Azure #DataOrchestration #Finally

Our CTO, Simon, will be joining Holly for some Databricks developer drinks after Data + AI World Tour London next week! Join them for some networking and a drink or two at Novotel London Excel at 6pm, no registration needed 🙌 #DataAIWorldTour #Databricks #Developer

Want to get better visibility of all your data across Databricks, Fabric and Power BI? 👀 Spect8 does just that! With a comprehensive view of your data, it can: 📈 Harness APIs from various analytics tools, providing an overarching view of analytics usage. 🔍 Identify high-activity information silos in ungoverned areas and spot unused analytics objects. ☝️ Automate the integration process, consolidating data from diverse tools into a single location. Overall, it empowers your Data Product Owners and Data Governance Leads with a holistic view of what's going on, to help them make better data-driven decisions 🎯 Find out more: https://hubs.la/Q02N2vlc0 #Databricks #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #DataAnalytics #DataGovernance #DataProduct

📣 We're sponsoring Big Data LDN! 📣 We'll be back exhibiting on the 18th-19th September so come along and try your hand at our CLAAW machine to win some lego! Simon Whiteley will also be chairing a panel 'Everything you wanted to know about Data Engineering* *but were afraid to ask', which is set to be a great session. See you there! 👋 #BigDataLDN #DataEngineering

📣 New Blog Alert! 📣 Want to slash your data labelling time by 90% while improving the accuracy of your RAG pipeline evaluations? With the RAGAs framework in Azure OpenAI, you can! In Gavi's latest blog, she talks you through the process. Read more: https://hubs.la/Q02MH3N60 #AI #AzureOpenAI #DataLabelling

📣 We're sponsoring the Databricks Data + AI World Tour London! 📣 As Databricks partners, we love sponsoring the brilliant events they run. We're excited to be back at the Data + AI World Tour London this year - come and chat to us if you're there! 👋 #Databricks #DataAIWorldTour

"Databricks Unity Catalog is a game-changer for organisations looking to harness the power of their data assets" 💡 Robin Sutara, Field CDO at Databricks, very kindly wrote the foreword for our latest whitepaper, Unity Catalog Features & Migration Considerations - and we have to agree with her! Unity Catalog has so much potential, with some amazing features that make a huge difference to your data governance 🤝 Read about them, and some key migration considerations, in the free whitepaper: https://hubs.la/Q02M8FHq0 #Databricks #UnityCatalog #DataGovernance #DataEngineering #DataAnalytics

Heading to DATA:Scotland this year and got a free evening the night before? Come along to the first Databricks Scotland meetup in Glasgow! 👋 Sponsored by Advancing Analytics, join us at BJSS at 5:30pm to hear some great talks and network with like-minded people. Liping Huang will be speaking on Data quality management with Databricks, and Johnny Winter will be talking on Databricks SQL and life as an analyst in a Databricks world. Find out more and register here: https://hubs.la/Q02M330X0 #Databricks #DataScotland

📣 We're speaking at FabCon Europe! 📣 A couple of our team are heading over the Stockholm next month to speak at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. Craig will be speaking on external data sharing and the best ways to share and collaborate on your data; whilst Isi will be talking on fostering neurodivergent minds from childhood to the workplace. Come and say Hej if you see us! 👋 #MicrosoftFabric #FabConEurope #MicrsosoftPartner