Operationalizing Data Analytics

The pandemic has drastically changed the way of business. Shifting consumer behaviours and needs have invalidated many of the data and analytics strategies that many organisations have been relying on for years. Businesses now need to find new ways to understand, reach and serve customers effectively. To do it, they need a new approach to Data and Analytics that looks nothing like the one before.

In this webinar we will discuss a more modern view of the data lake and consider best practices for planning and implementing a scalable enterprise data lake. The flaws in early data lakes were often rooted in the expectations of data consumers who put a premium on self-service data analytics. However, with no data governance mechanisms, data lakes quickly became more of a glorified “dumping ground,” “data swamp,” or “beta lake” for organizational data.In recent years, though, some innovations have allowed the data lake to evolve into an agile yet managed environment for accumulating shared data resources that can be optimally used for competitive advantage. Data lakes have evolved beyond the original on-premises concept based solely on Hadoop and now include pretty much any distributed computing platform (Hadoop, Spark, EMR, serverless, etc.) and any storage mechanism (HDFS, S3, ADLS), either on-premises or in the cloud.

The global spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the economic impact that followed has prompted many businesses to furlough the workforce or migrate from the traditional office to remote-working environments. The volatile landscape has created incremental risks, especially for organizations heavily relying on IT Sec/Ops teams to monitor security and privacy and enforce regulatory compliance.

In this webinar, DataCamp Account Executive Chris Cardillo will challenge anyone spending their days in and out of spreadsheets to pick up a coding language. He’ll cover the tangible benefits of incorporating coding into an everyday workflow, as well as examples of where coding enhances or replaces work done in spreadsheets. Finally, he’ll cover some R language equivalents for spreadsheet techniques, and where to get started when you’re ready to take the first step.