Compiler, the blog

Data Pipeline for Customer Success Dashboards

A retrospective

Nov. 17, 2020 • The Data Beetle

Background Over the past couple of months, I worked with an e-commerce startup with a B2B offering to build Customer Success (CS) Dashboards for their clients that they will use to assess this...


When less is more but bigger is better

Data Sufficiency Challenges

Sept. 6, 2020 • The Data Beetle

I was recently asked to summarize a Machine Learning paper from Google Brain Team's latest research output: Big Self-Supervised Models are Strong Semi-Supervised Learners . I guess that...


Of problems of data and problematic data

Matching old solutions with new problems based on a better understanding of the requirements and data

June 12, 2020 • The Data Beetle

As a data management & architecture consultant, my goal is to help businesses create the bedrock for data science and analytics. That said, I seldom miss a chance to take a stab at the analyt...


Of companies and businesses

Data Beetle Technologies Limited

April 3, 2020 • The Data Beetle

The Process I've registered my company in Hong Kong to provide Data Management Consultancy (hopefully) with a global outreach. There are two parts to the registration process - "Compan...


Of Data, Big Data, and Massive Data

Greenplum MPP & Talend ELT

Feb. 20, 2020 • The Data Beetle

Request I was recently approached by a friend who runs a growing company to help with Data Management. Their business involves hardware and software installation on certain entities within a loc...


Of Questions & Answers

Data Warehouse Design Questionnaire

Jan. 29, 2020 • The Data Beetle

Background Recently a friend reached out to me saying that his company generates lots of data regularly but it’s all disparate and unwieldy. A common enough predicament. So while perusing this w...


Of Radars & Spiders

Data Governance Assessment

Jan. 9, 2020 • The Data Beetle

Data Governance An important aspect of Data Management (DM) is Data Governance (DG). A DG framework stipulates how data must be acquired, transmitted, stored, accessed, shared, and destroyed. An...


Of Stars & Snowflakes

Dimensional Modelling

Jan. 2, 2020 • The Data Beetle

Data Warehousing Data Warehousing (DW) is the method for storing large amounts of data and making it accessible via convenient channels for analysis. It differs from Online Transaction Processin...


Data Management as a Service

Enabling Advanced Analytics & Data Science

Dec. 30, 2019 • The Data Beetle

Background As highlighted in the previous post , in my 15-year long career, I've enjoyed enabling and supporting data scientists and analysts. For the first nine years or so, I was a busin...


Home of the Data Beetle

Introduction

Dec. 29, 2019 • The Data Beetle

Name & Logo My two undying passions are Data and the Beatles. Hence the name. I didn't go with the spelling with an 'A', though, to avoid any potential copyright issues. Moreo...