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Ondřej Zýka

What Data Mesh Is and When to Consider Using It

Data mesh is such a new concept that it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia page yet (in May 2021). Despite this, or maybe because of this, it’s good to know what it’s for. Data mesh is a data management approach for specific data…

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Petr Hájek

Data projects: Will the engineering approach stand up to managed evolution?

When building data management enterprise solutions, we often encounter a requirement to combine the agile approach with a guaranteed fixed scope, budget, etc.

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 Ondřej Zýka

Data Vault 2.0: A current perspective

This post isn’t a textbook on data vault modelling. It’s a reflection on what data vault methodology is good for and why it’s worthwhile to take another look at it today. At the very end of the last century, two strong opinions emerged on the…

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Peter Čmelík

Where can I get vaccinated? The application from OpenDataLab will tell you!

Go to the website ockovani.opendatalab.cz to get an overview of the openings to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The goal of the application is to give Czechs a quick overview of vaccination capacity, which, until now, hasn’t been available anywhere. The application…

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Petr Hájek

The Information Paradox of Stories

According to a quote attributed to American poet Muriel Rukeyser, “the universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Perhaps surprisingly, this opinion is supported by astrophysicist Brian Greene in his recent book Until the End of Time. While our “objective” external world really seems…

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Ondřej Zýka

Data Platform for Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is a cryptic concept under which different people imagine different things. Most would agree that digital transformation is associated with new technologies and their use for new types of services, products and processes. The term digital transformation has a long history. Google lists 1,450…

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Peter Čmelík

Doing a master’s thesis at work: Killing two birds with one stone

As we already mentioned in a previous blog article, as part of our long-term cooperation with universities, we help students with their final theses and offer them real experience working on our projects. This was the case with Šárka, who Ondřej…

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Petr Hájek

Career Suicide by Integrated Information Theory

I guess everyone expects that all seasoned professionals know absolutely everything about their craft. (And you may even think that these professionals are supposed to have some hidden secrets). Since what I do for a living is help others manage their data—my product…

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Marek Sušický

7 tips on how to fix a large amount of data in Hadoop

I have been working on an international big data project. The cluster is huge, with TBs of memory and hundreds of CPUs – another great experience in the real world of big data and parallel computing for our team. In this short article, I’d…

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Barbora Fuksa

Managing credit risk with advanced data analytics

The traditional approach to quantifying credit risk in retail banking often relies on the most obvious variables such as annual/monthly income, employment length, employment title, etc. While these are still valid indicators for calculating…