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alexmarquardt

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About alexmarquardt

Alexander is a Consulting Architect at Elastic (the makers of Elasticsearch and related technologies), and previously worked as a Senior Consulting Engineer at MongoDB. Alex has a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, and an MBA from the IESE Business School.

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    I kept running into the same demo problem: it’s hard to find a product catalog that behaves like a real e-commerce catalog (titles, working images, usable categories/attributes), i…

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    In this article, you will learn how to combine BM25 relevance with real business metrics like profit margin and popularity using Elasticsearch’s function_score query. This step-by-…

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    Looks awesome!

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    This article from Simon Späti shows how to do some scraping. https://airbyte.com/tutorials/configure-airbyte-with-python-...

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    Here is a related tweet that touches on exactly this issue: https://twitter.com/sethrosen/status/1252291581320757249?lan...

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    I like it! Great idea!

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    For a more detailed explanation of unstructured vs. structured data, see: https://airbyte.com/blog/analyze-unstructured-data

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    One Does Not Simply “Create a Visualization” from Unstructured Data

    When I worked as a database consultant, I often saw conversations similar to the following at clients: Manager: Hey Data Analyst! We have a huge amount of data in our data lake, an…

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    Related tweet: https://twitter.com/sethrosen/status/1252291581320757249?lan...

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    Yes, transforming the data before it hits the destination may be necessary in some cases, even in the ELT approach (hence the "t" / "tweak") - discussed here: https://airbyte.com/b…

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    ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, and Transform) are two paradigms for moving data from one system to another. The main difference between them is that whe…

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    Being GDPR compliant may require obfuscation or removal of some data before it gets loaded into a data warehouse. This can be achieved with an EtLT (Extract, “tweak”, Load, Transfo…