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Lights, Camera, ACTION! 🎬
How do you take your dashboard from drab to center-stage? Actions! There are endless possibilities to what you can create with actions. Custom navigation, filtering ,hide/show objects, and even automated event triggers; to name just a few. I will share 3 ways that you can use actions to get your next dashboard ready for…
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Podcast - Astrato and Thor featured on Data Skeptic
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Modern Data Stacks Today, we are joined by Alexander Thor (@Thor), Product Director at Vizlib, the creators of Astrato. Astrato is a data analytics and business intelligence tool built on the cloud, for the cloud. Alexander discusses the features and capabilities of Astrato for…
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Updated DATAcated BI Tools Guide April 2022
Kate Strachnyi of DATAcated just updated her popular BI Tools Guide for April 2022, and it now includes Astrato! She covers 35 different data visualization tools. There’s a page dedicated to each of the tools and includes information around the cost, data connections, data prep capabilities, support, aesthetics, ease of…
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11 Best Practices to Optimize Snowflake ❄
Snowflake’s powerful platform is architecturally different from almost every traditional database system and cloud data warehouse. Snowflake has completely separate compute and storage, and both tiers of the platform are near-instantly elastic. The need to do advanced resource planning, agonize over workload schedules, and…
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A Refreshing Change? 6 Things Your BI Shouldn't Do
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster - that is a quote by Elon Musk. Over the last few months Elon’s words have made an impact. Why so? I have the dream job. Working in the heart of bustling West London for a tech start-up, Astrato, I get to work with some of the best…
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Best dashboarding advice? What mistakes to avoid in a dashboard?
Here's my take on what the top 10 dashboarding errors I have observed. There are of course many more, feel free to share your stories and let us know more! https://astrato.io/blog/top-10-data-dashboard-errors-and-tips-to-avoid-them/?utm_content=199280056&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-74863909
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Does less data movement = better data governance?
I think it can certainly help, but I'd like your opinion too. With no data being copied or imported, knowledge workers like me have a more reliable view of the data and it is always 100% up-to-date. That leads to better trust of the information as we all know it's the most recent and hasn't been manipulated along the data…