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14/03/2024

What is a Data Platform and what are the differences?

What is a Data Platform? A Data Platform is a unified architecture designed to ingest, store, process, and analyse data from across an organisation. By consolidating fragmented data into a single, scalable environment, it eliminates data silos and serves as…

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14/03/2024

What Is Databricks And What’s It Used For?

While some people are very familiar with Databricks, others might not know as much. We thought it would be a good idea to break down what Databricks is, explore what Databricks can do, who uses Databricks, and answer some commonly…

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14/03/2024

How to run a hello world program in Databricks – Part 2

Introduction In our previous article, we have seen how to get onboarded with Databricks and run your first hello world application using Spark. The first step involved creating a community edition account, creating a cluster, and running your first notebook.Let's…

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14/03/2024

How to run a hello world program in Databricks – Part 1

Let's get started In this post, we're going to get you started on Databricks, but first let's take a quick look at the history of big data space. Spark has become the de facto standard tool for processing big data…

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14/03/2024

Databricks productivity tips and tricks

Databricks is one of the major players in the data space, but some people may still treat it like an optimised hosted service of Apache Spark. It's true that Spark on Databricks is more optimised than its open-source brother, but…

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13/03/2024

Migrating to Power BI: A User-Centred Approach

Written by Brett Thebault At Mantel Group, we've seen Power BI become the go-to business intelligence (BI) platform for many organisations. This isn't surprising. Power BI capitalises on the familiarity of Microsoft products for many users, boasts lower per-user costs…

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07/03/2024

What is AI?

Let’s clear up one thing: we’re not building the Terminator. AI isn’t a magic spark that will spontaneously occur once you’ve collected enough data. And it’s not something that only people with seven PhDs in machine learning can figure out.…

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Current and future AI-related use cases to support organisational initiatives (NAIC report)

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07/03/2024

The Australian AI Landscape: A Brief Summary

Introduction In late 2023, the good folks at the National AI Centre (NAIC) conducted a survey of business leaders and AI specialists to help provide an assessment of Australia’s growing AI ecosystem. There were 200 participants, who completed online questionnaires…

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How do I incorporate Design Thinking in Business Strategy

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26/02/2024

How do I incorporate Design Thinking in Business Strategy?

We are in the midst of a customer-first revolution. When accessing services, people want to run their life with their phones. When purchasing products, they can (and do) leave reviews and create videos about their experience. When you think about …

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26/02/2024

Scoping out Design Agencies? You deserve better

The most common pitfall with design agencies is the business focus on sales operations over the design process. Before exploring the various drawbacks from this pitfall, it’s worth understanding the beginning to end of a design agency’s journey. It often…

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What is a Data Platform and what are the differences?

What Is Databricks And What’s It Used For?

How to run a hello world program in Databricks – Part 2

How to run a hello world program in Databricks – Part 1

Databricks productivity tips and tricks

Migrating to Power BI: A User-Centred Approach

What is AI?

The Australian AI Landscape: A Brief Summary

How do I incorporate Design Thinking in Business Strategy?

Scoping out Design Agencies? You deserve better

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