Data Governance Policy

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

What is a Data Governance Policy?
Data governance policy is concerned with how an organization collects, stores, accesses and maintains its...

2016-09-19

1,729 reads

Text Mining Loch Ness Monster Sightings

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

Text Mining with RapidMiner for Loch Ness Monster Sightings
Text mining involves pulling root words from text in a system.  In...

2016-02-11

462 reads

What is RapidMiner

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

RapidMiner Overview
If you are searching for a data mining solution be sure to look into RapidMiner.  RapidMiner is an open...

2016-01-21

517 reads

Azure Data Catalog

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

Azure Data Catalog
Now available in public preview is the Azure Data Catalog.  The Data catalog provides an enterprise data repository...

2015-09-08

646 reads

SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database
One of the features in SQL Server 2016 that you will want to explore is the...

2015-08-17

1,255 reads

Machine Learning Data Sets

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

Machine Learning Data Sets
When starting out with data mining and machine learning you will need to have access to sample...

2015-08-07 (first published: 2015-08-04)

2,868 reads

SQL Server Polybase (2016)

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

What is SQL Server Polybase?
Coming in SQL Server 2016 is the ability to query relational tables as well as data...

2015-07-20

1,289 reads

HASSUG BI Developer Presentation on 7/14/2015

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

I presented on how to become a BI developer at the Houston Area SQL Server User Group (HASSUG).  This session...

2015-07-19

628 reads

Leveraging SQL Server Database Schema

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

Leveraging SQL Server Database Schema
Data warehouses typically pull data from various sources and combine the data into a common repository....

2015-06-24

588 reads

CDO Summit Toronto June 4th

• by Derek Wilson

• Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture

I am presenting the lunch keynote at the Toronto Chief Data Officer Summit on June 4th.  My session is on...

2015-05-24

411 reads