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One on One with Davin Potts: 2. Advantages of KNIME and Letting Databases Do What Databases Do Best

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and will post them up one subject at a time. In this second post, we discuss the advantages of KNIME for a data science consultant, and the advantages of using SQL in the database to do data manipulation and analysis.


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Vertica Wins at Strata Data Conference

We all love to win and it’s even better when Vertica and our customers win! Earlier this week at the Strata Conference in New York City, our customer Cerner won […]



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Data Warehouse Modernization

In modern data infrastructures, data comes from everywhere. CRM and ERP, sensor and machine-generated data, social media data, Web logs, mobile networks, and a host of industry-specific data sources. Most […]


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Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 5: Acceptance

Over the last month or so, this series has discussed how organizations often deal with a missed big data opportunity in ways that closely resemble the grieving process, and how that process maps to the commonly understood five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This is the last entry in the series; it focuses on how an organization can move forward effectively with a big data project.


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Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 2: Anger

Continuing this five part series focused on how organizations frequently go through the five stages of grief when confronting big data challenges, this post will focus on the second stage: anger.




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VerticaPy reaches a milestone at 100 stars

The Vertica team is happy to share a milestone in our “VerticaPy journey”: We just reached 100 stars in our GitHub repo, and it’s growing every day. (Repo: That’s “repository” […]