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Y-Combinator (YC) has always been recognized as one of the top accelerators/incubator for promising startups to apply for. They recently launched the first session of Startup School, which provides thousands of startup founders to learn from the experience of the YC alumni without the paperwork overheads of equity and incorporating a foreign entity.
The key highlights of Startup School as below:
Recently one of our customers, Grab - the Uber’s competitor in SEA, unicorn startup - published a blog post on how they moved their data infrastructure from Amazon Redshift to Presto to cater for their scaling needs. We thought it’s pretty interesting and wanted to do a short summary of the post below.
There was a time when being a power Excel user gave you an edge in your resume – it implied that you can perform your tasks more efficiently than your peers. Excel remains one of the most commonly used tool for analyzing data today and can be applied in various scenarios such as financial modeling, data analytics, or even invoicing. However, it is running into a wall of limitations as the nature and use of data become more complex
Excel remains a powerful tool for data analysis today. But...
Holistics featured at Grab Engineering’s presentation at AWS Summit Singapore 2017, alongside with Tableau
Holistics gives you more flexibility and control over Tableau for data extraction and preparation.
Tableau is good for reporting organized data (where you already have the data in your columns), but it falls short for business and operational reporting where you need more specific reports across different tables.
While not impossible, it is challenging to write...
Holistics Data Reporting provides a web interface for your existing SQL database to build and access
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Holistics Data Preparation helps provide you an effortless approach to set up your reporting database.