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Meet Nathalie: "I’ve worked for a smaller company and for one of the Big Four. It is very clear that Datashift has the best of both worlds."

Datashift keeps growing and attracting new talent, but now we want to put some of our more senior colleagues in the spotlight. Nathalie has been with Datashift since the beginning and was Datashift's second employee. In this interview with Nathalie, she talks about her decision to join and looks back on those first six years.

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Semantic data discovery: separating facts from fairy tales

Can semantic data discovery deliver on its promise to provide a better understanding of your data and facilitate the automation of your business processes? We know it can. Learn from our experience to understand how it works and what you can achieve.

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Data Mesh - Beyond the buzz

Chances are you have recently heard a lot about data mesh, a decentralized approach to sharing, accessing, and managing analytical data. So, let's dive into a practical example to help you understand what a data mesh stands for.

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Monitoring data quality just got easier with Soda

Soda is a new kid on the block when it comes to data quality. It excels in making it easy for business users to monitor the health of their data, enabling them to define data quality rules without a high level of technical knowledge.

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Everything you really need to know about a data lakehouse

Data lakehouses are the talk of the town when it comes to data architecture. But why is that? And why is that happening right now? Let's take a refreshing dive into the history of data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses.

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What an event-driven architecture brings to the table to solve your data ingestion challenges

Before you can generate insights from your data, you need to move those data from an operational to an analytical environment - a process commonly referred to as data ingestion. An event-driven architecture provides an elegant way to achieve a process marked by timeliness, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

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Back to our roots: why Datashift opened a new office in Leuven

Since its inception, Datashift has had an office in Mechelen. The company started out in the city’s co-working space Ondernemershuis and later moved to its own building — a former family house. Safe to say, Mechelen is Datashift’s first home. But the tech company is now expanding outside the city’s borders. To Leuven, to be precise. For a good reason. Three good reasons, actually.

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How a data hub helps you step up customer engagement

A modern data platform makes integrating new services and empowering new use cases easier than ever. A data hub that provides your salespeople and service engineers with actionable customer data straight from your data platform is an excellent example of what you can achieve with modest effort.

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Who knows who: from Hollywood to Flanders

In this sequel on graph analysis we try to find connections between different actors and movies they played in. Some of the links are not obvious at first glance, e.g., what is the connection between Zendaya and Audrey Hepburn? Will Smith and Chris Rock? Xander De Rycke and Steven Spielberg? Andy Peelman and Steven Seagal? The method to find out those links is the Dijskstra shortest path algorithm.

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