PinnedTom SwanninInside Business InsiderObservable Data Quality with Elementary and DataHubWe on the Business Insider Data team are big fans of dbt and our engineers, analysts, and scientists use it extensively to handle data…Jul 27, 2023Jul 27, 2023
PinnedTom SwannExploring AWS NeptuneUse cases and considerations for non-functional requirements when using Amazon’s Graph DB as-a-service offering.Aug 17, 2021Aug 17, 2021
Tom SwannExploring Cortex: AI on the Snowflake Data CloudNot long ago, I covered some of the upcoming roadmap features of Snowflake, as they were presented at the London Data Cloud World Tour.Mar 15Mar 15
Tom SwannSnowflake Data Cloud World TourIn which our intrepid correspondant provides summary and some amount of insight on the London leg of the Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour…Oct 10, 2023Oct 10, 2023
Tom SwannLow Code Microsoft Public Cloud ServicesHello friends! I’m back with a new blog post after *checks watch* about a year and half. Better late than never and I have my excuses all…Apr 9, 2021Apr 9, 2021
Tom SwannThoughts from AI Con 2019AI Con held its inaugural event at the Europa hotel in Belfast at the end of November, the first dedicated Artificial Intelligence…Dec 12, 2019Dec 12, 2019
Tom SwannExtensible Function Dispatch in PythonThis post is all about the generic functions capability in Python 3. This was initially a bit mystifying to me — “Generics and function…Oct 19, 2017Oct 19, 2017
Tom SwannDesign for lifeI want to talk about a project I recently worked on — the Help With Prison Visits service — and specifically about how the development team…Jun 1, 20171Jun 1, 20171
Tom SwanninKainosThe Data Storage RevolutionLife used to be relatively simple for the architect who wanted to store data somewhere. The relational database management system (RDBMS)…Feb 8, 20172Feb 8, 20172
Tom SwannBirdTrack and the power of Citizen ScienceI recently retired my old blog and thought I might take a scorched earth approach to the migration as there wasn’t much I wanted to keep…Oct 13, 2016Oct 13, 2016