AWS Data Warehousing (or, What To Do When You're Too Successful)

Everything is great. Business analysts are happy, operations is happy, management is happy. Everyone loves the data warehouse. Kudos! And then the data warehouse becomes a victim of its own success. Can we have some more? More data, more data sources, more queries, more reports, more dashboards, more-more-more. But with the same hardware, same staff, same budget, same service-level agreements. Pop quiz, hotshot -- what do you do?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Chris ChenJanuary 10, 2021AWS, Data Warehouse, The Cloud, Chris ChenComment

Installing Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebooks

If you are looking to branch out into data science, Cognos can help you! Starting with release 11.1.2, IBM is including Jupyter Notebook Server with Cognos Analytics. Jupyter notebooks are a popular way to analyze data and visualize the results in a browser, but their real power is the ability to share these notebooks with other data scientists who can interact with the data in real-time.

Cognos AnalyticsWerner CoetseeOctober 10, 2020Jupyter Notebooks, Cognos, Chris Chen Comment

Using IBM's Weather Data in Cognos Analytics

While previously it's been possible to bring weather data into Cognos Analytics with some coding via a set of APIs, in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 The Weather Company was added as a data source, making the process simpler and native to Cognos. Let’s explore how that connection works and look at a simple example of how to visualize Weather company data.