FIX is a messaging standard used for trades in the financial services industry. The FIX Trading Community is the independent body behind the FIX messaging standard. FIX messages are encoded in XML. The FIXML schema files (XSD) together with the specification are available for download from the FIX website. In this blog post we will use the Flexter XML converter ...
Here is another post that will show how you can work with the output from Flexter to analyse your data. In this post we will show you how to convert complex JSON files to Oracle Data Visualization Desktop. Oracle Data Visualization Desktop Oracle Data Visualization Desktop is a competing product to Tableau and PowerBI. It makes it easy to visualize ...
In two recent blog posts I have outlined Sonra’s vision for a data lake architecture. In the first one I discussed various flaws in the data lake concept. In the second, I argued that Hadoop or more precisely HDFS is a poor choice for a data lake. Let’s briefly recap the discussion. What is a data lake? A data lake ...
About Notebooks In this blog post we will show you how easy it is to connect Zeppelin notebooks to Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse. We will also execute some queries and visualize the results using Zeppelin’s built-in tools. Notebooks are useful for exploratory data analysis, data discovery and data storytelling. As they are web based they can be shared between different ...
Introduction In this blog post we will show the power of Snowflake UDFs to prepare data for visualisation in Tableau. We take the Irish Census Data from the Central Statistics Office of Ireland and use Snowflake to prepare the dataset for visualization in Tableau. As we have already loaded and pre-processed the Irish Census dataset for this blogpost we are ...
