Introduction of https://columns.ai preview version. — I don’t write often, but if ever read my previous post “Data Analytics vs Big Data Analytics”, you probably know that we’re on the mission to makes data storytelling accessible to everyone and helps data storytellers to gain awards from the community. Data Storytelling is so important to every one…

Unleash power to turn big data to simple intelligence in a second — (Disclaimer: This article is written by Shawn Cao as part of knowledge sharing series of Nebula Engine) In this post I would love to chat about Nebula SDK delivered in javascript language. Why SDK is in javascript? As a holistic data engine, Nebula ships with a native UI running on web browsers. Through its UI…

Speed to value, speed to audience — Data is everywhere, value is hidden there. Today, so many people, like us, are busy around, digging into the data, trying to find meaning out of it, and most importantly do the timely communication with our audience. …

Explore faster options — In the modern data stack era, a cloud SQL warehouse is not a stranger for data practicers. The major players like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift have helped thousands of businesses to simplify their data infrastructure. People use them to Ingest and store data in tables. Run queries and jobs to…

How does an idea evolve? — On the way walking with my kindergartner to her school, I thought about short videos for no reason, I found it’s interesting to write down and share. Many years ago when I was working in Facebook (now Meta), everyone is talking about Ads, after all, it’s the main cash flow…

4 levels of user experience for user function — One day, I saw this image in a Reddit post, it made me laugh loudly. How much time do our data people do “data laundry”? [¹this image was originally found in this textbook on data analytics.] Some people call it “data cleansing”, “data cleaning”, or “data preparation”, but it all…

TL;DR We’re living in an age with a huge market demand to turn data into insights, while a modern data stack is great in solving a variety of technical problems to help many companies build up data solutions, we need a simple data stack to serve even more businesses with similar…

Build simple analytics apps with columns.ai — Columns Ai is missioned to enable our users to analyze and visualize whatever data they see. Hence, supporting a wide range of data connections is a keep-going effort our builders will do. We off started supporting Google spreadsheet and CSV data upload, now we have HTTP joined the growing list…

I saw more deaths from media, I meant they draw my attention easier than before. I think this is a sign which tells me I’m not young anymore, as I know, at a young age, I usually ignore them… In the depth, we all know that it’s ugly, life doesn’t…