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Anandaganesh Balakrishnan

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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

No

Sometimes

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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

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Some organizations are going heavy with AI for productivity improvement and some are going with a cautious approach for implementing AI in the business workflows. What will be some of the key challenges that will be faced by employees say few years down the line to survive and make an impact in an AI-driven automation era? What are some of the measures they can take now to be more employable and productive in few years?

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilitiesa year ago

As AI changes how we work, people might find their old skills becoming less useful, need to learn how to work with AI and be expected to get more done. Continuous learning and being agile in understanding the right skill ...read more

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Can operational data be used for reporting without any further processing?

Process Management KPIs, Metrics & Reporting

Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilitiesa year ago

Yes and No. It all depends on the use case, data format and quality, and the requirements for data transformation/processing latency.

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Currently, in my organization, we have BI products built on top of a data warehouse implemented using PostgreSQL, following a snowflake schema architecture (fact and dimension tables). This structure has become extremely complex and hard to maintain. Updates are very costly, and I’m heavily dependent on a single person to keep it running. I’m considering moving to a cloud-based environment, such as AWS Redshift or Google BigQuery. Based on your experience, would migrating to one of these platforms help me move away from this complex snowflake architecture? Also, between the two solutions (AWS Redshift and Google BigQuery), which one would you recommend and why?

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Anandaganesh BalakrishnanPrincipal Software Engineer, Data Engineering in Energy and Utilities3 months ago

Based on what you have described, it sounds like your problem is more the architecture or design of your database. I don't think changing the underlying database technology is going to address your problem.

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