Imagine you resume work and realize that your data has just been compromised. Months and years of data all maliciously tampered with and there’s no idea where it all went wrong. Take John… John manages data at a company called ABC Technology. One morning, he’s asked to look for a better query engine that can manage the company’s gigabytes and petabytes of data. After hours and days of searching, he finally selects a solution, tries some data on it, and everything looks good — data well managed and all. ...

If your job title resembles anything like Data Analyst, VP Analytics, Head of Analytics, etc, you know how critical your role is in the company. You resume work on a typical weekday and are already faced with countless reports to churn out. The Management meeting is breathing down your neck. A client whose data is managed by your organization has called in. They want an adoption report on their cloud-based music streaming app. ...

We are excited and happy to announce that rakam just joined #500Strong Family last week for their Batch 21 program in Mountain View. Joining 500 Startups will allow us to accelerate improvements of our service in ways we’ve always wanted. With 500 Startups expertise, infrastructure and network, hopefully we will be able to improve our product and make it more powerful for our customers! In the Batch21 forty-three percent of companies are international and representing 8 countries with founders from the UK, Argentina, Canada, Israel, Italy, Hong Kong, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey. ...

We were aware the spend hours for a single acquisition or advertising report sort of a waste time, instead you might use that time for different purposes. That’s why now you can create any kind of advertising report based on your needs. Therefore you are able to create your own dashboards based on your KPI’s as well. Monitor performance of campaigns in a single dashboard, and any data can be layered with other sources like Stripe, Intercom and Google Analytics for a deeper understanding of campaign outcomes. ...

Let’s be aware what does “data lake” means before we start this article. A data lake is a method of storing data within a system or repository, in its natural format, that facilitates the collocation of data in various schemata and structural forms, usually object blobs or files. The idea of data lake is to have a single store of all data in the enterprise ranging from raw data (which implies exact copy of source system data) to transformed data which is used for various tasks including reporting, visualization, analytics and machine learning. ...

Google allows you to export your Google searches that you did since you created your Google account but doesn’t have any dashboards for analyzing your historical data. I thought that it would be an interesting case if I could download my search history from Google and analyze the data and create a dashboard for my Google search history in Rakam. First of all, you will need to export the raw events from Google using the Takeout service. ...