Big Data Articles
Beyond Gold: A Platinum Layer for Wider Data Sharing
Medallion architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold) scales well inside a governed platform—until you need to scale consumption beyond the trust boundary. Medallion Plus adds Platinum: a governed distillation layer that turns “safe to share” into a repeatable pipeline outcome, not a growing pile of one-off exports and access exceptions.
1. Big Data. 2. Now what?
True confessions: I am learning R, finally, after living and loving SPSS for many years. I am no expert in Big Data, having only been responsible for about 40GBs (about a million records of a thousand variables each) of data goodness in a previous work-life. [For an answer to What is Big Data, see this article.] […]