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Analytics

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Analytics just means trying to use data to learn something. The most common context you’ll see it in is larger scale analysis of a company’s data: what are our users doing, how much money are we making (or losing), which parts of our website are most popular, things like that.

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How do product analytics work?

Product analytics is how teams instrument and analyze data about their product usage.

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How developers decide which *type* of infrastructure to use, and which (usually giant) cloud provider to buy it from.

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An intro to how companies like Elastic, MongoDB, Snowflake, Confluent and AWS compete.

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What does Alteryx do?

Alteryx is a group of tools that helps business teams get insights out of their data, without needing to write any code.

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What's a Data Migration?

Data migration is about transferring information (data) from one place to another.

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