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Top 7 Pain Points for Data Analysts using Power BI

Top 7 Pain Points for Power BI users working in the real world

10/05/2022: 1) many to many: Problem: tables are connected by a many-to-many relationship, this is accepted by PowerBI but can lead to problems, incorrect calculations and bad performance. Solution: in the query editor create a table that would have a unique list of combinations from the two original tables and then use a 1-to-many relationship toward the two original tables. This table is called a "bridge table" 2) source spreadsheet moved Problem: when opening Query Editor you get an error message saying that the source file cannot be found; or your refresh does not work anymore because the source...

Kubernetes and Microservices

04/08/2021: How do Kubernetes and Microservices fit in? Where would we be without microservices? In today’s world, organisations need to quickly build and scale a whole range of applications – and microservices architecture makes this possible. It lets organisations break down tasks into manageable chunks that can be worked on independently by separate teams of developers. This modular approach gives more control and allows for faster deployment and better scalability. It also gives the teams more autonomy. Each microservice has its own encapsulated process and can be coded by the most appropriate...

Front End Choices: Typescript vs Javascript

08/06/2021: Should we be using TypeScript? JavaScript is a fantastic programming language that is everywhere on the web. It was originally designed as a client-side language and tends to run very fast, and is extremely versatile with extended functionality. It also has rich interfaces that can be used to enhance the user interface and overall experience of a site. There are over 1.8 billion websites in the world, and JavaScript is used on 95% of them (according to Github's 2020 Octoverse Report). It is also increasingly used on server-side code. Like everything however, JavaScript does have its downsides....

Visual choices : Tableau vs PowerBI

10/05/2021: Visual choices – Power BI vs Tableau The amount of data available to organisations today is phenomenal – but it can be overwhelming. It’s hard to see the wood from the trees at times. That’s why business intelligence (BI) packages such as Power BI and Tableau are so popular. They provide data analysis and visualization tools that let you understand the data, gain insights and communicate the findings. They are particularly good for creating reports, dashboards and visualizations to help you tell the stories behind the data. The field of data visualization and analytics is fast moving...

Cloud AI Services and AutoML – a growing trend

25/03/2020: The 4th annual Artificial Intelligence Dev Conference at DeveloperWeek was a full day of thought leadership talks and technical workshops on the newest technologies and best practices in AI development. Cloud AI services and automated machine learning (AutoML) were the subjects of one of the talks, and in this article we’ll explore why they’re so popular and how they can help your organisation. Cloud computing has been around for years and most of the key providers now offer cloud-based AI services. These leverage the providers’ extensive expertise and deep pockets, and make it easier...

DevOps Training Course in London, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Containers.

Latest Innovations in Containers and Kubernetes

06/03/2020: Containers and Kubernetes have transformed the way we manage and orchestrate cloud environments, and they are a hot topic in the industry. They had their own conference track in the recent DeveloperWeek 2020 and also featured heavily in other tracks. In this article, we’ll explore what was discussed at the conference to give you an insight into the latest innovations and trends. Here are some key points from popular sessions: · The Serverless Application Development movement is growing fast, and the number of serverless-related services aimed at developers is ever increasing. The architecture...

Python for Data Analysts and Quants Training Course

How Python is helping Data Analysts and Quants

20/01/2020: Python continues to be the world’s most popular programming language (according to IEEE Spectrum rankings) and it’s easy to understand why. It’s a highly productive language, is relatively easy to learn because of its readable programming syntax and has a rich set of libraries and frameworks. Some of those tools are extremely helpful for data analysts and quants – and make their lives much easier. Let’s look at some of the most important ones in a bit more detail. Python Data Science Tools NumPy, which is short for Numerical Python, is one of the main building blocks for scientific and...

Terraform and cloud services training course for DevOps software developers and cloud businesses

Controlling your cloud services with Terraform

11/11/2019: Terraform is a popular tool for managing your infrastructure – but it’s much more than just a configuration management tool. It’s more of a configuration orchestration system that provides an additional layer of functionality compared to other configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet and SaltStack. Unlike them, Terraform concentrates more on server provisioning. It uses infrastructure as code (IAC) and works with any cloud – whether private on-premises or public. That of course includes IaaS providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, OpenStack and Alibaba...

Micro FrontEnds Training Course in London for web developers

Micro FrontEnds – a sensible approach for web developers?

07/10/2019: In recent years, the introduction of microservices has allowed businesses to build and scale large software applications using independent teams. The approach allows an app to be broken down into separate services, which can then be independently developed and deployed. Each team is responsible for its own service and can code it in the most appropriate programming language for the task in hand. The different services then communicate with each other through a framework. Microservice architecture Benefits of Micro FrontEnds To explain the benefits, let’s consider a microservice ecommerce...

Technology trends, Big data management with Python, ML, AI and Power BI.

The Latest Tech Trends Sweeping UK Businesses

25/09/2019: The IT landscape in the UK is rapidly transforming by adopting the latest tech trends. By adopting these tech trends, businesses stand to gain more insight into their data, get more value from their systems, and innovate new businesses systems fit for the digital age. Let's take a look at where businesses are focusing their attention: Machine Learning and AI Artificial Intelligence is frequently used as an umbrella term, under which Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) sit. Businesses in the UK are rapidly taking to incorporating ML and AI solutions because of the plethora of...

AI & ML, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technology

AI & ML – Hype or reality?

02/09/2019: One of the exciting things about modern technology is that the hype often becomes reality – and that could be the case with Artificial Intelligence. It aims to mimic human intelligence, which is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. It’s not yet clear how the human brain actually does this – how we learn, think and remember things – but we do know that the vast interconnections of neurons in the brain play a part. Existing AI shows that it’s possible to emulate some aspects of intelligence by feeding data into a computer and using sophisticated algorithms to find patterns....

Micro FrontEnds technology and training by JBI Training

Our Micro FrontEnds Training Course

02/09/2019: This course is designed to equip developers and other professionals with the knowledge that they need to tackle a Micro FrontEnds approach to their business. Our Micro FrontEnds training course will show you how to think about a website or web app as a composition of features which are owned by independent teams. In a modern development environment, flexibility and scalability are everything, and the javascript world is no exception. That’s why we want to help organizations control and advance their application development by deploying similar principles to those used in Microservices...

Micro FrontEnd Training Course in London UK

Mirco FrontEnds: Everything you need to know

27/08/2019: Many companies are now using Micro FrontEnds with great success and starting to say goodbye to the old monolith front-end way of doing things. Micro FrontEnds offer many benefits over Monolith FrontEnds for many applications, which is why we see more and more businesses opting for this approach. This isn’t all too surprising either, developers have been using this approach for back-end services for some time now, splitting the monolith into smaller and more manageable fragments. Let us take a look at why Micro FrontEnds are becoming popular for businesses. The FrontEnd Developer Experience...

Python Machine Learning Training Course London UK

How Python Is Making an Impact on Big Data and Machine Learning

19/08/2019: Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum as a hobby project back in the late 1980s. Python has come a long way since it’s origins as a small hobby project and is now the fastest-growing programming language in the world. There are several reasons why Python is growing so rapidly. The language is considered very concise and flexible, which makes it one of the easier programming languages to learn. Python has also been widely adopted in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), two areas of computing have boomed in recent years. Why Python? Python uses...

How and Why Big Companies Train Their Teams Onsite

05/08/2019: Many large companies are choosing to train their teams on-site rather than off-site due to the variety of benefits this option offers. When it comes to employee training most companies understand the significant value it offers but don’t consider how to fully optimize the process so that their employees get the most from the experience. For example, employees are more likely to retain information if their training takes place in an environment they are familiar with and feel comfortable in, and this is one of the reasons that on-site training is becoming a popular choice for companies....

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