Tim Burns
Making My Way as a Principle Data Architect at Evolve
On my way to Carter Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire I am thrilled to say that I will be starting at Evolve next week as a...
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Tim Burns
- May 22
- 1 min
The Feast Feature Store and Snowflake
The Providence Athenaeum Library A feature is a property of a data product that has been reduced into a form to be used for Machine...
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Tim Burns
- May 10
- 2 min
Machine Learning will change everything
Our world is filled with layers of information - waiting to be comprehended (Author) I have been researching using Machine Learning to...
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Tim Burns
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Domain Data as a Product
Aspects of Domain Data The components of Domain Data as a Product are as follows [1]. Discoverable Addressable Reliability...
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Tim Burns
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Saturday Words of Wisdom
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to...
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Tim Burns
- Apr 19
- 3 min
Value, Delivery, Security, Repeatability, and Simplicity
Improving Data Architecture with AWS, Snowflake, and Open Source Tools I'm trying that on as a title for a book I'm writing. One of the...
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Tim Burns
- Apr 12
- 1 min
A Lean Data Pipeline - on Medium
Powerful cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks change our thoughts about normal forms and data warehousing. Photo by David...
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Tim Burns
- Apr 9
- 1 min
A Sad Loss
I am mourning my friend Bob Lee. http://blog.crazybob.org/2006/12/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-me.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 30
- 2 min
Thoughts on Surrogate Keys in Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks
As a database developer, I take surrogate keys for granted. The surrogate key is the backbone of a data architecture. In the Kimball...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Pitching a Book - Public Speaking Samples
I'm pitching a book on Big Data Analytics and Data Engineering, and the proposal worksheet has a field that says, "Author public speaking...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Technical Blogging and the Gospel of Thomas
Today at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, where I am a member, the sermon was on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Gnostic...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 18
- 2 min
Data Warehousing, the Three-Tier Data Pattern, and Normal Forms (2NF, 3NF)
The Data Warehouse (Lakehouse) So we want to store all our data in a data warehouse to make business decisions based on data. Every data...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Who to Review for Data Warehousing and Lean
I received an email from a company asking me to write training manuals for them, and it got me thinking. If I were to create materials,...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 11
- 3 min
DW Design Planning - Provide the Analysts with Access to Answer Business Questions
I am gradually working through the Kimball Model through various blog postings. Reading the postings in order would make more sense, and...
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Tim Burns
- Mar 10
- 1 min
My Mom Teaching Galapagos Volcanoes
I am so heart-warmed this morning to get this video of my mother who was an amazing person and teacher.
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Tim Burns
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Automate Snowflake Data Pipelines with Terraform
References Snowflake (2021) SNS subscription remains in the Pending state while configuring Snowpipe using SNS AWS (2023) Walkthrough:...
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Tim Burns
- Feb 26
- 3 min
The Kimball Model Revisted - Data Quality
Once we've gathered the data we need into a data lake, we need to assess the quality and build pipelines to get all data to a consistent...
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Tim Burns
- Feb 21
- 4 min
An Updated Take on The Kimball Model
You have a mountain of data and the unlimited potential of a cloud data architecture to load it, but where should you start? Maybe you...
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Tim Burns
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Using ChatGPT for Data Modelling
ChatGPT is a great data modeling tool. I wanted to generalize my data model for my radio station data warehouse, and I asked ChatGPT to...
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Tim Burns
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Sequences in Snowflake - Unsung Data Integrity Heroes
Sequence Basics Sequences are the unsung heroes of a data application. I like to think about sequences in two forms: Surrogate keys - the...
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