Week 16 and it’s back to some big data on EXASOL thanks to Eva and Johannes. This time over 750 million rows of GP practice prescribing data for the UK from 2010 – 2017. The nominal challenge to makeover some of the charts in a House of Commons research briefing based on the data. ...
Great fun exploring 105 million rows of Chicago taxi data for #MakeoverMonday this week using the data underpinning this article. The full data set was provided on a hosted Exasol database, purported to be the fastest in-memory analytic database in the world (and it was pretty fast considering the amount of data I was querying from the opposite side of the world). ...