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Using Quadstone’s Data Build Manager
Thursday, September 15, 20059am Pacific, 12pm Eastern, 5pm UK/Ireland
Friday, September 16, 20052pm UK/Ireland, 3pm Central European, 9am Eastern US
Starting in 15 minutesStarting in 10 minutesStarting in 5 minutesStarting in 2 minutesStarting now
Please join the teleconference call now; if you have any difficulty, contact [email protected].
• Presenter: Patrick Surry, VP Customer Services• Overview: The Data Build Manager (also known as qsbuild) is
a powerful tool to manage all of the interdependent steps in real-world data-preparation, including parameterization for automated scheduling and the ability to run tasks in parallel.
• Audience: Existing Quadstone data architects, looking to improve the processing speed and their productivity in creating customer analysis datasets.
• Format:• A live demo with slides for sign-posting• Downloadable exercises in the form of a workbook and dataset
• Flexible environment for implementing data-builds• keep simple builds simple but support advanced requirements• XML build plan; qsbuild DBC, point & click build execution
• Key features:• Simple & robust – simple structure with many different tasks• Complete – everything in one place, including inline TML/FDL/SQL (if
desired), and/or non-Quadstone tasks• Modular & portable – structure, reuse and move builds easily• Parameters – no code changes for similar builds• Incremental builds – failure recovery, only do what’s needed• Concurrency – run multiple jobs at the same time• Logging – various ways to track build status and performance
Structured data includes things like spreadsheets, address books, configuration parameters, financial transactions, and technical drawings. … XML makes it easy for a computer to generate data, read data, and ensure that the data structure is unambiguous. …
2. XML looks a bit like HTML
Like HTML, XML makes use of tags (words bracketed by '<' and '>') and attributes (of the form name="value"). While HTML specifies what each tag and attribute means, and often how the text between them will look in a browser, XML uses the tags only to delimit pieces of data, and leaves the interpretation of the data completely to the application that reads it. …
3. XML is text, but isn't meant to be read
… One advantage of a text format is that it allows people, if necessary, to look at the data without the program that produced it; in a pinch, you can read a text format with your favorite text editor. Text formats also allow developers to more easily debug applications. Like HTML, XML files are text files that people shouldn't have to read, but may when the need arises. …
Ideas:• Based around a real-life scenario (possibly Uplift Analysis)?• Decision trees, scorecards and quality measures: the gory math internals?• What's new in 5.2• Cluster Builder?• More on TML?• Re-run previous webinarsSee www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/.
If there’s a webinar topic you’d like to see, please let us know via [email protected].