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Data Is Awesome
Bill Skelly
Data, Analytics, Modeling
January 11, 2021
DATA IS AWESOME Please welcome Causeway Solutions’ Bill Skelly to our #StrategySession today where Majority Strategies CEO Brett Buerck asks…. Bill, a lot has been written of late regarding Google’s ... READ MORE
POLLING OR MODELING, WHICH DO YOU NEED
Molly Rutledge
Data, Analytics, Modeling, Polling
December 18, 2020
POLLING OR MODELING, WHICH DO YOU NEED? Polling and modeling are both important tools in the world of data-driven campaigns. While polling and modeling seem similar in nature, there are some key ... READ MORE
Bet On Prescriptive Analytics
Bill Skelly
Data, Analytics, Modeling
December 17, 2020
BET ON PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS Causeway Solutions’ Bill Skelly joins the Majority Strategies #StrategySession today in a discussion of prescriptive analytics. Businesses thrive on being able to make ... READ MORE
Patient acquisition in times of the incredible shrinking marketing budget
Tim Duer
Data, Analytics, Healthcare, Covid-10
July 12, 2020
As already slim health care marketing budgets are being cut even further, it is becoming more important than ever that health system marketing teams pivot to new strategies. In response to the ... READ MORE
Now more than ever: The need for a new approach to healthcare analytics in a post-COVID world
Tim Duer
Data, Analytics, Healthcare, Covid-10
June 30, 2020
The “new normal”. It is a term that has now become all too common in commercials, articles, and commentaries about our (attempted) emergence from COVID-19 restrictions, but what does it mean for ... READ MORE
A different world: Data analytics from a medical provider’s perspective
Tim Duer
Data, Analytics, Healthcare, COVID-19
February 10, 2020
I’ve been working with Causeway Solutions for about a year. My initial role was providing brainstorms for the melding of analytics and health, and now I work to incorporate medical epidemiology and ... READ MORE
HOW TO CREATE AN AZURE DATA LAKE LINKED SERVICE IN AZURE DATA FACTORY V2
Joel Cochran
Active Directory, ADF, ADLA, Azure, Data Factory, Data Lake, USQL
April 30, 2018
Here at Causeway, we’ve been working with Azure Data Lake (ADL) as our big data analytics solution for a while now. We store national-scale data from a variety of sources, and over time we have ... READ MORE
PASSING PARAMETERS TO U-SQL SCRIPTS FROM AZURE DATA FACTORY V2
Bill Skelly
USQL, ADF, Azure
March 7, 2018
Sometimes you write Part 2 of your documentation before you write Part 1. This is one of those times. We’ll post Part 1 – which is ACTUALLY CONFIGURING Data Factory to have the authority to execute ... READ MORE
SECURING AN AZURE VM WITH IP RESTRICTED FIREWALL
Bill Skelly
October 18, 2017
We recently came across a client who wished to secure some of their Azure VMs by white listing IP addresses. After clicking around, we decided to share what we found. This is a much easier task to ... READ MORE
AMONGST OUR OPTIONS … THE ANATOMY OF A DECISION.
Tim Duer
Data, Consideration Scores, Prescriptive Analytics, Research
September 23, 2017
Sometimes it’s difficult to work at Causeway Solutions if you’re not well versed in Monty Python sketches. One of our favorites is the Spanish Inquisition and we believe it’s a great metaphor for ... READ MORE
ACCESSING AZURE SQL WITH SSMS USING AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY AND MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION
Joel Cochran
Active Directory, Azure, Mult Factor Authenitcation, SQL
September 11, 2017
Among its many features, Azure Active Directory (AAD) allows enterprise organizations to enforce Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) when accessing Azure and O365 resources. Previously it was not ... READ MORE
CAUSEWAY SOLUTIONS EXPANDS INTO WASHINGTON, D.C
Bill Skelly
August 22, 2017
Causeway Solutions has expanded its Washington D.C. presence with the opening of a new office in the nation’s capital and the addition of James Garcia as President of Public Affairs and ... READ MORE
THAT ESCALATED… REGISTER USQL ASSEMBLIES
Bill Skelly
Data, DataWarehouse, USQL
February 14, 2017
Well, we thought the next “chapter” of this USQL / Data Lake journey would be table query performance… but we quickly escalated from “hey let’s load this table from a small csv” to “WHERE DID THAT ... READ MORE
ACCIDENTAL BIG DATA (FOR REALS)
Bill Skelly
Data, DataWarehouse, USQL
February 8, 2017
If only we saw this data problem coming… In December of 2011, I remember reaching out to O’Reilly Publishing with an idea I had for a book. Essentially, I was staring down the barrel of an enormous ... READ MORE
ADLAUS AND PERFORMANCE
Bill Skelly
Data, DataWarehouse, USQL
February 8, 2017
As with all database technologies, performance comes down partially to how much horsepower you can throw at a problem. At some point we’ll have to deal with distribution, skew and partitioning of ... READ MORE