Data Engineering
This collaborative environment in Databricks allows data scientists and engineers to write code, visualize data, and share results in real-time.
What is a notebook?
This step in the data science process involves summarizing the main characteristics of data, often using visualizations like histograms and boxplots.
The 3 pillars of Data Governance.
What is People, Process, Technology?
This is what dashboards should always be telling to users.
What is a story?
The number of West Monroe founders in 2002.
What is 4?
In a data pipeline, this type of SQL join returns only the rows that have matching keys in both joined tables.
What is an inner join?
In a regression model, this metric indicates the proportion of variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variables.
What is R-squared (R²)?
The 3 leading data catalog tools.
What is Atlan, Collibra, and Informatica?
The two working groups within the Data Visualization competency.
The three Data & Analytics senior partners.
Who are Ron Bisaccia, Brad Ptasienski, and Matt Rager?
Delta Lake brings this critical capability to data lakes, enabling updates, deletes, and upserts on data stored in files.
What is ACID transactions?
This technique is used to reduce dimensionality by transforming data into a new coordinate system such that the greatest variance lies on the first axis.
What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
This DG tool identifies the relative maturity of a client’s current organizational capabilities. The assessment helps determine the path to improved value realization through data and analytics.
What is ADAM (Assessment of Data and Analytics Maturity) or DAMA (Data and Analytics Maturity Assessment)?
West Monroe's approach to data visualizations on client engagements, which first identifies high-value business questions, and then answers them with a focus on iterative progress, meaningful and consistent collaboration with business users, and value realization.
What is Rapid Insights?
West Monroe’s most recent acquisition, which established our Boston office.
What is Inspired Health.
This term describes the unification of a data warehouse and data lake, combining structured and unstructured data on a single platform—popularized by Databricks.
What is a Lakehouse?
This metric is preferred over ROC-AUC when dealing with highly imbalanced datasets, as it focuses on the performance of the positive class.
What is AUCPR (Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve)?
This Data Governance role is responsible for governance, policy, enforcement, and overall health of a domain, including issue management.
What is Data Domain Manager?
Three common data visualization tools outside of PowerBI and Tableau.
What is Qlik, Looker, Amazon Quicksight, SSRS, Google Developers, Spotfire?
The current CEO has worked at West Monroe for this long.
What is 15 years?
This optimization technique in Apache Spark avoids shuffling by pre-partitioning data before a join or aggregation and is especially effective in large-scale ETL pipelines.
What is bucketing?
This technique allows large language models to follow user instructions more accurately by first fine-tuning the model on inputs paired with desired outputs and then applying reinforcement learning using a reward model.
What is Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)?
A comprehensive governance framework to evaluate each GenAI use cases across case 5 dimensions to assess compliance, risk, value, data and feasibility being developed by the DG competency.
What is VigilAI?
The real world item the term "dashboard" originates from.
What is the wooden board carriage makers attached to the front of carriages?
These 5 values of West Monroe.
What is Be Human, Build It Better Together, Deliver Impact, Fuel Growth, and Make Work Fun?