If you’re in the marketing and data circles, keeping tabs on your social media ads performance is constantly at the forefront of your mind. This is why we’ve built native data source connectors to most major social media properties and…
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11 Top ETL Tools For PostgreSQL Data Warehouses and Databases
ETL and ELT Postgres
PostgreSQL, aka Postgres, is recognized as the “the world’s most advanced open source relational database.” Postgres is used all over the world to power complex applications such as Skype, IMDB, and Etsy. But you may be less familiar with the…
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DynamoDB Analytics and Visualization in Tableau: Step by Step Tutorial
Tutorials
One thing we see a lot of here at Panoply is customers looking to use Tableau to analyze data stored in DynamoDB instances.If you’ve ever looked into this, or tried it yourself, you probably know that it’s not particularly easy.…
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Top Eight Facebook Analytics Tools
Data StackFacebook began as a dorm-room startup, and now the social platform dominates our culture. Few could have predicted that Facebook would become such a fixture of our personal lives and a legitimate marketing channel.Facebook was the catalyst for the social…
Surviving and Thriving as Data Team of One
Data Warehousing
We know that many in the data analyst and data decision making world are often teams of one. There might be one data analyst in a company, even an SMB or large company, that person is a lone wolf. While…
Goal! Building Smarter Athletes with Data and Intelligence. How ProSoccerData Does It
Data WarehousingWith Cumul.io and Panoply, ProSoccerData built a data stack that enables business intelligence based off data from the soccer startup’s production application, support and billing systems. Reports are shared company-wide and with end-users inside the data-rich ProSoccerData service, used by…
Tableau vs. Mode: Comparing Pricing, Integrations and Deployment
BI and Data Visualization
There are so many different types of business intelligence (BI) tools in the market now, such as Looker, Mode, Tableau, Periscope, etc. As the go-to-data-person at my company, which one should I use to analyze data with and how should…
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12 Best Instagram Analytics Tools in 2026 (Tested)
Data Stack
Based on our testing of 13 Instagram analytics platforms, Metricool is the best Instagram analytics tool for most brands because it combines a free plan, multi-network dashboards, and competitor tracking from about EUR 16 per month (billed annually). Instagram looks…
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How to Build your Startup’s Analytics Operation from Scratch: Tools and Tips
Being Data-DrivenSo your startup is growing… Great! The only problem is, you can’t say exactly why it’s growing or how to increase the rate of growth. You know that analytics are important, but you don’t know quite where to start as…
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Top Nine ETL Packages for R Programming Tools
ETL and ELTThe R Project is an open source programming environment that supports statistical computing and graphic design. For R work or any data operations, you need an ETL tool (extract, transform and load) to process your data from its source to…
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The 9 Best ETL Packages for R Programming
ETL and ELTThe R Project is an open source programming environment that supports statistical computing and graphic design. For R work or any data operations, you need an ETL tool (extract, transform and load) to process your data from its source to…
Advanced Customer Lifecycle Analytics with HubSpot
Data WarehousingThe typical customer funnel is easy to understand and is useful for creating a strategy for your entire Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams. However, you likely have many different applications serving different parts of that funnel which can make…
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