Featured Posts

Unlock Hidden Revenue with AI-Powered Upsell Scoring and Census AI Columns
Unlock Hidden Revenue with AI-Powered Upsell Scoring and Census AI Columns
How to use AI to identify premium customer characteristics and create Upsell Scores for all customers, then sync high potential individuals to marketing channels
Katy Yuan
6 December 2024
Build a churn prevention campaign for Braze using AI
Build a churn prevention campaign for Braze using AI
Learn how to build a churn prevention campaign in Braze powered by AI
Ellen Perfect
4 December 2024
AI for RevOps: How We Automated Fit Scoring in Salesforce
AI for RevOps: How We Automated Fit Scoring in Salesforce
Learn how to build an automated ICP analysis and account scoring system in an afternoon using Census AI Columns, transforming weeks of work into actionable sales insights.
Julie Beynon
12 November 2024
Product News
Announcing Census Entities: Define business entities once to make your most important data available for everyone
Katy Yuan
12 December 2022
With Census Entities, data teams can define and expose the most important data in the warehouse as entities, so business teams can sync and segment without code. Now it’s possible to go from data creation to action immediately, without further engineering.
Best Practices
Marketing teams: You don't need a CDP. The future is the data warehouse. | Census
Sylvain Giuliani
9 December 2022
Five years ago, CDPs seemed like the best solution for marketing teams to collect customer data. Now, data-forward companies are shifting toward an alternative: Activating their data warehouse.
Best Practices
Analytics engineer or data engineer: Who's right for the job? | Census
Madison Schott
8 December 2022
Analytics engineer, data engineer... What's the difference? More importantly, who's best equipped to solve your pain points? Here's your helpful guide to hiring for each of these roles.
Events
OA Book Club Catch Up Vol. 1 : Decisions, decisions, decisions from the Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Census
Zachary Pollatsek
8 December 2022
If you missed the first OA Book Club meeting, don't stress! We've got you covered with this in-depth recap of the first three chapters of the Fundamentals of Data Engineering. Check it out here.
Best Practices
Build or Buy? 4 Reasons NOT to Build Your Own Reverse ETL | Census
Allie Beazell
7 December 2022
It's not the initial development cost, but rather the ongoing time and resources maintaining the tool that will cost you. Let’s take a look at some numbers.
Best Practices
Why marketers should care about the data warehouse | Census
Sylvain Giuliani
7 December 2022
The tide is shifting away from CDPs and towards the data warehouse. And if you can’t access it, or don’t know about it, you’re missing out. Here's why.
Best Practices
Why you need reverse ETL right now | Census
Allie Beazell
2 December 2022
Part 1 of our series on evaluating reverse ETL tools: Why you should invest in reverse ETL in the first place (& why you should do it right now).
Tutorials
How to solve the unexpected ‘eof’ syntax error in Snowflake | Census
Sooter Saalu
2 December 2022
Error messages during coding are supposed to help you debug, but sometimes, these messages are more ambiguous than helpful — like the unexpected error. Here's what it means and how to fix it.
Best Practices
Lessons from the trenches: Advice for women early in their analytics career | Census
Nicole Mitich
1 December 2022
Career paths in data are still pretty undefined, especially if you're you're one of the first data hires at your company. Check out this SCD session recap to learn some firsthand tips.
Product News
🦃 What’s New in November: Sync Sequences, Prefect partnership, static list sync improvements | Census Sync
Katy Yuan
30 November 2022
Rounding up exciting announcements from November! New Sync Sequences product release, official partnership with Prefect, and static list sync improvements for marketing connectors. Also, our blog on why marketers should care about the data warehouse & an upcoming webinar with Snowplow, AWS, and Prolific.