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12 Jobs That Are Booming in the Age of Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Did you know that big data consumption increased 5,000% between 2010 and 2020 ? Big data technology is changing countless aspects of our lives. A growing number of careers are predicated on the use of data analytics, AI and similar technologies. This should come as no surprise. Genetic Engineer.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

In the modern world of business, data is one of the most important resources for any organization trying to thrive. Business data is highly valuable for cybercriminals. They even go after meta data. Big data can reveal trade secrets, financial information, as well as passwords or access keys to crucial enterprise resources.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by ALEXANDER WAKIM Ramp-up and multi-armed bandits (MAB) are common strategies in online controlled experiments (OCE). These strategies involve changing assignment weights during an experiment. The first is a strategy called ramp-up and is advised by many experts in the field [1].

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Proposals for model vulnerability and security

O'Reilly on Data

For example, an attacker could learn what characteristics your model associates with awarding large discounts, like comping a room at a casino for a big spender, and then falsify their information to receive the same discount. They could also share their strategy with others, potentially leading to large losses for your company.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly on Data

AI, Machine Learning, and Data. Healthy growth in artificial intelligence has continued: machine learning is up 14%, while AI is up 64%; data science is up 16%, and statistics is up 47%. It’s often a chaotic grassroots process rather than a carefully planned strategy. We don’t think so, but we’re prepared to be wrong.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered. Implicitly, there was a prior belief about some interesting causal mechanism or an underlying hypothesis motivating the collection of the data.

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Using random effects models in prediction problems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Far from hypothetical, we have encountered these issues in our experiences with "big data" prediction problems. We often use statistical models to summarize the variation in our data, and random effects models are well suited for this — they are a form of ANOVA after all. See [9], [10] for a discussion of this approach.