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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Starting today, the Athena SQL engine uses a cost-based optimizer (CBO), a new feature that uses table and column statistics stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog as part of the table’s metadata. By using these statistics, CBO improves query run plans and boosts the performance of queries run in Athena.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

It uses advanced tools to look at raw data, gather a data set, process it, and develop insights to create meaning. Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

What are the projected risks for companies that fall behind for internal training in data science? What’s a reasonably good persona to target for employees who want training in data science to shift into new roles? They use data infrastructure at work. In business terms, why does this matter ? That’s no problem.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. to join data science teams, e.g., to support advertising, social networks, gaming, and so on—I hired more than a few. 2018 – Global reckoning about data governance, aka “Oops!