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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

They point to statistics that highlight challenges in IT workforce recruitment and diversity. They also believed they needed to take more responsibility for increasing the diversity of workers in their IT ranks. We want students to be aware of us as an employer, and we want to have a diverse workforce,” says NCDIT HR DirectorJoey Harrison.

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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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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO Business Intelligence

The company has been on a continuous journey to adapt its internal and external processes to new business needs and opportunities since 2001.” The best weapon to make decisions in a dynamic world is accurate and relevant information so organizations can carry out strategic plans in the most reliable way.

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

IBM Big Data Hub

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. Ultimately, data science is used in defining new business problems that machine learning techniques and statistical analysis can then help solve. What is machine learning?

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Data Discussion Lessons from Brad Pitt

Juice Analytics

From: Ocean's Eleven (2001) Now imagine yourself giving a pep talk to the next email, PowerPoint slide, or dashboard that you are about to send out. Messages must be clear and focused and eliminate the unnatural, mechanical chart headings and the unnecessarily complex statistical jargon. Don’t touch your tie. Look at me.” Be honest. “I

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6 Spectacular Reasons You Must Master the Data Sciences in 2020

Smart Data Collective

Data Science is a field that extracts useful information from loads of structured and unstructured data using algorithms, statistics, and programming. The concept of data science was first introduced in 2001, but it started gaining popularity in 2010. The global demand for big data is surging. But is it really right for you?

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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

As Business Objects founder Bernard Liautaud notes in e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the lack of ad hoc data access causes IT staff to drown in requests. But there have always been limits on who can access valuable data, as well as how it can be used.