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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, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

Paco Nathan presented, “Data Science, Past & Future” , at Rev. I am honored to be able to present here and thrilled to have been involved in Rev. He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. The presentation layer was about, say, web browsers, right, what you could do in a web browser.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Secondly: some key insights discussed at Sci Foo finally clicked for me—after I’d heard them presented a few times elsewhere. The gist is, leveraging metadata about research datasets, projects, publications, etc., Across the board, organizations struggle with hiring enough data scientists. It’s a quick way to clear the room.