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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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Email Marketers Use Data Analytics for Optimal Customer Segmentation

Smart Data Collective

Transactional data includes first and final purchases, products, number of purchases, date, statistics, typical order value, commodity purchase history, and total spending by a consumer. Since its inception in 2001, Mailchimp has had more than two decades of expertise in email marketing for millions of subscribers. Automation.

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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.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation. It should be noted that inverse probability weighting is not generally optimal (i.e., An excellent review of statistical learning methods may be found in Friedman et.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. The problems down in the mature bucket, those are optimizations, they aren’t showstoppers. I can point to the year 2001.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This problem can be phrased as an optimization problem — given some fixed review capacity how should we sample videos? But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

In 2001, Bill Cleveland writes this article saying, “You are doing it wrong.” or are you looking for me to help you decide on what is the optimal treatment in order to get the outcome you want?” They want to know what’s the optimal treatment. ” Inside my group I say.