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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 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. What’s the point?” Be honest. “I

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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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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. We do this by engaging students beyond career fairs, through classroom industry presentations, networking, mentorship, externships/co-ops, internships, and strategic investments,” says Blue Cross NC CIO Jo Abernathy.

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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 insights extracted from data are presented to a human in a friendly form, or a computer program uses it to make decisions without any hardcoded instructions.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

WIA offers mentorship groups, pop-up events, an alumnae association, and events that feature networking opportunities and presentations and panels to teach members new skillsets. Women in Technology International (WITI) was founded in 1989 as the International Network of Women in Technology and was later rebranded in 2001.

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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.