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

AWS Big Data

Doing it before risks unnecessary aggregation overhead because each value is likely unique anyway and that step will not result in an earlier reduction in the amount of data transferred between intermediate stages. Grouping after joining means a large number of records have to participate the join before being aggregated.

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. The term was first coined by Larry Smith in 2001. This creates risks.

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A brief history of cryptography: Sending secret messages throughout time

IBM Big Data Hub

2001: Responding to advancements in computing power, the DES was replaced by the more robust Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption algorithm. Similar to the DES, the AES is also a symmetric cryptosystem, however, it uses a much longer encryption key that cannot be cracked by modern hardware.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office.

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

IBM Big Data Hub

” “Data science” was first used as an independent discipline in 2001. Some examples of data science use cases include: An international bank uses ML-powered credit risk models to deliver faster loans over a mobile app. Both data science and machine learning are used by data engineers and in almost every industry.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Also, while surveying the literature two key drivers stood out: Risk management is the thin-edge-of-the-wedge ?for My read of that narrative arc is that some truly weird tensions showed up circa 2001: Arguably, it’s the heyday of DW+BI. A very big mess since circa 2001, and now becoming quite a dangerous mess. a second priority?at

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

This is often referred to as the positivity assumption. Estimation methods that use this property are referred to as covariate balancing , since they assure that properly reweighting leads to the same distribution in the treated and control groups. the curse of dimensionality). Here $c(x)$ is any function of $x$.