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

AWS Big Data

In our testing, the dataset was stored in Amazon S3 in non-compressed Parquet format and the AWS Glue Data Catalog was used to store metadata for databases and tables. Testing on the TPC-DS benchmark showed an 11% improvement in overall query performance when using CBO compared to without it.

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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. Shift-left security spawned from a broader area of focus known as shift-left testing.

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Use AWS Glue ETL to perform merge, partition evolution, and schema evolution on Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Run the job again to add orders 2001 and 2002, and update orders 1001, 1002, and 1003. Run the job again to add order 3001 and update orders 1001, 1003, 2001, and 2002. When the function is complete, you will see the message “Executing function: succeeded.”

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Huawei’s 20-year journey in Malaysia

CIO Business Intelligence

Huawei’s foray into the country began in 2001. In other initiatives, Huawei has provided relevant Smart City use cases as reference, such as Sunway City Kuala Lumpur (SCKL), for example. Huawei will fully support CyberSecurity Malaysia, helping establish My5Gas as a regional cyber security test center.

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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. In 1950, data scientist Alan Turing proposed what we now call the Turing Test , which asked the question, “Can machines think?” Both data science and machine learning are used by data engineers and in almost every industry.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. This is often referred to as the positivity assumption. Although it may seem sensible at first, this solution can be wrong if the data suffer from selection bias.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Wall St Journal labeled the year 2018 as “a global reckoning on data governance” in reference to investigations about Cambridge Analytica , Facebook getting grilled by US Congress about data misuse, billions of people affected by data breaches occurring across a wide range of companies, schools, government agencies, etc. It’s a mess.