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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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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO Business Intelligence

The company has been on a continuous journey to adapt its internal and external processes to new business needs and opportunities since 2001.” “Digital transformation is not a new concept for Ipsos,” says global CIO Humair Mohammed. js and React.js.

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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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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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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. White, a 2001 Morgan State University graduate with a bachelor’s in computer science, speaks from experience: He had two pivotal internships that propelled his professional career. There’s nothing like gametime experience,” he adds.

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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 concept of data science was first introduced in 2001, but it started gaining popularity in 2010. Its primary focus is to use user-generated data to good use.

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Self-Service BI vs Traditional BI: What’s Next?

Alation

As Business Objects founder Bernard Liautaud notes in e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the lack of ad hoc data access causes IT staff to drown in requests. Slow requirements led technology leaders to demand proactive business intelligence.