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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

ans from Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab, about the importance of model-driven business: “Being data-driven is like navigating by watching the rearview mirror. If your business is using big data and putting dashboards in front of analysts, you’re missing the point.”. That may take a while.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

There is no longer always intentionality behind the act of data collection — data are not collected in response to a hypothesis about the world, but for the same reason George Mallory climbed Everest: because it’s there. But this does not mean that the slice will continue to exhibit an extreme value on this measurement in the future.