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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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Credit Card Fraud Detection using XGBoost, SMOTE, and threshold moving

Domino Data Lab

In contrast, the decision tree classifies observations based on attribute splits learned from the statistical properties of the training data. Machine Learning-based detection – using statistical learning is another approach that is gaining popularity, mostly because it is less laborious. 3f" % x) dataDF.describe().

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The Data Visualization Design Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Depict Data Studio

and implications of findings) than in statistical significance. Apply the Squint Test In these before scatter plot on the left, the cluttered appearance distracts us from the data. Apply the Squint Test. I like to test my drafts ahead of time to make sure they’ll still be legible even if they’re printed in grayscale.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests.