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Chart Snapshot: Raisz Cartograms

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

election 2004. Eindhoven University of Technology — Bettina Speckmann FIFA World Cup Cartograms, Final. Eindhoven University of Technology — Bettina Speckmann Rectangular Cartogram of the U.S. Draw your own Rectangular Statistical Cartogram with recmap — Christian Panse Trainspotting: Europe’s railway lines.

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Microsoft receives $29B IRS tax notices for decade-old transactions

CIO Business Intelligence

billion, plus penalties and interest for the period between 2004 and 2013. “As The Notices of Proposed Adjustment were received on September 26, related to intercompany pricing or transfer pricing, Microsoft said in a regulatory filing. The IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $28.9

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2004 the company paid a $611 million fine after the Commission found it guilty of illegally bundling media player software with Windows XP (launched in 2001), and then $357 million in 2006 and another $1.3 billion in 2008 for failing to comply with the 2004 ruling.

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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO Business Intelligence

Since our founding in 2004, we have incrementally added to our global data center capacity each year, and all of the customer equipment in those facilities doesn’t go away. In technology terms, the data center industry is no spring chicken. Digital Realty alone supports around 2.4

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer. 2 In 2004, the term “ESG” became official after its first mainstream appearance in a report titled, “Who Cares Wins.”

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How to Use Apache Iceberg in CDP’s Open Lakehouse

Cloudera

5 2004 7129270. Our imported flights table now contains the same data as the existing external hive table and we can quickly check the row counts by year to confirm: year _c1. 1 2008 7009728. 2 2007 7453215. 3 2006 7141922. 4 2005 7140596. 6 2003 6488540. 7 2002 5271359. 8 2001 5967780. 9 2000 5683047. …. In-place partition evolution .

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Why Operationalization is Hard (But It Doesn’t Have to Be)

Dataiku

Flashback to 2004, start year of Project Purple, which would later give birth to a piece of engineering that has shaped the world as we know today: the iPhone.

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