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Big Data Paves The Way For Fantastic New Social Listening Tools

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing a more important role than ever in fine-tuning the relationship between customers and brands. The Complex Role Between Big Data and Social Listening Tools. They must amass data on their customers to get a better understanding of their needs and preferences.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

In the modern world of business, data is one of the most important resources for any organization trying to thrive. Business data is highly valuable for cybercriminals. They even go after meta data. Big data can reveal trade secrets, financial information, as well as passwords or access keys to crucial enterprise resources.

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How to Decide Whether a SaaS Tool is Worth Purchasing?

Smart Data Collective

In today’s more competitive, technology-driven corporate environment, all firms seeking to increase activity and productivity are reaping the benefits of the software world. It was launched as a paid service and went on to add a freemium option in 2009, growing its user base from 85,000 to 450,000 a year.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data (IT Revolution Press, 2019) tells the story of Maxine, a senior lead developer, as she tries to survive in a heartless bureaucracy overrun with paperwork and committees. Novels that entertain and teach Kreslins Jr. Practical, indeed.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Cloud technology and innovation drives data-driven decision making culture in any organization. Cloud washing is storing data on the cloud for use over the internet. Storing data is extremely expensive even with VMs during this time. An efficient big data management and storage solution that AWS quickly took advantage of.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. It helps you to amplify what’s proven to work, throw away what isn’t, and tweak the goal-posts when data indicates that they may be in the wrong place.

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Get started managing partitions for Amazon S3 tables backed by the AWS Glue Data Catalog

AWS Big Data

Large organizations processing huge volumes of data usually store it in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and query the data to make data-driven business decisions using distributed analytics engines such as Amazon Athena. You can partition your data by any column.