Smart Data Collective

APRIL 13, 2021

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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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. We offer two examples where this may be the case.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

Far from hypothetical, we have encountered these issues in our experiences with "big data" prediction problems. We often use statistical models to summarize the variation in our data, and random effects models are well suited for this — they are a form of ANOVA after all. ICML, (2005). [3] 3] Bradley Efron.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 2, 2019

At Smart Data Collective, we strive to have a balanced conversation about the impact of big data. There are obviously a lot of beneficial changes that big data has spurred. However, big data has also created some important challenges as well, which we feel duty-bound to discuss.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Data was expensive to gather, and therefore decisions to collect data were generally well-considered. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. We ought not dredge our data.

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datapine

APRIL 16, 2019

The term ‘big data’ alone has become something of a buzzword in recent times – and for good reason. As a direct result, less IT support is required to produce reports, trends, visualizations, and insights that facilitate the data decision making process. Qualitative data analysis is based on observation rather than measurement.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 25, 2021

Both SRE and DevOps emphasize similar practices: version control (62% growth for GitHub, and 48% for Git), testing (high usage, though no year-over-year growth), continuous deployment (down 20%), monitoring (up 9%), and observability (up 128%). AI breaks these assumptions because data is more important than code.

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