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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

Data analytics – Business analysts gather operational insights from multiple data sources, including the location data collected from the vehicles. Athena is used to run geospatial queries on the location data stored in the S3 buckets. The following code is the input paths map: { EventType: $.detail.EventType

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Why We Started the Data Intelligence Project

Alation

In 2013 I joined American Family Insurance as a metadata analyst. I had always been fascinated by how people find, organize, and access information, so a metadata management role after school was a natural choice. The use cases for metadata are boundless, offering opportunities for innovation in every sector. The data scientist.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

Coming into the 2010s, we had data science practice, we had evolution of big data tooling, we had a lot more sophisticated use of the big data and what was going on in the cloud. I went to a meeting at Starbucks with the founder of Alation right before they launched in 2012, drawing on the proverbial back-of-the-napkin.