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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. But over time, something went very wrong.

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How The Explosive Growth Of Data Access Affects Your Engineer’s Team Efficiency

Smart Data Collective

zettabytes of data in 2020, a tenfold increase from 6.5 zettabytes in 2012. While growing data enables companies to set baselines, benchmarks, and targets to keep moving ahead, it poses a question as to what actually causes it and what it means to your organization’s engineering team efficiency.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2012, an analytics project by retail titan Target showcased how much companies can learn about customers from their data. Like all other big retailers, Target had been collecting data on its customers via shopper codes, credit cards, surveys, and more. Target analytics violated privacy.

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Process and analyze highly nested and large XML files using AWS Glue and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

With these techniques, you can enhance the processing speed and accessibility of your XML data, enabling you to derive valuable insights with ease. In both approaches, our ultimate goal is to convert XML files into Apache Parquet format, making them readily available for querying using Athena. xml and technique2.xml.

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Periscope Data Expands to Israel, Empowering Data Teams with Powerful Tools

Sisense

Similarly, Kyle outlined how Flexport , the world’s first international freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around an online dashboard, uses Periscope Data to analyze billions of records, and get answers in seconds. The company has integrated data analysis throughout its organization to power decision making. A true unicorn.