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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

The auto insurance industry has always relied on data analysis to inform their policies and determine individual rates. With the technology available today, there’s even more data to draw from. The good news is that this new data can help lower your insurance rate. Demographics. This includes: Age. Marital status.

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Top 14 Must-Read Data Science Books You Need On Your Desk

datapine

“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.” – Chris Lynch, big data expert. We live in a world saturated with data. Zettabytes of data are floating around in our digital universe, just waiting to be analyzed and explored, according to AnalyticsWeek. Wondering which data science book to read?

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DataKitchen’s 2020 Honors & Awards

DataKitchen

We also want to thank all of the data industry groups that have recognized our DataKitchen DataOps Platform and Transformation Advisory Services throughout the year. DBTA’s 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data. CRN’s The 10 Hottest Data Science & Machine Learning Startups of 2020 (So Far).

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

If $Y$ at that point is (statistically and practically) significantly better than our current operating point, and that point is deemed acceptable, we update the system parameters to this better value. Modeling live experiment data Data scientists at YouTube are rarely involved in the analysis of typical live traffic experiments.

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Amazon Redshift announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023 to enable analytics on all your data

AWS Big Data

In 2013, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift , the first fully-managed, petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools.

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Why We Started the Data Intelligence Project

Alation

Alation launched the Data Intelligence Project in the summer of 2021 to train the next generation of data leaders. With Alation, students learn the critical skills they need to curate, govern, and discover data assets in the data-driven enterprises of today. Two data-driven careers.

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Celebrating Women in Data Visualization

Juice Analytics

March is Women’s History Month and as a company that celebrates women, we wanted to highlight some of the most influential women in the history of data visualization! Florence Nightingale: Florence Nightingale is considered to be one of the first pioneers of data visualization. Nightingale was known for her love of statistics.