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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Starting today, the Athena SQL engine uses a cost-based optimizer (CBO), a new feature that uses table and column statistics stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog as part of the table’s metadata. By using these statistics, CBO improves query run plans and boosts the performance of queries run in Athena.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

The chief aim of data analytics is to apply statistical analysis and technologies on data to find trends and solve problems. Data analytics draws from a range of disciplines — including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics — to perform analysis on data in an effort to describe, predict, and improve performance.

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

Smart Data Collective

After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. They can use AI and data-driven cybersecurity technology to address these risks. One of the best solutions for data protection is advanced automated penetration testing.

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MLOps and the evolution of data science

IBM Big Data Hub

Machine learning engineers take massive datasets and use statistical methods to create algorithms that are trained to find patterns and uncover key insights in data mining projects. These insights can help drive decisions in business, and advance the design and testing of applications.

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Gartner D&A Summit Bake-Offs Explored Flooding Impact And Reasons for Optimism!

Rita Sallam

Qlik Key Findings: In the US alone, there’s $367 billion in agricultural commodities at risk to flooding in the US alone. A large part of under-developed Asian countries ranging from Bangladesh to Vietnam are at high risk of flooding events. million people at risk of catastrophic, flooding. In 2000, the Netherlands had 8.5

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve way to solve this problem would be to compare the proportion of buyers between the exposed and unexposed groups, using a simple test for equality of means. Identification We now discuss formally the statistical problem of causal inference. We start by describing the problem using standard statistical notation.

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms. 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.