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Deciphering The Seldom Discussed Differences Between Data Mining and Data Science

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the number of data scientists will increase from 32,700 to 37,700 between 2019 and 2029. Unfortunately, despite the growing interest in big data careers, many people don’t know how to pursue them properly. It hosts a data analysis competition. Use Kaggle.

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Build efficient, cross-Regional, I/O-intensive workloads with Dask on AWS

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The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) uses the capabilities of Amazon S3 to provide a no-cost solution for you to store and share climate science workloads across the globe. Amazon’s Open Data Sponsorship Program allows organizations to host free of charge on AWS.

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How SafeGraph built a reliable, efficient, and user-friendly Apache Spark platform with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS

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Reliable computing infrastructure – The reliability of the computing infrastructure hosting Spark applications is the foundation of the whole Spark platform. Prior to joining AWS, Dave spent 17 years in life sciences companies doing IT and informatics for research, development, and clinical manufacturing groups.