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Data governance in the age of generative AI

AWS Big Data

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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What is a data scientist? A key data analytics role and a lucrative career

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a data scientist? Data scientists are analytical data experts who use data science to discover insights from massive amounts of structured and unstructured data to help shape or meet specific business needs and goals. Semi-structured data falls between the two.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud data architect: The cloud data architect designs and implements data architecture for cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Data security architect: The data security architect works closely with security teams and IT teams to design data security architectures.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Data science is an area of expertise that combines many disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, software engineering and statistics. It focuses on data collection and management of large-scale structured and unstructured data for various academic and business applications.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

Cloudera

In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB. Big data is cool again.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO Business Intelligence

Data engineers also need communication skills to work across departments and to understand what business leaders want to gain from the company’s large datasets. Data engineers must also know how to optimize data retrieval and how to develop dashboards, reports, and other visualizations for stakeholders.

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Data architecture strategy for data quality

IBM Big Data Hub

The first generation of data architectures represented by enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms were characterized by thousands of ETL jobs, tables, and reports that only a small group of specialized data engineers understood, resulting in an under-realized positive impact on the business.