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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data. Many people are confused about these two, but the only similarity between them is the high-level principle of data storing. Data Warehouse.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

Building a successful data strategy at scale goes beyond collecting and analyzing data,” says Ryan Swann, chief data analytics officer at financial services firm Vanguard. What’s the point of investing time and money on a strategy that lacks focus?

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Philosophers and economists may argue about the quality of the metaphor, but there’s no doubt that organizing and analyzing data is a vital endeavor for any enterprise looking to deliver on the promise of data-driven decision-making. And to do so, a solid data management strategy is key.

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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

However, when investigating big data from the perspective of computer science research, we happily discover much clearer use of this cluster of confusing concepts. As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data.

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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

The solution consists of the following interfaces: IoT or mobile application – A mobile application or an Internet of Things (IoT) device allows the tracking of a company vehicle while it is in use and transmits its current location securely to the data ingestion layer in AWS. The ingestion approach is not in scope of this post.

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Interview with Dominic Sartorio, Senior Vice President for Products & Development, Protegrity

Corinium

Ahead of the Chief Data Analytics Officers & Influencers, Insurance event we caught up with Dominic Sartorio, Senior Vice President for Products & Development, Protegrity to discuss how the industry is evolving. And more recently, we have also seen innovation with IOT (Internet Of Things).

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Building Better Data Models to Unlock Next-Level Intelligence

Sisense

You can’t talk about data analytics without talking about data modeling. These two functions are nearly inseparable as we move further into a world of analytics that blends sources of varying volume, variety, veracity, and velocity.