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Enhance query performance using AWS Glue Data Catalog column-level statistics

AWS Big Data

Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog that allows generating column-level statistics for AWS Glue tables. These statistics are now integrated with the cost-based optimizers (CBO) of Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum , resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings.

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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. Data-driven DSS.

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Bet Wisely: Predicting the Scoreline of a Football Match using Poisson Distribution

Analytics Vidhya

.” – Fernando Torres Spanish footballing giant Sevilla FC together with FC Bengaluru United, one of India’s most exciting football teams have launched a Football Hackathon – Data-Driven Player Performance Assessment. This Hackathon will be a unique opportunity to effectively use data science in […].

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

Digging into quantitative data Why is quantitative data important What are the problems with quantitative data Exploring qualitative data Qualitative data benefits Getting the most from qualitative data Better together. Almost every modern organization is now a data-generating machine. or “how often?”

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Some call data the new oil. 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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A Data Scientist Explains: When Does Machine Learning Work Well in Financial Markets?

DataRobot Blog

As a data scientist, one of the best things about working with DataRobot customers is the sheer variety of highly interesting questions that come up. For counterparty behavior prediction: some form of structured data which contains not only won trades but also unsuccessful requests/responses. For price discovery (e.g.,