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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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How to get powerful and actionable insights from any and all of your data, without delay

Cloudera

A large oil and gas company was suffering over not being able to offer users an easy and fast way to access the data needed to fuel their experimentation. To address this, they focused on creating an experimentation-oriented culture, enabled thanks to a cloud-native platform supporting the full data lifecycle.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 11

Domino Data Lab

In other words, using metadata about data science work to generate code. In this case, code gets generated for data preparation, where so much of the “time and labor” in data science work is concentrated. Less data gets decompressed, deserialized, loaded into memory, run through the processing, etc.

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Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Terminology Let’s first discuss some of the terminology used in this post: Research data lake on Amazon S3 – A data lake is a large, centralized repository that allows you to manage all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. Sell 1 (PVH, PVH) 2022-09-06 18321.729571 55.15

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Orca Security’s journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

AWS Big Data

To overcome these issues, Orca decided to build a data lake. A data lake is a centralized data repository that enables organizations to store and manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data, eliminating data silos and facilitating advanced analytics and ML on the entire data.

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Shutterstock capitalizes on the cloud’s cutting edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Advancements in analytics and AI as well as support for unstructured data in centralized data lakes are key benefits of doing business in the cloud, and Shutterstock is capitalizing on its cloud foundation, creating new revenue streams and business models using the cloud and data lakes as key components of its innovation platform.