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More than ever, we realise how important it is for us to be in control of our data centres, technology and team of experts – not just for our own business continuity but for the sake of the customers who rely on...

Photo by Johannes Waibel on UnsplashSimple yet powerful — Snowflake is feature rich out-of-the-boxSnowflake is a cloud data warehouse that has become the go-to solution for analytics and reporting compared to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us two things: The critical importance of healthcare data in fighting the spread of the disease, and our documented inability to harness it in a timely manner. And while it’s true that...

source: Quang Nguyen Vinh from Pexels (CC0).In data science, and really science in general, the problems that need to be solved are often not clear. If you do not work in the sciences you may find this surprising. When...

There is the a often-conflicting relationship marketers have with their data and their creativity. In this article, our straight-talking resident Rockstar CMO Ted Rubin argues for the human touch. Most of today’s...

Data replication using HDFSThe goal of partitioning is to spread the data and query load evenly across multiple machines, avoiding hot spots (nodes with disproportionately high load). There are various reasons why you...

A Human-Centred Approach For Designing Data SolutionsPhoto by Ben Sweet on UnsplashIn 2004, Bank of America hired the design firm IDEO to help them attract more customers. When IDEO started the engagement, they did...

Save money and improve user experience by only hosting small roll-up tables and keeping granular historical tables on your local hard driveDisclaimer: These suggestions are intended for low-stakes projects involving a...

Visualize dataset of any size with just one line of codeVisualization is a technique that is used to visualize the data using different graphs and plots. In data science, we generally use data visualization techniques...

These statistical tests allow researchers to make inferences because they can show whether an observed pattern is due to intervention or chance. There is a wide range of statistical tests. The decision of which...

The benefits of building a DevOps culture for software companies are clear. DevOps practices integrate once-siloed teams across the software development lifecycle, from Dev to QA to Ops, resulting in both faster...

  From Succeeding with AI by Veljko Krunic This article discusses how to get practical business results from AI and how this book will help you learn how to do it. Take 37% off Succeeding with AI. Just enter...

InfluxData sponsored this post. Caitlin Croft Caitlin is Customer Marketing Manager at InfluxData. According to Forbes, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. Data volumes have grown exponentially...

Datalake — An understanding and approach to extracting valueA decade of Big data & Hadoop and questions are similar, Can Hadoop replace RDBMS? Can Big Data technologies replace DataWarehouse systems? Is...

The lives of digital marketers today are significantly more straightforward than they were just a decade ago. Today, they have access to a variety of tools and cloud-based platforms to automate and streamline...

Photo by Isaac Smith on UnsplashData SummarizationThe term Data Summarization refers to presenting the summary of generated data in an easily comprehensible and informative manner. Presenting the raw data (the data...

This week’s featured open-source project is Lumos, a Python library built to compare metrics between two datasets, accounting for population differences and invariant features. Lumos was open sourced this month by...

We have witnessed an explosion in data. Driven by the growth in connected devices, it’s predicted that more than 79 zettabytes of data will be generated in 2025. This has changed the landscape of almost every...