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Beyond data: Cloud analytics mastery for business brilliance

Dataconomy

Dependency on service providers : Relying on third-party cloud service providers means your operations are dependent on their uptime and reliability. Downtime, like the AWS outage in 2017 that affected several high-profile websites, can disrupt business operations. Ensure that data is clean, consistent, and up-to-date.

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Microsoft Launches Data Science Certifications

Data Science 101

In Late January 2019, Microsoft launched 3 new certifications aimed at Data Scientists/Engineers. They launched the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science back in 2017. For a while, Microsoft has been toying with different methods for training and credentials.

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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report. January 2017: MercadoLibre signs on as the first LATAM customer. June 2017: Dresner Advisory Services names Alation the #1 data catalog in its inaugural Data Catalog End-User Market Study.

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Why Open Table Format Architecture is Essential for Modern Data Systems

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Versioning also ensures a safer experimentation environment, where data scientists can test new models or hypotheses on historical data snapshots without impacting live data. Note : Cloud Data warehouses like Snowflake and Big Query already have a default time travel feature.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: ML & computer systems

Google Research AI blog

For example, when the Transformer model was first published in 2017, a popular GPU was the Nvidia P100. Computers for training needed to be housed in a data center. Large cloud data centers are typically ~1.4x more energy-efficient than the typical smaller on-premise data center. Mechanization.

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What Is Data Intelligence?

Alation

Data intelligence has thus evolved to answer these questions, and today supports a range of use cases. Examples of Data Intelligence use cases include: Data governance. Cloud Transformation. Cloud Data Migration. Let’s take a closer look at the role of DI in the use case of data governance.

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Google Research, 2022 & Beyond: Language, Vision and Generative Models

Google Research AI blog

In this context, such models can take the raw output of sensors that are unlike any human senses, such as 3-D point cloud data from Lidar units on autonomous vehicles, and can combine this with data from other sensors, like vehicle cameras, to better understand the environment around them and to make better decisions.

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