Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Welcome to the first beta edition of Cloud Data Science News. This will cover major announcements and news for doing data science in the cloud. Azure Synapse Analytics This is the future of data warehousing. Azure Synapse Analytics This is the future of data warehousing. Microsoft Azure.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of big data, managing vast amounts of information efficiently has become a critical challenge for businesses across the globe. As data lakes gain prominence as a preferred solution for storing and processing enormous datasets, the need for effective data version control mechanisms becomes increasingly evident.

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Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Microsoft just held one of its largest conferences of the year, and a few major announcements were made which pertain to the cloud data science world. Azure Synapse Analytics can be seen as a merge of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake. Those are the big data science announcements of the week.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

AUGUST 8, 2024

Managing and retrieving the right information can be complex, especially for data analysts working with large data lakes and complex SQL queries. This post highlights how Twilio enabled natural language-driven data exploration of business intelligence (BI) data with RAG and Amazon Bedrock.

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Pickl AI

APRIL 21, 2025

Summary: Big Data refers to the vast volumes of structured and unstructured data generated at high speed, requiring specialized tools for storage and processing. Data Science, on the other hand, uses scientific methods and algorithms to analyses this data, extract insights, and inform decisions.

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Data Science Dojo

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With this full-fledged solution, you don’t have to spend all your time and effort combining different services or duplicating data. Overview of One Lake Fabric features a lake-centric architecture, with a central repository known as OneLake. Now, we can save the data as delta tables to use later for sales analytics.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a complex language that requires an understanding of databases and metadata. Today, generative AI can enable people without SQL knowledge. This generative AI task is called text-to-SQL, which generates SQL queries from natural language processing (NLP) and converts text into semantically correct SQL.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Here’s what we found for both skills and platforms that are in demand for data scientist jobs. Data Science Skills and Competencies Aside from knowing particular frameworks and languages, there are various topics and competencies that any data scientist should know. Joking aside, this does infer particular skills.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JULY 5, 2023

Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. Such data volumes are not easy to move, migrate or modernize. The challenges of a monolithic data lake architecture Data lakes are, at a high level, single repositories of data at scale.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

Our goal was to improve the user experience of an existing application used to explore the counters and insights data. The data is stored in a data lake and retrieved by SQL using Amazon Athena. The following figure shows a search query that was translated to SQL and run. The challenge is to assure quality.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 18, 2025

Common use cases for data integration Data integration demonstrates its value across a variety of applications. Feeding data for analytics Integrated data is essential for populating data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouses, ensuring that analysts have access to complete datasets for their work.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 1, 2023

Unified data storage : Fabric’s centralized data lake, Microsoft OneLake, eliminates data silos and provides a unified storage system, simplifying data access and retrieval. OneLake is designed to store a single copy of data in a unified location, leveraging the open-source Apache Parquet format.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2021

In many of the conversations we have with IT and business leaders, there is a sense of frustration about the speed of time-to-value for big data and data science projects. We often hear that organizations have invested in data science capabilities but are struggling to operationalize their machine learning models.

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How to Learn Machine Learning

MAY 2, 2025

Best Practices for Azure Machine Learning Projects To get the most out of Azure Machine Learning, consider these best practices: Data Management Use Azure Data Stores : Connect to various data sources including Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, and Azure SQL Database for efficient data access.

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Pickl AI

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Discover the nuanced dissimilarities between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. Data management in the digital age has become a crucial aspect of businesses, and two prominent concepts in this realm are Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. It acts as a repository for storing all the data.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With the amount of data companies are using growing to unprecedented levels, organizations are grappling with the challenge of efficiently managing and deriving insights from these vast volumes of structured and unstructured data. What is a Data Lake? Consistency of data throughout the data lake.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Data management problems can also lead to data silos; disparate collections of databases that don’t communicate with each other, leading to flawed analysis based on incomplete or incorrect datasets. One way to address this is to implement a data lake: a large and complex database of diverse datasets all stored in their original format.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Most data scientists are familiar with the concept of time series data and work with it often. The time series database (TSDB) , however, is still an underutilized tool in the data science community. Typically, time series analysis is performed either on CSV files or data lakes.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

Amazon AppFlow was used to facilitate the smooth and secure transfer of data from various sources into ODAP. Additionally, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) served as the central data lake, providing a scalable and cost-effective storage solution for the diverse data types collected from different systems.

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Data Science Dojo

JULY 6, 2023

It offers extensibility and integration with various data engineering tools. dbt (Data Build Tool): dbt is an open-source data transformation and modeling tool. It allows data engineers to build, test, and maintain data pipelines in a version-controlled manner.

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Flipboard

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this post, we discuss a Q&A bot use case that Q4 has implemented, the challenges that numerical and structured datasets presented, and how Q4 concluded that using SQL may be a viable solution. This would have required a dedicated cross-disciplinary team with expertise in data science, machine learning, and domain knowledge.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Be sure to check out her talk, “ Don’t Go Over the Deep End: Building an Effective OSS Management Layer for Your Data Lake ,” there! Managing a data lake can often feel like being lost at sea — especially when dealing with both structured and unstructured data.

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DagsHub

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The following points illustrates some of the main reasons why data versioning is crucial to the success of any data science and machine learning project: Storage space One of the reasons of versioning data is to be able to keep track of multiple versions of the same data which obviously need to be stored as well.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With Great Expectations , data teams can express what they “expect” from their data using simple assertions. Great Expectations provides support for different data backends such as flat file formats, SQL databases, Pandas dataframes and Sparks, and comes with built-in notification and data documentation functionality.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) stores the model artifacts and creates a data lake to host the inference output, document analysis output, and other datasets in CSV format. SageMaker JumpStart provided deployable models that could be trained for object detection use cases with minimal data science knowledge and overhead.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Every day, millions of riders use the Uber app, unwittingly contributing to a complex web of data-driven decisions. This blog takes you on a journey into the world of Uber’s analytics and the critical role that Presto, the open source SQL query engine, plays in driving their success. What is Presto?

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phData

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes in Snowflake that securely deploy and process non-SQL code, including Python , Java, and Scala. As a declarative language, SQL is very powerful in allowing users from all backgrounds to ask questions about data. What is Snowflake’s Snowpark? Why Does Snowpark Matter?

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ODSC - Open Data Science

JANUARY 18, 2024

These professionals will work with their colleagues to ensure that data is accessible, with proper access. So let’s go through each step one by one, and help you build a roadmap toward becoming a data engineer. Identify your existing data science strengths. Stay on top of data engineering trends. Get more training!

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Many teams are turning to Athena to enable interactive querying and analyze their data in the respective data stores without creating multiple data copies. Athena allows applications to use standard SQL to query massive amounts of data on an S3 data lake. Create a data lake with Lake Formation.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2021

In many of the conversations we have with IT and business leaders, there is a sense of frustration about the speed of time-to-value for big data and data science projects. We often hear that organizations have invested in data science capabilities but are struggling to operationalize their machine learning models.

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Dataversity

MARCH 12, 2021

blog series, we experiment with the most interesting blends of data and tools. Whether it’s mixing traditional sources with modern data lakes, open-source devops on the cloud with protected internal legacy tools, SQL with noSQL, web-wisdom-of-the-crowd with in-house handwritten notes, or IoT […].

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Alation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In this essay, Jason reflects on the value of thinking spatially about data, showing how his experience as a graduate student influences his role as a data scientist today. The popularity of location data and GIS-styled analyses has amplified a common cry in GIS- turned-data-science circles: “Spatial isn’t special!”

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

You can streamline the process of feature engineering and data preparation with SageMaker Data Wrangler and finish each stage of the data preparation workflow (including data selection, purification, exploration, visualization, and processing at scale) within a single visual interface.

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Dataversity

MAY 7, 2021

blog series, we experiment with the most interesting blends of data and tools. Whether it’s mixing traditional sources with modern data lakes, open-source DevOps on the cloud with protected internal legacy tools, SQL with noSQL, web-wisdom-of-the-crowd with in-house handwritten notes, or IoT […].

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Snorkel AI

MAY 26, 2023

[link] Ahmad Khan, head of artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy at Snowflake gave a presentation entitled “Scalable SQL + Python ML Pipelines in the Cloud” about his company’s Snowpark service at Snorkel AI’s Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference in August 2022. Welcome everybody.

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Snorkel AI

MAY 26, 2023

[link] Ahmad Khan, head of artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy at Snowflake gave a presentation entitled “Scalable SQL + Python ML Pipelines in the Cloud” about his company’s Snowpark service at Snorkel AI’s Future of Data-Centric AI virtual conference in August 2022. Welcome everybody.

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