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6 revealing statistics about career challenges Black IT pros face

CIO Business Intelligence

Here are six revealing statistics that show how far the IT industry still has to go before it can truly become a level playing field. This is a disheartening statistic that won’t change without considerable work being done at the top. billion dollars each year because of inequitable and often unwelcoming work environments.

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Run Trino queries 2.7 times faster with Amazon EMR 6.15.0

AWS Big Data

Table and column statistics were not present for any of the tables. Join order and join algorithm decisions are typically a function performed by cost-based optimizers, which uses statistics to improve query plans by deciding how tables and subqueries are joined. He has been focusing in the big data analytics space since 2014.

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Top Companies to work for if you are a data scientist

Data Science 101

While data science is unquestionably a fantastic career path regarding the impressive ratings and the fact that it is such an in-demand job, statistics show that there will be no slowing down for the surprisingly rapid increase for the demand of data scientists around the globe. Checkout: Dataiku Careers. #2 2 StreamSets.

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The curse of Dimensionality

Domino Data Lab

Statistical methods for analyzing this two-dimensional data exist. This statistical test is correct because the data are (presumably) bivariate normal. When there are many variables the Curse of Dimensionality changes the behavior of data and standard statistical methods give the wrong answers. Data Has Properties.

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Gender Inequality Persists in Data Science and AI

Business Over Broadway

US Labor Force Statistics for Selected Occupations. In a prior study , I found that men and women possessed comparable proficiency in subject matter expertise, technology and programming and math/statistics. Women are paid less than their male counterparts yet both women and men have similar levels of education.

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What is data visualization? Presenting data for decision-making

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, data visualization encompasses all manners of presenting data visually, from dashboards to reports, statistical graphs, heat maps, plots, infographics, and more. Choropleths use shades or patterns on a map to represent a statistical variable, such as population density by state. What is the business value of data visualization?

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Celebrating Women in Data Visualization

Juice Analytics

Nightingale was known for her love of statistics. She used her experience in nursing and love of statistics to take data and information that were collected and turn it into charts and graphs like the one below.