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Underlying Engineering Behind Alexa’s Contextual ASR

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Conventionally, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system leverages a single statistical language model to rectify ambiguities, regardless of context. Any type of contextual information, like device context, conversational context, and metadata, […].

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Enriching metadata for accurate text-to-SQL generation for Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Writing SQL queries requires not just remembering the SQL syntax rules, but also knowledge of the tables metadata, which is data about table schemas, relationships among the tables, and possible column values. Although LLMs can generate syntactically correct SQL queries, they still need the table metadata for writing accurate SQL query.

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Build a high-performance quant research platform with Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Iceberg offers distinct advantages through its metadata layer over Parquet, such as improved data management, performance optimization, and integration with various query engines. Icebergs table format separates data files from metadata files, enabling efficient data modifications without full dataset rewrites.

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The state of data quality in 2020

O'Reilly on Data

These include the basics, such as metadata creation and management, data provenance, data lineage, and other essentials. They’re still struggling with the basics: tagging and labeling data, creating (and managing) metadata, managing unstructured data, etc. They don’t have the resources they need to clean up data quality problems.

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Monitoring Apache Iceberg metadata layer using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, and AWS CloudWatch

AWS Big Data

In this blog post, we’ll discuss how the metadata layer of Apache Iceberg can be used to make data lakes more efficient. You will learn about an open-source solution that can collect important metrics from the Iceberg metadata layer. This ensures that each change is tracked and reversible, enhancing data governance and auditability.

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Accelerate Amazon Redshift Data Lake queries with AWS Glue Data Catalog Column Statistics

AWS Big Data

Over the last year, Amazon Redshift added several performance optimizations for data lake queries across multiple areas of query engine such as rewrite, planning, scan execution and consuming AWS Glue Data Catalog column statistics. Enabling AWS Glue Data Catalog column statistics further improved performance by 3x versus last year.

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Enhance query performance using AWS Glue Data Catalog column-level statistics

AWS Big Data

Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog that allows generating column-level statistics for AWS Glue tables. These statistics are now integrated with the cost-based optimizers (CBO) of Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift Spectrum , resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings.