Category: Big Data

Feed: CIO. Author: . This is the second post in a three-part series about data and analytics governance. In case you missed it, read the first post to hear from Tableau’s own data governance team. There's a natural tension in many organizations concerning data governance. While IT recognizes its importance to ensure the responsible use of data, governance can often seem like a hindrance to organizational agility. However, business intelligence models have evolved beyond centralized, linear processes—it's time to leave behind historic notions of governance as restrictive and embrace a flexible governance framework that enables enterprise transformation.This summer, I spoke ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Anastasia Komarova; We are excited to announce that Cognos Analytics is officially joining the Watson family of products and is now called Cognos Analytics with Watson! Cognos Analytics takes Business Intelligence to new places with AI AI to support self-service BI. In our post-pandemic world, customer expectations evolve quickly, so it is not enough to only have a view of the current state of your business. Business leaders need to answer questions like; How did we get here? What do we expect will happen next? What key decisions do we need to address? Analysts need to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run analytics workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This is an attractive option because it allows you to run applications on a common pool of resources without having to provision infrastructure. In addition, you can use Amazon EMR Studio to build analytics code running on Amazon EKS clusters. EMR Studio is a web-based, integrated development environment (IDE) using fully managed Jupyter notebooks that can be attached to any EMR cluster, including EMR on EKS. It uses AWS ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . As IT jobs grow increasingly complex, there’s more ambiguity surrounding how job titles are defined by any given company and how employers can compensate candidates in the same role with varying skillsets. Pay premiums help employers track the value of specific skills, so they know how competitive the market is for candidates with those skills and how much to offer on top of the base salary.To keep a finger on the pulse of these premiums, Foote Partners has been tracking pay data on IT skills since 1999 to see which skills and certifications give the biggest ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This post is co-written with Mat Sharpe, Technical Lead, AWS & Systems Engineering from Integral Ad Science. Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. The company’s mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world’s leading brands, publishers, and platforms. IAS does this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. In this post, we discuss how IAS uses AWS Lake Formation and Amazon Athena to efficiently manage governance and security of data. The challenge IAS processes over 100 billion ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Ibby Rahmani. September 23, 2021 — What Is a Data Catalog? A data catalog is a centralized storage bank of metadata on information sources from across the enterprise, such as: Datasets Business intelligence reports Visualizations Conversations The data catalog also stores metadata (data about data, like a conversation), which gives users context on how to use each asset. It offers a broad range of data intelligence solutions, including analytics, data governance, privacy, and cloud transformation. Analytical environments are increasingly complex. A data catalog unifies disparate data into a single source of information. What Features Do You Actually ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . As the economy picks up, demand for many inputs is outstripping supply, driving up prices for things as diverse as construction materials, energy, food ingredients, and semiconductors. Soon, that list will include Office 365 subscriptions.You might not have heard about it from your sales rep yet, but Microsoft quietly announced that starting March 1, 2022, it will hike the price of many of its enterprise Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. (Consumer and education subscription prices aren’t changing — for now.)Even if you spotted the company’s Aug. 19 blog post, “New pricing for Microsoft 365,” you ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . A recent Ernst and Young report found that 81% of organizations embrace the notion that data should be at the heart of all decision making. Yet, in many organization the decision-making process is stalled because data is still kept in silos.With data locked in various silos in different formats and configurations, getting a big picture of what is happening throughout the organization can be challenging. This leads to a longer decision-making process and poorer outcomes. The key to unlocking this siloed system is an automation solution that brings together data from disparate sources, allowing it to be ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Shanthababu P. Guys! I hope you all are enjoyed reading my earlier article Part - I 10/20, and I trust that would be useful for you. Let's discuss the rest of the project quickly. 11. Learn to prepare data for your next machine learning project. Problem Statement & Solution When you’re dealing with NLP based problem statement, we must focus on “Text Data” preparation before you can start using it for any NLP algorithm. The foremost step is that text cleaning and processing is an important task in every machine learning ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that from EMR 6.4.0 and later, you can use Python, Scala, SparkSQL, and R within the same Jupyter notebook in EMR Studio, providing flexibility to use different programming languages for Spark workloads. Previously, you could only write code in one language within the same notebook for Spark workloads. With this feature enhancement to Jupyter notebooks, you can now ... Read More