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Data Pipelines: The Hammer for Every Nail

Abhishek Tiwari

Airflow provides rich scheduling and execution semantics enabling data engineers to easily define complex pipelines, running at regular intervals. From transportation and logistics to e-commerce and food delivery, the core operations of many successful companies can be viewed as workflow problems.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Along with R , Python is one of the most-used languages for data analysis. From pre-built libraries for linear or logistic regressions, decision trees, naïve Bayes, k-means, gradient-boosting, etc., there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. This follows a 3% drop in 2018.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data.

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