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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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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

When we announced QuickSight last year, we set out to help all customers—regardless of their technical skills—make sense out of their ever-growing data. They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report.

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

To learn about Analytics and Viz Engineering, have a look at Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy and How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham. Curious to learn about what it’s like to be a Data Engineer at Netflix?