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Edward Hearn Edward Hearn
Updated on March 15, 2023

Are Companies Investing Too Much in Digital Infrastructure?

In the big data arms race, companies might be tempted to invest heavily in sophisticated predictive models. But when it comes to forecasting, bigger isn’t always better.

Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on March 15, 2023

Shopify’s Data Engineers Power Sales for More Than a Million Merchants

Data engineering is a still-evolving discipline, but companies like Shopify deploy it to great effect.

Edoardo Romani Edoardo Romani
Updated on March 10, 2023

What Is Database Normalization?

Database normalization ensures we’ve conceptually organized our data in a way that makes the most sense given the data’s attributes and the overall data model. Here’s how it works.

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Abdishakur Hassan Abdishakur Hassan
Updated on March 08, 2023

What Is Cluster Analysis?

We use cluster analysis in machine learning, image analysis, data mining and pattern recognition. Here’s how it works and when you’ll find it most useful.

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Kaycee Lai Kaycee Lai
Updated on February 09, 2023

What Is a Data Lake? Is It Right for Your Company?

A few questions to help determine if it’s the data architecture you really need.

Abdishakur Hassan Abdishakur Hassan
Updated on February 06, 2023

What Is Extrapolation?

Extrapolation is a statistical technique used in data science to estimate values of data points beyond the range of the known values in the data set.

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Chris Dowsett Chris Dowsett
Updated on February 03, 2023

What Is MongoDB?

MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database designed to handle large amounts of data and provide fast performance.

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Jye Sawtell-Rickson Jye Sawtell-Rickson
Updated on January 23, 2023

What Is the Fibonacci Sequence?

The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two that precede it. For example, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 and so on.

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Jye Sawtell-Rickson Jye Sawtell-Rickson
Updated on January 17, 2023

What Is PyTorch?

PyTorch is an open-source machine learning framework used for training deep neural networks.

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Sadrach Pierre Sadrach Pierre
Updated on November 14, 2022

How to Form Clusters in Python: Data Clustering Methods

Every data scientist should know how to form clusters in Python since it’s a key analytical technique in a number of industries. Here’s a guide to getting started.

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