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Prashanth Xavier Prashanth Xavier
Updated on August 06, 2024

A Guide to Reading and Writing CSV Files and More in Apache Spark

Apache Spark is a big data processing framework that can be used to read and write data for CSV, JSON, Parquet and Delta Lake. Here’s how.

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Mae Rice Mae Rice
Updated on August 06, 2024

21 Business Intelligence Applications and Examples to Know

Companies in sectors from tech to fashion are making more data-driven decisions.

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Mae Rice Mae Rice
Updated on July 19, 2024

24 Big Data Insurance Companies to Know

Insurance companies are collecting data on how consumers drive, eat, and exercise — and personalizing policy prices accordingly.

Ellen Glover Ellen Glover
Updated on July 18, 2024

20 Data Governance Tools to Know

The best data governance tools ensure information is accurate, compliant, secure and accessible to the right people at the right time.

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Jignesh Patel Jignesh Patel
Updated on July 16, 2024

Enterprises Should Learn From Academia’s Reproducibility Crisis

A culture that prizes discovery over verification has led to a crisis in the quality of academic research. If businesses aren’t careful, the same problem will make their expensive data science solutions equally suspect.

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Gediminas Rickevičius Gediminas Rickevičius
Updated on July 12, 2024

How Data Analytics Boosts Fan Engagement in Sports

With the summer Olympics starting soon, our expert looks at how web scraping and data analytics can enhance sports fandom.

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Ellen Glover Ellen Glover
Updated on July 09, 2024

What Is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?

With the power of publicly available information, OSINT helps individuals, businesses and governments alike make more informed decisions.

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Adam Thomas Adam Thomas
Updated on June 26, 2024

The Kruskal Wallis Test: A Guide

The Kruskal-Wallis test is an important statistical analysis for data that doesn’t follow normal distributions. Our expert shows you how it works here.

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Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on June 18, 2024

What Is a Data Center? What Goes on Inside One?

Data centers increasingly power our day-to-day lives. Here’s how they’re evolving to reduce their environmental footprints.

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Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos
Updated on June 04, 2024

What Are the 3 Stages of the Data Life Cycle?

In this book excerpt, our experts distill some essential and recurrent characteristics of how we make and use data.

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