Big Data Articles

Cassie Kozyrkov

Updated on June 14, 2023

Everyone wants their thinking to be “data-driven,” but what exactly does that mean in practice? Our expert shares a primer on what statistics can and can’t tell you.

Aleksandras Šulženko

Updated on June 14, 2023

The increasing digitization of society means a wealth of public data exists beyond traditional sources. Our expert argues that governments can use this data to make faster, more flexible policy decisions.

Sadrach Pierre

Updated on May 15, 2023

Analytics dashboards are a great way for data scientists to communicate insights to companies, but they can often be expensive and time-consuming to build. Streamlit is an easy-to-use library for Python that simplifies the process.

Abdishakur Hassan

Updated on May 15, 2023

Data architecture helps companies leverage their data as a strategic asset, translate the data into an effective model and build their data strategy.

Erdem İŞBİLEN

Updated on April 12, 2023

In statistics, we can use maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) to estimate the parameters of models. Here’s how MLE works.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on April 06, 2023

CatBoost is a machine learning gradient-boosting algorithm that’s particularly effective for handling data sets with categorical features. Our expert explains how CatBoost works and why it’s so effective.

Alex Williams

Updated on March 16, 2023

Knowledge graphs are becoming increasingly common thanks to their wide range of applications across industries. This guide introduces you to their basic principles and some examples.

Artturi Jalli

Updated on March 15, 2023

HBase is a non-relational database management system for real-time data processing that runs on top of the Hadoop distributed file system

Julia Zolotarev

Updated on March 15, 2023

Non-relational databases (NoSQL databases) are data stores that are either schema-free, or have relaxed schemas that allow for changes in the data structure.

Sara A. Metwalli

Updated on March 15, 2023

MySQL is a relational database management system that stores all the information you need to run complex websites. Here’s how it works.