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Cassie Kozyrkov Cassie Kozyrkov
Updated on June 14, 2023

How Should Data Analysis Impact Your Decision-Making Process?

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.

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Aleksandras Šulženko Aleksandras Šulženko
Updated on June 14, 2023

How Governments Can Use Alternative Data for Policymaking

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.

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Sadrach Pierre Sadrach Pierre
Updated on May 15, 2023

Streamlit Tutorial: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Machine Learning-Based Web Applications in Python

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.

Erdem İŞBİLEN Erdem İŞBİLEN
Updated on April 12, 2023

What Is Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE)?

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

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Alex Williams Alex Williams
Updated on March 16, 2023

What Is a Knowledge Graph? Examples, Uses and More.

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.

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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.

Young Entrepreneur Council Young Entrepreneur Council
Updated on March 15, 2023

12 Ways to Address the Risks Big Data and AI Pose to the Business World

Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council offer advice on identifying and mitigating the harmful effects these technologies might have on society.

Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on March 15, 2023

Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: Will the Already-Blurred Line Between Them Disappear?

Modern cloud storage combines the best of both worlds.

Farah Kim Farah Kim
Updated on March 15, 2023

Taking the Data Analyst Role Beyond ‘Data Janitorial Work’

Data analysts should work with data to derive insights for a business, but too often they spend most of their time on prepwork. Here’s how you can fix that problem.

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