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Alyssa Schroer Alyssa Schroer
Updated on January 30, 2024

6 Sports Analytics Companies to Know

These companies are using data to change the game.

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Shivam Chaudhary Shivam Chaudhary
Updated on January 24, 2024

Why 1.5 Is Used in the IQR Rule for Outlier Detection

The 1.5 IQR rule determines that any data point that’s 1.5 IQR points below the first quartile of data or above the third quartile is an outlier. Here’s why it’s 1.5 times IQR.  

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Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar
Updated on January 18, 2024

A Guide to HashMap in Java With Examples

HashMap is a popular data structure in Java that uses the Map interface and a hash table to provide efficient access and manipulation of data based unique keys.

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Ahmed Yahya Khaled Ahmed Yahya Khaled
Updated on January 17, 2024

Data Transformations in R

Data transformation is the process of cleaning and organizing data from one format into another. Here’s how to do it in R.

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Jeremy Zhang Jeremy Zhang
Updated on January 17, 2024

Importance Sampling Explained

Importance sampling is an approximation method that uses a mathematical transformation to take the average of all samples to estimate an expectation. Here’s how to do it.   

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Adam Ross Nelson Adam Ross Nelson
Updated on January 12, 2024

What Data Culture Is and How to Build It

Here’s how your organization can establish a concrete data culture from scratch.

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Krishna Subramanian Krishna Subramanian
Updated on December 21, 2023

4 Ways Unstructured Data Management Will Change in 2024

The rapid growth of AI will reshape key aspects of data management.

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Indhumathy Chelliah Indhumathy Chelliah
Updated on December 21, 2023

How to Plot Graphs Using the DiagrammeR Package in R

DiagrammeR is a package in R that is used to create graphs and flowcharts using graphviz and mermaid. 

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Daniel Zagales Daniel Zagales
Updated on December 20, 2023

5 Steps for Painless Data Migration

Ready to migrate your data to a more cost efficient platform? Here’s how to do it without inciting total chaos.

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Edward Hearn Edward Hearn
Updated on December 19, 2023

Likelihood Vs. Probability: What’s the Difference?

The words likelihood and probability are often used interchangeably, but they actually refer to two distinct types of measurement. Our expert explains the difference in detail here.

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