July 15, 2025

Category: Big Data

Upskilling for Analytics: Career Paths Beyond Data Science
Big Data

Upskilling for Analytics: Career Paths Beyond Data Science

The data revolution brought a boom in the field of analytics, however, not every path goes to data science. Although some international markets continue to be dominated by the wildly desirable profession of data science, a broader analytics world is opening its own doors to an impressive range of careers with a similar degree of […]

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Harnessing the Power of Nested Materialized Views and exploring Cascading Refresh
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Harnessing the Power of Nested Materialized Views and exploring Cascading Refresh

Amazon Redshift materialized views enables you to significantly improve performance of complex queries. Materialized views store precomputed query results that future similar queries can utilize, offering a powerful solution for data warehouse environments where applications often need to execute resource-intensive queries against large tables. This optimization technique enhances query speed and efficiency by allowing many […]

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Survey: Software Development to Shift From Humans to AI
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Survey: Software Development to Shift From Humans to AI

BOSTON, July 8, 2025 — Software engineering platform Jellyfish published the 2025 State of Engineering Management report, which measures the impact of AI coding tools on engineering work — from day-to-day workflows to large-scale organizational priorities. The sixth annual report provides an update on how engineering teams are adopting AI, which coding tools they’re deploying, how […]

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How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy
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How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

Jiojio/Getty Images Business is on a never-ending quest to boost efficiency, cut costs, and increase productivity. Some of the earliest known businesses — ancient Mesopotamian traders — inspired the invention of writing. (Record keeping — now that’s a competitive advantage!) Similar needs have existed in every economic period. The big difference now is that AI technology […]

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How Data Analytics Improves Lead Management and Sales Results
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How Data Analytics Improves Lead Management and Sales Results

Since we started Smart Data Collective, we’ve seen the role of data analytics grow in nearly every area of business. You can now track every lead interaction, score potential buyers, and forecast conversions with a high level of precision. It is surprising that most companies still analyze only 37% of their available data. You might […]

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Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia
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Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia

(Image courtesy Wikipedia) As the fifth most popular website on the Internet, keeping Wikipedia running smoothly is no small feat. The free encyclopedia hosts more than 65 million articles in 340 different languages, and serves 1.5 billion unique device visits per month. Behind the site’s front-end Web servers are a host of databases serving up […]

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