Building Data Science Teams

Starting in 2008, Jeff Hammerbacher (@hackingdata) and I sat down to share our experiences building the data and analytics groups at Facebook and LinkedIn. In many ways, that meeting was the start of data science as a distinct professional specialization (see “What Makes a Data Scientist?” on page 11 for the story on how we came up with the title “Data Scientist”). Since then, data science has taken on a life of its own.

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Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet. We help companies of all sizes — and the apps they develop — scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere.

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Manual Replication of MySQL Database Using MySQL Workbench

whitePaper | December 19, 2022

When an Azure region is not available due to issues at the Datacenter level, this should not affect the availability of data. Hence, database replication is required to avoid data loss at any given point in time. Some Microsoft Azure regions do not support Azure database replication in different regions. (Refer to the image given below) To overcome this, manual replication of MySQL database using MySQL workbench is the only feasible option.

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Best practices – using Incorta to modernize your Oracle BI environment

whitePaper | March 29, 2023

Migrating to a new analytics environment can be a complex, timeconsuming and resource-intensive undertaking. Significant investments have been sunk into existing analytic environments, and migrating to a new platform can involve months of effort. When organizations go to this level of effort and expense, ideally, they should achieve more than simply migrating the existing environment. A migration provides an excellent opportunity to look to the future, rethink the environment, and deliver new capabilities to the business that can improve efficiency and serve as a source of competitive advantage.

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Why Graph is Key to The Modern Master Data Management Movement

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

The Graph database is fundamental to driving a much-needed breakthrough in the world of Master Data Management (MDM). Until now, traditional MDM systems have imposed strict rules and structures on how these projects are managed. This has cost enterprises dearly in terms of wasted time and resources and has been a major contributory factor to the failure of many MDM initiatives. Graph has changed all of that, allowing modern MDM platforms to completely redefine how master data is prepared for insight and used to deliver tangible business outcomes.

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Your 2022 Executive Guide to Data Science and AI

whitePaper | July 8, 2022

This series of white papers lays out the essential steps you need to take to ensure your business stays at the forefront of an increasingly data-driven and automated world. We cover everything you need to know about growing a data science team, the current trends in machine learning, data visualisation, essential data science tools and technologies, automation, deployment, how to prove value with data science and also give our thoughts on the next ‘big ideas’ that are set to take the world of AI in business by storm.

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Bridging the Data Talent Gap: How Enterprises are Reimagining the AI, Data and Analytics Workforce

whitePaper | July 12, 2022

In many ways, 2022 has been an exercise in dealing with the reeling of the Covid-19 pandemic. All over the world, supply chain issues have led to a myriad of challenges for enterprises, leading to deep shifts in how we do business and unraveling many of our assumptions about how society operates.

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BARC Score Enterprise BI & Analytics Platforms

whitePaper | August 12, 2021

This BARC Score report will evaluate BI & analytics platforms on a range of features, from data visualization capabilities to semantic modeling abilities, performance and speed to automation capabilities.

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Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet. We help companies of all sizes — and the apps they develop — scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere.

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