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Abstracting column access in PySpark with Proxy design pattern

Waitingforcode

One of the biggest changes for PySpark has been the DataFrame API. It greatly reduces the JVM-to-PVM communication overhead and improves the performance. However, it also complexities the code. Probably, some of you have already seen, written, or worked with the code like this.

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Data logs: The latest evolution in Meta’s access tools

Engineering at Meta

Here we explore initial system designs we considered, an overview of the current architecture, and some important principles Meta takes into account in making data accessible and easy to understand. Users have a variety of tools they can use to manage and access their information on Meta platforms. feature on Facebook.

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Bridging the Gap: New Datasets Push Recommender Research Toward Real-World Scale

KDnuggets

By KDnuggets on June 11, 2025 in Partners Sponsored Content Recommender systems rely on data, but access to truly representative data has long been a challenge for researchers. Yambda comes in 3 sizes (50M, 500M, 5B) and includes baselines to underscore accessibility and usability.

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Apache Iceberg v3 Table Spec: Celebrating the OSS Community’s Shared Success

Snowflake

The design involves multiple deletion vectors being stored as roaring bitmaps in Puffin files, a performant file type already used across the Iceberg project, where they can be accessed efficiently via an index. Entire tables can be encrypted with a single key, or access can be controlled at the snapshot level.

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

End users fall into 4 different categories along the data literacy continuum when it comes to their skill level with data: Data challenged: Users have no-to-low levels of analytics skills or data access. Data literate: Users have a comfort level of working with, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data.

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Data Integrity for AI: What’s Old is New Again

Precisely

These are all big questions about the accessibility, quality, and governance of data being used by AI solutions today. And then a wide variety of business intelligence (BI) tools popped up to provide last mile visibility with much easier end user access to insights housed in these DWs and data marts.

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Configure, Don't Code: How Declarative Data Stacks Enable Enterprise Scale

Simon Späti

On the flip side, closed-source platforms offer unified experiences but trap you in their ecosystems where you can’t access the code or extend beyond their feature sets in case of need.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

Access the Definitive Guide for a one-stop-shop for planning your application’s future in data.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Embedded Analytics Insights for 2024

Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format.

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

As an attendee, you will: Discover how construction professionals have deployed digital technologies to manage the risks created by skilled worker shortages, supply chain issues, and other critical challenges 🌐 Gain insight from experts who have successfully created digital workflows and have seen process and business benefits emerge from their (..)