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20 Best Datasets for Data Visualization

Knowledge Hut

The choice of datasets is crucial for creating impactful visualizations. Demographic data, such as census data and population growth, help uncover patterns and trends in population dynamics. Economic data, including GDP and employment rates, identify economic patterns and business opportunities. Census Bureau The U.S.

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Composable data management at Meta

Engineering at Meta

In recent years, Meta’s data management systems have evolved into a composable architecture that creates interoperability, promotes reusability, and improves engineering efficiency. Data is at the core of every product and service at Meta. We needed to change our thinking to be able to move faster.

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Securely Scaling Big Data Access Controls At Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Soam Acharya | Data Engineering Oversight; Keith Regier | Data Privacy Engineering Manager Background Businesses collect many different types of data. Each dataset needs to be securely stored with minimal access granted to ensure they are used appropriately and can easily be located and disposed of when necessary.

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

Engineering at Meta

This new convergence helps Meta and the larger community build data management systems that are unified, more efficient, and composable. Meta’s Data Infrastructure teams have been rethinking how data management systems are designed.

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Master Data Management: Common Misconceptions You Should Know

Precisely

When most people think of master data management, they first think of customers and products. But master data encompasses so much more than data about customers and products. Challenges of Master Data Management A decade ago, master data management (MDM) was a much simpler proposition than it is today.

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Beyond Garbage Collection: Tackling the Challenge of Orphaned Datasets

Ascend.io

A prime example of such patterns is orphaned datasets. These are datasets that exist in a database or data storage system but no longer have a relevant link or relationship to other data, to any of the analytics, or to the main application — making them a deceptively challenging issue to tackle.

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Why Your Master Data Management Needs Data Governance

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With cloud computing, the capacity to extract value from data is greater than ever. As this realization grows, businesses are shifting their investments from hardware to technologies that optimize data assets. Master Data Management systems (MDM) play an important role in harmonizing data assets across large and midsize enterprises.