Data

Checking the validity of Benford’s law with Amazon Web Services and Python — Frank Benford was an electrical engineer known for rediscovering a statistical curiosity about the occurrence of digits in lists of data. This curiosity is known as Benford’s law or the law of anomalous numbers, and has applications in accounting fraud detection, criminal trials, election data, among others. What is the anomaly?

শোনা যাচ্ছে যে ডেটা-ই নাকি এখন টেকনোলোজির প্রাণ! তবে আজ কাল তো শোনা কথায় ও কান দিতে নেই। সে যা-ই হোক , প্রবাদ আছে “যা রটে, তা কিছু তো বটে !” কিছু ই হোক বা অনেক কিছু হোক একটু তদন্ত করে জানতে তো আর দোস নেই। যত জানবো, ততই শিখবো।…

And how to go about measuring them — Measuring data ROI is one of the top challenge of data teams. There are many ways to do it, and no established best practices. In a previous article inspired by discussions with data leaders, we sought to identify the skeleton of a framework for measuring data team’s performance. This article…

Right now I’m working as a product manager in a team that supports others to re-use NHS website content and data in their own products and services. We’ve just started a phase of research (discovery) and we’d like to talk to people who are already using the service, have signed…

The Data CAT (Data Collection & Analytics Toolkit) is an important component of the Itheum ecosystem, as it enables our platform to provide real-world value and adoption while generating highly structured and outcome-oriented personal datasets. Moreover, it provides visual trends and patterns across the data it collects while also using…

Part 1: building for privacy in web3 — We believe building in the open is core to building better data infrastructure. Accordingly, we are proud to present the Privy mindmap — this first part runs through how we are thinking about tradeoffs made in building Privy and the system today. For more on where we go from here…

This is Part 2 of a 2-part blog about how Trino can support both interactive and batch use cases. In Part 1, we explored the case for why an organization needs both interactive and batch capabilities and why Starburst is the simplest way to run both using the same platform…