What is Hashing? Hashing is simply passing some data through a formula that produces a result, called a hash. That hash is usually a string of characters and the hashes generated by a formula are always the same length, regardless of how much data you feed into it. For example, the MD5 formula always produces […]
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Actuary, data scientist, or just a guy in the rain? The hot new thing, data science, isn’t so new after all. Since the advent of modern actuarial science in the late 1980s, insurance companies have relied on actuaries to use math and statistics to anticipate the future. What Actuaries and Data Scientists have in common
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There exists a chronic confusion as to what the distinction is between your average software engineer (i.e. programmer) and a data scientist. This is totally understandable, considering the fact that both jobs do involve programming and the term “data science” seems so much like the term “computer science”. However, the two differ in some significant
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UPDATE: 2020 January 20 – When I originally wrote this post, the term data lake wasn’t in vogue. Well, times have changed! Nowadays, the term sandbox has largely been replaced with data lake. The concept is the same. Now, the text is updated! A few weeks ago I wrote about the idea that there are
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