· Stream processing refers to the continuous ingestion, transformation, and analysis of data streams generated by applications, IoT devices and sensors, and other sources to derive actionable insights in near-real-time. · An event is a small packet of information (a datagram) that contains a notification. · Events can be published…

Descriptive analytics o Descriptive analytics answers the question “What is happening in my business?” o The data to answer this question is typically answered through the creation of a data warehouse. Diagnostic analytics o Diagnostic analytics deals with answering the question “Why is it happening?”. o This may involve exploring…

Application data can be classified in one of three ways: Structured — Choose Azure SQL database or similar, o In structured data, sometimes called relational data, all data has the same fields or properties o All the data has the same organization and shape, or schema. Semi-Structured — choose Azure…

High-level security benefits for the data in the cloud: Protect the data at rest o All data written to Azure Storage is automatically encrypted by Storage Service Encryption (SSE) with a 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher, and is FIPS 140–2 compliant. o SSE automatically encrypts data when writing it…

Slowly changing dimensions (SCD) are tables in a dimensional model that handle changes to dimension values over time. Describe slowly changing dimensions A slowly changing dimension (SCD) is one that appropriately manages the change of dimension members over time. It applies when the values of a business entity change over time, and not on…

A business valuation is a report which outlines a company’s financial status to a potential buyer or investor. If you’re considering major funding, restructuring or selling a company, the value of a business will be important. …

People don’t quit because they “can’t” achieve their goals. They quit because they felt a magnetic pull towards something else more rewarding in the short term. One reason for this is that they never expected failure to happen in the first place. For people who have only known success, the…

We are all taught in college to appreciate science and to have faith in scientists and their discoveries, theories, and concepts, but we later discover that human science is not faultless, not yet, and likely never will be because it is constantly a work in progress. Science is an ongoing…

If you haven’t heard of the term “designer babies,” you will soon. A designer baby, in its most basic form, is an embryo that has been genetically manipulated (or gene-edited) to produce a child with certain characteristics. Unfavourable features or poor traits (such as a genetic disease) may be removed…