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Published inMar 2024
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Luca Zavarella
Luca Zavarella
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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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Q01. What are the main features of the Parquet format?Q02. What are the benefits and limitations of the native Parquet connector in Power BI?Q03. What’s the difference between predicate pushdown and partition pruning?Q04. How do you explain the differences in performance between Dask and PyArrow?Q05. Is there a specific API to transform referenced data from an Arrow dataset into R?

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A01. Parquet is an open-source columnar storage format designed to optimize file efficiency. It stores data in a columnar format, which allows for efficient compression and encoding of data, resulting in faster query execution times and reduced storage requirements. Parquet can handle complex data structures and uses binary encoding to enhance data security. It is compatible with interactive and serverless technologies like Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks and Fabric and can be used in Power BI with Python and R. Basically, Parquet is a high-performance storage...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837639533

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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
Read more about Luca Zavarella