As Halloween night quickly approaches, there is only one question on every kid’s mind: how can I maximize my candy haul this year with the best possible candy? This kind of question lends itself perfectly to data science approaches that enable quick and intuitive analysis of data across multiple sources.

By Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Pure Storage & Yaron Haviv, Co-Founder & CTO of Iguazio You trained and built models using interactive tools over data samples, and are now working on building an application around them to bring tangible value to the business. However, a year later, you find that you have spent an endless amount time and resources, but your application is still not fully operational, or isn’t performing as well as it did in the lab. Don’t worry, you are not alone.

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Real-time feature engineering is valuable for a variety of use cases, from service personalization to trade optimization to operational efficiency. It can also be helpful for risk mitigation through fraud prediction, by enabling data scientists and ML engineers to harness real-time data, perform complex calculations in real time and make fast decisions based on fresh data, for example to predict credit card fraud before it occurs.