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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The below article was originally published in The Pragmatic Engineer , on 29 February 2024. I am re-publishing it 6 months later as a free-to-read article. This is because the below case is a good example on hype versus reality with GenAI. To get timely analysis like this in your inbox, subscribe to The Pragmatic Engineer. Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions.

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Essential Skills for Data Engineers in the Age of AI

Seattle Data Guy

If you work in data, then AI is everywhere at this point. But whether AI is hype or reality doesn’t change the fact that data engineers will play a major role in ensuring that the data sets that are utilized for the growing use cases are usable both by machines and humans. Whether that data… Read more The post Essential Skills for Data Engineers in the Age of AI appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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10 Statistics Questions to Ace Your Data Science Interview

KDnuggets

Master statistics and land your first data science job.

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Podcast: DataOps, Observability, and The Cure for Data Team Blues on DataTalks.Club

DataKitchen

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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3 Most Popular Bootcamps to Learn Python

KDnuggets

Enhance your coding journey with these top 3 data science bootcamps

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Introducing the New Confluent Cloud Homepage UI: Enhancing User Experience

Confluent

The new Confluent Cloud Homepage UI adds many features including Clusters/Topics modals, health indicators, favorites, recently visited, recommended actions, & more.

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The Snowflake AI Data Cloud - Accelerate Time-Series Analytics with RANGE-Based Window Frames

Snowflake

Addressing Time-Series Analytics Challenges At Snowflake, we are committed to helping customers derive meaningful insights from data with simplicity and speed. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of our enhanced RANGE-based window frame, which will help accelerate time-series analytics. For customers across industries, the ability to perform time-series analytics is crucial.

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Elevate your MDM Benefits through Data Integrity

Precisely

Better data-driven decision-making, higher ROI, stronger compliance – what do all these outcomes have in common? They rely on high-quality data. But the truth is, it’s harder than ever for organizations to maintain that level of data quality. As your business applications grow, so do fragmented data silos that hold you back. Think about your organization.

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Data Synchronization with Dynamic Procedures

Cloudyard

Read Time: 2 Minute, 19 Second In our recent projects, we encountered significant issues related to data synchronization across multiple business units. Different departments, each managing their own data structures, often introduced new columns or modified existing ones in their tables. These frequent changes led to numerous challenges: Inconsistent Data Integration: The varying schemas created difficulties in integrating data consistently across different systems.

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AI in Government – the central role of data by Graham Odds

Scott Logic

You’ve probably heard that data is the foundation of AI – and that’s true. But it is also intrinsically important to every element of the safe and successful harnessing of AI. For the government, data challenges are nothing new. Recent developments in AI have simply served to bring them to the fore again while introducing new challenges. However, the challenges are not insurmountable and AI itself could help to tackle some of them.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Difference Between Leader and Manager

Edureka

Introduction The concept of traditional enterprise management and organizational hierarchy continues to change. A company needs competent leaders who can propel future growth and efficient managers who ensure that the wheels of growth stay in motion. While both need leadership qualities, they differ in their psyche, conceptions, and execution. The various project management tools assist managers in becoming better leaders.

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Fivetran vs dbt: Everything You Need To Know in 2024

Hevo

The right choice of tools makes all the difference in ETL or ELT processes in today’s fast and ever-changing data analytics environments. The ever-increasing volume and rising complexity of data are demanding powerful, adaptive solutions for businesses.

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Different Types of Project Management You Need to Know

Edureka

Project management is a versatile independent discipline, including approaches, methodologies, and applications across various industries. From traditional waterfall to agile scrum, project managers use a host of techniques to ensure the successful completion of projects. This article discusses the types of project management, industries that use project management, and the various roles a project manager can take on.

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AWS Glue Service: A Comprehensive Guide to Serverless Data Integration

Hevo

AWS Glue is a powerful data integration service that prepares your data for analytics, application development, and machine learning using an efficient extract, transform, and load (ETL) process. The AWS Glue service is rapidly gaining traction, with more than 6,248 businesses worldwide utilizing it as a big data tool. With 3,139 customers (59.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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NEP: Notification System and Relevance

Pinterest Engineering

Lin Zhu; Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Eric Tam; Staff Software Engineer | Yuxiang Wang; Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Importance of Notifications Notifications (e.g. email, push, in-app messages) play an important role in driving user retention. In our previous system, which operated on a daily budget allocation model, the system relied on predicting daily budgets for individual users on a daily basis, constraining the flexibility and responsiveness required for dynamic user engagement

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