KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As you design your career in data, you’ve got to avoid getting stuck in your comfort zone or allowing your manager or current situation to determine your path.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

No. This question generated a lot of content last week, and a lot of words were written. I wanted to keep my answer short so as not to burden you with a few thousand more words to read. Modern data stack has been coined by US companies and VCs—mainly Fivetran / dbt Labs—as a word to quickly emphasis a way to build data stack in the cloud related to ELT.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Clickbait headlines like "AI's Hottest Job" have promised a career that anyone who knows how to chat with AI could pay a six-figure salary with no computer background. But is this reality, or just another internet pipe dream? Let's ditch the sensationalism and delve into the actual job market data to find out.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Why Stakeholder Management? One of the most critical aspects of project management is doing what’s necessary to develop and control relationships with all individuals that the project impacts. In this article, you will learn techniques for identifying stakeholders, analyzing their influence on the project, and developing strategies to communicate, set boundaries, and manage competing expectations.

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Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So where did all the memory go? To figure out, learn how to profile your Python code for memory usage using the memory-profiler package.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What is Agile Testing? As the name implies, agile course projects are executed very quickly and with flexibility. Agile methods involve tasks executed in short iterations or sprints. Agile Testing is also iterative and takes place after each sprint, rather than towards the end of the project. Testing courses iteratively helps to validate the client requirements and adapt to changing conditions in a better manner.

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Zalando Engineering

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

TL;DR : Database per service pattern in the microservices world brings an overhead on operating database instances, observing its health status and anomalies. Standardisation on methodology and tooling is a key factor for the success at the scale. We have incorporated learning from past incidents, anomalies and empirical observations into a methodology of observing the health status using 12 golden signals.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image from Unsplash Building a Semantic Book Search: Scale an Embedding Pipeline with Apache Spark and AWS EMR Serverless Using OpenAI’s Clip model to support natural language search on a collection of 70k book covers In a previous post I did a little PoC to see if I could use OpenAI’s Clip model to build a semantic book search. It worked surprisingly well, in my opinion, but I couldn’t help wondering if it would be better with more data.

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Striim

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Organizations struggle with managing vast amounts of complex data. Traditional methods often fall short, leading to data silos and security vulnerabilities. Innovations like Data Mesh and Data Fabric have emerged as solutions, offering new ways to manage data effectively and derive actionable insights. Central to unlocking the potential of these frameworks is Striim, a platform that facilitates real-time data integration, analytics, and event processing, providing businesses can fully leverage t

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Scott Logic

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this episode, Oliver Cronk is joined by experts including Jeremy Axe, Group CTO at DS Smith, and consultants Darren Smith and Katie Davis from Scott Logic. Together, they unpack topics like the energy usage and carbon emissions of IT infrastructure, the challenges in accurately measuring sustainability, and whether claims of ‘green tech’ are substantiated or just hype.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Edureka

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In the contemporary competitive corporate environment, as a project manager, opting for certifications such as PRINCE2 can be advantageous in distinguishing oneself. This choice offers benefits including increased salary potential, improved project outcomes, enhanced project management proficiency, and overall career advancement opportunities. PRINCE2 ( Projects IN Controlled Environments ) is a structured project management method and practitioner certification program that emphasizes dividing

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What is KANBAN? Kanban is a new technique for managing a software development process in a highly efficient way. Kanban underpins Toyota’s “just-in-time” (JIT) production system. Although producing software is a creative activity and therefore different from mass-producing cars, the underlying mechanism for managing the production line can still be applied.

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Cloudyard

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Read Time: 1 Minute, 42 Second In this blog post, we’ll delve into a practical example that showcases the prowess of Snowpark by processing customer invoice data from a CSV file and handling credit card details from a JSON source. For instance, Consider a scenario where an organization needs to streamline the processing of customer invoice data and credit card details.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The publication of the PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition significantly increases the profile and processes for stakeholder management. The following are the Stakeholder Management processes listed out in the fifth edition of the PMBOK.To kick-start your career in project management, learn PMP and accelerate your professional journey. We have given a short description of each process and a comparison with the listing in the previous PMBOK edition.

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Monte Carlo

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Hype is a funny thing. Sometimes you find yourself in a Godfather Part 2 situation where the hype is totally justified. You hear about it. You try it. Life is changed. Hooray! Other times, you find yourself in more of an Avatar: the Way of Water situation…where everyone around you is muttering things like “stunningly immersive,” and you’re on the sidelines wondering how much time you can spend watching blue aliens be bad at swimming.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So. you want to get your PMI-ACP® certification and are wondering what the PMI-ACP® Certification course requirements and processes are! You are in the right place and this post will hopefully be beneficial in guiding you with regard to all the optional and mandatory steps required to apply for the certification. It’s obvious, whenever someone start a process (Certification Education) or anything new, the first question that comes to mind is, where should I start , and what are t

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We need to understand a system first with respect to the function points. Consider an application model as below for measuring the function points. A PMP course and certification will help your career in project management reach higher levels. Now to calculate the function points we need to follow the following steps: Measure the application boundary The application boundary defines what is external to the application.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What is the Health of your Project? (Earned Value Management) Takeaway: I have seen a number of status reports in my earlier company, which is being prepared by various PM(s). And mostly it is % of completion of each feature. However, does it really convey the status? I am sure, it does not. Here, we will have a simple question to know the status of the project.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I have been asked many times on the white paper that appeared for the Synergy between MS Project Course and PMBOK Guide, in 2009. Some are unable to find it and have requested for an access. This is the ONLY paper of its kind that appeared ever in a typically theoretical driven publications and stands out as it emphasizes on the practicality of PMBOK using the MS Project tool.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It pays to be a member of PMI and feels good when you get a copy earlier than others! The copy has been made available last month to all PMI members. Thank you PMI. Copy for public distribution is expected be available in this month. In this post, we will see how PMBOK guide, one of the most referred one worldwide in management practices, talk of Agile.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I come across this question a number of times. In year 2001, 17 minds come up together with these 4 core values. Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools Working Software Over Comprehensive Documentation Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation Responding to Change Over Following A Plan It must be noted that they did not out rightly reject the values for the items in the right, but they gave more emphasis and value to the items on left.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

All projects begin as a concept. A project concept, to create a new product or service, typically includes a broad vision of what the end result of the project will be. The temporary project results in the unique product or service through progressive elaboration. Progressive elaboration is the incremental design and refinement of the initial concept toward the project plan.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Project integration management is the heart of project management course and is made up of the day-to-day processes the project manager relies on to ensure that all of the parts of the project work together. Put simply, project integration management is the way the gears of the project work together. Within any project there are many moving parts: time management, cost management, schedule conflicts, human resource issues, iterative planning, and much, much more.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Transitioning from a waterfall process to an Agile framework like Scrum can be a daunting task. However, you can make the effort a whole lot easier if you have a good idea of what needs to change – beyond getting rid of waterfall – if you were to take the plunge for your organization. I have found that there are five broad success factors that need to be addressed in order to successfully transition to Agile.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1. Time: The 3 hours to answer 120 questions were sufficient. I finished answering all questions in 2 hours. There were 4-5 questions which were not very clear and another 10-12 questions I marked for “review” later. I used my extra time to review those Marked questions to guess best answer PMI may be expecting. 2. AgileExams.com is very useful site in preparing for PMI ACP certification , The “Study Mode” taught me how to eliminate the wrong answers after reviewing the l

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Project Management Professional or PMP is a certificate awarded to project management professionals by PMI – Project Management Institute. PMP provides and demonstrates the actual experience, education, skill, and competency required to lead and handle the projects. Project Management Professionals or PMP are the imperatives in all organizations. The demand for PMP is increasing with respect to skills and requirements in industries across the globe.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

First of all congrats to those all aspiring to be a PMP… for it is a great certification and also a greater responsibility when you handle projects. Here are the guidelines. 1. Register on the PMI.ORG site for PMI membership by paying around 130 2. Being a PMI member will get you access to PMBOK handy guide which is very helpful for the PMP training courses. 3.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I posted an article at PM Hut on how cheap actually PMP certification and its maintenance can be. Thanks to PMHut for publishing it. The inspiration for this article came from HERE, a post by Pam Stanton, of Project Whisper. Cost, of course, is not the entire point of her article, but do form a major argument. With all due respect to Pam, I would like to politely point that training for PMP certification and maintenance is not at all expensive.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Once one obtains their PMP, also known as Project Management Professional status, the question is how do I let others know I now have this status? The 4 main places are: 1. Your business card. Once you obtain your PMP status order up some new business cards 2. The signature line in your email address. I would also recommend including an embedded hyperlink to your LinkedIn page. 3.

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