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A Comprehensive Guide to Essential Tools for Data Analysts

KDnuggets

Data analyst tools encompass programming languages, spreadsheets, BI, and big data tools. Here are 9ish tools that cover all the tasks of data analysts well.

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The Vital Role of Data Governance in Communications, Media and Entertainment

databricks

Discover the vital role of data governance in the communications, media, and entertainment industry. Learn how robust data governance enables personalized experiences, ensures AI transparency, and mitigates compliance risks. Explore how leading companies like Barilla and Anker are accelerating innovation through effective data governance strategies powered by Databricks' Unity Catalog.

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5 Free Stanford AI Courses

KDnuggets

Want to learn more about Artificial Intelligence? These five courses from Stanford will help you kickstart that journey.

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Building High-Quality and Trusted Data Products with Databricks

databricks

Introduction Organizations aiming to become AI and data-driven often need to provide their internal teams with high-quality and trusted data products. Building.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

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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New Tech Courses That Have Just Landed

KDnuggets

Check out these 3 courses that have just landed, from front-end web development to project management.

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Robinhood Response to Receipt of Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Robinhood

Robinhood Markets,Inc.(Nasdaq:HOOD) today announced that RHC has received a Wells Notice from the SEC Staff Earlier today we announced Robinhood Crypto (RHC) has received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff indicating they will recommend that the Commission file an enforcement action. “After years of good faith attempts to work with the SEC for regulatory clarity including our well-known attempt to ‘come in and register,’ we are disappointed that the agency has

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Better See and Control Your Snowflake Spend with the Cost Management Interface, Now Generally Available

Snowflake

Snowflake is dedicated to providing customers with intuitive solutions that streamline their operations and drive success. As part of our ongoing commitment to helping customers in this way, we’re introducing updates to the Cost Management Interface to make managing Snowflake spend easier at an organization level and accessible to more roles. Snowsight: Your Centralized Console for Cost Management The Cost Management Interface in Snowsight (Snowflake’s web interface) is the centralized con

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Themes, Epics, and the Art of Writing User Stories

Knowledge Hut

User stories are as critical and essential in the Scrum world as the required documents in the traditional Waterfall world. Even if we try to avoid the controversial comparison, the need for both is unavoidable. Please note the Scrum guide doesn’t talk about the user stories or user stories examples. So, the very definition, scope, or constraints of user stories are open to interpretation and the subject to be improvised.

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What’s New for the ArcGIS Utility Network with the 2024 Network Management Release

ArcGIS

Learn more about exciting new functionality and improvements made with the recent Network Management Release of the ArcGIS Utility Network

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10 deadly myths of Agile and Scrum

Knowledge Hut

Agile and Scrum have been conquering the minds of engineers, managers especially from software industry, quite effectively since last few years. The impact is so much so that every software engineer thinks that if he/she is not working on an Agile or Scrum project, their career is stuck. It surely is, but so is the reality of this fact. Agile and Scrum have become so pervasive in our thought process that we, as engineers or managers or product owners do not stop to ask ourselves once if we reall

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

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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How to Accelerate Digital Adoption and Reduce Costs with Better Customer Communications

Precisely

Key Takeaways: Enhance your customer digital adoption strategy through automation, personalization, and omnichannel consistency that exceeds expectations and fosters trust and loyalty. Drive efficiency and reduce costs with a unified hosted CCM platform that streamlines operations and eliminates costly redundancies. Use data-driven insights and consistent, timely communication across channels to offer targeted promotions that increase customer engagement and revenue How can your financial instit

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What Is Kanban In Agile Values, Principles, Benefits & Career

Knowledge Hut

Kanban is getting a wide-scale popularity in Agile organizations because of its unmatched values, principles, and benefits. The certified Kanban training courses, designed for different levels, allow the program managers, delivery managers, project managers, software product developers and business analysts etc to choose the best and to boost up their career growth.

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What is Identity Resolution? A Comprehensive Guide

phData: Data Engineering

Finding and stitching together the interactions for each individual across all your channels is a valuable and difficult challenge—a challenge known as identity resolution. Whether you’re building a team for master data management (MDM), implementing a composable customer data platform (CDP), or just having challenges identifying the unique customers for your analytical use cases—understanding the fundamentals of identity resolution will guide you in making the best decision possible for y

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How Systems Thinking Can Be Applied To Agile Transformations

Knowledge Hut

Applying systems thinking views a system as a set of interconnected and interdependent components defined by its limits and more than the sum of their parts (subsystems). When one component of a system is altered, the effects frequently spread across the entire system. While the precise impact may not be foreseeable in and of itself, many behavioral patterns are impactful.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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What Is MLOps?

Edureka

In today’s data-driven world, machine learning models play a huge role in developing sectors like healthcare, finance, transport, e-commerce, and so on. However, building and deploying these models is just the beginning. Ensuring their accuracy, reliability, and performance over time is a significant challenge. This is where MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) comes into play.

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Water-Scrum-Fall: Is it a Myth or Reality?

Knowledge Hut

Usage of Agile Methods for software Development has caught on like wildfire. Every organization wants to follow Agile methods for software development projects to gain all or some of the following advantages. Faster Software Delivery Continuous Customer Feedback and Optimization Improved Software Quality Improved Communication with Users and Business Sponsors Accommodation for Continuous Changes Early Return on Investment Continuous Visibility on Features Being Developed Optimized Risks Though u

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What is AI in Finance?

Edureka

With AI, banks can now consider factors other than your credit score when you apply for a loan. They look at your job history, bill payment habits, and even your social media activity to get a better idea of your financial situation. This helps them make decisions faster and more accurately. Plus, it means people with solid job security and good bill payment habits might have a better chance of getting approved, even if their credit score isn’t perfect.

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What is Estimation Projection & Validation in Agile?

Knowledge Hut

Ensuring successful software development within constraints of ‘scope, schedule, and cost’ has been a conundrum that every software development methodology tries to solve. In any scenario, we can fix only one of these 3 parameters. For example, if we fix the software estimation, we have to keep the schedule variable according to the new changes in scope.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Useful Project Management Tips for Agile Development Teams

Knowledge Hut

If you are a software professional or someone who is adept in the knowledge of the technology and the latest software development, then you have probably come across the term ‘Agile’ several times. Before proceeding, it is important to know that management of the task and a lengthy project is imperative for every development team for the precision of task and quality output.

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Essential Qualities of Highly Successful Scrum Masters

Knowledge Hut

Scrum masters are servant leaders and coaches for Agile teams. They help the team in educating and ensuring whether Agile processes are being followed. Scrum Master helps in structuring a high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. Scrum Master role is mainly one of a unique, Agile team member who spends much of his time helping other team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate, generally he assists the team in meeting their delivery goals.

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How To Eliminate Burnout And Make Agile Teams More Productive

Knowledge Hut

Ever since COVID-19, the impact of the 'always on work' culture has started taking its toll. This is where the word 'burnout' comes into the picture. Organizations have started adopting the Agile work system in today's highly competitive world. However, the increasing work pressure on today's generation demands them to perform everything perfectly and quickly.

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Top Tools And Techniques For A Better Product Vision and Discovery

Knowledge Hut

Understanding the customer needs and developing a product that helps fulfill those needs defines the usability of the product. With varied perceptions of the underlying problems, assumptions over customer behavior and cognitive bias for a solution, it may get cumbersome to determine the right product that delivers value. To develop a usable product, it is important for all involved in product discovery to collaborate and develop a common vision, strategic goals and shared understanding.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Why do Scrum Masters get paid so much

Knowledge Hut

Is Scrum Master the best paying job? Do Scrum Masters are highly paid individuals? Though these two questions look very simple in asking but are very difficult in answering. Let’s dig in and find out the salary range that Scrum Masters are earning. The survey conducted by ‘Age of Product’ (Stephen Wolpers and Sumit Mehta) in 2017, included Scrum Masters from 13 countries around the world.

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How to Launch Your 1st SAFe® Agile Release Train

Knowledge Hut

So, you are excited to organize and launch your 1st SAFe® Agile Release Train. Understanding the importance, structure, and deployment of ART (SAFe® Agile Release Train) is the central of SAFe® Agile implementation to scale & successfully implement the complex projects, deliver maximum business values and complete the project on time well under the budget.

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Use of Agile Methodologies In Electro-Mechanical Industry - A Perspective

Knowledge Hut

Agile methods have gained mainstream acceptance in software development organizations for the development of solutions for enhancing existing products or creating new ones. The method has found widespread acceptance and has been very effective in the continuous delivery of new and effective solutions. At the first thought, the potential of Agile methodology to be used for product design does not seem like a logical extension of software development approach.

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What Does Metrics Mean For Agile Teams

Knowledge Hut

Most of the places I have worked, I spent a lot of time in measuring multiple dimensions of software for the entire lifecycle of the product. Many try to see what is the “best practice” in the industry and put a wrapper on them to make their own metrics. I have been thinking for a while on what makes sense, and is there a silver bullet like the Grand Unified Theory.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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The Added Value of Agile and Project Management Certifications

Knowledge Hut

Over the years, I've heard so many different opinions and read so many articles about what people think of certifications. Some do not see any added value while others believe otherwise. Let us think about getting certified from an Agile Mindset : Agile Team: The candidate is the Customer (Product Owner), Scrum Master & Development Team all in one.

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Deliver High Business Value With Agile Opportunity Canvas

Knowledge Hut

I would like to start this blog with a question. Business case, quite commonly used term in Project Management. Do we agree? It is a document explaining the justification for a project and expected outcome. Let us have a look at Project, Program and Portfolio Management in the image below. Every single initiative or project within an Organization is aligned to Organizational strategy.

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Get ‘Ready’ Before You Get ‘Done’: Productivity Route To The Next Level In Agile

Knowledge Hut

After working with several Agile teams across locations in India, I identified one thing that is imperative for successful Agile Software Development - knowing when you are ready to start. In the Agile world, we call it being “Ready-Ready”. Many times you will see teams kick-starting their software development even before the requirements are laid clearly.

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Challenges & Recommendations To Be A Successful Agile Coach

Knowledge Hut

In the real world, there are many versions of Agile implementation which are tailor-made to fit into existing organization’s AS IS hierarchy and operating patterns. Top leaders and managers understand that Agile coach’s role is pivotal to make Agile transformation feasible and possible in their organization. Let us consider different scenarios under which Agile coach is hired for transformation purpose on a project or in the organization: When an Agile coach is hired as an external c

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.