Thu.Mar 13, 2025

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The Real Impact of Bad Data on Your AI Models

Monte Carlo

By now, most data leaders know that developing useful AI applications takes more than RAG pipelines and fine-tuned models it takes accurate, reliable, AI-ready data that you can trust in real-time. To borrow a well-worn idiom, when you put garbage data into your AI model, you get garbage results out of it. Of course, some level of data quality issues is an inevitabilityso, how bad is “bad” when it comes to data feeding your AI and ML models?

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The Hundred-Page Language Models Book: A Great Technical Intro to LLMs

KDnuggets

The Hundred-Page Language Models Book is the LLM book you shouldn't miss.

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Mega easy chromatic hillshade

ArcGIS

Here's how you can conjure your own multidirectional hillshading in ArcGIS Pro. And blend colors for trippy realism.

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Top 7 Open-Source LLMs in 2025

KDnuggets

These models are free to use, can be fine-tuned, and offer enhanced privacy and security since they can run directly on your machine, and match the performance of proprietary solutions like o3-min and Gemini 2.0.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Introducing Serverless Batch Inference

databricks

Generative AI is transforming how organizations interact with their data, and batch LLM processing has quickly become one of Databricks' most popular use cases. Last.

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The Business Value of the DSP: Part 1 – From Apache Kafka® to a DSP

Confluent

Discover how Confluent transformed from a self-managed Kafka solution into a fully managed data streaming platform and learn what this evolution means for modern data architecture.

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The Business Value of the DSP: Part 2 – A Framework for Measuring Impact

Confluent

Discover how Confluents data streaming platform drives business value by making, saving, and protecting money.

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How Data Quality Leaders Can Gain Influence And Avoid The Tragedy of the Commons

DataKitchen

How Data Quality Leaders Can Gain Influence And Avoid The Tragedy of the Commons Data quality has long been essential for organizations striving for data-driven decision-making. Despite the best efforts of data teams, poor data quality remains a persistent challenge, leading to distrust in analytics, inefficiencies in operations, and costly errors. Many organizations struggle with incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated data, making it difficult to derive reliable insights.

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Power BI ToolTip: Create and Use Interactive ToolTips

Edureka

Great dashboards are more than just data visualization tools; they also tell stories. However, what if you could provide an even better insight without using an unappealing visualization? Enter Power BI ToolTip. Indeed, it is the crown jewel, and it has made the majority of the reports interactive. With a simple hover, ToolTips provide additional data, mini charts, KPIs, dynamic insights, and other features without leaving your main report.

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Striim 5.0 Release: Senstive Data Detection and Data Masking Enhances Data Security in Striim Applications

Striim

Pr otecting sensitive information is critical for organizations to maintain trust and comply with regulations. Striims Sentinel AI Agent and Sherlock AI Agent provide robust solutions for detecting and safeguarding sensitive data within real-time data streams and pipelines. This blog post will explore what these tools do, how they are used, and how Striim adds value to data protection efforts.

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Apache Airflow® 101 Essential Tips for Beginners

Apache Airflow® is the open-source standard to manage workflows as code. It is a versatile tool used in companies across the world from agile startups to tech giants to flagship enterprises across all industries. Due to its widespread adoption, Airflow knowledge is paramount to success in the field of data engineering.

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Automating CSV & Parquet File Ingestion from S3 to Snowflake

Cloudyard

Read Time: 2 Minute, 12 Second In modern data architectures, businesses rely on automated pipelines to ingest, transform, and analyze data efficiently. Automating CSV & Parquet File Ingestion from S3 to Snowflake becomes crucial when customers place different file types (such as CSV and Parquet) in a single S3 bucket. This scenario demands a seamless, automated mechanism to detect, process, and load these files into Snowflake without manual intervention.

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Striim 5.0 Release: Streamline Security and Efficiency with OAuth 2.0

Striim

With the release of Striim 5.0, businesses can now experience enhanced security and ease of integration through Striims support for OAuth 2.0. This simplifies the authentication processes and ensures a smoother experience for administrators while keeping security a top priority. Lets dive into how OAuth works, how to use it, and the value that Striim adds to your business.

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Beyond the Hype: Is architecture for AI even necessary? by Oliver Cronk

Scott Logic

In this episode, Im joined by colleagues Jess McEvoy and James Heward, and Atom Banks Head of AI and Data Science, Russell Collingham, to tackle the provocative question: Is architecture for AI even necessary? We explore the transformative impact of generative AI and the critical role of architecture in ensuring sustainable and scalable implementations.

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Striim 5.0 Release: Elevate Your Data Security with Customer Managed Key Encryption – Discover Striim Shield

Striim

As businesses embrace digital transformation, safeguarding sensitive information is critical. Striim 5.0 brings a powerful new feature: Striim Shield, that enables customers to take control of their data encryption through Customer Managed Keys. This innovative feature empowers organizations to securely manage their data before it flows further downstream while ensuring compliance with business policies and industry regulations.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: 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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Striim 5.0 Release: Simplify User Access with SSO Support for On-Premise Striim

Striim

In the latest Striim 5.0 release, we are excited to introduce a highly anticipated feature: Single Sign-On (SSO) support for on-premise Striim. This new capability empowers users to access Striim seamlessly using their existing corporate credentials, streamlining the login process and enhancing security. Lets dive into what this feature does, how to use it, and how Striim adds value to your business.

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Striim 5.0 Release: Introducing Fast Snapshot Loads to Accelerate Your Data Movement

Striim

As part of Striims 5.0 release, Fast Snapshot Loads is designed to elevate how organizations manage data loading for analytics. With this new feature, Striim makes it easier to create, manage, and accelerate the loading of database table snapshots. Fast Snapshot Loads harnesses declarative property syntax to intelligently distribute and parallelize table movement significantly reducing load times and making large-scale data integration timely and more efficient.

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Striim 5.0 Release: Streamlining Schema Creation with Striim’s Integrated Schema Feature

Striim

Migrating schemas within a data pipeline has traditionally been a complex and time-consuming task for many users. However, Striims latest 5.0 release introduces an integrated schema creation feature that simplifies this process significantly, making it more accessible and efficient. This feature is integrated into the configuration process of many adapters, providing users with an automated and streamlined approach to schema management.

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Striim 5.0 Release: Enhancing Data Processing with Striim’s Vector Embeddings Generator

Striim

Extracting meaningful insights from vast amounts of data is crucial for businesses to remain competitive. One powerful tool that has emerged in recent years is vector embeddings. These compact numerical representations of data not only facilitate enhanced data analysis but also improve search capabilities and machine learning tasks. Striim has harnessed the power of vector embeddings to provide its customers with a robust tool for transforming raw data into meaningful insights in real-time.

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Apache Airflow® Crash Course: From 0 to Running your Pipeline in the Cloud

With over 30 million monthly downloads, Apache Airflow is the tool of choice for programmatically authoring, scheduling, and monitoring data pipelines. Airflow enables you to define workflows as Python code, allowing for dynamic and scalable pipelines suitable to any use case from ETL/ELT to running ML/AI operations in production. This introductory tutorial provides a crash course for writing and deploying your first Airflow pipeline.