Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Summary Building an end-to-end data pipeline for your machine learning projects is a complex task, made more difficult by the variety of ways that you can structure it. Kedro is a framework that provides an opinionated workflow that lets you focus on the parts that matter, so that you don’t waste time on gluing the steps together. In this episode Tom Goldenberg explains how it works, how it is being used at Quantum Black for customer projects, and how it can help you structure your own.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We identify two main groups of Data Science skills: A: 13 core, stable skills that most respondents have and B: a group of hot, emerging skills that most do not have (yet) but want to add. See our detailed analysis.

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Teradata

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

AI & Deep Learning allow organizations to maximize player performance while minimizing player risk through better insights from performance and wellness data.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers.

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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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Airbnb Tech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scaling a Mature Data Pipeline — Managing Overhead There is often a hidden performance cost tied to the complexity of data pipelines — the overhead. In this post, we will introduce its concept, and examine the techniques we use to avoid it in our data pipelines. Author : Zachary Ennenga The view from the third floor at Airbnb HQ! Background There is often a natural evolution in the tooling, organization, and technical underpinning of data pipelines.

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Rockset

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

What Is Grafana? Grafana is an open-source software platform for time series analytics and monitoring. You can connect Grafana to a large number of data sources, from PostgreSQL to Prometheus. Once your data source is connected, you can use a built-in query control or editor to fetch data, and build dashboards from your data source. Grafana is frequently deployed for a wide variety of use cases, including DevOps and AdTech.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This is a collection of 10 interesting resources in the form of articles and tutorials for the aspiring data scientist new to Python, meant to provide both insight and practical instruction when starting on your journey.

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Teradata

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The Teradata Certification program is celebrating its 20th anniversary! Find out how it can advance your career by making you a certified expert on Vantage.

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nodeSWAT

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Story about unexpected slowdown during AWS RDS upgrade to AWS Aurora and InnoDB adaptive hash index parameter TL;DR at the end. The parameter. MySQL 5.7 documentation about InnoDB adaptive hash index. Turning this parameter ON enables the database engine to analyze index searches and to automatically adapt to the queries/searches you are running. It does so by making custom indexes for these specific cases, in return making your queries run faster because they can now use the automatically gener

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Pandora Engineering

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

When embarking on the journey of developing a new application, a team must establish the foundational technologies upon which their… Continue reading on Algorithm and Blues »

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This has become a kind of shorthand for the investment thesis behind Silicon Valley’s current wave of unicorn startups. It’s also a unifying idea behind the larger set of technology trends we see today, such as machine learning, IoT, ubiquitous mobile connectivity, SaaS, and cloud computing.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Summary The conventional approach to analytics involves collecting large amounts of data that can be cleaned, followed by a separate step for analysis and interpretation. Unfortunately this strategy is not viable for handling real-time, real-world use cases such as traffic management or supply chain logistics. In this episode Simon Crosby, CTO of Swim Inc., explains how the SwimOS kernel and the enterprise data fabric built on top of it enable brand new use cases for instant insights.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Our list of deep learning researchers and industry leaders are the people you should follow to stay current with this wildly expanding field in AI. From early practitioners and established academics to entrepreneurs and today’s top corporate influencers, this diverse group of individuals is leading the way into tomorrow’s deep learning landscape.

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Teradata

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

There are a lot of misperceptions about Teradata. Learn more about what Teradata Vantage really is: a cloud-first integrated data and analytics platform.

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Rockset

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Airbnb Prices Around Major Events Operational analytics on real-time data streams requires being able to slice and dice it along all the axes that matter to people, including time and space. We can see how important it is to analyze data spatially by looking at an app that’s all about location: Airbnb. Major events in San Francisco cause huge influxes of people, and Airbnb prices increase accordingly.

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Pandora Engineering

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Credit: Sally Anscombe An Android Apprentice’s journey to understand Pandora’s migration from AsyncTask to newer APIs During my second month as an Android Engineer Apprentice, I was tasked with migrating AsyncTask to newer APIs. Early on, I was asked, “Do you know why we are migrating from AsyncTask?” I wracked my brain and answered shyly, “It has something to do with memory leaks?

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

First, what is event sourcing? Here’s an example. Consider your bank account: viewing it online, the first thing you notice is often the current balance. How many of us drill down to see how we got there? We probably all ask similar questions such as: What payments have cleared? Did my direct deposit hit yet? Why am I spending so much money at Sephora?

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Summary The first stage in every data project is collecting information and routing it to a storage system for later analysis. For operational data this typically means collecting log messages and system metrics. Often a different tool is used for each class of data, increasing the overall complexity and number of moving parts. The engineers at Timber.io decided to build a new tool in the form of Vector that allows for processing both of these data types in a single framework that is reliable an

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

These three deep learning frameworks are your go-to tools for NLP, so which is the best? Check out this comparative analysis based on the needs of NLP, and find out where things are headed in the future.

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Teradata

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Companies are increasingly exploring opportunities to apply reinforcement learning to their most challenging problems. Learn what applications work the best.

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Netflix Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. Maybe you’ve done this before and have an old script lying around. If it’s new, it’s probably going to take some time to set up, right? Not at Netflix. ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the s

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Rockset

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

"A fast-moving technology field where new tools, technologies and platforms are introduced very frequently and where it is very hard to keep up with new trends." I could be describing either the VR space or Data Engineering, but in fact this post is about the intersection of both. Virtual Reality – The Next Frontier in Media I work as a Data Engineer at a leading company in the VR space, with a mission to capture and transmit reality in perfect fidelity.

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Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Static Membership is an enhancement to the current rebalance protocol that aims to reduce the downtime caused by excessive and unnecessary rebalances for general Apache Kafka ® client implementations. This applies to Kafka consumers, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams. To get a better grasp on the rebalance protocol, we’ll examine this concept in depth and explain what it means.

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Data Engineering Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Summary Data professionals are working in a domain that is rapidly evolving. In order to stay current we need access to deeply technical presentations that aren’t burdened by extraneous marketing. To fulfill that need Pete Soderling and his team have been running the Data Council series of conferences and meetups around the world. In this episode Pete discusses his motivation for starting these events, how they serve to bring the data community together, and the observations that he has ma

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This blog summarizes the career advice/reading research papers lecture in the CS230 Deep learning course by Stanford University on YouTube, and includes advice from Andrew Ng on how to read research papers.

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Teradata

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

4D analytics combines geospatial, temporal and time series data to do advanced analysis of time and space. Learn how to uncover new insights today.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As compute gets cheaper and time to market for machine learning solutions becomes more critical, we’ve explored options for speeding up model training. One of those solutions is to combine elements from Spark and scikit-learn into our own hybrid solution.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Deep Learning is/has become the hottest skill in Data Science at the moment. There is a plethora of articles, courses, technologies, influencers and resources that we can leverage to gain the Deep Learning skills.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Lately, varying improvements over BERT have been shown — and here I will contrast the main similarities and differences so you can choose which one to use in your research or application.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The article contains a brief introduction of Bioinformatics and how a machine learning classification algorithm can be used to classify the type of cancer in each patient by their gene expressions.

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Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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