November, 2019

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Open Source Projects by Google, Uber and Facebook for Data Science and AI

KDnuggets

Open source is becoming the standard for sharing and improving technology. Some of the largest organizations in the world namely: Google, Facebook and Uber are open sourcing their own technologies that they use in their workflow to the public.

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Building A Real Time Event Data Warehouse For Sentry

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The team at Sentry has built a platform for anyone in the world to send software errors and events. As they scaled the volume of customers and data they began running into the limitations of their initial architecture. To address the needs of their business and continue to improve their capabilities they settled on Clickhouse as the new storage and query layer to power their business.

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Optimizing Observability with Jaeger, M3, and XYS at Uber

Uber Engineering

When something goes wrong with a piece of code, engineers want to know all the relevant details of the error immediately so they can get right to work remedying the malfunction. . However, as technology has advanced, measuring system metrics and … The post Optimizing Observability with Jaeger, M3, and XYS at Uber appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Introducing ksqlDB

Confluent

Today marks a new release of KSQL, one so significant that we’re giving it a new name: ksqlDB. Like KSQL, ksqlDB remains freely available and community licensed, and you can […].

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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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GraphQL Search Indexing

Netflix Tech

by Artem Shtatnov and Ravi Srinivas Ranganathan Almost a year ago we described our learnings from adopting GraphQL on the Netflix Marketing Tech team. We have a lot more to share since then! There are plenty of existing resources describing how to express a search query in GraphQL and paginate the results. This post looks at the other side of search: how to index data and make it searchable.

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Customer Data Platforms: Silo Killer or Yet Another Silo?

Teradata

How do you ensure your Customer Data Platform is enabling breakthrough customer experience business outcomes, rather than hindering them? Find out more!

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Escaping Analysis Paralysis For Your Data Platform With Data Virtualization

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary With the constant evolution of technology for data management it can seem impossible to make an informed decision about whether to build a data warehouse, or a data lake, or just leave your data wherever it currently rests. What’s worse is that any time you have to migrate to a new architecture, all of your analytical code has to change too.

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Introducing Menu Maker: Uber Eats’ New Menu Management Tool

Uber Engineering

A restaurant’s menu is arguably its most important feature. When ordering online or via the app with Uber Eats, potential customers can’t peer in through a restaurant’s windows or smell the scents wafting from their kitchens, so digital menus become … The post Introducing Menu Maker: Uber Eats’ New Menu Management Tool appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Kafka Streams and ksqlDB Compared – How to Choose

Confluent

ksqlDB is a new kind of database purpose-built for stream processing apps, allowing users to build stream processing applications against data in Apache Kafka® and enhancing developer productivity. ksqlDB simplifies […].

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TDA Announces InData Labs as the Winners in Global Agency Awards

InData Labs

Today we witness new technologies arising and new tendencies influencing the way we work and live. In order to stay competitive, it’s important to be aware of the latest trends, maintain a level of strong expertise, and offer best-in-class services. Our team is always striving to move with the times and keep all modern requirements. Запись TDA Announces InData Labs as the Winners in Global Agency Awards впервые появилась InData Labs.

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

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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Rich Model, Poor Model

Teradata

An integrated data foundation allows data science models to be more accurate, actionable and engage more customers. Find out how your model can positively impact your bottom line.

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Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 20-26: How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code

KDnuggets

Also: Deep Learning for Image Classification with Less Data; How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code; 25 Useful #Python Snippets to Help in Your Day-to-Day Work; Automated Machine Learning Project Implementation Complexities.

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Designing For Data Protection

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The practice of data management is one that requires technical acumen, but there are also many policy and regulatory issues that inform and influence the design of our systems. With the introduction of legal frameworks such as the EU GDPR and California’s CCPA it is necessary to consider how to implement data protectino and data privacy principles in the technical and policy controls that govern our data platforms.

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Tutorial: Building An Analytics Data Pipeline In Python

Dataquest

If you’ve ever wanted to learn Python online with streaming data, or data that changes quickly, you may be familiar with the concept of a data pipeline. Data pipelines allow you transform data from one representation to another through a series of steps. Data pipelines are a key part of data engineering, which we teach in our new Data Engineer Path.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

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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Conquering Hybrid Cloud with Replicated Event-Driven Architectures

Confluent

Potential advantages of hybrid cloud architectures include avoiding vendor lock-in, increasing system resilience, optimizing costs, and inducing price competition among cloud providers. Hybrid cloud architectures require the ability to securely […].

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Workforce Analytics is Reinventing HR

U-Next

Introduction to Workforce Analytics Today, the need to understand what attracts skillful individuals to join an organization, stay motivated, and deliver outstanding results has become more important than ever. However, this is not a task which can be shouldered by the HR team alone; they need the right tools to deliver optimal results. Over the years, organizations around the globe have spent billions of dollars on employee performance analysis, talent recruitment, leadership training, and deve

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The Four Types of Chief Data Officers

Teradata

Every organization, in every industry, needs a Chief Data Officer. Use these guidelines to choose the one with the optimal skills and background for success.

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10 Free Must-read Books on AI

KDnuggets

Artificial Intelligence continues to fill the media headlines while scientists and engineers rapidly expand its capabilities and applications. With such explosive growth in the field, there is a great deal to learn. Dive into these 10 free books that are must-reads to support your AI study and work.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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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Automating Your Production Dataflows On Spark

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary As data engineers the health of our pipelines is our highest priority. Unfortunately, there are countless ways that our dataflows can break or degrade that have nothing to do with the business logic or data transformations that we write and maintain. Sean Knapp founded Ascend to address the operational challenges of running a production grade and scalable Spark infrastructure, allowing data engineers to focus on the problems that power their business.

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Page Simulator

Netflix Tech

Page Simulation for Better Offline Metrics at Netflix by David Gevorkyan , Mehmet Yilmaz , Ajinkya More , Gaurav Agrawal , Richard Wellington , Vivek Kaushal , Prasanna Padmanabhan , Justin Basilico At Netflix, we spend a lot of effort to make it easy for our members to find content they will love. To make this happen, we personalize many aspects of our service, including which movies and TV shows we present on each member’s homepage.

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Using Confluent Platform to Complete a Massive Cloud Provider Migration and Handle Half a Million Events Per Second

Confluent

In the past 12 months, games and other forms of content made with the Unity platform were installed 33 billion times reaching 3 billion devices worldwide. Apart from our real-time […].

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Analytics on Kafka Event Streams Using Druid, Elasticsearch and Rockset

Rockset

Events are messages that are sent by a system to notify operators or other systems about a change in its domain. With event-driven architectures powered by systems like Apache Kafka becoming more prominent, there are now many applications in the modern software stack that make use of events and messages to operate effectively. In this blog, we will examine the use of three different data backends for event data - Apache Druid , Elasticsearch and Rockset.

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

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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Is There a Geographic Component in Your Analytic Cloud Architecture?

Teradata

Moving part of your analytic ecosystem to the cloud requires the inspection of all the ecosystem elements to make sure they perform well over a WAN. Read more.

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Two Years In The Life of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Java

KDnuggets

Where does Java stand in the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning? Learn more about how to do these things in Java, and the libraries and frameworks to use.

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How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code

KDnuggets

While Pandas is the library for data processing in Python, it isn't really built for speed. Learn more about the new library, Modin, developed to distribute Pandas' computation to speedup your data prep.

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Advice for New and Junior Data Scientists

KDnuggets

If you are a new Data Scientists early in your professional journey, and you’re a bit confused and lost, then follow this advice to figure out how to best contribute to your company.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

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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Lit BERT: NLP Transfer Learning In 3 Steps

KDnuggets

PyTorch Lightning is a lightweight framework which allows anyone using PyTorch to scale deep learning code easily while making it reproducible. In this tutorial we’ll use Huggingface's implementation of BERT to do a finetuning task in Lightning.

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Probability Learning: Naive Bayes

KDnuggets

This post will describe various simplifications of Bayes' Theorem, that make it more practical and applicable to real world problems: these simplifications are known by the name of Naive Bayes. Also, to clarify everything we will see a very illustrative example of how Naive Bayes can be applied for classification.

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How to Create a Vocabulary for NLP Tasks in Python

KDnuggets

This post will walkthrough a Python implementation of a vocabulary class for storing processed text data and related metadata in a manner useful for subsequently performing NLP tasks.

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Automated Machine Learning Project Implementation Complexities

KDnuggets

To demonstrate the implementation complexity differences along the AutoML highway, let's have a look at how 3 specific software projects approach the implementation of just such an AutoML "solution," namely Keras Tuner, AutoKeras, and automl-gs.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

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.