Seattle Data Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Photo by Tiger Lily Data warehouses and data lakes play a crucial role for many businesses. It gives businesses access to the data from all of their various systems. As well as often integrating data so that end-users can answer business critical questions. But if we take a step back and only focus on the… Read more The post Data Warehousing Essentials: A Guide To Data Warehousing appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Data Engineering Podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Summary Sharing data is a simple concept, but complicated to implement well. There are numerous business rules and regulatory concerns that need to be applied. There are also numerous technical considerations to be made, particularly if the producer and consumer of the data aren't using the same platforms. In this episode Andrew Jefferson explains the complexities of building a robust system for data sharing, the techno-social considerations, and how the Bobsled platform that he is building

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Waitingforcode

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It's time for another part of "What's new on the cloud for data engineers" Let's see what happened in the last 5 months.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Integrating a semantic layer with Language Learning Models (LLMs) presents a clean solution to this, particularly in the realm of AI chatbots. This combination empowers businesses to generate fast responses and reports based on their data. Leveraging AI and semantic layers is advancing business intelligence, making it easier than ever for people to interact with data.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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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Seattle Data Guy

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Companies that range from start-ups to enterprises are looking to implement AI and ML into their data strategy. With that it’s important not to forget about data quality. Regardless of how fancy or sophisticated a company’s AI model might be, poor data quality will break it. It will make the outputs of these models useless… Read more The post Why Your Team Needs To Implement Data Quality For Your AI Strategy appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Confluent Platform 7.6 brings upgrading for existing clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft, compaction support for Tiered Storage, OAuth (early access), improvements to the Oracle CDC premium connector, and more.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Stable Diffusion models are revolutionizing digital artistry, transforming mere text into stunning, lifelike images. Explore further here.

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databricks

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For the past two years, Databricks has collaborated with leading consulting partners to build innovative solutions for industry, migration, and data and AI.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At Snowflake, we believe in empowering our customers to harness the full potential of their data while maintaining robust compliance standards and safeguarding data privacy. We recognize the critical importance of quickly identifying and safeguarding sensitive data objects, and we consistently strive to provide solutions that help achieve these goals — from advancements such as classification and tag-based policies to the intuitive Data Governance UI.

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Netflix Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

by Moshe Kolodny In this post, we’re excited to introduce SafeTest, a revolutionary library that offers a fresh perspective on End-To-End (E2E) tests for web-based User Interface (UI) applications. The Challenges of Traditional UI Testing Traditionally, UI tests have been conducted through either unit testing or integration testing (also referred to as End-To-End (E2E) testing).

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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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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you’ve ever had conversations with data professionals, you’ve probably heard “data lineage” pop up quite a few times. So what is data lineage all about, and why is it important?

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An organization without strategic planning is like a ship without the captain. Developing strategic thinking into a plan and executing is inevitable for the businesses to compete in the global marketing environment. Strategic thinking, planning, and execution encompass all the concerns pertaining to ambitious goals, prevailing conditions, limitations, challenges, competence, changing customers’ preferences etc.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By now you’re already aware that Python 3.12 has been released. But did you know that several of its new features were developed by Meta ? Meta engineer Pascal Hartig ( @passy ) is joined on the Meta Tech Podcast by Itamar Oren and Carl Meyer, two software engineers at Meta, to discuss their teams’ contributions to the latest Python release, including new hooks that allow for custom JITs like Cinder , Immortal Objects , improvements to the type system, faster comprehensions, and more.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. While this might be a blast from the past we’d rather leave in the proverbial rear-view mirror, in March of 2023 we were back to the future with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the largest US bank to fail since 2008. While there are clear reasons SVB collapsed, which can be reviewed here , my purpose in this post isn’t to rehash the past but to present some of the regulatory and compliance c

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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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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, this guide is perfect for familiarizing yourself with basic and advanced command line tools.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Certified Business Analysis Professional ( CBAP ®) offered by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) is the most prestigious professional certification that a business analyst can do. In order to tackle and conquer the exam you need meticulous planning, diligent and honest preparation and confidence in facing the exam. This article intends to provide guidance on passing the examination from the time of filling up the application form.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Snowflake kicked off 2024 with exciting releases, including Snowpark Model Registry, Streamlit in Snowflake for Azure, and new enhancements around security features in Snowflake Horizon. Read on to learn more about everything we announced in January. Snowpark Updates Model management with the Snowpark Model Registry – public preview Snowpark Model Registry is an integrated solution to register, manage and use models and their metadata natively in Snowflake.

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DoorDash Engineering

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Business Policy Experiments Using Fractional Factorial Designs At DoorDash, we constantly strive to improve our experimentation processes by addressing four key dimensions, including velocity to increase how many experiments we can conduct, toil to minimize our launch and analysis efforts, rigor to ensure a sound experimental design and robustly efficient analyses, and efficiency to reduce costs associated with our experimentation efforts.

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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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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You don't always have high-quality labeled datasets for supervised machine learning. Learn about why you should augment your real data with synthetic data as well as the ways to generate it.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The conventional practices of working have changed in this 21st century. People cannot just stay as a specialist for a single area in the workplace anymore. These days, many people attend Agile Management certification courses online to learn the art of agility or how to become more adaptive at workplaces, which is a brilliant idea! They must have at least a preliminary knowledge of the job functions of other people in their company.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A strategic approach to data and talent strategies will distinguish leaders in a transformed business landscape. What might that look like? Generative AI’s (gen AI) capabilities seemed startlingly novel a year ago, when ChatGPT’s release led to an explosion of public usage and, simultaneously, intense debate about its potential societal and business impacts.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this first article, we’re exploring Apache Beam, from a simple pipeline to a more complicated one, using GCP Dataflow.

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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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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Interested in data engineering but don't know where to start? Get up to speed in data engineering fundamentals with this free course.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In today’s competitive world, the role of a business analyst has become one of the key elements for any business entity. In order to understand the role of a business analyst it is imperative to, first of all, understand what a business is and the complexities involved in operating a business entity. The definition of a business analyst as described in the BABOK® can be decoded as follows.

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ArcGIS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

All we have to decide is what to map with the time that is given us.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new program in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jump-start organizations' data streaming journeys.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article has explored three promising prompting techniques that have been developed to reduce the occurrence of hallucinations in large language models.

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Knowledge Hut

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Business analysis is the discipline of recognizing change in an organization and driving that change. It’s about delivering as much value as possible to the stakeholders and ensuring that the organization profits from changes. As a business analyst, you must have played a key role in developing your organization and meeting its business needs from time to time.

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databricks

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the dynamic realm of AI-driven forecasting, businesses navigate a landscape where strategic choices shape their trajectory. One such pivotal decision was made.

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Robinhood

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Robinhood is the only US retail brokerage to offer 24/5 trading of single name stocks At Robinhood, we believe the future of investing is 24/7. That’s why we launched the Robinhood 24 Hour Market last year, to give our customers unprecedented flexibility and access to the markets. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded the total number of symbols available overnight in the US to 922.

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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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