Sat.Jan 06, 2024 - Fri.Jan 12, 2024

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Intrinsic Data Quality: 6 Essential Tactics Every Data Engineer Needs to Know

Monte Carlo

What happens when you strip away all the noise of queries and pipelines and focus on the data itself? You get down to the intrinsic data quality. What’s the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic data quality? Intrinsic data quality is the quality of data assessed independently of its use case. Extrinsic data, meanwhile, is more about the context — it’s how your data interacts with the world outside and how it fits into the larger picture of your project or organization.

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4 Steps to Become a Generative AI Developer

KDnuggets

In this post, we will cover what a generative AI developer does, what tools you need to master, and how to get started.

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Pushing The Limits Of Scalability And User Experience For Data Processing WIth Jignesh Patel

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data processing technologies have dramatically improved in their sophistication and raw throughput. Unfortunately, the volumes of data that are being generated continue to double, requiring further advancements in the platform capabilities to keep up. As the sophistication increases, so does the complexity, leading to challenges for user experience.

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Robinhood Adds New Spot Bitcoin ETFs

Robinhood

The new class of spot Bitcoin ETFs that were approved by the SEC yesterday are now available on Robinhood Earlier today, Robinhood started offering the new class of spot Bitcoin ETFs that were approved by the SEC on January 10. These 11 ETFs became tradable to all customers in the United States this morning in both retirement and brokerage accounts though Robinhood Financial.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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Don't be beguiled by Microsoft Fabric Shortcuts (yet)

databricks

“Short cuts make long delays.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring The lakehouse pattern, in which you store all of your struc.

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Read This Before You Take Any Free Data Science Course

KDnuggets

Free courses are a great way to explore data science. But you do pay for free courses with your time, energy, and motivation. Consider these 7 things before starting a free Data Science course.

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Data News — 2024

Christophe Blefari

Thoughts. Backward and forward. ( credits ) Hello, it's 2024. I hope you're well and that you've ended 2023 on a high note with your loved ones. I wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024. I'm very happy to have the privilege of corresponding with you and it honours me. This edition of Data News will focus on the end of 2023 with a good retrospective about me and my activities—content and freelancing.

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Zero to CDP: Unlock Your Full Marketing Potential with a Composable CDP on Snowflake

Snowflake

In today’s dynamic business landscape, numerous organizations are transitioning to the Snowflake Data Cloud, seeking more agile, secure and efficient solutions to manage and activate customer data. Yet, the timelines and engineering resources needed to support implementation haven’t always kept pace with the increased market demand, impeding innovation.

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Can Data Governance Address AI Fatigue?

KDnuggets

This post explains how data governance can help data scientists handle AI fatigue and build robust models.

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Announcing Ray Autoscaling support on Databricks and Apache Spark™

databricks

Ray is an open-source unified compute framework that simplifies scaling AI and Python workloads in a distributed environment. Since we introduced support for.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Enhanced Object Detection using Drones and AI

ArcGIS

We will demonstrate how drone images and AI provide improved object detection achieved through Pixel Space to Map Space transformation.

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Snowflake Enables Cargill’s Goal to Achieve Zero Carbon Shipping

Snowflake

Cargill Ocean Transportation (OT) manages 650 ships at sea every single day. Today’s consumers expect brands to help mitigate climate change, and even a large freight-trading organization such as Cargill OT is no exception. Because the company holds “customers at the center of every decision we make,” according to René Greiner, Head of Data and Digital at Cargill OT, this means Cargill OT strives to play its part in protecting the environment.

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Pandas vs. Polars: A Comparative Analysis of Python’s Dataframe Libraries

KDnuggets

An in-depth analysis of their syntax, speed, and usability. Which one is the best to use when working with data?

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Manufacturing Insights: Calculating Streaming Integrals on Low-Latency Sensor Data

databricks

Data engineers rely on math and statistics to coax insights out of complex, noisy data. Among the most important domains is calculus, which.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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ArcGIS clients and DBMS upgrade considerations

ArcGIS

This blog shares a workflow example of upgrading your organization’s ArcGIS clients along with the database version.

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3 Practical Steps Advertisers Can Take to Win in a Cookieless World

Snowflake

Third-party cookies have long been the backbone of online advertising, providing valuable insights into user behavior and enabling targeted, personalized campaigns. However, privacy concerns and evolving regulations have led major browsers like Safari and Firefox to limit or eliminate third-party cookie tracking. The next major milestone is upon us as Google is now testing a cookieless experience for 1% of randomly assigned Chrome users.

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Running Mixtral 8x7b On Google Colab For Free

KDnuggets

Learn how to run the advanced Mixtral 8x7b model on Google Colab using LLaMA C++ library, maximizing quality output with limited compute requirements.

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5 tips to get the most out of your Databricks Assistant

databricks

Back in July, we released the public preview of the new Databricks Assistant, a context-aware AI assistant available in Databricks Notebooks, SQL editor.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Infographic design in Business Analyst: Best practices for tables and charts

ArcGIS

This article walks through design choices related to tables and charts, to offer best practices and considerations when building infographics.

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Our Secret to Customer-First Account Management? Using an LLM-Powered Chatbot for Sales Teams

Snowflake

Snowflake account managers need their fingers on the pulse of which workload shifts or performance optimizations could improve customer experience. Yet without an all-encompassing view of their customers, sales teams have to piece together customers’ wants and needs through duplicate CRM accounts and various BI tools and dashboards. That’s why Snowflake is developing a natural language processing (NLP) app to equip our own sales team with a multi-dimensional view of customer accounts, including

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5 Coding Tasks ChatGPT Can’t Do

KDnuggets

This is a pretty good list of what ChatGPT can't do. But it's not exhaustive. ChatGPT can generate pretty good code from scratch, but it can't do anything that would take your job.

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Project Manager Vs Product Owner: Detailed Comparison

Knowledge Hut

For most of us, the role of a Project Manager is quite well defined. But how many of us know the role a project manager plays in an Agile project? Some other questions that often boggle budding Agilists are, exactly how different a product owner is different from a project manager? And are these roles interchangeable? It is important to understand Project Manager and  Product Owner Responsibilities for better differentiation.

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The Ultimate Guide to Apache Airflow DAGS

With Airflow being the open-source standard for workflow orchestration, knowing how to write Airflow DAGs has become an essential skill for every data engineer. This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of DAG writing features with plenty of example code. You’ll learn how to: Understand the building blocks DAGs, combine them in complex pipelines, and schedule your DAG to run exactly when you want it to Write DAGs that adapt to your data at runtime and set up alerts and notifications Scale you

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Arcade Expressions in Pro Charts

ArcGIS

This post demonstrates how Arcade expressions can be used to configure your charts in Pro.

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Is Your Financial Services Organization Ready to Leverage Generative AI?

Snowflake

As an industry built on data, financial services has always been an early adopter of AI technologies. In a recent industry survey , 46% of respondents said AI has improved customer experience, 35% said it has created operational efficiencies, and 20% said it has reduced total cost of ownership. Now, generative AI (gen AI) has supercharged its importance and organizations have begun heavily investing in this technology.

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Survey: Machine Learning Projects Still Routinely Fail to Deploy

KDnuggets

The author highlights the chronic under-deployment of ML projects, with only 22% of revolutionary initiatives deploying and a lack of stakeholder visibility and detailed planning as key issues, in his industry survey and book "The AI Playbook.

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8 Strategies to Engage Your Audience & Keep Them Interested

Knowledge Hut

Imagine trying to engage the audience while talking to them – it's like walking along a tricky path. Our attention spans are shorter than ever, just about eight seconds. I've faced the challenge of holding people's attention, especially when each person has their own distractions. So, how do you engage an audience? Think about standing in front of a group, everyone dealing with different things in their heads.

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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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Arcade Expressions in Pro Charts

ArcGIS

This post demonstrates how Arcade expressions can be used to configure your charts in Pro.

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Data Quality Dimensions: How Do You Measure Up? (+ Downloadable Scorecard)

Precisely

Virtually every business leader understands just how valuable data can be for driving innovation, increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, optimizing processes, and achieving compliance. A recent study from 451 Research found that almost 80% of business leaders say that data is becoming more important for effective strategic decision-making.

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Kickstart Your NLP Journey with These 5 Free Courses

KDnuggets

Want to transition into the NLP field without wanting to spend a buck? You can - with these 5 courses.

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Scrum Master Salary - Freshers & Experienced [2024]

Knowledge Hut

A Scrum Master's salary is usually determined by experience, location, and employer. However, salaries can range significantly, depending on the company, the industry, and the experience of the Scrum Master. The Scrum Master is responsible for managing the development team and ensuring the successful execution of the project. They are also responsible for facilitating communication between stakeholders and the team, removing barriers and helping the team stay focused on the long-term goal.

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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