Monte Carlo

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 7, 2024

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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Waitingforcode

JANUARY 9, 2024

It's technically possible to process files in a continuous way from a streaming job. However, if you are expecting some latency sensitive job, this will always be slower than processing data directly from a streaming broker. Why?

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 7, 2024

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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Business Intelligence

Robinhood

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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KDnuggets

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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ArcGIS

JANUARY 10, 2024

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

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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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KDnuggets

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Snowflake

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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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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Precisely

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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KDnuggets

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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databricks

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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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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Snowflake

JANUARY 12, 2024

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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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 12, 2024

What comes to your mind when you hear the term 'Cloud'? Well, in a technologically advanced world, Cloud refers to a place where you can store and manage data on a device. After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Cloud computing jobs are in great demand. It is a great field of professional growth. Personally, I find it fascinating how saying, "I can handle the Cloud," has become a ticket to professional opportunities.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 12, 2024

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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databricks

JANUARY 10, 2024

“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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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.

Systems

Booking.com Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2024

“Customers expect apps to perform well. An app that takes a long time to launch, or responds slowly to input, may appear to the user as if it’s not working or is sluggish. An app that makes a lot of large network requests may increase the user’s data charges and drain the device battery. Any of these behaviors can frustrate users and lead them to uninstall the app.

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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 12, 2024

Docker has gained immense popularity for the dramatic change it has brought to the IT world. Containerization enables tremendous economies of scale and has made development scalable while remaining user-friendly. Due to its ease of use and excellent capabilities, Docker is a common practice in software development, operation, and infrastructure maintenance.

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KDnuggets

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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ArcGIS

JANUARY 8, 2024

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

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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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Netflix Tech

JANUARY 10, 2024

Liwei Guo , Anush Moorthy , Li-Heng Chen , Vinicius Carvalho , Aditya Mavlankar , Agata Opalach , Adithya Prakash , Kyle Swanson, Jessica Tweneboah , Subbu Venkatrav , Lishan Zhu This is the first blog in a multi-part series on how Netflix rebuilt its video processing pipeline with microservices, so we can maintain our rapid pace of innovation and continuously improve the system for member streaming and studio operations.

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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 12, 2024

Linear Discriminant Analysis or LDA is a dimensionality reduction technique. It is used as a pre-processing step in Machine Learning and applications of pattern classification. The goal of LDA is to project the features in higher dimensional space onto a lower-dimensional space in order to avoid the curse of dimensionality and also reduce resources and dimensional costs.

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Pinterest Engineering

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Journey from GBDT to Multi-Task Ensemble DNN Aayush Mudgal | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking Conversion Modeling; Han Sun | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking Conversion Modeling; Matt Meng | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking Conversion Modeling; Runze Su | Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Ranking Conversion Modeling; Jinfeng Zhuang | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Ranking Conversion Modeling In this blog post, we will share how we improved Pinterest

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Picnic Engineering

JANUARY 9, 2024

Introduction At Picnic, we’re not just an online supermarket; we’re the modern milkman. This means that we want to make the shopping experience of our customers as easy as possible while delivering the best personal service. To do this we couldn’t do without recommender systems. Recommender systems are used in many places within Picnic. From ranking customers’ search results and previously bought items, to showing the most relevant recipes for each customer.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

Business Intelligence

Snowflake

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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Knowledge Hut

JANUARY 11, 2024

Project management involves a series of activities to understand user journeys, pain points, and a lot more to build the vision and create a niche for the organization to sustain and grow. Building requirements around the customer journey is no mean feat and especially in agile environments this involves a lot of research, refinement, and customer feedback to ensure keeping up with the ever-changing user needs, fancies, and environmental challenges.

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LinkedIn Engineering

JANUARY 11, 2024

(This article originally appeared on LinkedIn) Advancements in AI consumed our attention and drove massive business considerations in 2023. Seemingly overnight, Generative AI (GAI) went mainstream – quickly becoming more deeply embedded across organizations and in everyone’s day-to-day work. Executives recognize the potential value GAI can bring to their organizations with 74% seeing at least one way it will benefit their employees, according to our September 2023 U.S.

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ArcGIS

JANUARY 11, 2024

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

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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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