Monte Carlo
JANUARY 18, 2024
5 factors that lead to alert fatigue and how to prevent them with incident management best practices Last Friday afternoon, Pedram Navid, head of data at Dagster and overall data influencer , went to X to ask an important question. He asked: Ok — is anomaly detection in data actually that useful or is just a bunch of alerts you end up muting and not doing anything with?
KDnuggets
JANUARY 18, 2024
Looking to make a career in data science? Here are five free university courses to help you get started.
databricks
JANUARY 18, 2024
This is part 1 of a blog series where we look back at the major areas of progress for Databricks SQL in 2023.
Tweag
JANUARY 17, 2024
I recently merged linear let- and where-bindings in GHC. Which means that we’ll have these in GHC 9.10, which is cause for celebration for me. Though they are much overdue, so maybe I should instead apologise to you. Anyway, I thought I’d take the opportunity to discuss some of GHC’s inner workings and how they explain some of the features of linear types in Haskell.
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Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.
Waitingforcode
JANUARY 17, 2024
Even though I'm into streaming these days, I haven't really covered streaming in Delta Lake yet. I only slightly blogged about Change Data Feed but completely missed the fundamentals. Hopefully, this and next blog posts will change this!
KDnuggets
JANUARY 16, 2024
From Skill Assessment to Networking: Your Roadmap to Thriving in the World of Data Science.
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Christophe Blefari
JANUARY 14, 2024
Back to school ( credits ) Hello you. Back to the usual Data News—with a little delay, I'm sorry. First of all, I'd like to thank you for your positive comments on last week 's article. It's a subject close to my heart and I was very happy to share it with you, because I never thought that Data News would become such a big part of my life.
Precisely
JANUARY 15, 2024
Data validation Data verification Purpose Check whether data falls within the acceptable range of values Check data to ensure it’s accurate and consistent Usually performed When data is created or updated When data is migrated or merged Example Checking whether user-entered ZIP code can be found Checking that all ZIP codes in dataset are in ZIP+4 format To a layperson, data verification and data validation may sound like the same thing.
KDnuggets
JANUARY 18, 2024
From Chaos to Clarity: Understanding the Unstructured Data Dilemma.
Cloudera
JANUARY 17, 2024
Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) is a complete self-service streaming data capture and movement platform based on Apache NiFi. It allows developers to interactively design data flows in a drag and drop designer, which can be deployed as continuously running, auto-scaling flow deployments or event-driven serverless functions. CDF-PC comes with a monitoring dashboard out of the box for data flow health and performance monitoring.
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!
ThoughtSpot
JANUARY 16, 2024
This is part of our ongoing spotlight series which highlights ThougthSpot’s quarterly Selfless Excellence champion. At ThoughtSpot, Selfless Excellence is the heart of who we are as a company. It creates room for personal success – but never at the cost of others on the team. Simply put, this means we consider our teammates, customers, and society at large ahead of our own personal wins, and without the distraction of office politics.
Snowflake
JANUARY 15, 2024
Leading companies around the world rely on Informatica data management solutions to manage and integrate data across various platforms from virtually any data source and on any cloud. Now, Informatica customers in the Snowflake ecosystem have an even easier way to integrate data to and from the Snowflake Data Cloud. Informatica’s Enterprise Data Integrator, a Snowflake Native App currently in public preview, facilitates the high-speed replication of enterprise data into Snowflake and brings the
KDnuggets
JANUARY 19, 2024
Path to a Free Self-Taught Education in Data Science for Everyone.
databricks
JANUARY 16, 2024
Cyber threats and the tools to combat them have become more sophisticated. SIEM is over 20 years old and has evolved significantly in.
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ThoughtSpot
JANUARY 16, 2024
Are you a ThoughtSpot enthusiast? Maybe you built a liveboard that saved your department hours each work week, or perhaps you figured out a unique way to gamify adoption across your team. You put in the hard work, now it’s time to show it off. ThoughtSpot User Groups were designed to help users connect—a place where you can share stories and get new ideas to empower your organization with data.
Snowflake
JANUARY 17, 2024
The sheer breadth of data that telecommunications providers collect day-to-day is a huge advantage for the industry. Yet, many providers have been slower to adapt to a data-driven, hyperconnected world even as their services — including streaming, mobile payments and applications such as video conferencing — have driven innovation in nearly every other industry.
KDnuggets
JANUARY 15, 2024
This article has explored the impact of quantum computing on data science and AI. We will look at the fundamental concepts of quantum computing and the key terms that are used in the field. We will also cover the challenges that lie ahead for quantum computing and how they can be overcome.
Confessions of a Data Guy
JANUARY 16, 2024
Well, I finally got around to it. What you say? Fine-tuning an LLM, that’s what. I mean all the cool kids are talking about and caring on like it’s the next thing. What can I say … I’m jaded. I’ve been working on ML systems for a good few years now, and I’ve seen the […] The post Engineering Lessons Learned from LLM Fine Tuning appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.
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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?
Knowledge Hut
JANUARY 19, 2024
"Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge" — Bruce Schneier. Ethical hacking is the heads-on solution for this challenge — a way to counter attacks from unwanted sources. It judges the security wall of a system and discovers and eliminates inconsistencies. Ethical hacking aims to prevent digital threats and vulnerabilities in the system and is a crucial online asset for security.
Engineering at Meta
JANUARY 18, 2024
At Meta, the quest for faster model training has yielded an exciting milestone: the adoption of Lazy Imports and the Python Cinder runtime. The outcome? Up to 40 percent time to first batch (TTFB) improvements, along with a 20 percent reduction in Jupyter kernel startup times. This advancement facilitates swifter experimentation capabilities and elevates the ML developer experience (DevX).
KDnuggets
JANUARY 15, 2024
Learn the generic scenarios and techniques of grouping and aggregating data, partitioning and ranking data in SQL, which will be very helpful in reporting requirements.
databricks
JANUARY 16, 2024
This post was written in collaboration with Jason Labonte, Chief Executive Officer, Veritas Data Research In the realm of healthcare and life sciences.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
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.
Knowledge Hut
JANUARY 18, 2024
One of the most commonly used terms in the IT sector is ethical hacking. The rising frequency of cyber-attacks has forced businesses and government agencies to tighten their defences against malicious hackers. In the current digital era, ethical hacking has become extremely important. Ethical hacking is an ideal career choice for folks who wish to break into the IT industry by being a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).
Pinterest Engineering
JANUARY 18, 2024
Author: Cathy Qian, Aayush Mudgal, Yinrui Li and Jinfeng Zhuang Image from [link] Introduction At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. People often come to Pinterest when they are considering what to do or buy next. Understanding this evolving user journey while balancing across multiple objectives is crucial to bring the best experience to Pinterest users and is supported by multiple recommendation models, with each providing real-time inferenc
KDnuggets
JANUARY 17, 2024
Kickstart your AI journey this new year with 5 FREE learning resources from Microsoft.
Booking.com Engineering
JANUARY 15, 2024
DEVOPS How we doubled our team’s delivery performance within a year as measured by DORA metrics. source Imagine your team secured a budget for doubling the number of software engineers. That’s great! You can finally fix all the bugs, implement new ideas, and clean up all the technical debt that’s been accumulating for years. Right? Wait, wait… Not so fast.
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.
Knowledge Hut
JANUARY 18, 2024
Data Science is an amalgamation of several disciplines, including computer science, statistics, and machine learning. As the world on the internet is becoming our second home, Big Data has exploded. Data Science is the study of this big data to derive a meaningful pattern. All the businesses are now looking to explore this gold mine of information to solve already existing problems.
Snowflake
JANUARY 18, 2024
Advanced analytics help manufacturers extract insights from their data and improve operations and decision-making. But for manufacturers, it’s often challenging to perform analytics with ERP data. Because of the high rate of M&A activity in the industry, manufacturing enterprises often struggle with multiple ERP instances. A fragmented resource planning system causes data silos, making enterprise-wide visibility virtually impossible.
KDnuggets
JANUARY 17, 2024
Looking to understand the universal semantic layer and how it can improve your data stack? This GigaOm Sonor report on Semantic Layers can help you delve deeper.
LinkedIn Engineering
JANUARY 19, 2024
Co- Authors: Aditya Hedge and Saumi Bandyopadhyay 2022 was a year driven by change for the Talent Acquisition industry, with nearly 50k company mergers and acquisitions completed worldwide. As of November 2023, roughly 150K+ recruiters switched jobs in the previous 12 months as shown in Figure 1. These changes – whether at an organization level or a user level – result in ownership transfers of hiring entities.
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