Sat.Apr 02, 2022 - Fri.Apr 08, 2022

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Personal Knowledge Management Workflow for a Deeper Life — as a Computer Scientist

Simon Späti

With burnout and mental stress at every level of our lives, I find my Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system even more valuable. As a human, I forget lots of things. As a dad, I have more responsibilities with remembering all things related to my kid. As a developer and knowledge worker, I re-use code snippets or create new things. That’s why a PKM system such as a Second Brain to store all of it in a sustainable way is crucial to me.

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Naïve Bayes Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know

KDnuggets

Naïve Bayes is a probabilistic machine learning algorithm based on the Bayes Theorem, used in a wide variety of classification tasks. In this article, we will understand the Naïve Bayes algorithm and all essential concepts so that there is no room for doubts in understanding.

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DAG Dependencies in Apache Airflow: The Ultimate Guide

Marc Lamberti

DAG Dependencies in Apache Airflow might be one of the most popular topics. I received countless questions about DAG dependencies, is it possible? How? What are the best practices? and the list goes on. It’s funny because it comes naturally to wonder how to do that even when we are beginners. Do we like to complexify things by nature? Maybe, but that’s another question 😉 At the end of this article, you will be able to spot when you need to create DAG Dependencies, which metho

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Building a Dependable Real-Time Betting App with Confluent Cloud and Ably

Confluent

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a revolution. Customers increasingly expect their online experiences to be interactive, immersive, and real time by default. The need to satisfy […].

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

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.

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Accelerate Your Mission at Cloudera Government Forum ’22

Cloudera

As a public sector leader, you don’t need the value of data explained to you. You already understand its importance to your vital missions. . The challenge, rather, lies in locating data, streaming it, enriching it, and serving it, and then running analytics to maximize the value of the data that agencies already have — and the massive amount of new data generated every day from a wide variety of structured and unstructured sources.

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Data Science Interview Guide – Part 1: The Structure

KDnuggets

According to one source, the types of questions that will generally be asked in data scientist interviews can be broken down into five categories. Let's take a closer look.

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Announcing Multi-Year Microsoft Partnership to Accelerate Cloud Data Streaming

Confluent

We’re pleased to share a new multi-year partnership between Confluent and Microsoft to accelerate enterprises’ journey to cloud data streaming on Azure. Today’s announcement builds upon the partnership agreement we […].

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Why Can’t we Advance Healthcare and Life Sciences this Fast all the time?

Cloudera

Vaccine development became the top priority for the life sciences industry – delivering new vaccines at unprecedented speed and maneuvering large-scale production processes. Numerous factors helped accelerate the vaccine roll-out including prior research, genome sequencing, jumping the FDA approval queue and a plethora of testing volunteers. So now that we’ve experienced these advancements, how can the industry keep momentum to speed-up innovative solutions across healthcare?

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Uncertainty Quantification in Artificial Intelligence-based Systems

KDnuggets

The article summarizes the plethora of UQ methods using Bayesian techniques, shows issues and gaps in the literature, suggests further directions, and epitomizes AI-based systems within the Financial Crime domain.

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Accelerate Development Of Enterprise Analytics With The Coalesce Visual Workflow Builder

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The flexibility of software oriented data workflows is useful for fulfilling complex requirements, but for simple and repetitious use cases it adds significant complexity. Coalesce is a platform designed to reduce repetitive work for common workflows by adopting a visual pipeline builder to support your data warehouse transformations. In this episode Satish Jayanthi explains how he is building a framework to allow enterprises to move quickly while maintaining guardrails for data workflow

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to 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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Confluent Strengthens Partnership with Google Cloud and Support for Google BigQuery

Confluent

Confluent has been offering our customers the opportunity to seamlessly connect their Apache Kafka® topics to Google BigQuery for several years. This helps accelerate data warehouse initiatives by connecting more […].

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Circuit Breakers: A New Way to Automatically Stop Broken Data Pipelines and Avoid Backfilling Costs

Monte Carlo

Did you ever wish you had a pause button for broken data pipelines? Well, today is your lucky day. Monte Carlo is excited to announce the release of a new suite of data observability capabilities to help data teams automatically stop broken data pipelines at the orchestration layer — before they impact the business. Data engineers spend upwards of 30 percent of their time tackling data downtime , meaning periods of time when data is missing, erroneous, or otherwise inaccurate.

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DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm in Machine Learning

KDnuggets

An introduction to the DBSCAN algorithm and its implementation in Python.

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Rockset Beats ClickHouse and Druid on the Star Schema Benchmark (SSB)

Rockset

A year ago we evaluated Rockset on the Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) , an industry-standard benchmark used to measure the query performance of analytical databases. Subsequently, Altinity published ClickHouse’s results on the SSB. Recently, Imply published revised Apache Druid results on the SSB with denormalized numbers. With all the performance improvements we've been working on lately, we took another look at how these would affect Rockset's performance on the SSB.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

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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Migrating Data to Azure Synapse with Confluent’s Fully Managed Connector to Unlock Real-Time Advanced Analytics

Confluent

Azure Synapse users are looking to unlock access to on-premises, open source, and hybrid cloud systems to extend advanced analytics capabilities for their organizations. Building connectivity between all your distributed […].

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Grouparoo has been acquired by Airbyte

Grouparoo

We started Grouparoo to enable organizations to make better use of their data. Our experience showed that there was a large gap in how Data and Product teams worked with operational teams like Marketing, Sales, and Support. We set out to accomplish our goal in an open way, both through open-source software and by creating a company culture valuing candor and transparency.

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Logistic Regression for Classification

KDnuggets

Deep dive into Logistic Regression with practical examples.

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Converting Spark RDD to DataFrame and Dataset

InData Labs

Generally speaking, Spark provides 3 main abstractions to work with it. First, we will provide you with a holistic view of all of them in one place. Second, we will explore each option with examples. RDD (Resilient Distributed Dataset). The main approach to work with unstructured data. Pretty similar to a distributed collection that is. Запись Converting Spark RDD to DataFrame and Dataset впервые появилась InData Labs.

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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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Being Truly Valued as a Person in Your Career

Confluent

Moving to an entirely new company can be daunting. All you know is the job description and the impression made during the interview process. But what about the company’s ethics? […].

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From the Slack Archives: When Backend Devs Spark Joy for Data Folks

dbt Developer Hub

"I forgot to mention we dropped that column and created a new one for it!” “Hmm, I’m actually not super sure why customer_id is passed as an int and not a string.” “The primary key for that table is actually the order_id , not the id field.” I think many analytics engineers, including myself, have been on the receiving end of some of these comments from their backend application developers.

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4 Factors to Identify Machine Learning Solvable Problems

KDnuggets

The near future holds incredible possibility for machine learning to solve real world problems. But we need to be be able to determine which problems are solvable by ML and which are not.

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Space-Based AI Shows the Promise of Big Data

Cloudera

This blog post was written by Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D as a guest author for Cloudera. . At a distance of a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the edge of data transfer capabilities. The observatory launched Dec. 25 2021 on a mission to look at the early universe, at exoplanets, and at other objects of celestial interest.

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

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.

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Rendering performance monitoring on Android

Booking.com Engineering

As developers, we always want our apps to offer the best user experience. When it comes to performance, we know that an “ideal” rendering performance for a regular application is 60 frames per second, or 60 fps. This gif illustrates the difference between ideal and not-so-ideal frame rendering: To have a solid 60fps, each frame needs to be rendered by the app within a 16.6ms window (1 sec = 1000ms, 1000ms / 60 = 16.6ms).

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Good data teams / Bad data teams

DareData

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”, so starts Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. This came to be known as the Anna Karenina Principle - there are many different ways one can fail, but only one way to win: by avoiding each of the routes to failure. The beauty of being a consultant is to experience this first hand.

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The Complete Collection Of Data Repositories – Part 1

KDnuggets

Check out the collection of the best data repositories on agriculture, audio, biology, climate, computer vision, economics, education, energy, finance, and government.

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Data Ingestion with Pandas: A Beginner Tutorial

KDnuggets

Learn tricks on importing various data formats using Pandas with a few lines of code. We will be learning to import SQL databases, Excel sheets, HTML tables, CSV, and JSON files with examples.

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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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SQL Window Functions

KDnuggets

In this article, we’ll go over SQL window functions and how to use them when writing SQL queries.

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Low Code: Are Developers Still Needed?

KDnuggets

Have low-code solutions subverted the need for developers? Are experienced software developers going the way of the dodo? Read on to find out.

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A Quick Guide to Find the Right Minds for Annotation

KDnuggets

Let's look through the points below for useful tips on how to choose the proper outsourcing partner to handle the labeling for your next AI model.

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Neural Network Optimization with AIMET

KDnuggets

Using AIMET, developers can incorporate advanced model compression and quantization algorithms into their PyTorch and TensorFlow model-building pipelines for automated post-training optimization, as well as for model fine-tuning.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

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.