Sat.Oct 19, 2024 - Fri.Oct 25, 2024

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Intelligent Data Engineering for Enterprise AI with Databricks and Informatica

databricks

Generative AI holds tremendous promise for how organizations unlock value from their data. However, it also comes with a litany of challenges around.

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10 Essential Python Libraries for Data Science in 2024

KDnuggets

The richness of Python’s ecosystem has one downside: it makes it difficult to decide which libraries are the best for your needs. This article is an attempt to amend this by suggesting ten (and some more, as a bonus) libraries that are an absolute must in data science.

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Skip Lines of CSV files with DuckDB and Polars

Confessions of a Data Guy

There are some things you don’t need until you need them. I ran into that situation recently with needing to process some CSV / Flatfiles on short notice. At first, it appeared to be easy, but then I realized, as usual, there was a little monkey wrench thrown into the middle of it. It is […] The post Skip Lines of CSV files with DuckDB and Polars appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Tales from the Pipeline: 4 Data Horror Stories To Keep You Up at Night

Monte Carlo

“As he lay awake in his Bay Area apartment, the data leader couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right. He tried to shut his eyes—to force them closed—but the more the data engineer tried, the more convinced he became. Suddenly, a light appeared from the darkness. It was a Slack from the CEO. She was working late. And the data…it couldn’t be…it looked wrong.

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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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Open Source Security at Databricks

databricks

The Databricks Product Security team is deeply committed to ensuring the security and integrity of its products, which are built on top of.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Natural Language Processing (NLP)

KDnuggets

Enhance your NLP skills through a variety of resources, including roadmaps, frameworks, courses, tutorials, example code, and projects.

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IPLS: Privacy-preserving storage for your WhatsApp contacts

Engineering at Meta

Your contact list is fundamental to the experiences you love and enjoy on WhatsApp. With contacts, you know which of your friends and family are on WhatsApp, you can easily message or call them, and it helps give you context on who is in your groups. But losing your phone could mean losing your contact list as well. Traditionally, WhatsApp has lacked the ability to store your contact list in a way that can be easily and automatically restored in the event you lose it.

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Introducing Simple, Fast, and Scalable Batch LLM Inference on Mosaic AI Model Serving

databricks

Over the years, organizations have amassed a vast amount of unstructured text data—documents, reports, and emails—but extracting meaningful insights has remained a challenge.

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Get Hired Fast: Trending AI Tool to Find and Apply for Your Dream Job

KDnuggets

Tired of endless job applications? Discover how AI is transforming the job hunt and helping people land their dream careers with just a single click.

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Data Migration to the Cloud: Benefits and Best Practices

Precisely

Key Takeaways: Cloud migration enhances agility, cuts operational costs, and helps you stay compliant with evolving regulations. Maintaining data integrity during cloud migration is essential to ensure reliable and high-quality data for better decision-making and future use in advanced applications. Partner with the right providers that offer both technical tools and expertise within your industry and use cases.

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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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Robinhood Launches Margin Investing in the UK

Robinhood

Our competitive rates for UK customers range from 5.2% to 6.25% At Robinhood, we’re empowering our customers with the tools they need to navigate the financial markets. Today, we’re excited to build upon that effort for customers in the UK by announcing the launch of margin investing, with some of the most competitive rates in the industry. Margin investing allows customers to borrow money from Robinhood, leveraging their existing holdings to purchase additional securities in order to expa

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Bringing Together Data Intelligence and Evaluation Intelligence: Databricks Ventures Invests in Galileo

databricks

Our customers say their biggest challenge in getting Generative AI from pilot to production is the " measurement problem." It's hard to.

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DeepLearning.AI Dropped a New Course

KDnuggets

With the development of AI technologies and tools, the best one can do for their career is stay ahead of the game and continue to upskill.

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Supercharging R&D in Life Sciences

Snowflake

Imagine a biotech company successfully integrating AI into its research and development (R&D) processes. Using AI algorithms, users in every division of the company can perform advanced analytics, predictive modeling and simulation studies. These capabilities allow them to quickly identify therapeutic targets, design more efficient clinical trials and enhance drug development.

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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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Diff Authoring Time: Measuring developer productivity at Meta

Engineering at Meta

At Meta, we’re always looking for ways to enhance the productivity of our engineers and developers. But how exactly do you measure developer productivity? On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast Pascal Hartig ( @passy ) sits down with Sarita and Moritz , two engineers at Meta who have been working on Diff Authoring Time (DAT) – a method for measuring how long it takes to submit changes to a codebase.

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Databricks Migration Strategy - lessons learned

databricks

Migrating your data warehouse workloads is one of the most challenging yet essential tasks for any organization. Whether the motivation is the growth.

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5 Free Courses to Understand Machine Learning Algorithms

KDnuggets

To help you navigate this complex subject, we’ve compiled five free online courses that will give you a solid foundation in machine learning algorithms.

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DataMynd: Empowering Data Teams with Native Data Privacy Solutions

Snowflake

Welcome to Snowflake’s Startup Spotlight, where we ask startup founders about the problems they’re solving, the apps they’re building, and the lessons they’ve learned during their startup journey. In this edition, hear from DataMynd.ai Founder and CEO Chuck Frisbie about how synthetic data is the answer to balancing the need for data privacy with the need for data access, and some of the unexpected benefits of their Snowflake Native App.

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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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Cloudera and Snowflake Partner to Deliver the Most Comprehensive Open Data Lakehouse

Cloudera

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI. One of the most important innovations in data management is open table formats, specifically Apache Iceberg , which fundamentally transforms the way data teams manage operational metadata in the data lake.

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What’s New With Databricks Assistant?

databricks

Over the past few months, we’ve been gathering your feedback and focusing on both the quality of Databricks Assistant’s responses and the overall.

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Building Interactive Data Science Applications with Python

KDnuggets

Using Python to build engaging and interactive applications where users can pass in an input, get and feedback and make use of multimedia elements such as images, videos, and audio.

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Snowflake Ventures Invests in Eppo to Bring Experimentation to the AI Data Cloud

Snowflake

Experimentation tools like A/B tests, Geolift incrementality tests and AI model evaluations have become indispensable for product and marketing teams seeking to optimize their initiatives and drive better business outcomes. By systematically comparing two versions of a product feature, marketing asset or user experience, companies can make data-driven decisions that eliminate the guesswork and, ultimately, the risk of costly mistakes.

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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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Shift Left: Headless Data Architecture, Part 2

Confluent

Proceed further by establishing your own headless data architecture—formalizing a data access layer at the center of your org, accessible by both analytics and operations.

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Building a Cost-Optimized Chatbot with Semantic Caching

databricks

Chatbots are becoming valuable tools for businesses, helping to improve efficiency and support employees. By sifting through troves of company data and.

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Keras vs. JAX: A Comparison

KDnuggets

This comparison analyzes and compares two salient frameworks for architecting deep learning solutions.

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Your First 30 Days as a Precisely Ironstream User

Precisely

We’ve all experienced this firsthand – you need to catch IT security and operational issues before they escalate, and so you invest in one or many ITOps platforms. Yet, you still have challenges because frustratingly, IBM i or IBM Z systems do not natively connect into your investment – so you make another investment Precisely Ironstream. Using Precisely Ironstream and your ITOps platform, you’ve barely scratched the surface of what you can proactively and contextually model in your environment.

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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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ETL Pipelines in Python: Best Practices and Techniques

Towards Data Science

Strategies for Enhancing Generalizability, Scalability, and Maintainability in Your ETL Pipelines Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Turbocharging GPU Inference at Logically AI

databricks

Founded in 2017, Logically is a leader in using AI to augment clients’ intelligence capability. By processing and analyzing vast amounts of data.

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Discover the Top Ways to Scale Your AI for Data & Analytics Initiative

KDnuggets

A sneak peek of what’s to come at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, FL, on March 3-5, 2025.

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Resource Management with Apache YuniKorn™ for Apache Spark™ on AWS EKS at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Yongjun Zhang; Staff Software Engineer | William Tom; Staff Software Engineer | Sandeep Kumar; Software Engineer | Monarch, Pinterest’s Batch Processing Platform, was initially designed to support Pinterest’s ever-growing number of Apache Spark and MapReduce workloads at scale. During Monarch’s inception in 2016, the most dominant batch processing technology around to build the platform was Apache Hadoop YARN.

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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.