Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 30, 2023

Introduction In the bustling arena of database management systems, two heavyweight contenders emerge, each carrying its arsenal of features and capabilities. In one corner, we have the suave and sophisticated Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL), donned in the elegance of enterprise-level prowess. And in the other corner the scrappy and open-source MySQL, armed with its community-driven […] The post MSSQL vs MySQL: Comparing Powerhouses of Databases appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Back to school ( credits ) Hey, I'm back. I've taken an unplanned 3-week break since the last Data News, let's be honest, it was necessary! I spent a few hours working on the fancy data stack project and articles are in the works, but it was idealistic to produce quality code and content while enjoying the summer. Like wine, it takes time to get it right.

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Waitingforcode

AUGUST 29, 2023

If Delta Lake implemented the commits only, I could stop exploring this transactional part after the previous article. But as for RDBMS, Delta Lake implements other ACID-related concepts. One of these are isolation levels.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 27, 2023

Summary Data persistence is one of the most challenging aspects of computer systems. In the era of the cloud most developers rely on hosted services to manage their databases, but what if you are a cloud service? In this episode Vignesh Ravichandran explains how his team at Cloudflare provides PostgreSQL as a service to their developers for low latency and high uptime services at global scale.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Burtch Works 2023 Data Science & AI Professionals salary report is here, and includes insightful data such as hiring and marketplace trends, compensation changes over time, and salary data. Get your copy here.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the past few days, the scope and trajectory of Instacart’s use of Snowflake has been misrepresented by some on social media. Snowflake has partnered closely with Instacart to scale up to meet the company’s massive demand growth, and then to optimize for efficiency. Optimizations are undertaken on a workload-by-workload basis, and have been extremely successful.

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Robinhood

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Robinhood Markets. Inc. (Nasdaq:HOOD) today announced that it has successfully purchased all 55,273,469 shares Earlier this year, we shared that our Board of Directors authorized us to pursue purchasing most or all of the 55 million remaining Robinhood shares that Emergent Fidelity Technologies, Ltd. had bought in May 2022. The proposed share purchase underscored the confidence that the Board of Directors and management team have in our business and the success of this effort is another step in

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 30, 2023

7 Projects Built with Generative AI • Beyond Numpy and Pandas: Unlocking the Potential of Lesser-Known Python Libraries • 5 Ways You Can Use ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter For Data Science • GPT-4: 8 Models in One; The Secret is Out

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 29, 2023

Data Quality Chronicles Missing data, missing mechanisms, and missing data profiling Missing Data prevents data scientists to see the entire story the data has to tell. Sometimes, even the smallest pieces of information can provide a completely unique view of the world. Photo by Ronan Furuta on Unsplash. Earlier this year, I started a piece on several data quality issues (or characteristics) that heavily compromise our machine learning models.

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Datasets Machine Learning Data Data Science 101

ThoughtSpot

AUGUST 31, 2023

I’m calling it now. The next battleground for analytics adoption among business users will be the productivity suite. Let’s unpack that statement by considering these two examples: You finally get your data visualization just how you want it for your presentation. Now, you take a screenshot and copy-paste it into your slide deck. You pull your dashboard data into Google Sheets so you can perform ad-hoc analysis and collaborate with various stakeholders who don’t have dashboard access.

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Robinhood

AUGUST 30, 2023

Bitcoin and Dogecoin support is now available to all Robinhood Wallet users, and in-app Ethereum Swaps started rolling out today Since launching to the general public nearly six months ago, Robinhood Wallet has seen significant adoption globally, with hundreds of thousands of users in more than 140 countries worldwide. We are always gathering feedback, and have heard loud and clear that people want access to more coins on more chains.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 29, 2023

Join us at the MADS conference in Washington, D.C., from Sept. 26 to 28, 2023. Learn more here and register with code KDN100 for $100 of your conference pass.

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ArcGIS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Learn how to prepare branch versioned data for offline use using ArcGIS Pro, make edits in a disconnected environment, and synchronize.

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Workfall

AUGUST 29, 2023

Reading Time: 12 minutes Hey there, shopping savvy! Ever wished you could magically know when your favorite Amazon items go on sale? Guess what – we’ve cracked the code! Learn how to build your very own Amazon Price Tracker using Python. Imagine getting alerts right in your inbox when prices drop. Let’s dive in and make those savings dreams come true!

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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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Snowflake

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s digital age, the growth and success of an enterprise heavily rely on how it manages and leverages its data. There are multiple enterprise data platforms in the market, each offering its distinct capabilities. However, when it comes to enterprise-grade requirements certain key features are indispensable. In this blog post, we will delve into six such capabilities – comprehensive cross-cloud replication, zero copy database and schema clone, collation support, stored procedures, mu

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Learn how to leverage LlamaIndex and GPT-3.5-Turbo to easily add natural language capabilities to Pandas for intuitive data analysis and conversation.

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LinkedIn Engineering

AUGUST 30, 2023

One measure of a successful network is uptime - providing consistent, reliable service for members and customers. If there are frequent connection errors or downtime notifications, it becomes difficult to deliver an experience where people can connect and interact with ease. When faced with uptime challenges, being able to quickly escalate issues to network engineers helps ensure that people can work the way that they want to.

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Netflix Tech

AUGUST 29, 2023

by David Vroom, James Mulcahy, Ling Yuan, Rob Gulewich In this post we discuss Netflix’s adoption of service mesh: some history, motivations, and how we worked with Kinvolk and the Envoy community on a feature that streamlines service mesh adoption in complex microservice environments: on-demand cluster discovery. A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run o

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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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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2023

With the rapid advancement of neural network-based techniques and Large Language Model (LLM) research, businesses are increasingly interested in AI applications for value.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article describes a large-scale data warehousing use case to provide reference for data engineers who are looking for log analytic solutions. It introduces the log processing architecture and real-case practice in data ingestion, storage, and queries.

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Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 29, 2023

At Meta, Bento is our internal Jupyter notebooks platform that is leveraged by many internal users. Notebooks are also being used widely for creating reports and workflows (for example, performing data ETL ) that need to be repeated at certain intervals. Users with such notebooks would have to remember to manually run their notebooks at the required cadence – a process people might forget because it does not scale with the number of notebooks used.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 31, 2023

Apache Iceberg continues to grow in popularity as the industry standard for open table formats. Because of its leading ecosystem of diverse adopters, contributors and commercial offerings, Iceberg helps prevent storage lock-in and eliminates the need to move or copy tables between different systems, which often translates to lower compute and storage costs for your overall data stack.

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Confluent

AUGUST 31, 2023

Learn how Confluent’s cloud-native Apache Kafka engine stood out from other data management systems with its uniquely elastic, reliable, and cost-efficient design

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 31, 2023

Buckle up for the Generative AI gold rush! Will BigTech rule with its picks and shovels? Which startups will strike it rich? Will “copilot for X” be the business strategy to hit pay dirt? How can startups dig moats to keep out other prospectors? And will the US once again have the richest gold seams?

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IT 118

databricks

AUGUST 28, 2023

Talk to any data science organization and they will almost unanimously tell you that the biggest challenge to building high quality AI models.

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LinkedIn Engineering

AUGUST 31, 2023

LinkedIn Information Security is committed to help foster a community that is safe and secure for our members. The Application Security team is responsible for safeguarding LinkedIn member data through the implementation and management of various security features, focusing primarily on framework-level security. One of our core responsibilities at the web framework layer is to configure and manage security headers to enhance web application security, some of which include Content Security Policy

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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.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 31, 2023

Welcome to Snowflake’s Startup Spotlight, where we learn about startups building amazing things on Snowflake. In this edition, we’ll hear from Bobby Pinero, Co-Founder of Equals , about how his preference for doing analysis in spreadsheets fueled his drive to create a modern spreadsheet that can handle today’s data analysis needs. Tell us a little about yourself and what inspired you to build Equals.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 30, 2023

This post discusses the importance of media mix modeling and how it can be used to maximize the business impact of advertising. It also discusses the impact of seasonality on media advertising and how media mix modeling can be used to minimize the impact of seasonality on business outcomes.

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databricks

AUGUST 29, 2023

The explosive growth of ChatGPT has influenced every industry to reexamine their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. While healthcare & life sciences has been.

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Healthcare 89

Rockset

AUGUST 28, 2023

We founded Rockset to empower everyone from Fortune 500 to a five-person startup to build powerful search and AI applications and scale them efficiently in the cloud. Our team is on a mission to bring the power of search and AI to every digital disruptor in the world. Today, we are thrilled to announce a major milestone in our journey towards redefining search and analytics for the AI era.

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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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