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Practical First Steps In Data Governance For Long Term Success

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Modern businesses aspire to be data driven, and technologists enjoy working through the challenge of building data systems to support that goal. Data governance is the binding force between these two parts of the organization. Nicola Askham found her way into data governance by accident, and stayed because of the benefit that she was able to provide by serving as a bridge between the technology and business.

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5 Machine Learning Models Explained in 5 Minutes

KDnuggets

Learn about the most popular machine learning models, understand how they work, and discover the best free courses to master them.

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Databricks Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2 2024

databricks

We are excited to announce that Forrester has recognized Databricks as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Foundation Models for Language, Q2.

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Introducing Polaris Catalog: An Open Source Catalog for Apache Iceberg

Snowflake

Open source file and table formats have garnered much interest in the data industry because of their potential for interoperability — unlocking the ability for many technologies to safely operate over a single copy of data. Greater interoperability not only reduces the complexity and costs associated with using many tools and processing engines in parallel, but it would also reduce potential risks associated with vendor lock-in.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp

Robinhood

This acquisition will bring Bitstamp’s globally-scaled crypto exchange to Robinhood, with retail and institutional customers across the EU, UK, US and Asia. This strategic combination better positions Robinhood to expand outside of the US and will bring a trusted and reputable institutional business to Robinhood. Expected to close in the first half of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.

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Beginner’s Guide to Building LLM Apps with Python

KDnuggets

In this article, you will be impacted by the knowledge you need to start building LLM apps with Python programming language.

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Infoshare 2024: Stream processing fallacies, part 2

Waitingforcode

The blog shares the last fallacies for my 7 years stream processing journey.

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Is Python OOP the Devil? Or Savior?

Confessions of a Data Guy

Nothing will raise the hackles on the backs of hairy and pale programmers who’ve been stuck in their mom’s basement for a decade like bringing up OOP (Object Oriented Programming), especially in the context of Python. It’s like two fattened calves prepared for slaughter, sharpen your knives, and take your place, it’s time to feast […] The post Is Python OOP the Devil?

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The Ultimate Guide to Approach LLMs

KDnuggets

An evergreen approach to learning any new technology breakthroughs

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The Next Generation of Databricks Notebooks: Simple and Powerful

databricks

Over the last year, we’ve been listening to feedback and iterating on new ideas with a single goal: to build the best data-focused.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Introducing Snowpark pandas API: Run Distributed pandas at Scale in Snowflake

Snowflake

Python’s popularity has grown significantly, quickly becoming the preferred language for development across machine learning, application development, pipelines and more. At Snowflake we are deeply committed to delivering a best-in-class platform for Python developers. In line with this commitment, we’re thrilled to announce the public preview support of Snowpark pandas API, enabling seamless execution of distributed pandas at scale in Snowflake.

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AI-Enhanced User Experiences in ArcGIS Pro 3.3

ArcGIS

Learn about the new AI-enhanced user experiences for geoprocessing in ArcGIS Pro 3.3, including semantic search and tool suggestions.

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Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning with Python

KDnuggets

Master the Fundamentals of Predictive Modeling with Python: An In-Depth Guide to Machine Learning Algorithms and Sci-kit Learn Implementation.

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Introducing the Open Variant Data Type in Delta Lake and Apache Spark

databricks

We are excited to announce a new data type called variant for semi-structured data. Variant provides an order of magnitude performance improvements compared.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Recognizing Customer-Focused Innovation at Partner Summit 2024: Announcing the Global Snowflake Partners of the Year

Snowflake

Each year, we are humbled and honored to look back on the contributions from the Snowflake Partner Network (SPN) and recognize their hard work with the Snowflake Partner Awards. Our partners help drive customer success and build an ever-expanding open ecosystem of solutions built on the AI Data Cloud. In the midst of this year’s AI Data Cloud Summit , we announced the 2024 Snowflake Partner Awards, recognizing 36 partners that are winning together with Snowflake and honoring them for their conti

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Generative AI vs. Predictive AI: Understanding the Differences

Edureka

Is AI taking over the world? Umm, not yet, at least. However, according to a recently published report , almost 35% of global companies report using AI to optimize their business. In this article, we will take a closer look at two of the most talked about and widely used AI technologies of 2024 – generative AI and predictive AI. Table of Contents Generative AI vs Predictive AI – Comparison Table Generative AI 101: A Revolutionary Cocktail of Technology and Art How Does Generative AI

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Monitor Your File System With Python’s Watchdog

KDnuggets

Track your file system for changes, such as additions, deletions, movements, or modifications, using Python's WatchDog.

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How PepsiCo established an enterprise-grade data intelligence platform powered by Databricks Unity Catalog

databricks

This blog is authored by Bhaskar Palit , Senior Director, Data & Analytics, PepsiCo, and Sudipta Das , Data Architect Senior Manager, PepsiCo.

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The Ultimate Guide to Apache Airflow DAGS

With Airflow being the open-source standard for workflow orchestration, knowing how to write Airflow DAGs has become an essential skill for every data engineer. This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of DAG writing features with plenty of example code. You’ll learn how to: Understand the building blocks DAGs, combine them in complex pipelines, and schedule your DAG to run exactly when you want it to Write DAGs that adapt to your data at runtime and set up alerts and notifications Scale you

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Simplified End-to-End Development for Production-Ready Data Pipelines, Applications, and ML Models

Snowflake

In today’s world, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum; collaboration can help technological breakthroughs happen faster. The rise of AI, for example, will depend on the collaboration between data and development. We’re increasingly seeing software engineering workloads that are deeply intertwined with a strong data foundation. Whether you’re part of a global data team or a solo developer, Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud is a single platform that helps you run development tasks (building apps, pipeli

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Park Equity using GIS, a focus on Trees and Shade

ArcGIS

This is a real-world example of park equity in practice using GIS from a former supervisor in a special parks district

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10 Essential DevOps Tools Every Beginner Should Learn

KDnuggets

Popular tools for versioning, CI/CD, testing, automation, containerization, workflow orchestration, cloud, IT management, and monitoring.

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Databricks Marketplace Welcomes 42 New Data Providers in Q1 2024

databricks

In June 2023, we launched Databricks Marketplace as an open marketplace for all your data, analytics, and AI needs, powered by the open.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: 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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Snowflake Announces State-of-the-Art AI to Talk to your Data, Securely Customize LLMs and Streamline Model Operations

Snowflake

Generative AI presents enterprises with the opportunity to extract insights at scale from unstructured data sources, like documents, customer reviews and images. It also presents an opportunity to reimagine every customer and employee interaction with data to be done via conversational applications. These opportunities also come with challenges for data and AI teams, who must prioritize data security and privacy while rapidly deploying new use cases across the organization.

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Databricks Follows Cloudera by Adopting Iceberg, While Snowflake Mulls Open Source Approach

Cloudera

A constant flow of breaking news from the data lakehouse space is making notable tech headlines this week. On Tuesday, Databricks announced that it will acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reidfor. The deal was for an unconfirmed sum, but some reports suggest that amount to be between $1B and $2B (and allegedly outbidding Snowflake).

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How To Create Custom Context Managers in Python

KDnuggets

Context managers in Python help you manage resources efficiently. Learn how to write your own custom context managers.

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BigQuery adds first-party support for Delta Lake

databricks

BigQuery, now with first-party support for Delta Lake, grows Delta Lake’s vibrant connector ecosystem and simplifies its integration with Databricks.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Snowflake Horizon Advances Industry-Leading Governance with Simplified Internal Marketplaces and AI Innovations

Snowflake

With the rapid adoption of generative AI (gen AI) and large language models (LLMs), organizations are racing to unlock as much business value as possible from their content across data, apps and models. This requires supercharging more employees with the ability to immediately find and collaborate on relevant content to derive insights faster. At the same time, organizations must ensure the right people have access to the right content, while also protecting sensitive and/or Personally Identifia

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Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber

Uber Engineering

Dive into how we tackled flakiness among thousands of tests in our CI pipelines with a modularized and configurable approach across our diverse codebase, strengthening reliability of testing infrastructure, improving efficiency in identifying and resolving issues.

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5 Tips for Writing Better Python Functions

KDnuggets

This tutorial covers five simple yet effective practices for writing better and maintainable Python functions.

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Azure Databricks at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024 featuring Industry Leaders and Pioneers

databricks

This is a collaborative post from Databricks and Microsoft. We thank Mohini Verma , Senior Product Marketing Manager, for her contributions. Data +.

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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.