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Free MIT Courses on Calculus: The Key to Understanding Deep Learning

KDnuggets

Calculus is the key to fully understanding how neural networks function. Go beyond a surface understanding of this mathematics discipline with these free course materials from MIT.

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Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix

Netflix Tech

By: Ankush Gulati , David Gevorkyan Additional credits: Michael Clark , Gokhan Ozer Intro Netflix has more than 220 million active members who perform a variety of actions throughout each session, ranging from renaming a profile to watching a title. Reacting to these actions in near real-time to keep the experience consistent across devices is critical for ensuring an optimal member experience.

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Build Your Own End To End Customer Data Platform With Rudderstack

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Collecting, integrating, and activating data are all challenging activities. When that data pertains to your customers it can become even more complex. To simplify the work of managing the full flow of your customer data and keep you in full control the team at Rudderstack created their eponymous open source platform that allows you to work with first and third party data, as well as build and manage reverse ETL workflows.

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Bringing Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) with Confluent Cloud

Confluent

As data flows in and out of your Confluent Cloud clusters, it’s imperative to monitor their behavior. Bring Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) means you can configure an application performance monitoring […].

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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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An Easy Guide to Choose the Right Machine Learning Algorithm

KDnuggets

There's no free lunch in machine learning. So, determining which algorithm to use depends on many factors from the type of problem at hand to the type of output you are looking for. This guide offers several considerations to review when exploring the right ML approach for your dataset.

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Upgrade Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base

Cloudera

CDP Private Cloud Base is an on-premises version of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). This new product combines the best of Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and Hortonworks Data Platform Enterprise along with new features and enhancements across the stack. This unified distribution is a scalable and customizable platform where you can securely run many types of workloads.

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Become A Better Data Engineer On A Shoestring (More Free Resources)

Pipeline Data Engineering

A bit more than a year ago I’ve compiled an annotated list of the best free courses and learning resources that could help anyone to become a data engineer on a shoestring. We’ve received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback on it, so after a full year of running the bootcamp I sat down again and collected an other bunch of resources we’ve bumped into during the cohorts.

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Random Forest® vs Decision Tree: Key Differences

KDnuggets

Check out this reasoned comparison of 2 critical machine learning algorithms to help you better make an informed decision.

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Leadership in 2022: Focus on Empathy

Cloudera

The pandemic has accelerated diversity of teams, remote working, and the way we work, but most of all, it has emphasised the necessity of soft skills in our leaders. Empathy stands out as a core skill that must be alive and nurtured within our teams if we are to achieve our desired outcomes in 2022 and beyond. This blog explores what empathy looks like in a business context, why it’s so important, and what we’re up to at Cloudera.

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15 ETL Project Ideas for Practice in 2023

ProjectPro

The big data analytics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.2 percent, reaching USD 549.73 billion in 2028. This indicates that more businesses will adopt the tools and methodologies useful in big data analytics, including implementing the ETL pipeline. Data engineers are in charge of developing data models, constructing data pipelines, and monitoring ETL (extract, transform, load).

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

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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What Did You Build at Pipeline Academy? This.

Pipeline Data Engineering

Data engineers have to wear many different hats at the same time: they are architects, designers, builders, maintainers, procurement and quality assurance — to just name a few. If you’d like to break into this profession, you need to prove that you can do all of the above, and more. One of the key assets you can use to do that is a data product that you’ve built with your own hands.

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How to Become a Successful Data Science Freelancer in 2022

KDnuggets

In this article, I will walk you through how you can use your data science skills to land freelance gigs.

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Of Muffins and Machine Learning Models

Cloudera

While it is a little dated, one amusing example that has been the source of countless internet memes is the famous, “is this a chihuahua or a muffin?” classification problem. Figure 01: Is this a chihuahua or a muffin? In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin. The eyes and nose of a chihuahua, combined with the shape of its head and colour of its fur do look surprising like a muffin if we squint at the images in figure 01 above.

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IBM Loves DataOps

DataKitchen

DataOps is a discipline focused on the delivery of data faster, better, and cheaper to derive business value quickly. It closely follows the best practices of DevOps although the implementation of DataOps to data is nothing like DevOps to code. This paper will focus on providing a prescriptive approach in implementing a data pipeline using a DataOps discipline for data practitioners.

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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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Feature Selection Methods in Machine Learning

ProjectPro

Feature selection techniques are fundamental to predictive modeling tasks; one can not create predictive models without selecting the features correctly. What are these feature selection methods, and how are they used in building efficient predictive models? You will find out all the answers in this article. If you have ever baked a cake in your life or perhaps witnessed someone following a recipe to bake it, you must have noticed how crucial it is to precisely measure each ingredient's quantity

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How You Can Use Machine Learning to Automatically Label Data

KDnuggets

AI and machine learning can provide us with these tools. This guide will explore how we can use machine learning to label data.

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Data Engineering Zoomcamp – Data Ingestion (Week 2)

Hepta Analytics

DE Zoomcamp 2.2.1 – Introduction to Workflow Orchestration Following last weeks blog , we move to data ingestion. We already had a script that downloaded a csv file, processed the data and pushed the data to postgres database. This was used to test our setup. This week, we got to think about our data ingestion design. We looked at the following: How do we ingest – ETL vs ELT Where do we store the data – Data lake vs data warehouse Which tool to we use to ingest – cronjob

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Introduction to YugabyteDB and Apache Superset

Preset

Apache Superset is the most popular open-source data exploration and visualization platform in the world. YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database that works seamlessly using the standards PostgreSQL connector.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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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Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks Architecture

ProjectPro

Early in 2020, when Myntra launched its visual product search for the first time, it created waves in e-commerce. With this new feature, the customers no longer had to spend hours searching for a dress similar to the one they came across randomly in an advertisement. All they had to do was take a picture/screenshot and upload it on Myntra; the app would automatically fetch outfits similar to the picture.

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Top Posts Feb 7-13: Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained

KDnuggets

Also: How to Learn Math for Machine Learning; 7 Steps to Mastering Machine Learning with Python in 2022; Top Programming Languages and Their Uses; The Complete Collection of Data Science Cheat Sheets – Part 1.

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DataOps For Beginners

DataKitchen

In this webinar, take a trip to DataOps 101 and learn the basics! The post DataOps For Beginners first appeared on DataKitchen.

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GraphQL persisted queries and Schema stability

Zalando Engineering

Persisted Queries Persisted Queries in GraphQL are like stored procedures in Databases. To know about the Apollo's way of automated persisted queries, please follow their documentation here. In Zalando, we took a different approach - to disable GraphQL in production. It might sound counterintuitive at first - we have a GraphQL service, but we disable GraphQL in production - why?

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

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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How to Train Tesseract OCR in Python?

ProjectPro

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been used for decades across multiple sectors in the industry, such as banking, retail, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing. With a tremendous increase in digitization in this 21st century, a.k.a Information age, OCR Python applications are witnessing huge demand. In fact, according to a recent survey, the market share of OCR will increase by 16.7% (compound annual growth rate) from 2021 to 2028 from 7.46 billion USD in 2020.

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Octoparse 8.5: Empowering Local Scraping and More

KDnuggets

Octoparse 8.5 is now released with game-changing new features and major improvements.

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Make the leap to Hybrid with Cloudera Data Engineering

Cloudera

Note: This is part 2 of the Make the Leap New Year’s Resolution series. For part 1 please go here. When we introduced Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) in the Public Cloud in 2020 it was a culmination of many years of working alongside companies as they deployed Apache Spark based ETL workloads at scale. We not only enabled Spark-on-Kubernetes but we built an ecosystem of tooling dedicated to the data engineers and practitioners from first-class job management API & CLI for dev-ops automatio

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Top 5 Reasons for Moving From Batch To Real-Time Analytics

Rockset

Fast analytics on fresh data is better than slow analytics on stale data. Fresh beats stale every time. Fast beats slow in every space. Time and time again, companies in a wide variety of industries have boosted revenue, increased productivity and cut costs by making the leap from batch analytics to real-time analytics. One of the perks of my job is getting to work every day with trailblazers of the real-time revolution, whether it is Doug Moore at construction SaaS provider Command Alkon , Carl

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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From Oracle to Databases for AI: The Evolution of Data Storage

KDnuggets

From Oracle, to NoSQL databases, and beyond, read about data management solutions from the early days of the RBDMS to those supporting AI applications.

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KDnuggets™ News 22:n07, Feb 16: How to Learn Math for Machine Learning; Data Mesh & Its Distributed Data Architecture

KDnuggets

How to Learn Math for Machine Learning; Data Mesh & Its Distributed Data Architecture; 5 Ways to Apply AI to Small Data Sets; Top 5 Free Machine Learning Courses; Junior Data Scientist: The Next Level.

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Building a Visual Search Engine – Part 2: The Search Engine

KDnuggets

Ever wonder how Google or Bing finds similar images to your image? The algorithms for generating text based 10 blue-links are very different from finding visually similar or related images. In this article, we will explain one such method to build a visual search engine. We will use the Caltech 101 dataset which contains images of common objects used in daily life.

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A new book that will revolutionize the way your organization approaches data!

KDnuggets

Data Mesh in Action by Jacek Majchrzak, Sven Balnojan, and Marian Siwiak reveals how this new groundbreaking decentralized architecture looks for both small startups and large enterprises.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.