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Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives

The Pragmatic Engineer

There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options.

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Recursive Feature Elimination: Working, Advantages & Examples

Analytics Vidhya

How can we sift through many variables to identify the most influential factors for accurate predictions in machine learning? Recursive Feature Elimination offers a compelling solution, and RFE iteratively removes less important features, creating a subset that maximizes predictive accuracy. By leveraging a machine learning algorithm and an importance-ranking metric, RFE evaluates each feature’s impact […] The post Recursive Feature Elimination: Working, Advantages & Examples ap

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Breaking Down AutoGPT

KDnuggets

AutoGPT has taken the world by storm and has even surpassed ChatGPT itself. So, get ready to dive into the exciting world of Auto-GPT.

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What Happens When The Abstractions Leak On Your Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary All of the advancements in our technology is based around the principles of abstraction. These are valuable until they break down, which is an inevitable occurrence. In this episode the host Tobias Macey shares his reflections on recent experiences where the abstractions leaked and some observances on how to deal with that situation in a data platform architecture.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka

Confluent

Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.Kora.

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Announcing the General Availability of Databricks SQL Serverless !

databricks

Today, we are thrilled to announce that serverless compute for Databricks SQL is Generally Available on AWS and Azure! Databricks SQL (DB SQL).

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Announcing Nickel 1.0

Tweag

Today, I am very excited to announce the 1.0 release of Nickel. A bit more than one year ago, we released the very first public version Nickel (0.1). Throughout various write-ups and public talks ( 1 , 2 , 3 ), we’ve been telling the story of our dissatisfaction with the state of configuration management. The need for a New Deal Configuration is everywhere.

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Data News — 2 years anniversary

Christophe Blefari

TWO YEARS — HAPPY BIRTHDAY 👋 Here is a special edition for me. Exactly 2 years ago, I sent out my first email newsletter. At the time, only 3 people received it. I already told the story in Robin's podcast , here is a written version. In 2021, I was doing Twitch lives twice a week, every Wednesday I was doing a data news round-up.

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What's new in Apache Spark 3.4.0 - Async progress tracking for Structured Streaming

Waitingforcode

Finally, the time has come to start the analysis of the new features in Apache Spark. The first of them that grabbed my attention was the Async progress tracking from Structured Streaming.

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Pandas AI: The Generative AI Python Library

KDnuggets

The road to simpler Data Analysis for data scientists and analysts, powered by OpenAI.

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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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Mapping Greenland Ice Sheet changes using CryoSat-2 altimetry data

ArcGIS

Learn how to produce a monthly elevation dataset for the Greenland Ice Sheet using Trajectory Dataset

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Data Council 2023

Christophe Blefari

( credits ) Data Council Austin is a yearly conference that features a great panel of speakers giving talks about the future of the data field. As I often do I've overlooked the 70 presentations and here a medley of what I've liked. Data Council 2023 YouTube playlist My personal selection If you had only 3 videos to watch it should be the 3 following: Malloy an experimental language — This is my favourite talk.

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Latency goes subsecond in Apache Spark Structured Streaming

databricks

Apache Spark Structured Streaming is the leading open source stream processing platform. It is also the core technology that powers streaming on the.

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Bayesian vs Frequentist Statistics in Data Science

KDnuggets

Is your statistical alignment Bayesian or a Frequentist?

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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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An Engineering Guide to Data Quality - A Data Contract Perspective - Part 2

Data Engineering Weekly

In the first part of this series, we talked about design patterns for data creation and the pros & cons of each system from the data contract perspective. In the second part, we will focus on architectural patterns to implement data quality from a data contract perspective. Why is Data Quality Expensive? I posted this LinkedIn post that sparked some exciting conversation.

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Data Entropy?—?More Data, More Problems?

Towards Data Science

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? How to navigate and embrace complexity in a modern data organisation. Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G Webster’s dictionary defines Entropy in thermodynamics as a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder.

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Databricks on GCP - A practitioners guide on data exfiltration protection.

databricks

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform provides a unified set of tools for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data solutions at scale. Databricks integrates.

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Super Bard: The AI That Can Do It All and Better

KDnuggets

A new AI Bard powered by PaLM V2 that can write, translate, and code better than ChatGPT.

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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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ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types

Netflix Tech

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. Netflix required attribute support in SpiceDB to support core Netflix application identity constructs.

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It’s Not Personal, It’s Mobile: A brief history of the geodatabase and why personal geodatabases are not in ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS

Part 1 - explains why personal geodatabases are not supported within ArcGIS Pro and begins the quest to migrate data to a mobile geodatabase.

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New debugging features for Databricks Notebooks with Variable Explorer

databricks

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Variable Explorer for Python in the Databricks Notebook. The Variable Explorer allows.

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How to Efficiently Scale Data Science Projects with Cloud Computing

KDnuggets

This article discusses the key components that contribute to the successful scaling of data science projects. It covers how to collect data using APIs, how to store data in the cloud, how to clean and process data, how to visualize data, and how to harness the power of data visualization through interactive dashboards.

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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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Data Engineering: Why It's About Much More Than Just the Tools You Use

Towards Data Science

Rethink Data Engineering Than Just Focusing On Tools Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Bridging Data: Create and use OLE DB connections in ArcGIS Pro.

ArcGIS

This second blog in a series explains how ArcGIS Pro can be used to create an OLE DB connection to a.mdb,accdb, and a MySQL database.

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Accelerating Grid-Edge Analytics using COMTRADE Files with Apache Spark

databricks

This solution accelerator and blog were created in collaboration with Schneider Electric. We'd like to thank Dan Sabin, a Schneider Electric Distinguished Technical.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Get Certified

KDnuggets

In today's highly competitive job market, practitioners need every advantage they can get to stand out from the crowd and accelerate in their roles as a high-performing employee. With that in mind, here are 5 reasons why you should earn a SAS certification, and stand out to employers.

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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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How To List All BigQuery Datasets and Tables with Python

Towards Data Science

Programmatically list all datasets and tables using BigQuery API and Python Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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5 Best Open Source Data Replication Tools for 2023

Hevo

As the volume of data that businesses collect today increases, the need for tools that can help manage this data also increases. One of the most significant requirements of businesses for managing data is a tool that can seamlessly replicate the high volume of data that has been collected.

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How Habu Integrates With Databricks to Protect Sensitive Data

databricks

We recently announced our partnership with Databricks to bring multi-cloud data clean room collaboration capabilities to every Lakehouse. Our integration with Databricks combines.

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IT Staff Augmentation: How AI Is Changing the Software Development Industry

KDnuggets

It discusses how AI assistants are helping teams become more efficient and how they can also be a benefit to developers.

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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