Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A Glossary with Use Cases for First-Timers in Data Engineering An happy Data Engineer at work Are you a data engineering rookie interested in knowing more about modern data infrastructures? I bet you are, this article is for you! In this guide Data Engineering meets Formula 1. But, we’ll keep it simple. Introduction I strongly believe that the best way to describe a concept is via examples, even though some of my university professors used to say, “ If you need an example to explain it, it means

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The Pragmatic Engineer

DECEMBER 2, 2023

For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been? Three featured speakers listed at DevTernity 2021, 2022 and 2023, and JDKon 2024. These people do not exist. A year ago, I spent months doing an investigative report on how UK events tech company Pollen had its staff work for free, as it had run out of money but still kept operating.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Master Data Science with Top 10 Kaggle ML Projects to become a Data Scientist.

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Engineering at Meta

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients. The Labyrinth encrypted storage protocol whitepaper explains our protocol for end-to-end encrypting stored messaging history between devices on a user’s account.

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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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databricks

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) has quickly emerged as a powerful way to incorporate proprietary, real-time data into Large Language Model (LLM) applications. Today we are.

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ArcGIS

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It's that time of year to warm ourselves beside the electric hum of a plastic filament printer and fall into the joy of making.

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Waitingforcode

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The "vertical scaling" has caught my attention a few times already when I have been reading about cloud updates. I've always considered horizontal scaling as the single true scaling policy for elastic data processing pipelines. Have I been wrong?

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databricks

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an efficient mechanism to provide relevant data as context in Gen AI applications. Most RAG applications typically use.

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ArcGIS

DECEMBER 4, 2023

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 includes a number of enhancements to the Spatial Join, Add Spatial Join, Add Join, and Join Field tools.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Have you finished learning the basics of machine learning and now wondering what's next? You're in the right place!

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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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Data Engineering Podcast

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Summary The first step of data pipelines is to move the data to a place where you can process and prepare it for its eventual purpose. Data transfer systems are a critical component of data enablement, and building them to support large volumes of information is a complex endeavor. Andrei Tserakhau has dedicated his careeer to this problem, and in this episode he shares the lessons that he has learned and the work he is doing on his most recent data transfer system at DoubleCloud.

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databricks

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Following the announcement we made yesterday around Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Databricks Vector Search. W.

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Robinhood

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Robinhood is the only US retail brokerage to offer 24/5 trading of single name stocks At Robinhood, we know the world never stops – and believe investing shouldn’t be any different. Since launching in May, we’ve seen customers utilize the unprecedented flexibility and access to the markets with the Robinhood 24 Hour Market. And we’re just getting started – we’re proud to announce that we’ve expanded the total number of symbols available from 95 to 226.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This article highlights the skills data scientists can learn to make the most use of the prowess of ChatGPT.

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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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Snowflake

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We had a jam-packed week alongside more than 60,000 attendees at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent, one of the largest hands-on conferences in the cloud computing industry. Engaging with partners and customers — and showcasing what’s new on the Snowflake product front — made for a dynamic time in Las Vegas. Here are highlights from the collaborations, integrations and product enhancements that we were proud to dig in to throughout the week.

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databricks

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’re excited to announce the launch of Azure Qatar. With the expanded availability of Azure Databricks, it is now easier than ever for o.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Better career line, better job, better income are obviously main goals for clearing a certificate, but this is not everything about standards and certification in this field. Many of my project management students are even not employees, instead, they have their own business. So, what is the total picture about this? In addition to what I mentioned from the beginning of this article, it the matter of mastering with this science and coping with the latest research, so that you effectively communi

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Matching your needs with your ideal visualization framework.

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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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Snowflake

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Apache Iceberg’s ecosystem of diverse adopters, contributors and commercial support continues to grow, establishing itself as the industry standard table format for an open data lakehouse architecture. Snowflake’s support for Iceberg Tables is now in public preview, helping customers build and integrate Snowflake into their lake architecture. In this blog post, we’ll dive deeper into the considerations for selecting an Iceberg Table catalog and how catalog conversion works Choosing an Iceberg Ta

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databricks

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Recent data show that the number of recall campaigns caused by product deficiencies keeps increasing, while each known recorded case is a multi-million.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What is Project Integration Management? As per Project Management Institute (PMI ® ), Project Integration Management is the first project management knowledge area, which mainly pertains to the procedures required to guarantee that the different tasks of the project are coordinated appropriately. While developing a project, the entire sub-processes are integrated to form a whole project, and that constitutes the concept called ‘project handling’.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 8, 2023

OpenAI revolutionizes personal AI customization with its no-code approach to creating custom ChatGPTs.

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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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Snowflake

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Welcome to Snowflake’s Startup Spotlight, where we learn about awesome companies building businesses on Snowflake. In this edition, learn how Srini Gorty, Founder and CEO of Leap Metrics, turned his first-hand experience with healthcare data difficulties into a passion for making healthcare data an active, vital piece of every patient and provider interaction.

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databricks

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This was written in collaboration with Andrew Mullins, Director of Data Science at Kin + Carta. With the rise of new technologies from.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Like many professionals, I earned the Program Management Professional (PgMP) credential to become proficient in coordinating multiple projects to achieve a common goal. Earning this credential requires experience, specific skills, a structured approach, and an understanding of best business practices. In this article, I will share my firsthand experience with the comprehensive PgMP Study Guide, moving beyond just the theoretical aspects.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This blog post explores NotebookLM, its functionality, limitations, and advanced features essential for researchers and scientists.

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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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Scott Logic

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this instalment of the Conscientious Computing series , I wanted to investigate the methods available to measure the energy consumption of your code programmatically. As a Software Developer moving into the realm of sustainability, the number of assumptions made when it comes to estimating carbon impacts was surprising to me. My first thought was how do we automate this process and how can you get closer to a measured energy figure without needing additional hardware.

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DoorDash Engineering

DECEMBER 5, 2023

DoorDash’s Engineering teams revamped Kafka Topic creation by replacing a Terraform/Atlantis based approach with an in-house API, Infra Service. This has reduced real-time pipeline onboarding time by 95% and saved countless developer hours. DoorDash’s Real-Time Streaming Platform, or RTSP, team is under the Data Platform organization and manages over 2,500 Kafka Topics across five clusters.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Things change. While changes are inevitable, they cause problems for software developers and project managers who are used to getting things done sequentially. Being agile solves many of the problems that changes create. The Project Management Problem Whether you’re managing a software development project, a website development and design project, a marketing project, or any other kind of project, you can’t avoid changes.

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KDnuggets

DECEMBER 7, 2023

DataGPT is a conversational AI data analytics software provider that delivers analysis at the speed of business questions. DataGPT empowers anyone, in any company, to talk directly to their data using everyday language, revealing expert answers to complex questions instantly.

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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.

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