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DAIS 2024: Unit tests - configuration and declaration

Waitingforcode

Code organization and assertions flow are both important but even them, they can't guarantee your colleagues' adherence to the unit tests. There are other user-facing attributes to consider as well.

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What is a “Good” Data or Software Engineer?

Confessions of a Data Guy

Recently, for some unknown reason, I was pursuing the new Stackoverflow … called Reddit, for Data Engineering … and I ran across an interesting question … more or less it was related to “what makes a good Software Engineer … in a Data Engineering context.” This isn’t the first time this idea has come up […] The post What is a “Good” Data or Software Engineer?

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Mapping the most popular National Park Service lands

ArcGIS

With a new GIS mapping tool you can map the most visited national parks (and much more!) to explore your spatial data even further.

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Onboarding your new AI/BI Genie

databricks

Deploying an AI/BI Genie is like hiring a new data analyst. This blog covers the basics you need to successfully onboard your Genie and maximize the benefits.

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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.

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10 Free Resources to Learn LLMs

KDnuggets

Learn large language models with these free resources from Deeplearning.AI, Microsoft, AWS, and more.

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How PyTorch powers AI training and inference

Engineering at Meta

Learn about new PyTorch advancements for LLMs and how PyTorch is enhancing every aspect of the LLM lifecycle. In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024 , software engineers Wanchao Liang and Evan Smothers are joined by Meta research scientist Kimish Patel to discuss our newest features and tools that enable large-scale training, memory efficient fine-tuning, and on-device LLM capabilities.

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Unlock Real-Time Cross-Platform Collaboration with Delta Sharing Tableau Connector

databricks

Special thanks to Kevin Glover, Martin Ko, Kuber Sharma and the team at Tableau for their valuable insights and contributions to this blog.

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Pip Install YOU: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Your Python Library

KDnuggets

Have you ever wanted to create your library in Python? Well, it’s achievable and surprisingly quite easy!

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Full Stack Developer Skills, Salary and Jobs

Edureka

In the 21st century, Full Stack Web Development has undoubtedly transformed the internet. Notably, it is the driving force behind all the sites we see today, as well as mobile applications installed on our devices. Therefore, To succeed in web development, it’s important for anyone hoping to make a career out of it to understand and excel in the full stack developer skills required according to the current market trend.

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Aparna Ramani discusses the future of AI infrastructure

Engineering at Meta

Delivering new AI technologies at scale also means rethinking every layer of our infrastructure – from silicon and software systems and even our data center designs. For the second year in a row, Meta’s engineering and infrastructure teams returned for the AI Infra @ Scale conference, where they discussed the challenges of scaling up an infrastructure for AI as well as work being done on our large-scale GPU clusters , open hardware designs for next-generation data center hardware, and how Meta i

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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What's new in Workflows?

databricks

Databricks Workflows is the cornerstone of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, serving as the orchestration engine that powers critical data and AI workloads.

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How to Conduct Time Series Analysis in R

KDnuggets

This article explains the basics of time series analysis. Learn to prepare your data and visualize trends in R.

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Use the Huff model to affirm site selection in Business Analyst Pro

ArcGIS

Did you catch the Huff model demo at UC 2024? Read this article for step-by-step instructions on the Business Analyst workflow.

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Raise Your Tests: Testing Functional Kotlin with Arrow and Raise

Rock the JVM

By Riccardo Cardin At Rock the JVM, we deeply understand the power of the Kotlin Arrow library and the Raise DSL, and we’ve previously shared our insights in our article on Functional Error Handling in Kotlin, Part 3: The Raise DSL. Now, we’re ready to introduce the crucial topic of testing applications that use the Raise DSL. To fully grasp the concepts we’ll be discussing, it’s essential to have a solid understanding of Kotlin, Arrow library, and the Raise DSL.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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AI Challenges and How Cloudera Can Help

Cloudera

By now, every organization, regardless of industry, has at least explored the use of AI, if not already embraced it. In today’s market, the AI imperative is firmly here, and failing to act quickly could mean getting left behind. But even as adoption soars, struggles remain, and scalability continues to be a major issue. Organizations are quick to adopt AI, but getting it established across the organization brings a unique set of challenges that come into play.

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5 Tips for Effective Data Visualization

KDnuggets

Looking to make your data visuals stand out? Check out these five tips for effective data visualization.

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Bringing Llama 3 to life

Engineering at Meta

Llama 3 is Meta’s most capable openly-available LLM to date and the recently-released Llama 3.1 will enable new workflows, such as synthetic data generation and model distillation with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models. At AI Infra @ Scale 2024 , Meta engineers discussed every step of how we built and brought Llama 3 to life, from data and training to inference.

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Databricks Marketplace Welcomes 47 New Data Providers in Q2 2024

databricks

Special thanks to David Gray @Epsilon, Tanishq Bhalla @HealthVerity, Itai Weiss @ Nimble, JB Kole @ Mostly.ai for their valuable insights and contributions.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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Cloudera’s Bangalore Center of Excellence – Local Innovation Driving Global Impact

Cloudera

In the heart of India’s tech hub, Bangalore, you’ll find our Center of Excellence (CoE), an innovation hub focused on technological advancement. Established in 2014, this center has become a cornerstone of Cloudera’s global strategy, playing a pivotal role in driving the company’s three growth pillars: accelerating enterprise AI, delivering a truly hybrid platform, and enabling modern data architectures.

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Top 5 Free Machine Learning Courses to Level Up Your Skills

KDnuggets

The article highlights five top free machine learning courses to enhance your skills.

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Inside the hardware and co-design of MTIA

Engineering at Meta

In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024 , Joel Colburn, a software engineer at Meta, technical lead Junqiang Lan, and software engineer Jack Montgomery discuss the second generation of MTIA , Meta’s in-house training and inference accelerator. They cover the co-design process behind building the second generation of Meta’s first-ever custom silicon for AI workloads, including the PyTorch software ecosystem, and the model architectures for Meta’s key applications.

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Unraveling the Threads: Data Fabric vs Data Mesh for Modern Enterprises

Precisely

Key Takeaways Data fabric and data mesh are modern data management architectures that allow organizations to more easily understand, create, and manage data for more timely, accurate, consistent, and contextual data analytics and operations. Both architectures tackle significant data management challenges such as integrating disparate data sources, improving data accessibility, automating management processes, and ensuring data governance and security.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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North Arrow Necessity

ArcGIS

Does your map need a north arrow? It depends.

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Building a Recommendation System with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

Learn how to build the recommendation system with advanced technology.

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Cloudera Open Data Lakehouse Named a Finalist in the CRN Tech Innovator Awards

Cloudera

The CRN Tech Innovator Awards spotlight innovative products and services across 36 categories, with winners chosen by CRN staff from over 320 product applications. This year, we’re excited to share that Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse 7.1.9 release was named a finalist under the category of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. These awards, held annually, are intended to help solution providers identify IT products and services that are truly innovative and deliver customer value.

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Spring Into Confluent Cloud With Kotlin—Part 1: Producers and Consumers

Confluent

Get a full tutorial for interacting with Kafka on Confluent Cloud using the Spring Boot framework w/Kotlin. Includes Terraform and Stream Governance.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Data Engineering Weekly #185

Data Engineering Weekly

Try Fully Managed Apache Airflow for FREE Run Airflow without the hassle and management complexity. Take Astro (the fully managed Airflow solution) for a test drive today and unlock a suite of features designed to simplify, optimize, and scale your data pipelines. For a limited time, new sign-ups will receive a complimentary Airflow Fundamentals Certification exam (normally $150).

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Using Hugging Face Transformers for Emotion Detection in Text

KDnuggets

Learn how to harness Hugging Face pre-trained language models to classify the emotions behind tweets.

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Long Weekend Wanderlust: Unpacking the Impact on Travel and Retail in 2024

Precisely

Travel Surges as Summer Kicks Off Long weekends offer the prime time for quick getaways, offering a much-needed escape and a chance to recharge. Recent insights reveal a shift in how people are planning their mini vacations, turning long weekends into a significant driver for the travel sector. By examining the changes in travel patterns for Memorial Day and July 4th in both 2023 and 2024, we can gain a clear picture of what travelers are seeking during these extended breaks.

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Announcing the Pycharm Integration with Databricks

databricks

We are excited to announce the latest addition to the Databricks developer experience: the PyCharm Professional Integration with Databricks ! This new plugin.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.