Sat.Sep 10, 2022 - Fri.Sep 16, 2022

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5 Concepts You Should Know About Gradient Descent and Cost Function

KDnuggets

Why is Gradient Descent so important in Machine Learning? Learn more about this iterative optimization algorithm and how it is used to minimize a loss function.

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Building Data Pipelines That Run From Source To Analysis And Activation With Hevo Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Any business that wants to understand their operations and customers through data requires some form of pipeline. Building reliable data pipelines is a complex and costly undertaking with many layered requirements. In order to reduce the amount of time and effort required to build pipelines that power critical insights Manish Jethani co-founded Hevo Data.

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Real-Time Gaming Infrastructure for Millions of Users with Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, and WebSockets

Confluent

How gaming enterprises like Sony and Big Fish Games use Apache Kafka®, Confluent, and ksqlDB’s data streaming technologies for the best in-game experience, ROI, and real-time capabilities.

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A Flexible and Efficient Storage System for Diverse Workloads

Cloudera

Apache Ozone is a distributed, scalable, and high-performance object store , available with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), that can scale to billions of objects of varying sizes. It was designed as a native object store to provide extreme scale, performance, and reliability to handle multiple analytics workloads using either S3 API or the traditional Hadoop API.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

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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5 Data Science Skills That Pay & 5 That Don’t

KDnuggets

This article will go over the top 5 data science skills that pay you and 5 that don’t.

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Build Confidence In Your Data Platform With Schema Compatibility Reports That Span Systems And Domains Using Schemata

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data engineering systems are complex and interconnected with myriad and often opaque chains of dependencies. As they scale, the problems of visibility and dependency management can increase at an exponential rate. In order to turn this into a tractable problem one approach is to define and enforce contracts between producers and consumers of data.

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Demystifying Modern Data Platforms

Cloudera

Cloudera Contributor: Mark Ramsey, PhD ~ Globally Recognized Chief Data Officer. July brings summer vacations, holiday gatherings, and for the first time in two years, the return of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Chief Data Officer symposium as an in-person event. The gathering in 2022 marked the sixteenth year for top data and analytics professionals to come to the MIT campus to explore current and future trends.

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Top Open Source Large Language Models

KDnuggets

In this article, we will discuss the importance of large language models and suggest some of the top open source models and the NLP tasks they can be used for.

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The case against `git cherry pick`: Recommended branching strategy for multi-environment dbt projects

dbt Developer Hub

Why do people cherry pick into upper branches? ​ The simplest branching strategy for making code changes to your dbt project repository is to have a single main branch with your production-level code. To update the main branch, a developer will: Create a new feature branch directly from the main branch Make changes on said feature branch Test locally When ready, open a pull request to merge their changes back into the main branch If you are just getting started in dbt and deciding which branchin

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Let’s know how to Convert the TensorFlow model to the TensorFlow Lite model

Knoldus

Reading Time: 2 minutes TensorFlow Lite is TensorFlow’s lightweight solution for mobile and embedded devices. It allows you to run machine learning models on edge devices with low latency, eliminating the need for a server. After the development of the TensorFlow model, we can convert the same to a more efficient and smaller version by converting it into a Tflite model format.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to 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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Chose Both: Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse

Cloudera

A key part of business is the drive for continual improvement, to always do better. “Better” can mean different things to different organizations. It could be about offering better products, better services, or the same product or service for a better price or any number of things. Fundamentally, to be “better” requires ongoing analysis of the current state and comparison to the previous or next one.

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Free SQL and Database Course

KDnuggets

Get up to speed on SQL and relational databases with this free video course.

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Three steps to maximise value of RegTech investments

Teradata

RegTech is the word on everyone’s lips as financial services businesses look for ways to manage the avalanche of regulatory reporting precipitated by the 2008 financial crisis.

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Explore Real-Time Data Streaming Fundamentals and Use Cases at Current 2022

Confluent

Learn how stream data technologies are used for fraud detection, real-time analytics, and how Fortune 100 companies are using solutions like Apache Kafka® to accelerate innovation.

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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.

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Quartz Ranks Monte Carlo As Third Best Medium-Sized Company For Remote Workers

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is a company that has put considerable time, energy, and thought into creating awesome employee experiences. One of our core principles from the start has been to meet talent where they are and build the company around them rather than vice versa. Today, we have over 150 employees spread across 13 states and 9 countries with offices in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and New York–we are truly a remote first team!

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Removing Outliers Using Standard Deviation in Python

KDnuggets

Standard Deviation is one of the most underrated statistical tools out there. It’s an extremely useful metric that most people know how to calculate but very few know how to use effectively.

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Living Out Our Purpose

Teradata

At Teradata, we are committed to operating a business that takes a responsible view of our impact on society and the planet. Find out how we are living this commitment everyday.

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EMEA Sales Operations Thrives as Confluent Grows

Confluent

A year after the IPO, Confluent’s sales operations team is still growing at an extraordinary rate in EMEA. Learn what it’s like to work with us, and what the team’s achieving together.

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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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How to Become a Cyber Security Expert in 2022?

U-Next

Introduction to Cybersecurity . Cyber safety is securing internet-connected systems such as servers, networks, mobile devices, electronic systems, and data against hostile assaults. We may divide the term “cybersecurity” into two words: cyber and security. The former encompasses systems, networks, programs, and data, while the latter is concerned with safeguarding networks, applications, and data. .

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How Data Science Fuels Fraud Prevention

KDnuggets

By themselves, these data points will probably not provide much insight into a single customer. However, a company that has some or all of this information is well-positioned to have a strong idea of how legitimate its visitors are.

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How to analyze dataset performance and schema changes in Databand

Databand.ai

How to analyze dataset performance and schema changes in Databand Eric Jones 2022-09-12 13:06:42 “Why did my dataset schema change?” Yeah, we hear this question a lot too. Unfortunately, most data engineers don’t realize the schema has changed until someone else downstream tells them. By then, the business impact has already happened. Databand helps fix this problem by capturing the metadata from your datasets and then alerting you when dataset operations change unexpectedly.

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DynamoDB Filtering and Aggregation Queries Using SQL on Rockset

Rockset

The challenges Customer expectations and the corresponding demands on applications have never been higher. Users expect applications to be fast, reliable, and available. Further, data is king, and users want to be able to slice and dice aggregated data as needed to find insights. Users don't want to wait for data engineers to provision new indexes or build new ETL chains.

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

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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What are the IT fundamentals for Cyber Security?

U-Next

. Introduction . Learning IT fundamentals for Cyber Security is a must in present times. Rampant cyber attacks due to mass-scale digitization of business are a major nuisance, and Cyber Security awareness is the only solution. . . A cyber-attack is an offensive action targeting computer networks or devices. A cyber-attack can be carried out by individuals, groups, or even nation-states and can range from relatively unsophisticated attacks to highly sophisticated operations that can cause

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TransformX by Scale AI is Oct 19-21: Register for free!

KDnuggets

TransformX by Scale AI is happening on October 19th - 21st. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from leading AI and ML experts across industries. Registration is free and the conference is virtual with one day in-person at SF Jazz.

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5 Predictions for the Future of the Data Platform

Monte Carlo

The field of data engineering has been growing at a breakneck pace. New frameworks, new challenges, and new technologies are constantly shifting how engineers think about their work and their roles within their organizations. Keeping up with the latest developments can feel like a full-time job—so we’re always grateful when seasoned leaders share their perspectives on which trends in data engineering actually matter.

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ZIO HTTP Tutorial: The REST of the Owl

Rock the JVM

This article is brought to you by Mark Rudolph - his second contribution to Rock the JVM. Mark is a senior developer, who has been working with Scala for a number of years. He also has been diving into the ZIO ecosystem, and loves sharing his learnings. If you want to learn more about the core ZIO library, check out the ZIO course. If you want the video version, check below: Outline In this post, we’re going to go over an introduction to the zio-http library, and take a look at some of the basic

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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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Decoding The Differences Between Product Management Certification And An MBA Degree 

U-Next

Introduction . A Masters in Business Administration is one of the most sought-after post-graduation degree courses across the globe. Aspirants from a wide variety of educational backgrounds often tend to pursue an MBA degree either before they begin their professional career or after obtaining several years of experience. An MBA is immensely popular as it enhances one’s credibility as a skilled professional and exponentially increases the quality and quantity of job opportunities. .

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Top 5 Bookmarks Every Data Analyst Should Have

KDnuggets

Check out these online tools to save you time & effort.

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Celebrando Comunidad: Hispanic Heritage Month

Robinhood

Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information and investing. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.

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An introduction to SBT

Rock the JVM

This article is brought to you by Yadu Krishnan. He’s a senior developer and constantly shares his passion for new languages, libraries and technologies. After his long-form Slick tutorial , he’s coming back with a new comprehensive introduction to SBT. Please enjoy! This tutorial complements Rock the JVM’s premium Scala masterclass , as you learn to set up and configure your Scala projects. 1.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

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.