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

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Data Pipeline Design Patterns - #1. Data flow patterns

Start Data Engineering

1. Introduction 2. Source & Sink 2.1. Source Replayability 2.2. Source Ordering 2.3. Sink Overwritability 3. Data pipeline patterns 3.1. Extraction patterns 3.1.1. Time ranged 3.1.2. Full Snapshot 3.1.3. Lookback 3.1.4. Streaming 3.2. Behavioral 3.2.1. Idempotent 3.2.2. Self-healing 3.3. Structural 3.3.1. Multi-hop pipelines 3.3.2. Conditional/ Dynamic pipelines 3.3.3.

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How To Overcome The Fear of Math and Learn Math For Data Science

KDnuggets

Many aspiring Data Scientists, especially when self-learning, fail to learn the necessary math foundations. These recommendations for learning approaches along with references to valuable resources can help you overcome a personal sense of not being "the math type" or belief that you "always failed in math.".

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Dataframe Showdown – Polars vs Spark vs Pandas vs DataFusion. Guess who wins?

Confessions of a Data Guy

There once was a day when no one used DataFrames that much. Back before Spark had really gone mainstream, Data Scientists were still plinking around with Pandas a lot. My My, what would your mother say? How things have changed. Now everyone wants a piece of the DataFrame pie. I mean it tastes so good, […] The post Dataframe Showdown – Polars vs Spark vs Pandas vs DataFusion.

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Data News — Week 22.50

Christophe Blefari

Prepping me to deliver Christmas' Data News ( credits ) Hey you, the end of the year is coming soon. I really liked this year with you. It was super fun to write every Friday of the year my opinion on data topics, I don't know yet if next year I'll be able to pull out stuff without repeating myself, I hate repeating myself, but for sure I'll try and I'll continue.

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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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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

In the beginning, there was Google. Google looked over the expanse of the growing internet and realized they’d need scalable systems. They created MapReduce and GFS in 2004. They published the papers for them in the same year. Doug Cutting took those papers and created Apache Hadoop in 2005. Cloudera was started in 2008, and HortonWorks started in 2011.

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Top 5 NLP Cheat Sheets for Beginners to Professional

KDnuggets

The cheat sheets cover various NLP techniques, tasks, algorithms, frameworks, and analytics.

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Safety First: Using vehicle data to make us all better drivers

Teradata

Vehicle data is invaluable in improving the safety & safe operation of vehicles for their occupants & other drivers. The next gen of vehicles will use real-time analysis to make driving even safer.

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Go Hybrid & Multi-Cloud or Don’t Go

Cloudera

Over the past few months industry analysts have been making some pretty controversial recommendations for data management in the cloud. For a thoughtful and entertaining analysis, I strongly recommend you spend a few minutes watching the keynote session by Pat Moorhead, CEO Moor Insights & Strategy, at the Evolve 2022 Data event in New York. His takeaway: “The world is very much going to be hybrid and multi-cloud.

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Free Intermediate Python Programming Crash Course

KDnuggets

Master the basics of python with this free crash course.

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Run Your Applications Worldwide Without Worrying About The Database With Planetscale

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary One of the most critical aspects of software projects is managing its data. Managing the operational concerns for your database can be complex and expensive, especially if you need to scale to large volumes of data, high traffic, or geographically distributed usage. Planetscale is a serverless option for your MySQL workloads that lets you focus on your applications without having to worry about managing the database or fight with differences between development and production.

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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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Put Your Data to Work: Top 5 Data Technology Trends for 2023

Confluent

As businesses move to meet modern demands, these technologies ensure not only a digital transformation, but data transformation, with new use cases surrounding real-time data.

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Cloudera Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Cloudera

We are pleased to announce that Cloudera has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner ® Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Cloudera has been recognized in this cloud DBMS report since its inception in 2020. This year we’ve been named a Leader. This validates our significant momentum in global enterprises. And together, with our recent recognition in the Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Distinction for Cloud DBMS , cements our position as an industry leader.

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The Complete MLOps Study Roadmap

KDnuggets

Kickstart your career as an MLOps Engineer with this study roadmap.

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Convert Your Unstructured Data To Embedding Vectors For More Efficient Machine Learning With Towhee

Data Engineering Podcast

Preamble This is a cross-over episode from our new show The Machine Learning Podcast , the show about going from idea to production with machine learning. Summary Data is one of the core ingredients for machine learning, but the format in which it is understandable to humans is not a useful representation for models. Embedding vectors are a way to structure data in a way that is native to how models interpret and manipulate information.

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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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Career stories: Next-gen systems, servers, and SREs

LinkedIn Engineering

Saira joined our Bangalore site reliability engineering (SRE) team to tackle large-scale, site engineering challenges and grow. She highlights for us the impactful work she found here �����from ushering in LinkedIn���s next-generation, server query system that runs over a fleet of 350,000 servers, to mentoring the next generation of female engineers: In my engineering career, I���ve always followed the path less taken.

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Implement a Multi-Cloud Open Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg in Cloudera Data Platform

Cloudera

Since we announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), Cloudera customers, such as Teranet , have built open lakehouses to future-proof their data platforms for all their analytical workloads. Cloudera partners are also benefiting from Apache Iceberg in CDP. For example, Modak Nabu is helping their enterprise customers accelerate data ingestion, curation, and consumption at petabyte scale.

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5 Python Projects for Data Science Portfolio

KDnuggets

Get more experience by working on web scraping, data analytics, time-series forecasting, machine learning, and deep learning projects.

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The Primary Causes of Enterprise Data Quality Problems

Acceldata

Data quality is an ever-present issue. But with the right approach, it’s possible to identify data quality problems before they impact your business.

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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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Accelerating Code Delivery By 97% With Yarn Workspaces

LinkedIn Engineering

As teams and applications experience growth, it���s critical to adopt architectures that optimize for clear code ownership, build isolation, and provide efficient delivery of code. While many projects start small with just one or two repositories (for example, frontend and backend), this approach often becomes difficult to maintain as the codebases expand.

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How Agencies Can Gain the Cyber Edge with Smart Data Solutions

Cloudera

How Agencies Can Gain the Cyber Edge with Smart Data Solutions. For the vast majority of US citizens, the front lines of conflict are witnessed from thousands of miles away on the nightly news. But for government agencies, these physical conflicts are the tip of the iceberg as cyberattacks persist as an underlying constant, inflicting enduring damage regardless of geopolitical tension or location. .

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Markdown Cheatsheet

KDnuggets

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. Grab this handy reference sheet to make certain you know how to implement what you need to, when you want to!

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FIFA World Cup 2022: Insights from Spotters

ThoughtSpot

The FIFA World Cup 2022 is nearing its end, and the final game promises to be a nail biter. What started with 32 countries battling it out for close to a month, will now culminate in a play-off between Argentina and France. FIFA projects more than 5 billion people to tune in for the tournament, perhaps making the World Cup Final 2022 the most watched event of the year!

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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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Using rideshare data to evaluate racial bias in the issuance of speeding citations

Lyft Engineering

The disproportionate impact of policing on communities of color¹ is a central social and policy concern in the United States, and a topic of intense study in academia. Lyft is uniquely positioned to contribute to this discourse and the academic research and literature on this topic using data from the large number of trips on our rideshare platform.

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Emerging Technologies: Top 10 Articles Every One Must Read In 2022

U-Next

Exploring the unknown and achieving new milestones every other day seems to be the norm of the 21 st century. Even at the peak of technological innovation and yet hungry to discover and innovate things never heard of before, our determination does not seem to be even mildly deterred by a global pandemic. In fact, the pandemic only made us realize how much we do not know about the world we live in and how much more there is to know and discover.

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Zero-shot Learning, Explained

KDnuggets

How you can train a model to learn and predict unseen data?

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Roche adopts self-service analytics in ‘a perfect storm’

ThoughtSpot

Late last June, I had the opportunity to attend a ThoughtSpot User Group session in London and share how ThoughtSpot has impacted global procurement at Roche—notably how it’s helped my team not become a dashboard factory for the rest of our business. For 125 years, Roche has been making a difference in the lives of millions. Based out of Basel, Switzerland, we’re a multinational healthcare company with 100,000 plus employees that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagno

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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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Beyond the Hype: Blockchain is dead, long live blockchain by Colin Eberhardt

Scott Logic

In this episode, I’m joined by colleagues Oliver Cronk, Peter Chamberlin and Chris Price for a lively discussion about blockchain. We start by looking at the mechanics of bitcoin, and the economic incentive model formed by proof of work consensus. From there, we discuss enterprise or permission blockchain, which leads us to discuss some specific use cases, for example the oil market supply-chain challenges.

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It’s Time for Financial Services to Bank on Data Observability

Acceldata

Data observability can data help banks and other finserv players drive growth and profit margins with data quality and data reliability.

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Tuning Adam Optimizer Parameters in PyTorch

KDnuggets

Choosing the right optimizer to minimize the loss between the predictions and the ground truth is one of the crucial elements of designing neural networks.

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Building a Cybersecurity Lakehouse for CrowdStrike Falcon Events Part III

databricks

In Part I of this series, we walked through the process of setting up a Cybersecurity Lakehouse that allowed us to collect and.

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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.