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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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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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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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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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Reducing Data Analytics Costs In 2023 – Doing More With Less

Seattle Data Guy

If you haven’t started looking for ways to improve your data analytics budget for 2023, then you’re probably already behind. The truth is that between all of the various economic indicators and investor letters, everyone is looking to improve audit all parts of their business. Especially where there has likely been bloat. One of those… Read more The post Reducing Data Analytics Costs In 2023 – Doing More With Less appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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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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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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Top Posts December 5-11: 4 Useful Intermediate SQL Queries for Data Science

KDnuggets

4 Useful Intermediate SQL Queries for Data Science • How to Select Rows and Columns in Pandas Using [ ],loc, iloc,at and.iat • 3 Free Machine Learning Courses for Beginners • 7 Essential Cheat Sheets for Data Engineering • 7 Techniques to Handle Imbalanced Data.

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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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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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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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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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How To Collect Data For Customer Sentiment Analysis

KDnuggets

Customer sentiment analysis involves collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data to understand customers' feelings. This article focuses on how to collect data for customer sentiment analysis.

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Making the leap from accountant to analytics engineer

dbt Developer Hub

In seventh grade, I decided it was time to pick a realistic career to work toward, and since I had an accountant in my life who I really looked up to, that is what I chose. Around ten years later, I finished my accounting degree with a minor in business information systems (a fancy way of saying I coded in C# for four or five classes). I passed my CPA exams quickly and became a CPA as soon as I hit the two-year experience requirement.

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Business Intelligence 101: How To Make The Best Solution Decision For Your Organization

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Emerging Technologies: What Did Everyone Want To Know 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 the human’s hunger or determination to discover and innovate things never heard of before does not seem to be even mildly deterred even 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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ETL vs. ELT and the Evolution of Data Integration Techniques

Ascend.io

As data became the backbone of most businesses, data integration emerged as one of the most significant challenges. Today, a good part of the job of a data engineer is to move data from one place to another by creating pipelines that can be either ETL vs. ELT. ETL has been the traditional way to manage pipelines for decades. However, with the advent of cloud-based infrastructure, ETL is changing towards ELT.

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From Data to Verse: KDnuggets and ChatGPT in Conversation

KDnuggets

KDnuggets recently had the opportunity to sit down with newly-released acclaimed artificial intelligence ChatGTP from OpenAI. What we found during the course of conversation was both interesting and surprising. Read on to find out what ChatGPT knew about data science and much more.

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Using the Amazon MSK Native Connector to Simplify Real-Time Analytics on Kafka

Rockset

Rockset’s native connector for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) makes it simpler and faster to ingest streaming data for real-time analytics. Amazon MSK is a fully managed AWS service that gives users the ability to build and run applications using Apache Kafka. Amazon MSK provides control-plane operations such as creating and deleting clusters, while allowing users to use Apache Kafka data-plane operations for producing and consuming data.

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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.