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Top 10 Data & AI Trends for 2025

Towards Data Science

Agentic AI, small data, and the search for value in the age of the unstructured datastack. Image credit: MonteCarlo According to industry experts, 2024 was destined to be a banner year for generative AI. Operational use cases were rising to the surface, technology was reducing barriers to entry, and general artificial intelligence was obviously right around thecorner.

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Česká spořitelna: How GenAI is Transforming Call Centers in the Financial Services Industry

databricks

Czech savings bank esk spoitelna , a division of Austrias Erste Group , recently collaborated with AI solution builder DataSentics to explore the.

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15 Useful Python One-Liners for String Manipulation

KDnuggets

In this article, we'll explore 15 Python one-liners that make string manipulation not just efficient but also fun.

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Introducing Configurable Metaflow

Netflix Tech

David J. Berg * , David Casler ^, Romain Cledat * , Qian Huang * , Rui Lin * , Nissan Pow * , Nurcan Sonmez * , Shashank Srikanth * , Chaoying Wang * , Regina Wang * , Darin Yu * *: Model Development Team, Machine Learning Platform ^: Content Demand ModelingTeam A month ago at QConSF, we showcased how Netflix utilizes Metaflow to power a diverse set of ML and AI use cases , managing thousands of unique Metaflow flows.

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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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Indexing code at scale with Glean

Engineering at Meta

Were sharing details about Glean , Metas open source system for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code. In this blog post well talk about why a system like Glean is important, explain the rationale for Gleans design, and run through some of the ways were using Glean to supercharge our developer tooling at Meta. In August 2021 we open-sourced our code indexing system Glean.

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Philadelphia Union: Streamlining MLS Roster Planning with GenAI

databricks

Staying competitive in Major League Soccer (MLS) demands building and maintaining a strong squad through strategic roster planning and smart, effective navigation of.

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Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024

Cloudera

AWS re:Invent is one of my favorite trade shows. It is one of the biggest technology conferences of the year and is an opportunity to have hundreds of conversations with customers and prospects, listen to their priorities and challenges, hopes, and give them a Cloudera tote bag or a pair of orange sunglasses. What follows is a collection of just a few things I learned and observed during my week in Las Vegas.

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The Developer Experience Upgrade: From Create React App to Vite

Tweag

We all know how it feels: staring at the terminal while your development server starts up, or watching your CI/CD pipeline crawl through yet another build process. For many React developers using Create React App (CRA), this waiting game has become an unwanted part of the daily routine. While CRA has been the go-to build tool for React applications for years, its aging architecture is increasingly becoming a bottleneck for developer productivity.

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Databricks Ventures Invests in Twelve Labs to Bring Video Intelligence to the Data Intelligence Platform

databricks

While nearly 80% of the worlds data is in video format, enabling search and understanding on video data has historically been a challenging.

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Multimodal RAG Implementation with Hugging Face

KDnuggets

Learn how to enhance RAG models by combining text and visual inputs using Hugging Face Transformers.

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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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Maximizing Fuel Efficiency with Real-Time Data: A New Era in Airline Operations

Striim

In 2024 , the global airline industry is projected to spend $291 billion on fuel, making it one of the most significant expenses for airlines. Inefficient fuel management not only drives up operational costs but also hampers environmental targets. However, optimizing fuel usage is complex, often hindered by limited real-time monitoring, which can lead to unnecessary waste due to inefficient routes, weather adjustments, excess weight, and outdated practices.

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Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Netflix Tech

Part 1: Understanding The Challenges By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques Introduction At Netflix, we manage over a thousand global content launches each month, backed by billions of dollars in annual investment. Ensuring the success and discoverability of each title across our platform is a top priority, as we aim to connect every story with the right audience to delight our members.

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Secure External Access to Unity Catalog Assets via Open APIs

databricks

We're excited to announce the Public Preview of credential vending for Unity Catalogs open APIs, allowing external clients to securely access Unity Catalog.

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HuggingChat is the One LLM App You Shouldn’t Overlook

KDnuggets

Check out this excellent chat tool you may not know about.

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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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Telco Enterprise Data Platforms: Key Success Factors in Building for an AI Future

Cloudera

Since 5G networks began rolling out commercially in 2019, telecom carriers have faced a wide range of new challenges: managing high-velocity workloads, reducing infrastructure costs, and adopting AI and automation. Because data management is a key variable for overcoming these challenges, carriers are turning to hybrid cloud solutions, which provide the flexibility and scalability needed to adapt to the evolving landscape 5G enables.

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File Archival in Snowflake: Snowpark-Powered Solution

Cloudyard

Read Time: 2 Minute, 38 Second In data-driven organizations, File Archival in Snowflake: A Snowpark-Powered Solutionhas become a game-changer. Handling feed files in data pipelines is a critical task for many organizations. These files, often stored in stages such as Amazon S3 or Snowflake internal stages, are the backbone of data ingestion workflows.

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Elevating Global Health with Databricks and The Virtue Foundation

databricks

Introduction Databricks has joined forces with the Virtue Foundation through Databricks for Good, a grassroots initiative providing pro bono professional services to drive.

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6 Ways to Improve Your Predictive Models in Data Science

KDnuggets

Whether you aim for building the perfect image classifier, sales predictor, or price estimator, these six pracitcal tips and insights will help you get there!

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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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Using JSpecify 1.0 to Tame Nulls in Java by Magnus Smith

Scott Logic

Introduction In the Java ecosystem, dealing with null values has always been a source of confusion and bugs. A null value can represent various states: the absence of a value, an uninitialized object, or even an error. However, there has never been a consistent, standardized approach for annotating and ensuring null-safety at the language level. Nullability annotations like @Nullable and @NonNull are often used, but theyre not part of the core Java language, leading to inconsistencies across lib

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Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale

Engineering at Meta

Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well past the halfway point and still going. We’re sharing some of the tradeoffs we’ve made to support automating our transition to Kotlin, seemingly simple transformations that are surprisingly tricky, and how we’re collaborating with other companies to capture hundreds more corner cases.

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How GenAI is Transforming Quality Control and Safety in the F&B Industry.

RandomTrees

The food and beverage (F&B) sector is constantly under pressure to comply with strict food safety compliance while also ensuring that operations run efficiently. In light of rapid changes in consumer demand, policies, and supply chain management, there is an urgent need to utilize new technologies. Generative AI (GenAI), an area of artificial intelligence, is enhancing the automation of quality control processes, thereby increasing the safety and efficiency of the industry.

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Google’s Illuminate AI: A New Way to Create Your Own AI-Generated Podcasts

KDnuggets

See how to revolutionize how you bring stories to life with AI.

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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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LLMs vs Advent of Code, AI is winning by Colin Eberhardt

Scott Logic

Advent of Code (AoC) is an annual, christmas-themed, coding competition that has been running for the past years and is something that I participate in at times. This year, while ~~subjecting myself to~~ learning Rust, I decided to see how OpenAIs latest model faired at the challenge. I quickly knocked together a script, and to my astonishment, found that o1-mini gave correct answers to all but one part of the first six days.

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Redefining AIOps IT Workflows with Legacy System Visibility

Precisely

Key Takeaways: Centralized visibility of data is key. Modern IT environments require comprehensive data for successful AIOps, that includes incorporating data from legacy systems like IBM i and IBM Z into ITOps platforms. Predictive of AIOps capabilities will revolutionize IT operations. The shift from reactive to proactive IT operations is driven by AI-powered analysis, automation and insights.

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Introducing Git Support for Queries in Databricks

databricks

Were excited to announce the Public Preview of Query Git integration as part of the new SQL Editor. Git support for queries.

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CData recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools

KDnuggets

Get the Full 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant Data Integration Report.

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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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Unwrap ArcGIS Pro Summary Statistics Enhancements this Holiday Season (Dec 2024)

ArcGIS

In ArcGIS Pro 3.4, the Summary Statistics tool includes DBMS Statistics for faster performance for data from remote databases.

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The High Price of Poor Address Data: Solutions for Better Business Outcomes

Precisely

Key Takeaways : Poor address data can lead to missed deliveries, incorrect customer information, and wasted resources negatively impacting overall customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and profitability. Correcting bad addresses is just the beginning you need to then connect those clean addresses to other valuable data points to unlock real value.

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Generate More Insight By Connecting GameAnalytics to Databricks

databricks

Were excited to announce a joint effort between Databricks for Games and GameAnalytics. This blog and associated code will help our mutual customers.

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10 Essential Pandas Commands for Data Preprocessing

KDnuggets

Check out this beginner's guide to cleaning and preparing data efficiently with Python.

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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.