Sat.Aug 03, 2019 - Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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Solving Data Discovery At Lyft

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data is only valuable if you use it for something, and the first step is knowing that it is available. As organizations grow and data sources proliferate it becomes difficult to keep track of everything, particularly for analysts and data scientists who are not involved with the collection and management of that information. Lyft has build the Amundsen platform to address the problem of data discovery and in this episode Tao Feng and Mark Grover explain how it works, why they built it, a

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Knowing Your Neighbours: Machine Learning on Graphs

KDnuggets

Graph Machine Learning uses the network structure of the underlying data to improve predictive outcomes. Learn how to use this modern machine learning method to solve challenges with connected data.

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Migrating Functionality Between Large-scale Production Systems Seamlessly

Uber Engineering

A common axiom among Uber engineers states that building new features is like fixing a car’s engine while driving it. As we scaled up to our present level of support for 14 million trips per day, the car in that … The post Migrating Functionality Between Large-scale Production Systems Seamlessly appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Is Self-Service Analytics Sustainable?

Teradata

Self-service analytics are increasingly being implemented by organizations that want to promote a data-driven culture. But how sustainable is it? Read more.

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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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Simple node.JS and Slack WebHook integration

nodeSWAT

This post will walk you through the process of how to turn this awesome chat tool into a handy monitoring & alerting tool for your application. All this without any 3rd party modules and minimal code to keep the footprint small. Note: This post is using now outmoded integration method. Slack has introduced new ways to manage and send messages via Apps.

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Exploratory Data Analysis Using Python

KDnuggets

In this tutorial, you’ll use Python and Pandas to explore a dataset and create visual distributions, identify and eliminate outliers, and uncover correlations between two datasets.

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Four Steps to Drive Digital Transformation in Your Bank

Teradata

Digital transformation & regulatory requirements have long challenged Banks. Teradata has deep experience in ushering them through the transformation process.

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Coding Random Forests in 100 lines of code*

KDnuggets

There are dozens of machine learning algorithms out there. It is impossible to learn all their mechanics; however, many algorithms sprout from the most established algorithms, e.g. ordinary least squares, gradient boosting, support vector machines, tree-based algorithms and neural networks.

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Lagrange multipliers with visualizations and code

KDnuggets

In this story, we’re going to take an aerial tour of optimization with Lagrange multipliers. When do we need them? Whenever we have an optimization problem with constraints.

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Data Science: Scientific Discipline or Business Process?

KDnuggets

Simply put, data science is an attempt to understand given data using the scientific method. That's why data science is a scientific discipline. You are free (and encouraged!) to apply data science to business use cases, just as you are encouraged to apply it to many other domains.

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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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Introduction to Image Segmentation with K-Means clustering

KDnuggets

Image segmentation is the classification of an image into different groups. Many kinds of research have been done in the area of image segmentation using clustering. In this article, we will explore using the K-Means clustering algorithm to read an image and cluster different regions of the image.

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Getting Started With Data Science

KDnuggets

Over the past many months, I’ve received hundreds of messages from people asking me how they could get started with Data Science. Therefore, I thought it would be useful to write down a framework for those wanting to get started with Data Science.

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25 Tricks for Pandas

KDnuggets

Check out this video (and Jupyter notebook) which outlines a number of Pandas tricks for working with and manipulating data, covering topics such as string manipulations, splitting and filtering DataFrames, combining and aggregating data, and more.

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What is Benford’s Law and why is it important for data science?

KDnuggets

Benford’s law is a little-known gem for data analytics. Learn about how this can be used for anomaly or fraud detection in scientific or technical publications.

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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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Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 31 – Aug 06: NLP vs. NLU: from Understanding a Language to Its Processing

KDnuggets

Also: Ten more random useful things in R you may not know about; 5 Probability Distributions Every Data Scientist Should Know; Machine Learning is Happening Now: A Survey of Organizational Adoption, Implementation, and Investment; Programmers rejoice! Deep TabNine offer code autocompletion with #deeplearning.

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Feature selection by random search in Python

KDnuggets

Feature selection is one of the most important tasks in machine learning. Learn how to use a simple random search in Python to get good results in less time.

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Inside Pluribus: Facebook’s New AI That Just Mastered the World’s Most Difficult Poker Game

KDnuggets

The reasons why Pluribus represents a major breakthrough in AI systems might result confusing to many readers. After all, in recent years AI researchers have made tremendous progress across different complex games. However, six-player, no-limit Texas Hold’em still remains one of the most elusive challenges for AI systems.

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Machine Learning is Happening Now: A Survey of Organizational Adoption, Implementation, and Investment

KDnuggets

This is an excerpt from a survey which sought to evaluate the relevance of machine learning in operations today, assess the current state of machine learning adoption and to identify tools used for machine learning. A link to the full report is inside.

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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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Deep Learning for NLP: ANNs, RNNs and LSTMs explained!

KDnuggets

Learn about Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks and LSTMs like never before and use NLP to build a Chatbot!

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9 Tips For Training Lightning-Fast Neural Networks In Pytorch

KDnuggets

Who is this guide for? Anyone working on non-trivial deep learning models in Pytorch such as industrial researchers, Ph.D. students, academics, etc. The models we're talking about here might be taking you multiple days to train or even weeks or months.

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[video] Introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (for beginners and advanced Data Scientists)

KDnuggets

Generative Adversarial Networks are driving important new technologies in deep learning methods. With so much to learn, these two videos will help you jump into your exploration with GANs and the mathematics behind the modelling.

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Keras Callbacks Explained In Three Minutes

KDnuggets

A gentle introduction to callbacks in Keras. Learn about EarlyStopping, ModelCheckpoint, and other callback functions with code examples.

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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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How to better manage your data science team’s workflow

KDnuggets

This workshop, Aug 14 @ 12 PM ET, will give you the proper tools and tactics to manage the entire lifecycle of your machine learning projects, from research to exploration to development and production.

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KDnuggetsâ„¢ News 19:n29, Aug 7: What 70% of Data Science Learners Do Wrong; Pytorch Cheat Sheet for Beginners

KDnuggets

This week on KDnuggets: What 70% of Data Science Learners Do Wrong; Pytorch Cheat Sheet for Beginners and Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree; How a simple mix of object-oriented programming can sharpen your deep learning prototype; Can we trust AutoML to go on full autopilot?; Ten more random useful things in R you may not know about; 25 Tricks for Pandas; and much more!

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Monash University: Research Fellow – Computer Vision [Melbourne, Australia]

KDnuggets

The position requires a passion for research, a proven research track record in computer vision, an ability to work independently as well as lead a team, and a willingness to work on inter-disciplinary research projects and seek external funding. The successful candidate will align with the group goal on building a world-class computer vision team.

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Top Stories, Jul 29 – Aug 4: Top 10 Best Podcasts on AI, Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning; What 70% of Data Science Learners Do Wrong

KDnuggets

Also: GPU Accelerated Data Analytics & Machine Learning; Understanding Tensor Processing Units; Top 13 Skills To Become a Rockstar Data Scientist; Five Command Line Tools for Data Science; Ten more random useful things in R you may not know about.

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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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Waste Management: Data Scientist [Houston, TX]

KDnuggets

Waste Management is seeking a Data Scientist in Houston, TX, to support their digital marketing, customer and other business segment teams with insights gained from analyzing customer data.

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Cloud Analytic Migrations with Microsoft, Informatica & Teradata?

Teradata

Teradata partners Microsoft & Informatica announced that they are taking on cloud analytic migrations. Find out what this means for our on-premises customers.

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Announcing Tutorials for Apache Kafka

Confluent

We’re excited to announce Tutorials for Apache Kafka ® , a new area of our website for learning event streaming. Kafka Tutorials is a collection of common event streaming use cases, with each tutorial featuring an example scenario and several complete code solutions. It’s the fastest way to learn how to use Kafka with confidence. We’re building this because we know that event streaming is a radically different way of thinking.

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