Sat.Sep 07, 2019 - Fri.Sep 13, 2019

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Many Heads Are Better Than One: The Case For Ensemble Learning

KDnuggets

While ensembling techniques are notoriously hard to set up, operate, and explain, with the latest modeling, explainability and monitoring tools, they can produce more accurate and stable predictions. And better predictions can be better for business.

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Apache Kafka Rebalance Protocol for the Cloud: Static Membership

Confluent

Static Membership is an enhancement to the current rebalance protocol that aims to reduce the downtime caused by excessive and unnecessary rebalances for general Apache Kafka ® client implementations. This applies to Kafka consumers, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams. To get a better grasp on the rebalance protocol, we’ll examine this concept in depth and explain what it means.

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Building A Reliable And Performant Router For Observability Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The first stage in every data project is collecting information and routing it to a storage system for later analysis. For operational data this typically means collecting log messages and system metrics. Often a different tool is used for each class of data, increasing the overall complexity and number of moving parts. The engineers at Timber.io decided to build a new tool in the form of Vector that allows for processing both of these data types in a single framework that is reliable an

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How Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning Change the Game

Teradata

AI & Deep Learning allow organizations to maximize player performance while minimizing player risk through better insights from performance and wellness data.

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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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Classification vs Prediction

KDnuggets

It is important to distinguish prediction and classification. In many decision-making contexts, classification represents a premature decision, because classification combines prediction and decision making and usurps the decision maker in specifying costs of wrong decisions.

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Grafana Time-Series Dashboards with the Rockset-Grafana Plugin

Rockset

What Is Grafana? Grafana is an open-source software platform for time series analytics and monitoring. You can connect Grafana to a large number of data sources, from PostgreSQL to Prometheus. Once your data source is connected, you can use a built-in query control or editor to fetch data, and build dashboards from your data source. Grafana is frequently deployed for a wide variety of use cases, including DevOps and AdTech.

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Vantage: A Cloud-First Integrated Data & Analytics Platform

Teradata

There are a lot of misperceptions about Teradata. Learn more about what Teradata Vantage really is: a cloud-first integrated data and analytics platform.

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There is No Free Lunch in Data Science

KDnuggets

There is no such thing as a free lunch in life or data science. Here, we'll explore some science philosophy and discuss the No Free Lunch theorems to find out what they mean for the field of data science.

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Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 1

Confluent

For me, and I think for you, technology is cool by itself. When you first learn how consistent hashing works, it’s fun. When you finally understand log-structured merge trees, it’s a rewarding feeling. When Apache Kafka ® consumer group rebalancing clicks, you feel good. But the thing that really gets me going isn’t mastering a specific new technical chop, but seeing how new technologies have an impact on the way we think.

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Reimagining Experimentation Analysis at Netflix

Netflix Tech

Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. Maybe you’ve done this before and have an old script lying around. If it’s new, it’s probably going to take some time to set up, right? Not at Netflix. ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the s

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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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Train sklearn 100x Faster

KDnuggets

As compute gets cheaper and time to market for machine learning solutions becomes more critical, we’ve explored options for speeding up model training. One of those solutions is to combine elements from Spark and scikit-learn into our own hybrid solution.

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The 5 Graph Algorithms That Data Scientists Should Know

KDnuggets

In this post, I am going to be talking about some of the most important graph algorithms you should know and how to implement them using Python.

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Scikit-Learn vs mlr for Machine Learning

KDnuggets

How does the scikit-learn machine learning library for Python compare to the mlr package for R? Following along with a machine learning workflow through each approach, and see if you can gain a competitive advantage by knowing both frameworks.

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10 Great Python Resources for Aspiring Data Scientists

KDnuggets

This is a collection of 10 interesting resources in the form of articles and tutorials for the aspiring data scientist new to Python, meant to provide both insight and practical instruction when starting on your journey.

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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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Common Machine Learning Obstacles

KDnuggets

In this blog, Seth DeLand of MathWorks discusses two of the most common obstacles relate to choosing the right classification model and eliminating data overfitting.

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BERT is changing the NLP landscape

KDnuggets

BERT is changing the NLP landscape and making chatbots much smarter by enabling computers to better understand speech and respond intelligently in real-time.

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A 2019 Guide to Speech Synthesis with Deep Learning

KDnuggets

In this article, we’ll look at research and model architectures that have been written and developed to do just that using deep learning.

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A Friendly Introduction to Support Vector Machines

KDnuggets

This article explains the Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm in an easy way.

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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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Version Control for Data Science: Tracking Machine Learning Models and Datasets

KDnuggets

I am a Git god, why do I need another version control system for Machine Learning Projects?

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The State of Transfer Learning in NLP

KDnuggets

This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP organized by Matthew Peters, Swabha Swayamdipta, Thomas Wolf, and Sebastian Ruder. This post highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.

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Can graph machine learning identify hate speech in online social networks?

KDnuggets

Online hate speech is a complex subject. Follow this demonstration using state-of-the-art graph neural network models to detect hateful users based on their activities on the Twitter social network.

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OpenStreetMap Data to ML Training Labels for Object Detection

KDnuggets

I am really interested in creating a tight, clean pipeline for disaster relief applications, where we can use something like crowd sourced building polygons from OSM to train a supervised object detector to discover buildings in an unmapped location.

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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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How DeepMind and Waymo are Using Evolutionary Competition to Train Self-Driving Vehicles

KDnuggets

Recently, Alphabet’s subsidiaries Waymo and DeepMind partnered to find a more efficient process to train self-driving vehicles algorithms and their work took them back to one of the cornerstones of our history as species: evolution.

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Ensemble Methods for Machine Learning: AdaBoost

KDnuggets

It turned out that, if we ask the weak algorithm to create a whole bunch of classifiers (all weak for definition), and then combine them all, what may figure out is a stronger classifier.

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Data Driven Government – Agenda, Washington, DC, Sep 25

KDnuggets

Data Driven Government is coming to Washington, DC, Sep 26, and includes a stellar lineup of experts who will share the emerging trends and best practices of government agencies in the current use of data analytics to enhance mission outcomes. Use code KDNUGGETS to get 15% off.

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Discover Your Path Toward Data Science with ODSC’s Mini-Bootcamp

KDnuggets

ODSC has developed a mini-bootcamp, designed to reduce the time and monetary costs of discovering which pathway into data science you should take. In this article, we’ll discuss seven reasons why ODSC’s Mini-Bootcamp might be right for you.

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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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Clearsense chooses Io-Tahoe’s Smart Data Discovery to navigate healthcare data challenges

KDnuggets

Io-Tahoe, a pioneer in Smart Data Discovery and AI-Driven Data Catalog products, has announced that Clearsense, a scalable data platform as a service built for healthcare, has chosen the smart data discovery platform to automatically discover and catalog relationships across immense amounts of medical and clinical data.

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Top August Stories: How to Become More Marketable as a Data Scientist

KDnuggets

Also: Top Handy SQL Features for Data Scientists; 12 NLP Researchers, Practitioners & Innovators You Should Be Following; Knowing Your Neighbours: Machine Learning on Graphs.

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KDnuggets™ News 19:n34, Sep 11: I wasn’t getting hired as a Data Scientist. So I sought data on who is

KDnuggets

How one person overcame rejections applying to Data Scientist positions by getting actual data on who is getting hired; Advice from Andrew Ng on building ML career and reading research papers; 10 Great Python resources for Data Scientists; Python Libraries for Interpretable ML,

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Top Stories, Sep 2-8: I wasn’t getting hired as a Data Scientist. So I sought data on who is.

KDnuggets

Also: Python Libraries for Interpretable Machine Learning; TensorFlow vs PyTorch vs Keras for NLP; Advice on building a machine learning career and reading research papers by Prof. Andrew Ng; Object-oriented programming for data scientists: Build your ML estimator.

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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.