Sat.Jul 27, 2019 - Fri.Aug 02, 2019

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Pytorch Cheat Sheet for Beginners and Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree

KDnuggets

This cheatsheet should be easier to digest than the official documentation and should be a transitional tool to get students and beginners to get started reading documentations soon.

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Building Shared State Microservices for Distributed Systems Using Kafka Streams

Confluent

The Kafka Streams API boasts a number of capabilities that make it well suited for maintaining the global state of a distributed system. At Imperva, we took advantage of Kafka Streams to build shared state microservices that serve as fault-tolerant, highly available single sources of truth about the state of objects in our system. Why we chose Kafka Streams.

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Simplifying Data Integration Through Eventual Connectivity

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The ETL pattern that has become commonplace for integrating data from multiple sources has proven useful, but complex to maintain. For a small number of sources it is a tractable problem, but as the overall complexity of the data ecosystem continues to expand it may be time to identify new ways to tame the deluge of information. In this episode Tim Ward, CEO of CluedIn, explains the idea of eventual connectivity as a new paradigm for data integration.

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Evolution of Netflix Conductor:

Netflix Tech

v2.0 and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. If you’re new to Conductor, this earlier blogpost and the documentation should help you get started and acclimatized to Conductor. Netflix Conductor: A microservices orchestrator In the last two years since inception, Conductor has seen wide adoption and is instrumental in running numerous core workflows at Netflix.

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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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Ten more random useful things in R you may not know about

KDnuggets

I had a feeling that R has developed as a language to such a degree that many of us are using it now in completely different ways. This means that there are likely to be numerous tricks, packages, functions, etc that each of us use, but that others are completely unaware of, and would find useful if they knew about them.

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Introducing Confluent Platform 5.3

Confluent

Delivers the new Confluent Operator for cloud-native automation on Kubernetes, a redesigned Confluent Control Center user interface to simplify how you manage event streams, and a preview of Role-Based Access Control for enterprise-grade security. Over the past year, we’ve been amazed at how fast Confluent Platform has matured within our user base—both in terms of size and criticality of deployments.

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Crafting the Perfect Internship Playlist

Pandora Engineering

Credit: Kanok Sulaiman Disclaimer: These are my experiences from being a Pandora software developer intern in the summer of 2019. All opinions expressed are my own, and represent no one except myself. I recently spent the last summer of my undergraduate program as an intern for Pandora Media in Oakland, CA. I gained a lot from my experience, and I’m writing this post to detail the application process, the lessons that I learned, and the company culture.

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What 70% of Data Science Learners Do Wrong

KDnuggets

Lessons learned from repeatedly smashing my head with a 2-meter long metal pole for a college engineering course.

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From Good to Great: How Operational Analytics Gives Businesses a Real-Time Edge

Rockset

Published on Forbes All businesses today are a series of real-time events. But what separates the good from the great is how they capture and operationalize that data. Companies like Uber have talked in-depth about how they use real-time analytics to create seamless trip experiences, from determining the most convenient rider pick-up points to predicting the fastest routes.

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Why Multi-Dimensional Personalization is Worth the Investment

Teradata

It's not enough just to drive personalization in your marketing efforts, you need to take a multi-dimensional approach. Find out why it's worth the investment.

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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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Understanding Tensor Processing Units

KDnuggets

The Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is Google's custom tool to accelerate machine learning workloads using the TensorFlow framework. Learn more about what TPUs do and how they can work for you.

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Top 10 Best Podcasts on AI, Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning

KDnuggets

Check out our latest Top 10 Most Popular Data Science and Machine Learning podcasts available on iTunes. Stay up to date in the field with these recent episodes and join in with the current data conversations.

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A 2019 Guide to Object Detection

KDnuggets

Object detection has been applied widely in video surveillance, self-driving cars, and object/people tracking. In this piece, we’ll look at the basics of object detection and review some of the most commonly-used algorithms and a few brand new approaches, as well.

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7 Tips for Dealing With Small Data

KDnuggets

At my workplace, we produce a lot of functional prototypes for our clients. Because of this, I often need to make Small Data go a long way. In this article, I’ll share 7 tips to improve your results when prototyping with small datasets.

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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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How a simple mix of object-oriented programming can sharpen your deep learning prototype

KDnuggets

By mixing simple concepts of object-oriented programming, like functionalization and class inheritance, you can add immense value to a deep learning prototyping code.

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Easily Deploy Deep Learning Models in Production

KDnuggets

Getting trained neural networks to be deployed in applications and services can pose challenges for infrastructure managers. Challenges like multiple frameworks, underutilized infrastructure and lack of standard implementations can even cause AI projects to fail. This blog explores how to navigate these challenges.

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GPU Accelerated Data Analytics & Machine Learning

KDnuggets

The future is here! Speed up your Machine Learning workflow using Python RAPIDS libraries support.

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Here’s how you can accelerate your Data Science on GPU

KDnuggets

Data Scientists need computing power. Whether you’re processing a big dataset with Pandas or running some computation on a massive matrix with Numpy, you’ll need a powerful machine to get the job done in a reasonable amount of time.

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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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Five Command Line Tools for Data Science

KDnuggets

You can do more data science than you think from the terminal.

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Opening Black Boxes: How to leverage Explainable Machine Learning

KDnuggets

A machine learning model that predicts some outcome provides value. One that explains why it made the prediction creates even more value for your stakeholders. Learn how Interpretable and Explainable ML technologies can help while developing your model.

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Can we trust AutoML to go on full autopilot?

KDnuggets

We put an AutoML tool to the test on a real-world problem, and the results are surprising. Even with automatic machine learning, you still need expert data scientists.

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A Data Science Playbook for explainable ML/xAI

KDnuggets

This technical webinar on Aug 14 discusses traditional and modern approaches for interpreting black box models. Additionally, we will review cutting edge research coming out of UCSF, CMU, and industry.

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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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P-values Explained By Data Scientist

KDnuggets

This article is designed to give you a full picture from constructing a hypothesis testing to understanding p-value and using that to guide our decision making process.

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Exploring Python Basics.

KDnuggets

This free ebook is a great resource for data science beginners, providing a good introduction into Python, coding with Raspberry Pi, and using Python to building predictive models.

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Decentralized and Collaborative AI: How Microsoft Research is Using Blockchains to Build More Transparent Machine Learning Models

KDnuggets

Recently, AI researchers from Microsoft open sourced the Decentralized & Collaborative AI on Blockchain project that enables the implementation of decentralized machine learning models based on blockchain technologies.

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Statistical Thinking for Industrial Problem Solving (STIPS) – a free online course.

KDnuggets

This online course is available – for free – to anyone interested in building practical skills in using data to solve problems better.

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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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Top KDnuggets tweets, Jul 24-30: Nothing but NumPy: Understanding and Creating Neural Nets w. Computational Graphs from Scratch; How Netflix works

KDnuggets

How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time; Top Certificates and Certifications in Analytics, Data Science, ML; Nothing but NumPy: Understanding &Creating Neural Networks with Computation.

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Top Stories, Jul 22-28: Top 13 Skills To Become a Rockstar Data Scientist; This New Google Technique Help Us Understand How Neural Networks are Thinking

KDnuggets

Also: Convolutional Neural Networks: A Python Tutorial Using TensorFlow and Keras; Fantastic Four of Data Science Project Preparation; The Death of Big Data and the Emergence of the Multi-Cloud Era; The title CDO started out as a joke.

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South Dakota State University: Data Visualization Developer and Analyst [Brookings, SD]

KDnuggets

South Dakota State University is seeking a Data Visualization Developer and Analyst in Brookings, SD, to create business intelligence tools and reports to support the use of a campus-wide business intelligence and decision support system, compile multiple visualizations into intuitive dashboards for campus-wide use, and more.

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Monash University: Lecturer / Sr Lecturer – Blockchain [Melbourne, Australia]

KDnuggets

Seeking a Lecturer / Sr Lecturer for the Monash Blockchain Technology Centre (Monash BTC): a visionary enterprise that will bring together world-leading expertise from across Monash to explore, develop and innovate the technology of blockchain, in collaboration with various industry and societal sectors.

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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.