Sat.Sep 21, 2019 - Fri.Sep 27, 2019

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What is Hierarchical Clustering?

KDnuggets

The article contains a brief introduction to various concepts related to Hierarchical clustering algorithm.

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Every Company is Becoming a Software Company

Confluent

In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This has become a kind of shorthand for the investment thesis behind Silicon Valley’s current wave of unicorn startups. It’s also a unifying idea behind the larger set of technology trends we see today, such as machine learning, IoT, ubiquitous mobile connectivity, SaaS, and cloud computing.

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Open Source Object Storage For All Of Your Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Object storage is quickly becoming the unifying layer for data intensive applications and analytics. Modern, cloud oriented data warehouses and data lakes both rely on the durability and ease of use that it provides. S3 from Amazon has quickly become the de-facto API for interacting with this service, so the team at MinIO have built a production grade, easy to manage storage engine that replicates that interface.

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

Netflix Tech

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers.

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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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5 Famous Deep Learning Courses/Schools of 2019

KDnuggets

Deep Learning is/has become the hottest skill in Data Science at the moment. There is a plethora of articles, courses, technologies, influencers and resources that we can leverage to gain the Deep Learning skills.

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Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring Dashboards with Apache Kafka and Rockset

Confluent

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka ® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. The significant difference today is that companies use Apache Kafka as an event streaming platform for building mission-critical infrastructures and core operations platforms. Examples include microservice architectures, mainframe integration, instant payment, fraud detection, sensor analytics, real-time monitoring, and many more—dri

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Scaling a Mature Data Pipeline?—?Managing Overhead

Airbnb Tech

Scaling a Mature Data Pipeline — Managing Overhead There is often a hidden performance cost tied to the complexity of data pipelines — the overhead. In this post, we will introduce its concept, and examine the techniques we use to avoid it in our data pipelines. Author : Zachary Ennenga The view from the third floor at Airbnb HQ! Background There is often a natural evolution in the tooling, organization, and technical underpinning of data pipelines.

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12 Deep Learning Researchers and Leaders

KDnuggets

Our list of deep learning researchers and industry leaders are the people you should follow to stay current with this wildly expanding field in AI. From early practitioners and established academics to entrepreneurs and today’s top corporate influencers, this diverse group of individuals is leading the way into tomorrow’s deep learning landscape.

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How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019

Confluent

Kafka Summit San Francisco is just one week away. Conferences can be busy affairs, so here are some tips on getting the most out of your time there. Plan. Go and check out the schedule. Spend a bit of time familiarising yourself with what sessions you want to get to, and mark them on your calendar. How do you pick which sessions to attend? My advice: diversify!

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Why Clean Data is Critical for Your Business

Teradata

Clean data is critical to your business. Find out what three things you need to know about clean data for the health of your organization. Read more.

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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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A Single Function to Streamline Image Classification with Keras

KDnuggets

We show, step-by-step, how to construct a single, generalized, utility function to pull images automatically from a directory and train a convolutional neural net model.

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Beta Distribution: What, When & How

KDnuggets

This article covers the beta distribution, and explains it using baseball batting averages.

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Natural Language in Python using spaCy: An Introduction

KDnuggets

This article provides a brief introduction to working with natural language (sometimes called “text analytics”) in Python using spaCy and related libraries.

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Automatic Version Control for Data Scientists

KDnuggets

How can you keep your machine learning models and data organized so you can collaborate effectively? Discover this new tool set available for better version control designed for the data scientist workflow.

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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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A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition

KDnuggets

In this article, we’ll look at a couple of papers aimed at solving the problem of automated speech recognition with machine and deep learning.

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The Future of Analytics and Data Science

KDnuggets

Learn about the the current and future issues of data science and possible solutions from this interview with IADSS Co-founder, Dr. Usama Fayyad following his keynote speech at ODSC Boston 2019.

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6 bits of advice for Data Scientists

KDnuggets

As a data scientist, you can get lost in your daily dives into the data. Consider this advice to be certain to follow in your work for being diligent and more impactful for your organization.

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Why data analysts should choose stories over statistics

KDnuggets

Join the Crunch Data Conference in Budapest, Oct 16-18, with stellar speakers from companies like Facebook, Netflix and LinkedIn. Use the discount code ‘KDNuggets’ to save $100 off your conference ticket.

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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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Customer Segmentation for R Users

KDnuggets

This article shows you how to separate your customers into distinct groups based on their purchase behavior. For the R enthusiasts out there, I demonstrated what you can do with r/stats, ggradar, ggplot2, animation, and factoextra.

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Using Time Series Encodings to Discover Baseball History’s Most Interesting Seasons

KDnuggets

Take me out to the ballgame! Take me out to the crowd! For the 2,829 seasons that have been played for 101 baseball teams since 1880, which seasons were unlike any others? Using SAX Encoding to recognize patterns in time series data, the most special years in baseball can be found.

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Introducing IceCAPS: Microsoft’s Framework for Advanced Conversation Modeling

KDnuggets

The new open source framework that brings multi-task learning to conversational agents.

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Data Mapping Using Machine Learning

KDnuggets

Data mapping is a way to organize various bits of data into a manageable and easy-to-understand system.

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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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Webinar: Build auto-adaptive machine learning models with Kubernetes

KDnuggets

This live webinar, Oct 2 2019, will instruct data scientists and machine learning engineers how to build manage and deploy auto-adaptive machine learning models in production. Save your spot now.

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The thin line between data science and data engineering

KDnuggets

Today, as companies have finally come to understand the value that data science can bring, more and more emphasis is being placed on the implementation of data science in production systems. And as these implementations have required models that can perform on larger and larger datasets in real-time, an awful lot of data science problems have become engineering problems.

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Help Your Career Survive ‘DataGeddon’

KDnuggets

Penn State’s fully online data analytics program uniquely prepares students to advance their career in data science. Penn State offers 3 intakes every year and reviews applications on a rolling basis. GMAT or GRE waivers are available to highly qualified candidates. Learn more now.

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Getting to the Future First: How Social Data is Transforming Trend Discovery

KDnuggets

Register now for this webinar, Sep 25 @ 12 PM ET, for a clear approach on how to apply machine learning language technology to massive, unstructured data sets in order to create predictive models of what may be the next “it” ingredient, color, flavor or pack size.

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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 Stories, Sep 16-22: Which Data Science Skills are core and which are hot/emerging ones?

KDnuggets

Also: Explore the world of Bioinformatics with Machine Learning; My journey path from a Software Engineer to BI Specialist to a Data Scientist; 5 Beginner Friendly Steps to Learn Machine Learning and Data Science with Python; 10 Great Python Resources for Aspiring Data Scientists.

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Data Quality Assessment Is Not All Roses. What Challenges Should You Be Aware Of?

KDnuggets

Of all data quality characteristics, we consider consistency and accuracy to be the most difficult ones to measure. Here, we describe the challenges that you may encounter and the ways to overcome them.

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Schema Validation with Confluent 5.4-preview

Confluent

Robust data governance support through Schema Validation on write is now supported in Confluent Platform 5.4-preview. This gives operators a centralized location to enforce data format correctness within Confluent Platform. Enforcing data correctness on write is the first step towards enabling centralized policy enforcement and data governance within your event streaming platform.

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Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing in Apache Kafka: Why Stop the World When You Can Change It?

Confluent

There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897. Load balancing and scheduling are at the heart of every distributed system, and Apache Kafka ® is no different. Kafka clients—specifically the Kafka consumer, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams, which are the focus in this post—have used a sophisticated, paradigmatic way of balancing resources since the very beginning.

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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.