KDnuggets

AUGUST 30, 2024

Data engineering is best learned by doing projects. But which ones? Here are six projects focusing on different data engineering skills to ensure you have it all covered.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

Learn how companies can create repeatable and scalable workflows that enable users to quickly turn GenAI innovation from experimentation to reality.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 30, 2024

Check this practical guide sharing insights, challenges, and tactics to be a digital leader with confidence.

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 30, 2024

Introduction As data scales and characteristics shift across fields, graph databases emerge as revolutionary solutions for managing relationships. Unlike relational databases that use tables and rows, graph databases excel in handling complex networks. Imagine a social network where members connect as friends, followers, or colleagues—graph databases shine in such interconnected data scenarios.

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Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

KDnuggets

AUGUST 30, 2024

Anxiety or impostor syndrome won't fix your data science project. Learn from mistakes to build a strong career foundation.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

Skechers has been at the forefront of the e-commerce industry, focusing on hyperpersonalized experiences to meet customer expectations better. Following significant growth during.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

Within the Databricks Community, there is a technical blog where community members share best practices, tutorials and insights on data analytics, data engineering.

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insideBIGDATA

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this contributed article, Soniya Bopache, vice president and general manager, data compliance and governance at Veritas Technologies, discusses how integrating AI into business operations requires addressing the challenge of dark data—unstructured and unused information that can lead to biased or compromised AI outputs. Organizations must prioritize comprehensive data management and governance to ensure AI systems are powered by high-quality data, meeting both operational goals and regulatory

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

We're thrilled to launch our 2024 Data + AI World Tour , a series of free in-person events in cities worldwide. Each stop.

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 30, 2024

Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems are innovative models within the fields of natural language processing since they integrate the components of both retrieval and generation models. In this respect, RAG systems prove to be versatile when the size and variety of tasks that are being executed by LLMs increase, LLMs provide more efficient solutions to fine-tune […] The post Improving Real-World RAG Systems: Key Challenges & Practical Solutions appeared first on Analytic

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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!

databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

Every company's path from foundational to tailored LLMs will be different. Each will require new tooling to help developers deliver the accurate and governed GenAI that leaders are demanding.

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insideBIGDATA

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this contributed article, Devin Daly, CEO and Co-Founder of Impel, discusses five of the most impactful ways that AI is improving the automotive retailing experience.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

As a global media conglomerate housing over 37 distinct brands, Condé Nast faced the challenge of delivering targeted consumer experiences across their brands.

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 30, 2024

Introduction A model that segments clothes and humans into different labels would have many applications today. This model’s ability is based on image processing and fine-tuning efficiency. Image processing is done in different ways, and that is where image segmentation comes into the illustration. This process involves grouping each pixel in an image and identifying […] The post Master Segformer: A Quick Guide to Clothes & Human Segmentation appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

As organizations leverage their proprietary data for models, many encounter the hard truth: The best GenAI models in the world will not succeed without good data.

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Machine Learning Mastery

AUGUST 30, 2024

Predictive modeling in finance uses historical data to forecast future trends and outcomes. R, a powerful statistical programming language, provides a robust set of tools and libraries for financial analysis and modeling. This article explores the key techniques and packages in R that are commonly used for predictive modeling in finance. We’ll cover time series […] The post Using R for Predictive Modeling in Finance appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

At Data + AI Summit 2024, some of the world’s largest and industry-leading organizations showcased how they're using Databricks to build data and AI solutions

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

New research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

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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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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of data management, data warehousing continues to be a cornerstone for businesses seeking to harness the power of.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication. For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor , and has ended with the review of an AMD processor.

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databricks

AUGUST 30, 2024

Over the course of my fun and rewarding 12-week internship at Databricks, I focused on improving the UX for interacting with images in the Databricks notebook.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

The City of Columbus is suing the cybersecurity who revealed what kind of information and how much of it was taken during a cyberattack on the city last month.

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FlowingData

AUGUST 30, 2024

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to 2019, Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for the New York Times use a county map with up and down arrows. Green and up means a gain, whereas orange and down means a loss. We’ve seen similar maps with arrows, but they’re usually angled or swooped. I guess I always assumed arrows going straight up and down would jumble together, but this seems to work.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.

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Dataversity

AUGUST 30, 2024

Master data lays the foundation for your supplier and customer relationships. It identifies who you are doing business with, how you will do business with them, and how you will pay them or vice versa – not to mention it can prevent fraud, fines, and errors. However, teams often fail to reap the full benefits […] The post How to Win the War Against Bad Master Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Half a century ago, an obscure state senator fought to ban gas-powered cars — and almost won.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

FlowingData

AUGUST 30, 2024

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and maps. The result is ATLAS , which is a basketball that is also a globe. Genius. The limited first run already sold out, but they’re taking pre-orders for a larger run now.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

The subway isn't just buried in the bedrock of New York City — it's embedded within its fiction, too. These archival photographs and literary quotes transport you through time.

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phData

AUGUST 30, 2024

This week’s Beyond the Data spotlights a true MVP in the partner world. He excels at connecting with Snowflake AI Data Cloud , keeping partner sales managers updated on phData’s successes, managing connection requests, supporting sellers with partner programs, and tracking the impact of these partnerships, all of which contribute to phData’s success.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Northern California is an energy catastrophe waiting to happen.

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