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How Big Data Assists in Disaster Relief and Preparedness

Dataconomy

Disasters are dangerous, but Big Data can help improve disaster relief and preparedness to cut back on lives lost and community damage. Historically, public policies have proved ineffective in providing adequate help for disaster-stricken citizens. A year after hurricane Harvey in 2017, for example, residents are still in the midst. The post How Big Data Assists in Disaster Relief and Preparedness appeared first on Dataconomy.

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A first step into the ‘Wild West’ of text analytics

Data Science Connect

If data science is the new frontier for businesses, text analytics is certainly the ‘Wild West’. But start talking about it to Joe Sutherland , PhD candidate at Columbia University, and you’ll quickly understand that while text analytics is still a growing and changing field, it is already revolutionizing the intersection between technology and society.

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OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan

OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants).

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Tableau Conference Keeps on Getting Bigger and Better

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Tableau’s right place, right time, right solution market momentum continues to fuel what seems to be unstoppable growth over the past five years. Hosted in New Orleans at the massive. Read More.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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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Text analysis with named entity recognition

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This is the second post of my series about understanding text datasets. If you read my blog regularly, you probably noticed quite some posts about named entity recognition. In this posts, we focused on finding the named entities and explored different techniques to do this.

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Dec 6 2018: Recapping Amazon re:Invent & HPE Discover

DataCentric podcast

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt and Steve discuss the large number of datacenter-impacting announcements at Amazon’s premier cloud event re:Invent, including news of Amazon deploying their custom-built ARM parts, bringing cloud on-prem, and more. The team also recaps the highlights from HPE Discover in Madrid, where the focus was on edge computing, composable infrastructure and intelligent storage. * Here are some links to explore, should you want to go deeper: * We've

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23 Best Popular Science YouTube Channels

Machine Learning World

One man said “To become a genius you need to learn new thing every day”. So instead watching stupid TV-shows, TV-series or new SUPER DUPER BLOCKBUSTER with 3 lines of scenario, it’s much better to spent this time on learning something new. That’s where popular science do her job :) So thanks to my friends, we gathered list of YouTube channels that we are watching in a free time, and which are pretty cool: Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell 3Blue1Brown Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky acapellascienc

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Simple guide to Neural Arithmetic Logic Units (NALU): Explanation, Intuition and Code

ML Review

The research engineers at DeepMind including well known AI researcher and author of the book Grokking Deep Learning , Andrew Trask have published an impressive paper on a neural network model that can learn simple to complex numerical functions with great extrapolation (generalisation) ability. In this post I will explain NALU, its architecture, its components and significance over traditional neural networks.

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Stand Out in Your Job Search with an Interactive Tableau Resume

Tableau

Tamsin Rowntree. Academic Program Specialist, Tableau. Marissa Michelotti. July 5, 2018 - 9:53pm. December 8, 2022. We get it, applying for jobs is hard work. With recruiters spending just 6 seconds skimming each resume , it's now more important than ever to make your resume standout. . No, I'm not going to recommend printing your resume on a cake.

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NeverLAN CTF 2018 Writeups

Shreyansh Singh

These are the writeups of the problems I solved over the weekend for the NeverLAN CTF 2018. Scripting Challenges 1. Basic Math We are given a file with some numbers which we had to sum. File So, we write a simple python script to do it. This gives the flag — 49562942146280612 2. More Basic Math This time we have a larger list of numbers. However, we can just run the script again on the new file.

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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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How Blockchain is Boosting Renewable Energy

Dataconomy

The explosion in renewable energy projects on blockchain is already promising—there are 122 startups operating in the space, with nearly half launching since 2017. More impressively, these startups have raised over $320 billion between the second quarter of 2017 and the first of 2018. Electricity is undoubtedly one of the. The post How Blockchain is Boosting Renewable Energy appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Making a smart meter out of a dumb one for 4 $

Christian Haschek

As a geek who has a few servers and other devices at home I can't stop thinking about my power out

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OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan

OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.

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Industry Pulse September 2018 Highlights

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Long time, no news summaries…what happened? I’ll share the scoop on that soon. In the meantime, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced a merger that was really “big” news yesterday. That merger. Read More.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

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.

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Named entity recognition with Bert

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In 2018 we saw the rise of pretraining and finetuning in natural language processing. Large neural networks have been trained on general tasks like language modeling and then fine-tuned for classification tasks. One of the latest milestones in this development is the release of BERT.

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Dec 19 2018: 2018 Datacenter Trends

DataCentric podcast

In this episode of the DataCentric podcast, hosts Matt and Steve from Moor Insights & Strategy discuss the trends that drove the past year in enterprise compute. They touch on the just-released market numbers for enterprise server and storage, talk about how the realities of cloud are impacting innovation in a hybrid-cloud world, Nutanix, Microsoft Azure, and more. 00:00 Introductions 01:20 3Q18 Server and Enterprise Storage Numbers 02:20 The Impact of China on the Enterprise Hardwarwe Marke

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How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business

Explosion

“In this talk, I’m not going to give you one "weird trick" or tell you to ~* just follow your dreams *~. But I’ll share some of the things we’ve learned from building a successful software company around commercial developer tools and our open-source library spaCy.

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How I hacked my Xiaomi MiBand 2 fitness tracker — a step-by-step Linux guide

Machine Learning World

This is a step by step guide into how I hacked my Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) fitness tracker so I could control it from Linux. This story started from a Facebook post I made talking about a problem of the absence of an API for fitness trackers, and why that’s not helping data scientists make cool stuff for them. The post generated quite a lot of discussion and after caught the attention of my friend Volodymyr Shymanskyy who tried to help me and found some code on Github from Leo Soares for my fi

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Helping AI Uncover the Mysterious Veil of Chinese Characters

ML Review

This article is part of the Academic Alibaba series and is taken from the paper entitled “Learning Chinese Word Embeddings with Stroke n-gram Information” by Shaosheng Cao, Wei Lu, Jun Zhou, and Xiaolong Li, accepted by the 2018 Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The full paper can be read here. The field of natural language processing (NLP) has recently seen an increasing amount of attention given to word representation learning.

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Stand Out in Your Job Search with an Interactive Tableau Resume

Tableau

Tamsin Rowntree. Academic Program Specialist, Tableau. Marissa Michelotti. July 5, 2018 - 9:53pm. December 8, 2022. We get it, applying for jobs is hard work. With recruiters spending just 6 seconds skimming each resume , it's now more important than ever to make your resume standout. . No, I'm not going to recommend printing your resume on a cake.

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Apollo.io Incident

Twilio Segment

Segment was impacted by Apollo.io’s recent security incident. Here’s what you need to know.

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15 GLOBAL INFLUENCERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

Dataconomy

It’s easier to get a job if you are an Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) ‘expert’, and investors want to bet on companies which use the words AI or ML in their mission statements. And why should that not be the case? McKinsey estimates AI techniques have the. The post 15 GLOBAL INFLUENCERS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Reverse engineering your mobile banking app

Christian Haschek

Our Austrian banks (seemingly) hate developers as they don't give you an API to check banking stat

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OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips

Eugene Yan

OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.

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My Favorite Shark Week Infographics

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Grab the popcorn and a cool beverage. Shark Week (#SharkWeek) is upon us once again. Truth be told – I look forward to it. Shark Week is an annual, week-long TV programming. Read More.

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Understanding text data with topic models

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This is the first post of my series about understanding text datasets. A lot of the current NLP progress is made in predictive performance. But in practice, you often want and need to know, what is going on in your dataset.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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AngstromCTF Writeups

Shreyansh Singh

These are the writeups to the problems I solved during the AngstromCTF. MISC 1. Waldo1 We are given a zip file — flags.zip containing flags of countries. The file flag5.png, we see on opening has the flag. Flag-Waldo1 2. Waldo2 In this problem, we are given multiple flag images in a folder. Judging by the problem, it seems that one image is different.

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Building new NLP solutions with spaCy and Prodigy

Explosion

“Commercial machine learning projects are currently like start-ups: many projects fail, but some are extremely successful, justifying the total investment. While some people will tell you to embrace failure, I say failure sucks — so what can we do to fight it? In this talk, I will discuss how to address some of the most likely causes of failure for new NLP projects.

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How Deep Learning can solve the problem of global climate change

Dataconomy

With the help of a use case, Dr Patrick Vetter, Head of Competence Center Data Science at Supper and Supper GMBH explains how a deep learning methodology can locate and segment wind turbines on satellite imagery. As a pioneer in fighting global climate change, Germany is increasingly investing in renewable. The post How Deep Learning can solve the problem of global climate change appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Six Ways Big Data Can Refine Your Digital Marketing Efforts

Dataconomy

What’s the one thing that all digital marketers must know? The fact that data is king on today’s marketing landscape. Having comprehensive and accurate data is essential for making effective marketing decisions. It can help executives identify industry trends and discover potential customers, making big data analysis important for optimizing. The post Six Ways Big Data Can Refine Your Digital Marketing Efforts appeared first on Dataconomy.

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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.