O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 26, 2024

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Researchers are finding more and more ways to extract training data from ChatGPT and other models. And the space is moving quickly: SORA , OpenAI’s text-to-video model, is yet to be released and has already taken the world by storm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Still, CIOs should not be too quick to consign the technologies and techniques touted during the honeymoon period (circa 2005-2015) of the Big Data Era to the dust bin of history. But many execs suffer from “data defeatism,” erroneously thinking that data value is dependent on having degrees in math, statistics, or machine learning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The stages of burnout Developing over time, burnout builds in distinct stages that lead employees down a path of low motivation, cynicism, and eventually depersonalization, according to Yerbo’s The State of Burnout in Tech report, which points to 2005 research by Salanova and Schaufeli on the subject.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Rokita has been with Edmunds for more than 18 years, starting as executive director of technology in 2005. His role now encompasses responsibility for data engineering, analytics development, and the vehicle inventory and statistics & pricing teams. The data warehouse is about past data, and models are about future data.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

KUEHNEL, and ALI NASIRI AMINI In this post, we give a brief introduction to random effects models, and discuss some of their uses. Through simulation we illustrate issues with model fitting techniques that depend on matrix factorization. Random effects models are a useful tool for both exploratory analyses and prediction problems.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 11, 2017

SCOTT Time series data are everywhere, but time series modeling is a fairly specialized area within statistics and data science. This post describes the bsts software package, which makes it easy to fit some fairly sophisticated time series models with just a few lines of R code. by STEVEN L. Forecasting (e.g.

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Rita Sallam

JULY 22, 2016

Or when Tableau and Qlik’s serious entry into the market circa 2004-2005 set in motion a seismic market shift from IT to the business user creating the wave of what was to become the modern BI disruption. After five minutes of seeing these products back then, I just knew they would change everything! Answer: Better than every other vendor?

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