The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 22, 2020

by ALEXANDER WAKIM Ramp-up and multi-armed bandits (MAB) are common strategies in online controlled experiments (OCE). These strategies involve changing assignment weights during an experiment. The first is a strategy called ramp-up and is advised by many experts in the field [1].

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

Proof that even the most rigid of organizations are willing to explore generative AI arrived this week when the US Department of the Air Force (DAF) launched an experimental initiative aimed at Guardians, Airmen, civilian employees, and contractors. For now, AFRL is experimenting with self-hosted open-source LLMs in a controlled environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Solutions like Rocket DevOps make it easy for businesses to bring DevSecOps best practices into action, enabling them to pursue experimentation, respond to compliance audits, and adapt to the ever-changing expectations of processes, technology, or experiences.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

. ; Sandra Ng, Group Vice President, Practice Group, IDC Asia/Pacific, will deliver the keynote, addressing burning questions on problems and priorities as organizations scramble from GenAI experimentation to scale AI adoption in a way that effectively deliver desired outcomes for their organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Still, there is a steep divide between rogue and shadow IT, which came under discussion at a recent Coffee with Digital Trailblazers event I hosted. That’s where an IT strategy that frames shadow IT as an opportunity for improved collaboration can have a profound impact.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

At a recent Coffee with Digital Trailblazers event that I host on Fridays at 11 am ET, we debated not if but when and how top CIOs should rebrand and recast IT’s mission. A best practice is to include a recurring communication strategy , so executives see rebranding as not a one-and-done activity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. The single-cloud platform strategy will include SaaS partners used for automation of more than 40 enterprise applications, Dickson says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Software development and a host of other jobs will become vulnerable due to the latest tectonic shift: the growth of generative AI.” Welch: “A vision, strategy, and values are key to building a team with the right culture. Then build a strategy to help reduce that pain. That statement rings even more true in the IT profession.”

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DataRobot Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

While this can be an excellent strategy for a future-oriented company, it can prove futile if you don’t maximize the value of your investment. According to Flexera 1 , 92% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, while 80% have a hybrid cloud strategy. Learn more about DataRobot hosted notebooks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

As many CIOs prepare their 2024 budgets and digital transformation priorities, developing a strategy that seeks opportunities to evolve business models, targets near-term operational impacts, prioritizes where employees should experiment, and defines AI-related risk-mitigating plans is imperative.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 21, 2023

For the demo, we’re using the Amazon Titan foundation model hosted on Amazon Bedrock for embeddings, with no fine tuning. Amazon OpenSearch Service has long supported both lexical and vector search, since the introduction of its kNN plugin in 2020. With OpenSearch’s Search Comparison Tool , you can compare the different approaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At yet when it is home to many of your company’s assets, as is the case for ConocoPhillips, sometimes the best IT strategy is to bring technologies closer to the edge. So Mathur and De Bernardi put together a cross-functional team to develop a strategy that would rely heavily on partnerships across the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

CIOs should have plans for the upsides and also develop risk mitigation strategies. CIOs should define a specialized co-creation model , optimized for collaborating with startups, that can be very different from their in-house development strategies and partnerships with larger service providers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With the rise of highly personalized online shopping, direct-to-consumer models, and delivery services, generative AI can help retailers further unlock a host of benefits that can improve customer care, talent transformation and the performance of their applications. The impact of these investments will become evident in the coming years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

In fact, many similar advantages and disadvantages will likely apply to any AI platform provider that enterprises choose, and CIOs need to consider these wider questions in their gen AI strategy. But experimentation to achieve significant results takes time. In the meantime, Boyd notes, OpenAI prices have significantly reduced. “In

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

CFM takes a scientific approach to finance, using quantitative and systematic techniques to develop the best investment strategies. To remain at the forefront of quantitative investing, CFM has put in place a large-scale data acquisition strategy. Each team is the sole owner of its AWS account.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 12, 2024

Its straightforward integration and fluid compatibility with AWS services like Amazon QuickSight , Amazon SageMaker , and Lake Formation further solidifies its choice for forward-thinking data warehousing strategies. This module is experimental and under active development and may have changes that aren’t backward compatible.

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 10, 2020

That’s why we recently replatformed Domino to be Kubernetes-native – laying the foundation to support today’s increasingly prevalent multi-cloud strategies. Today, many of the Fortune 100 companies that we’re proud to call customers use the model hosting function inside Domino to support their diverse business and operational requirements.

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DataRobot Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This approach gives freedom to move its AI artifacts around, regardless of whether they are hosted on a major cloud platform or its own on-premise infrastructure. Machine learning operations (MLOps) solutions allow all models to be monitored from a central location, regardless of where they are hosted or deployed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Frank LaQuinta is head of digital, data, and operations at Edward Jones, a role that encompasses responsibility for the financial services firm’s technology, digital, and data leadership, vision, and strategy. When you decide on strategy or where to play, you must play to win. Financial Services Industry, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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Cloudera

JUNE 6, 2019

The typical Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Cluster starts with a few dozen nodes in the customer’s datacenter hosting a variety of distributed services. Multi-tenancy Strategies with Virtual Private Clusters. Prior to using Virtual Private Clusters, cluster admins need to decide on an isolation strategy for the compute-only clusters.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By 2023, the focus shifted towards experimentation. Typically, organizations approach generative AI POCs in one of two ways: by using third-party services, which are easy to implement but require sharing private data externally, or by developing self-hosted solutions using a mix of open-source and commercial tools.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The tiny downside of this is that our parents likely never had to invest as much in constant education, experimentation and self-driven investment in core skills. One sample strategy: Expect that I'll ask open-ended questions (If a company has 90% Reach on TV, why the heck do they need digital?). Beautiful, right? SCOTUSblog FTW!

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DataRobot Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At the event, a financial services panel discussion shared why iteration and experimentation are critical in an AI-driven data science environment. The panel discussion focused on Boyd’s Law of Iteration—a theory from dogfighting (military aviation strategy) which believes that the speed of iteration beats the quality of iteration.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2024

This can include comparing lexical search, semantic search, and hybrid search techniques to understand the benefits of each technique against your corpus, or adjustments such as field weighting and different stemming or lemmatization strategies. This functionality was initially released as experimental in OpenSearch Service version 2.4,

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Should I go with a centralized or decentralized or some other strategy (more on this below)? If the overall organization is not very savvy analytically (and it is large) then the strategy will be very different. Who owns the power to make changes to the site (not who owns updating pages or hosting the site)?

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DataRobot

APRIL 29, 2021

Eric Weber is Head of Experimentation And Metrics for Yelp. We are especially looking forward to hearing from our roster of first-rate speaker talent. This list includes: Rachik Laouar is Head of Data Science for the Adecco Group. Rob will be speaking on the topic, Technology Track: Predictive Healthcare Analytics Democratization.

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Alation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

To remain competitive in an omnichannel world, IT leaders must carefully design cloud environments to reflect business needs and strategies. Furthermore, does my application really need a server of its own in the first place — especially when the organizational plan involves hosting everything on an external service?

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

Then a query engine gets busy, with much happening under the covers: query history and stats inform various optimization strategies; indexes get used automagically; intermediate results get caches; algorithm variants are substituted, and so on. Nope, that genie is out of the bottle. PyBay , Aug 15-18, SF. AI SJ , Sep 9-12, San José.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

While leaders have some reservations about the benefits of current AI, organizations are actively investing in gen AI deployment, significantly increasing budgets, expanding use cases, and transitioning projects from experimentation to production.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Automated development: With AutoAI , beginners can quickly get started and more advanced data scientists can accelerate experimentation in AI development. Additionally, it’s crucial to consider the deployment and usage strategy for your AI platform. Will it be implemented on-premises or hosted using a cloud platform?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

The data from the Kinesis data stream is consumed by two applications: A Spark streaming application on Amazon EMR is used to write data from the Kinesis data stream to a data lake hosted on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in a partitioned way. Operational dashboards are hosted on Grafana integrated with Druid.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And while there is a great deal of experimentation underway, most organizations have only scratched the surface in a use-case-by-use-case fashion. It can give the organization a dedicated team to evangelize and execute the strategy, score incremental wins to demonstrate value and leverage best practices and economies of scale along the way.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

This data is sent to Apache Kafka, which is hosted on Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). Additionally, partition evolution enables experimentation with various partitioning strategies to optimize cost and performance without requiring a rewrite of the table’s data every time.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 26, 2023

OpenSearch Serverless applies different sharding and indexing strategies for the three available collection types: time series, search, and vector search. You can choose to host your collection on a public endpoint or within a VPC. All the data in the vector engine is encrypted in transit and at rest by default.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 5, 2024

However, to avoid the risk of reidentification or breach of privacy when using that data in a large language model (LLM), it is important to implement several risk mitigation strategies. To learn more, visit us here.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Speaking of the Four Seasons, consider how sad their nudging strategy is vs. the one that booking.com has on display: All the data you need for this nudge… You already have. That’s what makes the Four Seasons strategy, and that of most sites, so heartbreaking. Money will start falling from the sky. Please find it, please use it.

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