Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Introduction One of the most popular applications of large language models (LLMs) is to answer questions about custom datasets. LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard are excellent communicators. They can answer almost anything that they have been trained on. This is also one of the biggest bottlenecks for LLMs. They can only answer the questions they […] The post Build a RAG Pipeline With the LLama Index appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor and of the founders of the EdX educational platform, recently created a stir by saying that prompt engineering was the most important skill you could learn. And that you could learn the basics in two hours. Although I agree that designing good prompts for AI is an important skill, Agarwal overstates his case. But before discussing why, it’s important to think about what prompt engineering means.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Introduction Algorithmic trading is a widely adopted trading strategy that has revolutionized the way people trade stocks. More and more people are making money on the side by investing in stocks and automating their trading strategies. This tutorial will teach you how to build stock trading algorithms using primitive technical indicators like MACD, SMA, EMA, […] The post Building and Validating Simple Stock Trading Algorithms Using Python appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I am happy to share insights gleaned from our latest Buyers Guide, an assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research 2023 Mobile Analytics Buyers Guide is the distillation of a year of market and product research by Ventana Research. Drawing on our Benchmark Research, we apply a structured methodology built on evaluation categories that reflect the real-world criteria incorporated in a request for proposal to Analytics vendors supporting the spectrum of

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming the way we process and produce information. But, before considering either one of these models as a one-stop-solution, one must consider their key differences.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And how to go beyond its basics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

NetSuite is adding generative AI and a host of new features and applications to its cloud-based ERP suite in an effort to compete better with midmarket rivals including Epicor, IFS, Infor, and Zoho in multiple domains such as HR, supply chain, banking, finance, and sales. The new capabilities were announced on Tuesday at the company’s annual SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dive into how OpenAI’s new image generator DALL·E 3 is pushing limits, and see how it's making image generation much more accessible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Cyber vulnerabilities are among a CIO’s greatest fears. And with good reason. No industry or organization is immune to the growing frequency, sophistication and success of cyberattacks and the steep, often devastating, organizational costs they incur. Yet, after collectively investing an estimated $219B 1 worldwide in cybersecurity, only four in 10 organizational leaders feel confident that security is embedded in their technology and applications according to the Dell Technologies Innovation

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Explore the Chain-of-Verification prompt engineering method, an important step towards reducing hallucinations in large language models, ensuring reliable and factual AI responses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Market competition for IT talent remains so stiff that IT leaders are increasingly looking to poach employees from other departments to fill IT openings. But snagging a potentially new IT “shining star” from another business function, even when the employee has already expressed an interest in shifting to an IT career, can get complicated. Take, for example, an employee who has strong business chops in a particular domain that IT lacks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Heavy industries, particularly cement, steel and chemicals, are the top greenhouse gas emitting industries, contributing 25% of global CO2 emission. They use high temperature heat in many of their processes that is primarily driven by fossil fuel. Fighting climate change requires lowering heavy industry emissions. However, these industries face tremendous challenges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Application modernization isn’t simply a trend; it’s the mandate for every IT organization. The cost of running old applications and the infrastructure that supports them is problematic. They also lack new features and capabilities, making them a competitive liability. Simply lifting and shifting current code to the cloud doesn’t help and can cost much more.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to gain business insights from their data. With Amazon Redshift, you can use standard SQL to query data across your data warehouse, operational data stores, and data lake. You can also integrate other AWS services such as Amazon EMR , Amazon Athena , Amazon SageMaker , AWS Glue , AWS Lake Formation , and Amazon Kinesis to use all the analytic capabilities in AWS.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recently, Confluent hosted Current 2023 (formerly Kafka summit) in San Jose on Sept 26th and 27th. With few conferences curating content specific to streaming developers, Current has historically been an important event for anyone trying to keep a pulse on what’s happening in the streaming space. Over 2,000 attendees and lots of new solutions were on display, and the event proved to be a clear look into the current (no pun intended) state of streaming and where it is headed.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a research brief defining “5 trends for 2023,” the IBM Institute for Business Value reports, “In 2023, rapid response is the new baseline. Uncertainty is expected and complexity is compounding. As threats materialize on multiple fronts, organizations must reduce the time from insight to action.” 1 Business and data analysts are intimately familiar with the growing business need for precise, real-time intelligence.

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Dataiku

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There is an abundance of information, both in published sources and from firsthand experiences , that delves into the governance complexities associated with the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) or Generative AI. Whether you are examining the ethical repercussions downstream of Generative AI, the concerns surrounding data security and privacy when training a model internally or relying on third-party models, or the considerations related to audit logging and documentation for regulator

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Introducing the SAP Business Technology Platform The SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is a technological innovation platform designed for SAP applications to combine data and analytics, AI, application development, automation and integration into a single, cohesive ecosystem. BTP is SAP’s integration and application development platform for SAP clients, who want to extend their S/4 system.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Here’s a sign that you’ve arrived as an Analyst or an Analytics team: At the first sign of failure reported by the data, most people blame you (Analyst/Data). Wear it as a badge of honor! It means your analysis has identified insights that are big enough, important enough, that the recipients get instantly worried. Ideally, you live in a culture where good analysis identifying poor performance would be warmly welcomed as an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to change, and, for the bravest cul

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TDAN

OCTOBER 17, 2023

According to the authors of “Data Is Everybody’s Business,” a data strategy “lays out an organization’s goals and plans for managing and exploiting data.” So, where are chief information officers (CIOs) at in facilitating a data strategy with their business counterparts? What things get in the way the most?

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Data Science 101

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Threads Dev Interviews I am finding developers on Threads and interviewing them, right on Threads. You are welcome to follow along and let me know on Threads if you would like to be interviewed. Note: The views in these interviews are personal views and do not represent the interviewee’s employer. “I was always keenly aware that all of the activity was teaching me ways to interact with systems that one day might need me as much as I had needed them.” — P Anne Harris (@iamanneha

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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The worldwide shift toward cloud computing significantly changes how businesses approach data management and operation. Regardless of whether private, public, or hybrid cloud models are employed, the advantages of cloud computing are numerous, including heightened efficiency, reduced expenses, and increased flexibility.

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Laminar Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Mapping, classifying, and reporting on data in the cloud is challenging for many companies, and the more cloud-centric the company, the greater the challenge. Businesses with a “cloud first” operating mode simply experience a faster rate of change. Their environments are complex – comprising multi-cloud, SaaS, and on-premise elements. They are dealing with massive amounts of data and are subject to new and changing regulations.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Imagine you’re in a meeting and the analytics team bombards you with numbers. Sales have dropped by X%. Ad spend has increased by Y%. Cost-per-click is now Z. The meeting ends, and you promptly forget everything. What if the analytics team had instead turned those raw numbers into a memorable narrative?

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It is vital for organizations to understand how their applications operate to ensure that applications meet expectations for performance, availability and overall end-user experience. This is achieved through application monitoring, and the use of application monitoring software. Broadly speaking, application monitoring software measures application performance, security and compliance, sends alerts when performance baselines are not met, provides insight into the root causes of performance issu

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TDAN

OCTOBER 17, 2023

What makes a data book great? Our time is valuable, so a good data book should be concise and practical. It should show us how to do something, step by step, so we can apply the techniques to reinforce and always remember. The experiences of the author should shine through in every chapter.

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TDAN

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Where exactly within an organization does the primary responsibility lie for ensuring that a data pipeline project generates data of high quality, and who exactly holds that responsibility? Who is accountable for ensuring that the data is accurate? Is it the data engineers? The data scientists? The team responsible for data governance? The data analysts?

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TDAN

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Deja Vu All Over Again Something interesting has been happening to me over the last few months that I’ve not experienced in a while. Smart and experienced CIOs and their data leaders have been asking me for input regarding how to sell the value of a data program.

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