July, 2023

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6 business execs you’ll meet in hell — and how to deal with them

CIO Business Intelligence

Everyone, at some point in their career, has endured a bad boss or bad business colleague. Someone further up the chain or a lateral colleague who lacks basic interpersonal skills, demands the impossible, flies off the handle at the slightest provocation, or throws you under the bus the moment a project goes south. Aside from causing personal angst, executives run amok can also wreak lasting damage to the organizations they work for by driving away talent and squandering business opportunities.

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Empowering Real-Time Insights with Website Monitoring Using Python

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The purpose of this project is to develop a Python program that automates the process of monitoring and tracking changes across multiple websites. We aim to streamline the meticulous task of detecting and documenting modifications in web-based content by utilizing Python. This capability is invaluable for real-time news tracking, immediate product updates, and conducting […] The post Empowering Real-Time Insights with Website Monitoring Using Python appeared first on Analytics

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The Inner Workings of LLMs: A Deep Dive into Language Model Architecture

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Language Models based on Large- scale pre- training LLMs have revolutionized the field of natural language processing. Thus, enabling machines to comprehend and generate human-like text with remarkable accuracy. To truly appreciate the capabilities of LLMs, it is essential to take a deep dive into their inner workings and understand the intricacies of their […] The post The Inner Workings of LLMs: A Deep Dive into Language Model Architecture appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly on Data

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. Or even if you haven’t yet, then you’ve at least heard about these tools in your newsfeed over the past year. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. These posts often recount someone trying ChatGPT or Copilot for the first time with a few simple prompts, seeing how it does for some small self-containe

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Multivariate Time-Series Prediction with BQML

KDnuggets

Google's BQML can be used to make time series models, and recently it was updated to create multivariate time series models. With the simple code, this article shows how to use it to predict multivariate time series and it can be more powerful than a univariate time series model in this article.

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Large Language Models and Data Management

Ontotext

I did some research because I wanted to create a basic framework on the intersection between large language models (LLM) and data management. I will start by saying that I believe LLM holds great promise. But there are also a host of other issues (and cautions) to take into consideration. The technology is very new and not well understood. Most applications are still exploratory.

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Laminar Adds Support for SaaS and BigQuery Data Protection

Laminar Security

Laminar Launches Two New Solutions to Become First Full Data Security Platform for Multi-Cloud and SaaS Environments In today’s data-driven world, cloud computing has become the backbone of innovation and growth for enterprises across all industries. With an overwhelming majority of organizations utilizing cloud services and applications, data security has emerged as a critical concern by more than 93% of organizations.

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Beginner’s Guide to Build Your Own Large Language Models from Scratch

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Be it twitter or Linkedin, I encounter numerous posts about Large Language Models(LLMs) each day. Perhaps I wondered why there’s such an incredible amount of research and development dedicated to these intriguing models. From ChatGPT to BARD, Falcon, and countless others, their names swirl around, leaving me eager to uncover their true nature.

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Fearing the Wrong Thing

O'Reilly on Data

There’s a lot of angst about software developers “losing their jobs” to AI, being replaced by a more intelligent version of ChatGPT, GitHub’s Copilot, Google’s Codey, or something similar. Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. He’s asking whether large language models eliminate programming as we know it, and he’s excited that the answer is “yes”: eventually, if not in the immediate future.

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Introduction to Statistical Learning, Python Edition: Free Book

KDnuggets

The highly anticipated Python edition of Introduction to Statistical Learning is here. And you can read it for free! Here’s everything you need to know about the book.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Revolutionizing Procurement: The Power of AI in Vendor Management Systems

Smart Data Collective

Vendor Management Systems (VMS) have become an indispensable tool for streamlining procurement and fostering strong vendor relationships. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the lines between physical, digital, and biological spheres are increasingly blurred, a new transformational player has emerged on the VMS scene: Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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Digital Transformation Delivers Business Benefits

CIO Business Intelligence

Virtually every organization worth its salt is involved in digital transformation, and those efforts are starting to pay dividends, according to F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy Report. When respondents to F5’s survey of more than 1,000 IT leaders were asked to list the benefits of digital transformation, IT operational efficiency topped the list (cited by 66% of respondents), followed by business operational efficiency (49%), better alignment of IT with business outcomes (47%), employee

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Volunteer Spotlight: Big Day in the UK!

Cloudera

It was a busy day for Cloudera Cares in the UK on June 21, 2023. Not only did we deliver the EMEA Evolve Flagship event with a first of its kind, volunteer component, we also flew the Cloudera flag at a Cloudera Cares event with Mission Motorsport. Hear from Clouderan, Paul Wooding about his day volunteering at two of Cloudera’s impactful UK-based events.

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How to Become a Data Analyst With No Experience?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Did you know that entry-level data analysts can earn up to $49,092 annually? In today’s data-driven world, data analytics careers span diverse industries, offering numerous pathways to enter this rapidly-growing field. Data is the primary decision-making tool for every organization. Analytics is an essential aspect of strategic planning across all sectors.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Extract time series from satellite weather data with AWS Lambda

AWS Big Data

Extracting time series on given geographical coordinates from satellite or Numerical Weather Prediction data can be challenging because of the volume of data and of its multidimensional nature (time, latitude, longitude, height, multiple parameters). This type of processing can be found in weather and climate research, but also in applications like photovoltaic and wind power.

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Reinforcement Learning: Teaching Computers to Make Optimal Decisions

KDnuggets

Reinforcement learning basics to get your feet wet. Learn the components and key concepts in the reinforcement loading framework: from agents and rewards to value functions, policy, and more.

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eCommerce Brands Use Big Data for Logistics and Fulfillment Warehouses Protection

Smart Data Collective

Big data has driven major changes in the e-commerce sector in recent years. E-commerce brands spent over $16 billion on analytics in 2022 and are projected to spend over $38 billion by 2028. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it can help e-commerce brands optimize their logistics and fulfillment processes. Keep reading to learn more.

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3 tough decisions for IT leaders to achieve a successful digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

The digital transformation journey for any enterprise is protracted and complex. Technology leaders often underestimate the complications associated with it. For such initiatives to conclude successfully, enterprise technology decision makers must overcome inertia, build momentum, and bring about changes across their large organizations. To bring about enterprise-wide changes, CIOs at times need to take tough decisions that may not go down well with employees.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Laminar Broadens Data Security for Multi-Cloud

Laminar Security

Launches Full Data Security Platform with Enhanced DAG and DDR Capabilities Laminar has unveiled groundbreaking advancements to its agile data security platform for multi-cloud. The introduction of new data access governance (DAG) and data detection and response (DDR) functionalities positions Laminar as the first solution on the market to offer comprehensive identification, protection, detection, and response capabilities for multi-cloud and SaaS data security.

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Unveiling Denoising Autoencoders

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Denoising Autoencoders are neural network models that remove noise from corrupted or noisy data by learning to reconstruct the initial data from its noisy counterpart. We train the model to minimize the disparity between the original and reconstructed data. We can stack these autoencoders together to form deep networks, increasing their performance.

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How AWS helped Altron Group accelerate their vision for optimized customer engagement

AWS Big Data

This is a guest post co-authored by Jacques Steyn, Senior Manager Professional Services at Altron Group. Altron is a pioneer of providing data-driven solutions for their customers by combining technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide highly differentiated technology solutions. Alongside their partner AWS, they participated in AWS Data-Driven Everything (D2E) workshops and a bespoke AWS Immersion Day workshop that catered to their needs to improve their engagement with

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Unraveling the Power of Chain-of-Thought Prompting in Large Language Models

KDnuggets

This article delves into the concept of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, a technique that enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). It discusses the principles behind CoT prompting, its application, and its impact on the performance of LLMs.

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Power of ETL: Transforming Business Decision Making with Data Insights

Smart Data Collective

ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is a crucial process in the world of data analytics and business intelligence. In this article, we will explore the significance of ETL and how it plays a vital role in enabling effective decision making within businesses. By understanding the power of ETL, organisations can harness the potential of their data and gain valuable insights that drive informed choices.

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Key skills tech leaders need to secure a board seat

CIO Business Intelligence

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. A two-time Technology All-Star award recipient from Women of Color in STEM, Bunn previously served as CIO at the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.

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For a short time only: Time-based restrictions for enhanced cloud security

IBM Big Data Hub

If you read some of my earlier blog posts , you know that I automated the setup (onboarding) for workshops and hackathons. Thus far, running my Terraform scripts to deploy resources and privileges meant allowing access to them. Thanks to a (relatively) new IBM Cloud security feature called time-based restrictions , I can decouple the deployment process from when access is possible.

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Falcon AI: The New Open Source Large Language Model

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Ever since the launch of GPT (Generative Pre Trained) by Open AI, the world has been taken by storm by Generative AI. From that period on, many Generative Models have come into the picture. With each release of new Generative Large Language Models, AI kept on coming closer to Human Intelligence. However, the Open […] The post Falcon AI: The New Open Source Large Language Model appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Implement tag-based access control for your data lake and Amazon Redshift data sharing with AWS Lake Formation

AWS Big Data

Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. Many organizations have a distributed tools and infrastructure across various business units. This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts.

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Textbooks Are All You Need: A Revolutionary Approach to AI Training

KDnuggets

This is an overview of the "Textbooks Are All You Need" paper, highlighting the Phi-1 model's success using high-quality synthetic textbook data for AI training.

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OpenAI Provides Access For GPT-4

Analytics Vidhya

Today, GPT-4, OpenAI’s cutting-edge text-generating model, was made generally available, according to an excited release from the company. Through its API, the business is providing developers with access to this ground-breaking technology. Access to GPT-4 will be opened up to new developers by the end of the month, but existing OpenAI API developers with a […] The post OpenAI Provides Access For GPT-4 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How to Become a Power BI Developer?

Analytics Vidhya

Among numerous available exciting career choices, Power BI developer is one of the intriguing career options among professionals. With data analysis, visualization, interpretation, and business intelligence skills, setting your foot and heading over others requires consistency, practice, and an innovative mindset. Multiple career growth options are available in the field with reasonably accurate salaries to […] The post How to Become a Power BI Developer?

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.