CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 24, 2023
As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. But perhaps more importantly, they must learn from their previous big digital wins — and avoid repeating all-too-frequent mistakes that cause transformations to fail or lag behind expectations.
O'Reilly on Data
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Disclaimer: Based on the announcement of the EO , without having seen the full text. While I am heartened to hear that the Executive Order on AI uses the Defense Production Act to compel disclosure of various data from the development of large AI models, these disclosures do not go far enough. The EO seems to be requiring only data on the procedures and results of “Red Teaming” (i.e. adversarial testing to determine a model’s flaws and weak points), and not a wider range of inf
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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.
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Embedded Analytics research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.
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CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become important social issues. In the wake of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders of 2020, companies made massive, highly publicized efforts to correct for systemic bias and improve the mix of race, gender, and lived experiences in the workplace. According to a recent study from Pew Research, most employed adults in the US think this is a good thing.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Introduction I’m pretty sure most of you have already used ChatGPT. That’s great because you’ve taken your first step on a journey we’re about to embark on in this article! You see, when it comes to mastering any new technology, the first thing you do is use it. It’s like learning to swim by jumping […] The post Fine-Tuning, Retraining, and Beyond: Advancing with Custom LLMs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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DataKitchen
OCTOBER 20, 2023
In today’s data-driven landscape, Data and Analytics Teams i ncreasingly face a unique set of challenges presented by Demanding Data Consumers who require a personalized level of Data Observability. As opposed to receiving one-size-fits-all status updates, these key stakeholders desire real-time, granular insights into the status of their specific data as it traverses the complicated data production pipeline.
O'Reilly on Data
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Ever since the current craze for AI-generated everything took hold, I’ve wondered: what will happen when the world is so full of AI-generated stuff (text, software, pictures, music) that our training sets for AI are dominated by content created by AI. We already see hints of that on GitHub: in February 2023, GitHub said that 46% of all the code checked in was written by Copilot.
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 3, 2023
The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Analytics and Data research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 26, 2023
No-code or low-code functionalities in data science have gained significant traction in recent years. These solutions are well-proven and matured, and they make data science more accessible to a wider range of people.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Spark on AWS Lambda (SoAL) is a framework that runs Apache Spark workloads on AWS Lambda. It’s designed for both batch and event-based workloads, handling data payload sizes from 10 KB to 400 MB. This framework is ideal for batch analytics workloads from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and event-based streaming from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and Amazon Kinesis.
O'Reilly on Data
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Ethan and Lilach Mollick’s paper Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students with Prompts explores seven ways to use AI in teaching. (While this paper is eminently readable, there is a non-academic version in Ethan Mollick’s Substack.) The article describes seven roles that an AI bot like ChatGPT might play in the education process: Mentor, Tutor, Coach, Student, Teammate, Student, Simulator, and Tool.
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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Mobile Analytics research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Want to break into data science? Check this list of free books for learning Python, statistics, linear algebra, machine learning and deep learning.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Introduction The world of data science has numerous candidates with technical expertise, but only a few excel at problem-solving. When it is about communicating and expressing these skills effectively, some people are great at it naturally, while others develop this ability over time. Fortunately, with the advent of tools such as Tableau, you get access […] The post Top 10 Tableau Projects for Data Science appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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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AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Data lakes and data warehouses are two of the most important data storage and management technologies in a modern data architecture. Data lakes store all of an organization’s data, regardless of its format or structure. An open table format such as Apache Hudi , Delta Lake , or Apache Iceberg is widely used to build data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in a transactionally consistent manner for use cases including record-level upserts and deletes, change data capture (CDC), ti
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 25, 2023
In the vast realm of technology, chatbots have emerged as a revolutionary tool, bridging the gap between humans and machines. These digital assistants, initially designed to follow pre-set scripts, have now evolved into sophisticated entities capable of understanding and responding to complex human emotions and queries. But what’s the secret behind their enhanced conversational abilities?
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 6, 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 Augmented 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 and Data vendors supporting the
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 12, 2023
SQL is the essential data science language due to its universal database accessibility, efficient data cleaning capabilities, seamless integration with other languages, and requirement for most data science jobs.
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Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Introduction In today’s ever-advancing world of technology, there’s an exciting development on the horizon – Advanced Multi-modal Generative AI. This cutting-edge technology is about making computers more innovative and great, creating content and understanding. Imagine a digital assistant that seamlessly works with text, images, and sounds and generates information.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 31, 2023
It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology? As the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology strategy at Discover Financial Services, I think about this question often as we work to design our tech sta
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 25, 2023
As the scale and complexity of microservices and distributed applications continues to expand, customers are seeking guidance for building cost-efficient infrastructure supporting operational analytics use cases. Operational analytics is a popular use case with Amazon OpenSearch Service. A few of the defining characteristics of these use cases are ingesting a high volume of time series data and a relatively low volume of querying, alerting, and running analytics on ingested data for real-time in
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Data analytics technology has helped retail companies optimize their business models in a number of ways. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it helps companies improve stability during times of uncertainty. There are inevitable ups and downs that every industry experiences, and recognizing these ebbs and flows can fundamentally impact your business.
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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?
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Augmented Analytics research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Want to learn all about Natural Language Processing (NLP)? Here is a 7 step guide to help you go from the fundamentals of machine learning and Python to Transformers, recent advances in NLP, and beyond.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Introduction In an era where technology continues to transform the way we interact with information, the concept of a PDF chatbot brings a new level of convenience and efficiency to the table. This article delves into the intriguing realm of creating a PDF chatbot using Langchain and Ollama, where open-source models become accessible with minimal […] The post A Step-by-Step Guide to PDF Chatbots with Langchain and Ollama appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Resistance to digital transformation comes in many forms. And sometimes it takes a wizard — or a CIO with a satchel of magic tricks — to overcome them. You’ll need to persuade employees and middle management to leave their comfort zones and change how they operate. You may find yourself stuck in bureaucratic quagmires or be forced to battle a ‘not built here’ mindset.
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