KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In this tutorial, we will learn to Initiates the Spark session, load, and process the data, perform data analysis, and train a machine learning model.

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Depict Data Studio

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

After enrolling in Depict Data Studio’s Great Graphs in Excel course and watching many of the videos, I was excited to apply what I had learned. My first chance came in the form of a front-end evaluation project for a children’s museum planning a new exhibition on dinosaurs. Measuring What Kids Already Know about Dinosaurs The museum wanted to understand what children and families already knew about dinosaurs – including whether they knew what other types of animals and plants existed at the sam

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TDAN

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Knowledge truly is power, and at no time in human history have people had more access to information than they do today. Thanks to the internet, ordinary citizens can instantly access enormous volumes of data on pretty much any topic they wish to explore, no matter how esoteric it may be.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 SQL Visualization Tools for Data Engineers • Free TensorFlow 2.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How can we get our IT teams to be viewed as more consultative partners to the business? It’s one of the big questions I continue to hear from CIOs. While technology has changed dramatically over the past decade and become increasingly intertwined with the business’s success, many IT teams remain in order-taking mode, responding to requests and then scrambling to address the issues that arise after the fact.

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Analytics Vidhya

MARCH 2, 2023

Introduction Setting up an environment is the first step in Python development, and it’s crucial because package management can be challenging with Python. And also Python is a flexible language that can be applied in various domains, including scientific programming, DevOps, automation, and web development. Given the length and breadth of third-party applications, your global environment […] The post Choosing the Right Python Environment Tool for Your Next Project appeared first on

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KDnuggets

MARCH 2, 2023

The latest KDnuggets cheat sheet covers using ChatGPT to your advantage as a data scientist. It's time to master prompt engineering, and here is a handy reference for helping you along the way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We’ve entered another year where current economic conditions are pressuring organizations to do more with less, all while still executing against digital transformation imperatives to keep the business running and competitive. To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud strategies and tech investments in 2023, members of VMware’s Tanzu Vanguard community shared their insights on what trends will take shape.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Introduction Azure Databricks is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform that is built on top of the Microsoft Azure cloud. A collaborative and interactive workspace allows users to perform big data processing and machine learning tasks easily. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at Azure Databricks, its key features, […] The post Azure Databricks: A Comprehensive Guide appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Data analytics technology has had a profound impact on the state of the financial industry. A growing number of financial institutions are using analytics tools to make better investing decisions and insurers are using analytics technology to improve their underwriting processes. However, there is an area that is being shaped by analytics technology that has not gotten as much attention – tax compliance.

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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

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KDnuggets

MARCH 2, 2023

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Italian insurer Reale Group found itself with four cloud providers running around 15% of its workloads, and no clear strategy to manage them. “It was not a result we were seeking, it was the result of reality,” said Marco Barioni, CEO of Reale ITES, the company’s internal IT engineering services unit. Since then, Barioni has taken control of the situation, putting into action a multi-year plan to move over half of Reale Group’s core applications and services to just two public clouds in a quest

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Analytics Vidhya

MARCH 2, 2023

Introduction The advancement of interest in Deep Learning in recent years and the explosion of Machine Learning tools like TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc., will also be cited, which will provide ease of use and easy debugging of codes. Many popular frameworks such as MxNet, Tensorflow, Jax, PaddlePaddle, Caffe 2, Mindspore, and Theano will gain popularity because […] The post Pytorch Tensors and its Operations appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 3, 2023

Business intelligence has made a huge mark on the world of business. According to Fortune Business Insights, businesses spent around $24.05 billion BI solutions in 2021. However, many workplaces are still trying to figure out how to leverage business intelligence effectively. This technology offers many potential benefits, but many companies don’t fully take advantage of the opportunities it provides.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A gentle introduction of Plots.jl, Gadfly.jl, and VegaLite with code examples.

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Visualization 125

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

By virtue of their position between IT and effecting business strategy, CIOs can identify what processes their organizations need in order to modernize and automate. When it comes to updating core systems to drive operational efficiencies, they also have to ensure that a sound business case exists to automate them, says Laurie Shotton, VP and analyst at Gartner.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Introduction Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a computer to work or think like humans. So many Artificial Intelligence applications have been developed and are available for public use, and chatGPT is a recent one by Open AI. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence model that uses the deep model to produce human-like text. It predicts […] The post Learning the Basics of Deep learning, ChatGPT, and Bard AI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Data sharing is becoming an important element of an enterprise data strategy. AWS services like AWS Data Exchange provide an avenue for companies to share or monetize their value-added data with other companies. Some organizations would like to have a data sharing platform where they can establish a collaborative and strategic approach to exchange data with a restricted group of companies in a closed, secure, and exclusive environment.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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Data Science 119

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As enterprises increasingly look to artificial intelligence (AI) to support, speed up, or even supplant human decision-making, calls have rung out for AI’s use and development to be subject to a higher power: our collective sense of right and wrong. One such entity weighing in on the need for AI ethics is the Vatican, which exactly three years ago, on Feb. 28, 2020, brought together representatives from Microsoft and IBM to first sign the Rome Call for AI Ethics, a commitment to develop AI that

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Introduction Data science has taken over all economic sectors in recent times. To achieve maximum efficiency, every company strives to use various data at every stage of its operations. Each aspect of data science, like data preparation, the importance of big data, and the process of automation, contributes to how data science is the future […] The post 30 Best Data Science Books to Read in 2023 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here at Smart Data Collective, we have blogged extensively about the changes brought on by AI technology. Over the past few months, many others have started talking about some of the changes that we blogged about for years. While the technology is not new, this is being referred to as the year for AI. Machine learning technology has already had a huge impact on our lives in many ways.

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Reporting

KDnuggets

MARCH 1, 2023

Learn how to optimize the queries written in SQL to make them execute faster and more memory efficient.

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Optimization 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

Despite a tumultuous couple of months, strong user uptake of Tableau business intelligence and MuleSoft data automation and integration software fueled a surprising 14% year-over-year jump in revenue for Salesforce’s fourth quarter. Posting revenue of $8.38 billion after stock market trading closed on Wednesday, the company beat the expectations of analysts, whose average forecast for the quarter was $7.99 billion, according to data from Yahoo Finance.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Introduction Apache Spark is a powerful big data processing engine that has gained widespread popularity recently due to its ability to process massive amounts of data types quickly and efficiently. While Spark can be used with several programming languages, Python and Scala are popular for building Spark applications. Both languages offer unique advantages and have […] The post Python vs Scala for Apache Spark – Which is Better?

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

AI technology is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. One poll found that 35% of companies currently use AI and another 42% intend to use it in the future. As professional and personal life becomes increasingly more digital, employers everywhere are looking for capable programmers to develop new AI algorithms that will help improve efficiency and address some of our most pressing needs Not only are AI software developer jobs ubiquitous, but they are also well paying.

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KDnuggets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This article outlines the advantages of CatBoost as a GBDTs for interpreting data sources that are highly categorical or contain missing data points.

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Cloudera

MARCH 2, 2023

Recently, we announced enhanced multi-function analytics support in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) with Apache Iceberg. Iceberg is a high-performance open table format for huge analytic data sets. It allows multiple data processing engines, such as Flink, NiFi, Spark, Hive, and Impala to access and analyze data in simple, familiar SQL tables. In this blog post, we are going to share with you how Cloudera Stream Processing ( CSP ) is integrated with Apache Iceberg and how you can use the SQL Stream

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Introduction Welcome to the fascinating world of stock market anomaly detection! In this project, we’ll dive into the historical data of Google’s stock from 2014-2022 and use cutting-edge anomaly detection techniques to uncover hidden patterns and gain insights into the stock market. By identifying outliers and other anomalies, we aim to understand stock market trends […] The post Anomaly Detection on Google Stock Data 2014-2022 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 3, 2023

To some extent, business is a practice in trial and error. You start with a business plan and try to cover all your bases. Then, you make adjustments based on what’s working within your business model— and what isn’t. Sometimes, however, the factors that are slowing down your business’s growth aren’t obvious. It’s important to get an objective look at where there are shortcomings in your business model.

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