Sat.Nov 23, 2019 - Fri.Nov 29, 2019

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The Four Types of Chief Data Officers

Teradata

Every organization, in every industry, needs a Chief Data Officer. Use these guidelines to choose the one with the optimal skills and background for success.

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A Doomed Marriage of Machine Learning and Agile

KDnuggets

Sebastian Thrun, the founder of Udacity, ruined my machine learning project and wedding.

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Need a New Topic for Thanksgiving Dinner? How to Explain Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Anyone.and Make it Fun!

Bruno Aziza

Need a New Topic for Thanksgiving Dinner? How to Explain Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Anyone.and Make it Fun!

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Top 10 Analytics And Business Intelligence Trends For 2020

datapine

Over the past decade, business intelligence has been revolutionized. Data exploded and became big. We all gained access to the cloud. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. Suddenly advanced analytics wasn’t just for the analysts. 2019 was a particularly major year for the business intelligence industry.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Data Ethics, Culture and Advanced Analytics Top the Agenda at CDAO Fall

Corinium

Data ethics, data culture and the future of advanced analytics were the three themes that dominated CDAO Fall in Boston, MA last week. As Corinium’s flagship conference, the annual event showcases how the world’s top data and analytics leaders are driving change within their organizations and reveals the key talking points for the year ahead.

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Challenges of Data Science Projects

Data Science 101

It is no secret that data science is difficult. Companies struggle to succeed with data science projects. Even Gartner predicts that by 2022 only 20% of analytics projects will deliver business value. That means about 80% will fail to deliver value. Thus, companies need to be very careful about running data analytics projects. There are many reasons for the failure of data science projects.

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What is the Chi-Square Test and How Does it Work? An Intuitive Explanation with R Code

Analytics Vidhya

Overview What is the chi-square test? How does it work? Learn about the different types of Chi-Square tests and where and when you should. The post What is the Chi-Square Test and How Does it Work? An Intuitive Explanation with R Code appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Moving AI and ML from research into production

O'Reilly on Data

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Dean Wampler, head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, talks about moving AI and machine learning into real-time production environments. Highlights from the interview include: Facilitating the transition from research to production in a robust way introduces a number of complications, Wampler says, including governance, GDPR, and traceability rules.

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MEA Data Leaders Focused On Advanced Analytics

Corinium

The role of a CDAO will naturally evolve with their company’s data maturity, and our research shows that this evolution is well underway in organisations across the Middle East and Africa. To determine the current state of data analytics in the Middle East and Africa, we conducted a representative survey of 87 senior data analytics leaders from across the region to create our 2020 State of Data & Analytics MEA report.

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Open Source Projects by Google, Uber and Facebook for Data Science and AI

KDnuggets

Open source is becoming the standard for sharing and improving technology. Some of the largest organizations in the world namely: Google, Facebook and Uber are open sourcing their own technologies that they use in their workflow to the public.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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A Unique Method for Machine Learning Interpretability: Game Theory & Shapley Values!

Analytics Vidhya

Overview Learn how to use Shapley values in game theory for machine learning interpretability It’s a unique and different perspective to interpret black-box machine. The post A Unique Method for Machine Learning Interpretability: Game Theory & Shapley Values! appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Enterprise Architecture Tools and the Changing Role of the Enterprise Architect

erwin

Enterprise architecture tools are becoming more important than ever. The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.”. In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical.

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The Age of the Customer: How companies transform their customer experience

Corinium

Time and time again, we hear from our contacts asking to hear about real use cases. We have partnered with Zendesk to share their customer stories. "The customer is always right" is a phrase that Zendesk takes very seriously. What a customer needs and wants? That's at the heart and soul of everything Zendesk does. Whether it’s small companies trying to rapidly grow and build their brand, or large companies trying to maintain customer loyalty, Zendesk aims to empower businesses to seamlessly serv

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Getting Started with Automated Text Summarization

KDnuggets

This article will walk through an extractive text summarization process, using a simple word frequency approach, implemented in Python.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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DSAT – First Ever Adaptive Learning Platform for Data Science Professionals

Analytics Vidhya

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” – Steve Jobs We are thrilled to announce the launch of. The post DSAT – First Ever Adaptive Learning Platform for Data Science Professionals appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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7 Ways To Use Big Data To Your Advantage On Social Media

Smart Data Collective

Businesses can use big data in many capacities, but those who use it for social media are at a huge advantage. It enables you as a social media marketer to get a closer look at your customer base, understand what drives purchasing decisions , and encourage consumers to pull the trigger. Using big data to augment your social media strategy provides a wealth of opportunities simply because social media is such an integral part of people’s lives.

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Getting to Know Your Speaker Armel Lupapi

Corinium

In the next addition of our 'getting to know your speaker', we are proud to bring you Armel Lupapi.

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Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 20-26: How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code

KDnuggets

Also: Deep Learning for Image Classification with Less Data; How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code; 25 Useful #Python Snippets to Help in Your Day-to-Day Work; Automated Machine Learning Project Implementation Complexities.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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IADSS Talk – Who can be a Data Scientist?

Data Science 101

Initiative for Analytics and Data Science Standards (IADSS) is an organization working to develop standards around the roles in data science. They did a large survey earlier this year and they are starting to role out some of their results. Below is a video with some early results. Great Stuff! Data Science 101 is proud to be an IADSS Digital Community Partner.

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Get Ready For These Six 2020 Business Intelligence Trends

Smart Data Collective

More and more often, businesses are using data to drive their decisions — which makes cutting-edge analytics and business intelligence strategies one of the best advantages a company can have. New technologies, especially those driven by artificial intelligence (or AI), are changing how businesses collect and extract usable insights from data. Here are the six trends you should be aware of that will reshape business intelligence in 2020 and throughout the new decade. 1.

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Speaker Spotlight Day Manuet, Data Analyst – Analytics, Epworth HealthCare

Corinium

Joining us at the Data and Analytics in Healthcare (4-5 March | Melbourne), we are pleased to welcome Day Manuet, Data Analyst – Analytics at Epworth HealthCare. She shares her thoughts on the use of data within Australia's healthcare system, and what steps need to be taken to improve patient outcomes through data analytics and much more.

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Markov Chains: How to Train Text Generation to Write Like George R. R. Martin

KDnuggets

Read this article on training Markov chains to generate George R. R. Martin style text.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Cloud Data Science News – Beta #4

Data Science 101

In the United States, it is a holiday week, so the news is pretty limited from many of the big cloud providers. Luckily, Amazon has come through with a flurry of machine learning announcements. Amazon is holding their annual re:Invent Conference next week, so maybe these announcements are precursors to some bigger news next week. We will have to wait and see.

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Can Big Data Eliminate Shortcomings of Team Extension Models?

Smart Data Collective

Big data is becoming more essential in the arena of employee collaboration. A growing number of teams are finding that big data can be very beneficial when it comes to forging stronger relationships between their participants. Dr. Mark van Rijmenam, the founder of DataFlaq is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection between big data and interpersonal communication.

Big Data 101
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Top 6 Data Analytics Tools in 2019

FineReport

When it comes to data analytics tools, we always have questions. What is the difference between so many data analysis tools? Which is better? Which one should I study? Although this is a commonplace topic, it is really important, and I have been working hard to pursue the answer to this ultimate problem. If you go online to search for relevant information in this area, it is difficult to see a fair point of view.

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Content-based Recommender Using Natural Language Processing (NLP)

KDnuggets

A guide to build a content-based movie recommender model based on NLP.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Hey Data People, The NIH needs your help

Data Science 101

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is creating a Data Management and Sharing Policy. They are currently looking for input on the policy. The NIH funds a lot of research, and this policy will affect the data and results researchers produce. NIH’s DRAFT Data Management and Sharing Policy: We Need to Hear From You! This is the time to share your thoughts.

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AI Simplified: What Computers Are Good At

DataRobot

Is AI taking over our jobs? Will AI replace the need for humans? No. Think of the rise of AI as a way of enhancing us, not replacing us. Colin Priest, VP of AI Strategy at DataRobot, explains when to use AI to complete a task and when to turn to a human.

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A Complete Guide for Automated Reporting

FineReport

1. What is automated reporting? Automated reporting is the process of regularly sending reports via a variety of ways according to set intervals or triggered tasks. In detail, with the automated reporting software , users can set up the time frame, frequency, or triggered events to send the reports at a specific time. For example, a scheduled report containing the weekly website traffic can be set to automatically send out every Sunday at 10 pm so that the marketing department can use this repor

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Two Years In The Life of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Java

KDnuggets

Where does Java stand in the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning? Learn more about how to do these things in Java, and the libraries and frameworks to use.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?