O'Reilly on Data
OCTOBER 22, 2024
I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced developer knows: There’s more than one good solution to every problem.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2024
CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver meaningful returns from generative AI initiatives, yet spiraling costs and complex governance challenges are undermining their efforts, according to Gartner. Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said.
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KDnuggets
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Enhance your NLP skills through a variety of resources, including roadmaps, frameworks, courses, tutorials, example code, and projects.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Our previous guide discussed the first Agentic AI design pattern from the Reflection, Tool Use, Planning, and Multi-Agent Patterns list. Now, we will talk about the Tool Use Pattern in Agentic AI. Firstly, let us reiterate the Reflection Pattern article: That article sheds light on how LLMs can use an iterative generation process and self-assessment […] The post What is Agentic AI Tool Use Pattern?
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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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.
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a fully managed service that builds upon Apache Airflow, offering its benefits while eliminating the need for you to set up, operate, and maintain the underlying infrastructure, reducing operational overhead while increasing security and resilience. Today, we are excited to announce an enhancement to the Amazon MWAA integration with the Airflow REST API.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Artificial Intelligence continues to dominate this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, as well as the research firm’s annual predictions list. “It is clear that no matter where we go, we cannot avoid the impact of AI,” Daryl Plummer, distinguished vice president analyst, chief of research and Gartner Fellow told attendees. “AI is evolving as human use of AI evolves.
Data Leaders Brief brings together the best content for data, strategy, and BI professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 19, 2024
Image segmentation has become a popular technology, with different fine-tuned models available for various purposes. The model labels every pixel in an image by streaming every region of the input image; this concept makes the idea of semantic segmentation into reality and application. This Face parsing model is a semantic segmentation technology fine-tuned from Nvidia’s […] The post Understanding Face Parsing: A Deep Dive into Semantic Segmentation Technology appeared first on Analytics V
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Although the terms data fabric and data mesh are often used interchangeably, I previously explained that they are distinct but complementary. Data fabric refers to technology products that can be used to integrate, manage and govern data across distributed environments, supporting the cultural and organizational data ownership and access goals of data mesh.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 24, 2024
IT leaders are placing faith in AI. Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. But when it comes to cybersecurity, AI has become a double-edged sword. While poised to fortify the security posture of organizations, it has also changed the nature of cyberattacks.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Tired of endless job applications? Discover how AI is transforming the job hunt and helping people land their dream careers with just a single click.
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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?
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The YOLO (You Only Look Once) series has made real-time object identification possible. The most recent version, YOLOv11, improves performance and efficiency. This article provides in-depth discussions of YOLOv11’s main advancements, parallels to earlier YOLO models, and practical uses. By comprehending its developments, we may observe why YOLOv11 is expected to become a key tool […] The post YOLOv11: The Next Leap in Real-Time Object Detection appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Sprinklr’s analyst day in September was an opportunity for the company to dive deeply into its progress in pivoting its product offerings to align with a broader perception of the market for contact centers and adjacent customer-related applications. Sprinklr has described its market as “unified CXM,” or customer experience management. This is nominally aligned with how ISG Research defines the new space emerging from the collision of contact center tools with other systems necessary to manage C
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills. Since 2022, the tech industry has experienced massive layoffs, as large tech companies have reduced their workforce numbers in response to rising interest rates and emerging generative AI technology.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 22, 2024
With the development of AI technologies and tools, the best one can do for their career is stay ahead of the game and continue to upskill.
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📌Is your Data & AI transformation struggling to really impact the business? Discover the game-changing StratOps approach that: Bridges the Gap : Connect your Data & AI strategy to your operating model, to ensure alignment at every level. Prioritizes Outcomes : Focuses on concrete business outcomes from day one, rather than capabilities in isolation.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The LangGraph ReAct Function-Calling Pattern offers a powerful framework for integrating various tools like search engines, calculators, and APIs with an intelligent language model to create a more interactive and responsive system. This pattern is built upon the Reasoning + Acting (ReAct) approach, which allows a language model to not only reason through queries but […] The post Dynamic AI Workflows Through LangGraph ReAct Function Calling appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
OCTOBER 23, 2024
In a previous role I was actively involved with identifying and implementing dashboards and reports tracking key sales department metrics and KPIs for enterprise-size customers as well as high-tech growth companies. These included recognizable examples such as opportunity conversion rate, average deal size and sales velocity (length of time to close, won or lost).
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Forrester Research this week unleashed a slate of predictions for 2025. Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. “2025 will be about the pursuit of near-term, bottom-line gains while competing for declining consumer loyalty and digital-first business buyers,” Sharyn Leaver, Forrester chief research officer, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 24, 2024
To help you navigate this complex subject, we’ve compiled five free online courses that will give you a solid foundation in machine learning algorithms.
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 21, 2024
With this blog, I would like to show one small agent built-in with `LangGraph` and Google Gemini for research purposes. The objective is to demonstrate one research agent (Paper-to-Voice Assistant) who plans to summarize the research paper. This tool will use a vision model to infer the information. This method only identifies the step and […] The post Paper-to-Voice Assistant: AI Agent Using Multimodal Approach appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Gaining granular visibility into application-level costs on Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) clusters presents an opportunity for customers looking for ways to further optimize resource utilization and implement fair cost allocation and chargeback models. By breaking down the usage of individual applications running in your EMR cluster, you can unlock several benefits: Informed workload management – Application-level cost insights empower organizations to prioritize and sc
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 25, 2024
If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. While the 60-year-old mainframe platform wasn’t created to run AI workloads, 86% of business and IT leaders surveyed by Kyndryl say they are deploying, or plan to deploy, AI tools or applications on their mainframes.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Using Python to build engaging and interactive applications where users can pass in an input, get and feedback and make use of multimedia elements such as images, videos, and audio.
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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 19, 2024
Have you ever wondered how to build a multilingual application that can effortlessly translate text from English to other languages? Imagine creating your very own translation tool, leveraging the power of LangChain to handle the heavy lifting. In this article, we will learn how to build a basic application using LangChain to translate text from […] The post How to Build a Simple LLM Application with LCEL?
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 20, 2024
AI can be great for creating powerful videos, so you should look for an agency that knows how to use it effectively.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Organizations experimenting with gen AI typically set up enterprise-grade accounts with cloud-based services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, and early field tests and productivity benefits may inspire them to look for more opportunities to deploy the technology. “Companies use gen AI to produce executive summaries, or to produce marketing content,” says Nick Kramer, leader of applied solutions at SSA & Company, a global consulting firm, and next year, we’ll see increased adop
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 23, 2024
This comparison analyzes and compares two salient frameworks for architecting deep learning solutions.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 19, 2024
OpenAI’s Swarm framework is designed to create a user-friendly and flexible environment for coordinating multiple agents. While it’s primarily intended for educational and experimental use, OpenAI advises against using Swarm in production settings, but it is a framework worth exploring. Its core purpose is to demonstrate the concepts of “handoffs” and “routines,” patterns that help […] The post How OpenAI Swarm Enhances Multi-Agent Collaboration?
AWS Big Data
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. It also helps you securely access your data in operational databases, data lakes, or third-party datasets with minimal movement or copying of data. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process large amounts of data, modernize their data analytics workloads, and provide insights for their busine
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Sevita is dedicated to providing adults, children, and their families innovative services and support designed to lead to growth and independence despite physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges. With person-centered care, the company works to foster independence, improve quality of life, and promote overall well-being for the individuals they serve.
KDnuggets
OCTOBER 21, 2024
A sneak peek of what’s to come at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, FL, on March 3-5, 2025.
Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network
In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.
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