DataKitchen

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“That should take two hours, not two months. Can’t your Data & Analytics Team go any faster?” “The executives’ dashboard broke! The data’s wrong! Can I ever trust our data?” If you’ve ever heard (or had) these complaints about speed-to-insight or data reliability, you should watch our webinar, DataOps for Beginners, on demand. DataKitchen’s VP Gil Benghiat breaks down what DataOps is (spoiler: it’s not just DevOps for data) and how DataOps can take your Data & Analytics factory fro

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. When IT leaders consider generative AI, they should create separate strategies when rolling out productivity-enhancing AI tools than when deploying business-case-driven AI solutions, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Paul Turley

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I work with hundreds of consulting clients who go through the same cycles, having the same experiences, facing the same challenges, many making the same mistakes, and many learning some of the same lessons. The purpose of this series is to share those lessons with you. Universal Best Practices If we sum up Power BI best practices at the highest level, it is that all projects of any scale and size should adhere to the same general set of guidelines, categorically.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Tumors, which are abnormal growths that can develop on brain tissues, pose significant challenges to the Central Nervous System. To detect unusual activities in the brain, we rely on advanced medical imaging techniques like MRI and CT scans. However, accurately identifying tumors can be complex due to their diverse shapes and textures, requiring careful analysis […] The post Classification of MRI Scans using Radiomics and MLP appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Each project, from beginner tasks like Image Classification to advanced ones like Anomaly Detection, includes a link to the dataset and source code for easy access and implementation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry. In fact, a recent Cloudera survey found that 88% of IT leaders said their organization is currently using AI in some way.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In today’s AI landscape, the ability to integrate external knowledge into models, beyond the data they were initially trained on, has become a game-changer. This advancement is driven by Retrieval Augmented Generation, in short RAG. RAG allows AI systems to dynamically access and utilize external information. Various tools have emerged to simplify both the integration […] The post 8 Popular Tools for RAG Applications appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Automate the machine learning modelling important step with LLMs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. I wrote, “ It may be even more important for the security team to protect and maintain the integrity of proprietary data to generate true, long-term enterprise value.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) software can transform various aspects of enterprise operations, which makes it a critical component of modern business strategies. GenAI tools can automate repetitive tasks such as data entry, report generation and customer interactions. GenAI can improve overall operational efficiency, resulting in time and cost savings for the organization.

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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?

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Imagine trying to navigate through hundreds of pages in a dense document filled with tables, charts, and paragraphs. Finding a specific figure or analyzing a trend would be challenging enough for a human; now imagine building a system to do it. Traditional document retrieval systems often rely heavily on text extraction, losing critical context provided […] The post Hands-On Multimodal Retrieval and Interpretability (ColQwen + Vespa) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This is a simple guide for lazy people who want to learn SQL with minimal effort.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As businesses increasingly rely on digital platforms to interact with customers, the need for advanced tools to understand and optimize these experiences has never been greater. Enter Gen AI, a transformative force reshaping digital experience analytics (DXA). Gen AI allows organizations to unlock deeper insights and act on them with unprecedented speed by automating the collection and analysis of user data.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I previously wrote about the importance of open table formats to the evolution of data lakes into data lakehouses. The concept of the data lake was initially proposed as a single environment where data could be combined from multiple sources to be stored and processed to enable analysis by multiple users for multiple purposes. The first iteration of data lakes, based on Apache Hadoop and then object storage, fulfilled the first part of this equation, providing a relatively inexpensive way of sto

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Hey there, fellow Python enthusiast! Have you ever wished your NumPy code run at supersonic speed? Meet JAX! Your new best friend in your machine learning, deep learning, and numerical computing journey. Think of it as NumPy with superpowers. It can automatically handle gradients, compile your code to run fast using JIT, and even run […] The post Guide to Lightning-fast JAX appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Here are some useful Python one-liners for common data cleaning tasks.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. At Google’s parent company, she worked with moonshot companies such as Waymo, Wing, and X, to shape sustainable businesses and global impact.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Oracle announced significant updates to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) software at the recently held Oracle Cloud World. The application suite includes procurement, inventory management, warehouse management, order management and transportation management. SCM tasks are mostly small-scale and repetitive, yet the processes they support are far from simple.

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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.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Imagine if you could automate the tedious task of analyzing earnings reports, extracting key insights, and making informed recommendations—all without lifting a finger. In this article, we’ll walk you through how to create a multi-agent system using OpenAI’s Swarm framework, designed to handle these exact tasks. You’ll learn how to set up and orchestrate three […] The post Building an Earnings Report Agent with Swarm Framework appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Here are some of the main computer programming/coding languages every budding game developer should take time to learn.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

An AI-powered transcription tool widely used in the medical field, has been found to hallucinate text, posing potential risks to patient safety, according to a recent academic study. And that tool is being used in a commercial medical transcription product that, worryingly, deletes the underlying audio from which transcriptions are generated, leaving medical staff no way to verify their accuracy, AP News reported on Saturday.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With a flood of artificial intelligence-related tools now available for contact center buyers, it can be helpful to take a step back and review where buyers can expect a quick return on investment and maximum improvement in efficiency and productivity. For now, it appears that there are three broad buckets into which contact center-focused AI applications are clustered.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In today’s world of video and image analysis, detector models play a vital role in the technology. They should be ideally accurate, speedy and scalable. Their applications vary from small factory detection tasks to self-driving cars and also help in advanced image processing. The YOLO (You Only Look Once) model has purely pushed the boundaries […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to YOLOv11 Object Detection appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Learn how to enhance GPT-4o performance for legal text clarification on your old laptop with just a few lines of code.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Today, security teams worldwide are under immense pressure. They are inundated by increasingly potent cyber threats, especially as threat actors are now leveraging AI to enhance their attack strategies. Addressing intensifying threats The modern threat landscape consists of increasingly complex and varied attacks. Today’s cybercriminals are leveraging advanced techniques to breach security perimeters – ransomware attacks are more targeted, phishing campaigns are increasingly sophisticated, and a

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This post is cowritten with Ruben Simon and Khalid Al Khalili from BMW. BMW’s ambition is to continuously accelerate innovation and improve decision-making across their global operations. To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). The CDH is used to create, discover, and consume data products through a central metadata catalog, while enforcing permission policies and tightly integrating dat

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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.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This article delves into Retrieval-Augmented Generation , an advanced AI technique that improves response accuracy by combining retrieval and generation capabilities. You’ll explore how RAG works by first retrieving relevant, up-to-date information from a knowledge base before generating responses, enabling it to provide more reliable and contextually relevant answers.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Fine-tuning the T5 model for question answering tasks is simple with Hugging Face Transformers: provide the model with questions and context, and it will learn to generate the correct answers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Tens of thousands of customers today rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it the most widely used cloud data warehouse.

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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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