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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While lawyers argue in the WP Engine versus Automattic litigation whether the hyperbole should be believed, the continuing battle of words, almost all nasty ones, is starting to raise doubts how much an enterprise should rely on open source. And even if open source can be avoided at all in late 2024. The latest legal documents came from Automattic, which argued that its people did nothing wrong and that the blame lies solely with WP Engine.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 27, 2024

In today’s age of rapid technological advancements, virtual try-on chatbot are revolutionizing how users experience shopping by allowing them to “try on” garments before making a purchase. This article will walk you through a virtual try-on prototype built using Flask, Twilio’s WhatsApp API, and Hugging Face’s Gradio API, which enables users to send photos via WhatsApp and […] The post Building a Virtual Try-On Chatbot on WhatsApp with Flask, Twilio, and Gradio API appeared first on Analyt

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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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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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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In this article, the author proposes a new phrase: "If Data is the New Oil, then Generative AI is the new Rocket Fuel," to emphasize GAI's role in enhancing data's value.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisor

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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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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 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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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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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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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Today, we are announcing dedicated coordinator nodes for Amazon OpenSearch Service domains deployed on managed clusters. When you use Amazon OpenSearch Service to create OpenSearch domains, the data nodes serve dual roles of coordinating data-related requests like indexing requests, and search requests, and of doing the work of processing the requests – indexing documents and responding to search queries.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Let’s start from the beginning!! With Google’s inception, our lives have become much easier than we ever imagined – if you want to explore any place before visiting, “Just Google It”; if you want to know about the history of the world dates back to the Stone Age, “Just Google It” and so on. However, […] The post ChatGPT Search: AI Search Engine Challenging Google Monopoly appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This article presents a comprehensive discussion of when to choose which approach for your LLM and potential hybrid solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When executives got tired of long project timelines, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines, Agile seemed like the ultimate solution since it promised faster delivery, more flexibility, and closer alignment to business needs so the strategy could be realized quicker and with a higher ROI. Now, however, organizations are laying off Agile teams en masse, disillusioned by the lack of tangible results.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Amazon Redshift has enhanced its Redshift ML feature to support integration of large language models (LLMs). As part of these enhancements, Redshift now enables native integration with Amazon Bedrock. This integration enables you to use LLMs from simple SQL commands alongside your data in Amazon Redshift, helping you to build generative AI applications quickly.

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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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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

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 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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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This is a joint blog post co-authored with Martin Mikoleizig from Volkswagen Autoeuropa. Volkswagen Autoeuropa is a Volkswagen Group plant that produces the T-Roc. The plant is located near Lisbon, Portugal and produces about 934 cars per day. In 2023, Volkswagen Autoeuropa represented 1.3% of the national GDP of Portugal and 4% in national export of goods impact with a sales volume of 3.3511 billion Euros.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Retrievers play a crucial role in the LangChain framework by providing a flexible interface that returns documents based on unstructured queries. Unlike vector stores, retrievers are not required to store documents; their primary function is to retrieve relevant information. While vector stores can serve as the backbone of a retriever, various types of retrievers exist, […] The post 3 Advanced Strategies for Retrievers in LangChain appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Over the last few months, Cloudera has been traversing the globe hosting our EVOLVE24 event series. It has been a time full of excitement, innovative ideas, and connection with our partners and customers. It also provided a moment for us to launch an important initiative for Cloudera: our Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) initiative. WLIT is a global initiative developed to create a forum wherein women and allies in tech leadership roles can connect with and demonstrate to women and girls tha

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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 30, 2024

This is part two of a three-part series where we show how to build a data lake on AWS using a modern data architecture. This post shows how to load data from a legacy database (SQL Server) into a transactional data lake ( Apache Iceberg ) using AWS Glue. We show how to build data pipelines using AWS Glue jobs, optimize them for both cost and performance, and implement schema evolution to automate manual tasks.

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Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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