CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Whatever the technology, chief information officers (CIOs) and other IT leaders have always been focused on delivering value. Yet it’s rare for any business leader not to say they wish they had a better ROI from their cloud spend. So why the disconnect? Here are some contributing factors: The impact of “Shadow IT,” a trend that grew steadily during the last decade as business groups implemented SaaS solutions with little IT involvement.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Discover essential strategies to enhance cybersecurity while implementing IoT solutions in your business operations for safer connectivity.

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Data Virtualization

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) represents a transformative leap forward in AI, offering businesses unprecedented opportunities to innovate, optimize, and engage. This cutting-edge technology, capable of generating outputs such as text, images, music, and other media, is already reshaping industries. The post Harnessing the Power of Generative AI for Your Enterprise appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Art

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Interested in data engineering? Check out this round-up of built-in Python modules that'll come in handy for data engineering tasks.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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.

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Anmut

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Everyone is talking about AI, but what about the data it depends on? A month ago I attended the world’s largest gathering of management scholars – the Academy of Management conference – in Chicago. The meeting, which brings together over 10,000 academics, is always great fun and thought provoking. Many of the world’s leading thinkers attend to share their ideas and views about organisations and of management more generally.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Experts predict the AI market will grow from $184 billion in 2024 to $826 billion by 2030. And considering the wide range of use cases for AI tools, that’s not much of a surprise.

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Depict Data Studio

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By default, Excel will label TONS of increments along our y-axis scale. And if we’ve already got the exact values within the graph itself, the y-axis can become even more cluttered. In this video, you’ll learn how to adjust your graph’s vertical scale so that it only shows the minimum and maximum value. You’ll adjust the min and max “bounds” and the “units.” You’ll also get bonus tips for setting up this chart type, the columns with a target/

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Added data quality capability ready for an AI era Data quality has never been more important than as we head into this next AI-focused era. Whether it’s truly understanding the quality of your data, being able to pinpoint and resolve quality issues quickly, or ensuring that the data feeding your AI models, and produced by them, is of high-quality and can be trusted, data quality is key to your organization’s success.

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Data Science and Beyond

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Highlights and lessons from my solo expertise biz, including value pricing, fractional cash flow, and distractions from admin & politics.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Introduction The newest model collection from Microsoft’s Small Language Models (SLMs) family is called Phi-3. They surpass models of comparable and greater sizes on a variety of benchmarks in language, reasoning, coding, and math. They are made to be extremely powerful and economical. With Phi-3 models available, Azure clients have access to a wider range […] The post What Makes Microsoft Phi 3.5 SLMs a Game-Changer for Generative AI?

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Hiring in the IT industry has traditionally relied on reviewing a candidate’s experience and education, with less focus on specific skillsets. But that approach is changing, with the emphasis on degrees and experience giving way to skills-first hiring strategies that put organizational skills needs first and foremost. This shifting mindset in hiring is quickly growing in popularity for technical roles, according to a report from Test Gorilla, with 88% of tech companies reporting they’re using sk

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Jen Stirrup

AUGUST 31, 2024

The energy sector’s future is also the future of the planet, and conferences such as the Gastech Conference ( Reference ) are aimed at supporting initiatives and collaboration to meet the various challenges in the 21st century. Many factors are at stake, such as providing secure energy sources and clearing up the ‘energy debt’ to restore what humans have taken from the planet.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Amazon Redshift , a warehousing service, offers a variety of options for ingesting data from diverse sources into its high-performance, scalable environment. Whether your data resides in operational databases, data lakes, on-premises systems, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or other AWS services, Amazon Redshift provides multiple ingestion methods to meet your specific needs.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Introduction Large language models or LLMs are a game-changer especially when it comes to working with content. From supporting summarization, translation, and generation, LLMs like GPT-4, Gemini, and Llama have made it simple to work with content and data. While these can be enough for us as individuals, companies need systems that produce actionable results […] The post 10 Business Applications of LLM Agents appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Ryan Williams Sr. applied for 51 jobs when was transitioning out of the US Air Force, landing an interview for the last of those open positions. Williams remembers that the hiring manager, a former US Marine, was particularly interested in his certifications. “He was very honest about what piqued his interest, which was my combination of the CISSP and PMP.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A beginner tutorial on building a simple web application for machine learning model inference using FastAPI and Jinja2 templates.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In the context of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), knowledge retrieval plays a crucial role, because the effectiveness of retrieval directly impacts the maximum potential of large language model (LLM) generation. Currently, in RAG retrieval, the most common approach is to use semantic search based on dense vectors. However, dense embeddings do not perform well in understanding specialized terms or jargon in vertical domains.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Introduction If you’ve worked with Large Language Models (LLMs), you’re likely familiar with the challenges of tuning them to respond precisely as desired. This struggle often stems from the models’ limited reasoning capabilities or difficulty in processing complex prompts. Despite being trained on vast datasets, LLMs can falter with nuanced or context-heavy queries, leading to […] The post How Can Prompt Engineering Transform LLM Reasoning Ability?

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

According to a recent report from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, 92% of IT jobs will be transformed by AI to a moderate or high degree. But when it comes to senior-level jobs, 100% will see moderate transformation. And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily sk

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Transform your business with generative AI! Learn how to unlock new revenue streams and drive growth through innovative solutions.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Data is a key driver for your business. Data volume can increase significantly over time, and it often requires concurrent consumption of large compute resources. Data integration workloads can become increasingly concurrent as more and more applications demand access to data at the same time. In AWS, hundreds of thousands of customers use AWS Glue , a serverless data integration service, for integrating data across multiple data sources at scale.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Introduction Text-to-image synthesis and image-text contrastive learning are two of the most innovative multimodal learning applications recently gaining popularity. With their innovative applications for creative image creation and manipulation, these models have revolutionized the research community and drawn significant public interest. In order to do further research, DeepMind introduced Imagen.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Para Thomas Meyer, director general y vicepresidente de grupo de Investigación de IDC en EMEA , la aparición y masificación de la inteligencia artificial (IA) puede compararse con la aparición del fuego: poco a poco se van conociendo sus ventajas y beneficios, pero “hay que aprender a usarla, controlarla y asegurarse de que los demás no se quemen, ese es el papel del CIO ”.

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KDnuggets

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Let's see how to perform cross-correlation in NumPy, a method for measuring the similarity or relationship between two sequences of data as one is shifted in relation to the other.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The rapid adoption of software as a service (SaaS) solutions has led to data silos across various platforms, presenting challenges in consolidating insights from diverse sources. Effective data analytics relies on seamlessly integrating data from disparate systems through identifying, gathering, cleansing, and combining relevant data into a unified format.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Introduction Excel is indispensable for boosting productivity and efficiency across all the fields. The wide range of resources on YouTube can help learners of all levels find helpful tutorials specific to their needs. This article showcases ten top YouTube channels for learning Excel, with each channel providing distinct content and teaching methods to assist in […] The post Top 10 YouTube Channels to Learn Excel appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will step down from SAP’s executive board at the end of September. “I want to address an incident at a past company event where my behavior was inappropriate. I regret being inconsiderate and sincerely apologize to everyone affected. I recognize my behavior at that moment did not reflect our values at SAP. I take full responsibility and believe stepping down is best for the company.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

AI technology is going to be more important than ever in improving file transfer security as cyberattacks escalate.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This post is co-written with Sid Wray, Jade Koskela, and Ravi Bhattiprolu from SalesForce. Amazon Redshift and Tableau empower data analysis. Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse that processes complex queries at scale and with speed. Its advanced query optimization serves results to Tableau. Tableau’s extensive capabilities and enterprise connectivity help analysts efficiently prepare, explore, and share data insights company-wide.

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Analytics Vidhya

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Introduction How cool would it be if there was a platform where your creative visions come to life with just a few clicks—a world where you can fine-tune cutting-edge AI models to craft stunning images uniquely yours? Welcome to Civitai, a vibrant platform dedicated to empowering creators by providing access to a vast and ever-growing […] The post Why Should You Explore Civitai for Fine-Tuning AI Models?

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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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