Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Introduction The past week in artificial intelligence has been marked by rapid advancements in model capabilities, hardware, and ethical considerations, sparking conversations about the societal impacts of AI. From OpenAI’s $6.6 billion funding round, pushing its valuation to $157 billion, to Meta’s ambitious launch of Movie Gen for video generation, the landscape is evolving quickly. […] The post AI Bytes: OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA Lead Breakthroughs amid Industry Challenges appeared first on

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. The IDC IT Strategy Framework provides a structured approach for CIOs to align IT initiatives with business goals, ensuring that technology investments drive organizational success.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

This article was written by our friends at Databricks. Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As I noted in the 2024 Buyers Guide for Operational Data Platforms , intelligent applications powered by artificial intelligence have impacted the requirements for operational data platforms. These applications, infused with contextually relevant recommendations, predictions and forecasting, are driven by machine learning and generative AI. Traditionally, operational data platforms support applications used to run the business.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Introduction The marketing landscape has undergone a massive transformation with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Among the AI-driven innovations, generative AI (GenAI) is particularly revolutionizing how marketing teams create content, optimize activities, and deliver campaigns. From personalizing customer experiences to automating content creation, GenAI is capable of enhancing the productivity of the marketing team […] The post How to Use Generative AI in Marketing?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. Organizations and vendors are already rolling out AI coding agents that enable developers to fully automate or offload many tasks, with more pilot programs and proofs-of-concept likely to be launched in 2025, says Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst in Gartner’s

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence-enabled business applications have advanced considerably over the past year as software providers have added a steady stream of capabilities. This includes customer facing, financial, supply chain and workforce software. ISG Research asserts that by 2027, almost all providers of business applications will use some form of generative AI to enhance capabilities and functionality to remain competitive.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Introduction Data science is a rapidly growing tech field that’s transforming business decision-making. To break into this field, you need the right skills. Fortunately, top institutions like Harvard and IBM offer free online courses. These courses cover everything from basic programming to advanced machine learning. In this article, we’ve listed some of the best free […] The post 19 Free Data Science Courses by Harvard and IBM appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Where can you find projects dealing with advanced ML topics? GitHub is a perfect source with its many repositories. I’ve selected ten to talk about in this article.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL is a data stream processing engine that helps you run your own SQL code against streaming sources to perform time series analytics, feed real-time dashboards, and create real-time metrics. AWS has made the decision to discontinue Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, effective January 27, 2026. In this post, we explain why we plan to end support for Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, alternative AWS offerings, and how to migrate your SQL queries and workloads.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2024

CIOs are under increasing pressure to generate business value from generative AI, but Salesforce CIO Juan Perez is among those IT leaders who believe such impatience from the C-suite could doom many projects. “The explosion of AI has really put CIOs in the spotlight and placed the CIOs in the hot seat like never before,” says Perez, fresh off two industry events in which many of his CIO colleagues say they feel they are between a rock and a hard place.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Introduction Chatbots have become an essential tool for most organisations. They provide excellent customer support and enhance user engagement. Are you interested in building a chatbot for your business but aren’t a developer? No problem! Thanks to rapid advancements in no-code platforms, building an AI agent chatbot without coding is now possible for anyone.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Learn about 10 easy steps to becoming an AI engineer in 2024.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, processing large datasets efficiently is crucial for businesses to gain insights and maintain a competitive edge. Amazon EMR is a managed big data service designed to handle these large-scale data processing needs across the cloud. It allows running applications built using open source frameworks on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), or AWS Outposts , or completely serverless.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades. Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. Unprecedented growth in AWS during this period also compelled CIOs to learn more about how startups were innovating and operating efficiently on the cloud.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Introduction Today, we will discuss the first pattern in the series of agentic AI design patterns: The Reflection Pattern. The Reflection Pattern is a powerful approach in AI, particularly for large language models (LLMs), where an iterative process of generation and self-assessment improves the output quality. We can picture it as a course developer who […] The post What is Agentic AI Reflection Pattern?

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This guide emphasizes the growing significance of GenAI but also highlights the crucial role that data scientists play in harnessing this technology to solve real-world problems.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Mayfair, one of the oldest districts in London, has started showing the benefits of investing in big data for business.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

From digital assistants to code generation, many small to medium businesses (SMBs) harbor lofty ambitions for generative AI (GenAI). The next step, however, is just as significant: whether to build their AI initiatives from scratch or simply secure a quick win with an existing AI tool. For a resource-strapped business, this decision comes with a host of considerations, including AI readiness, existing infrastructure, and the amount of value derived, versus the effort required to realize their AI

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Detecting objects in an image requires some accuracy, especially when the image does not only take a box-like shape for easy detection. However, numerous models have provided solutions with state-of-the-art performance in object detection. Zero-shot object detection with the Grounding DINO base is another efficient model that allows you to scan through out-of-box images.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Check out these 10 use cases for AI to shine.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift , which enables you to run high-performance analytics on your DynamoDB data in Amazon Redshift with little to no impact on production workloads running on DynamoDB. As data is written into a DynamoDB table, it’s seamlessly made available in Amazon Redshift , eliminating the need to build and maintain complex data pipelines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Analysts predict the incoming phase of enterprise AI will herald agentic systems that require minimal human intervention, with 75% of CIOs increasing their AI budgets during this year alone, according to a recent report from Gartner. As gen AI becomes embedded into more devices, endowing it with autonomous decision-making will depend on real-time data and avoiding excessive cloud costs.

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Text-to-SQL technologies frequently struggle to capture the complete context and meaning of a user’s request, resulting in queries that do not exactly match the intended. While developers work hard to enhance these systems, it is worth questioning if there is a better method. Enter RAG-to-SQL—a new approach that combines natural language understanding with powerful data […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to RAG-to-SQL on Google Cloud appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This is a comprehensive resource for developers at all levels, whether they are just starting in AI or are looking to refine their expertise further.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Attention all developers, architects, and IT professionals! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the official Amazon OpenSearch Service YouTube channel —a comprehensive resource for anyone looking to master Amazon OpenSearch Service. Whether you’re just getting started with searches , vectors, analytics, or you’re looking to optimize large-scale implementations, our channel can be your go-to resource to help you unlock the full potential of OpenSearch Service.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Los desarrolladores no impresionados por los primeros resultados de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa para la codificación toman nota: el desarrollo de software se dirige hacia una nueva era, en la que la mayor parte del código será escrito por agentes de IA y revisado por desarrolladores experimentados , predice Gartner. Organizaciones y proveedores ya están desplegando agentes de codificación de IA que permiten a los desarrolladores automatizar completamente o descargar muchas tareas,

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Analytics Vidhya

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The rise of generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the way digital marketers approach search engine optimization (SEO). GenAI-driven tools are helping businesses improve search rankings and drive organic traffic more efficiently than ever. According to a survey by seoClarity, 86% of companies have already integrated AI into their SEO strategy, and 83% of them have […] The post 12 Ways to Use Generative AI for SEO appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Various statistical methods you might never have known previously but useful for your workflow.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This is a guest post co-written with Mike Mosher, Sr. Principal Cloud Platform Network Architect at a multi-national financial credit reporting company. I work for a multi-national financial credit reporting company that offers credit risk, fraud, targeted marketing, and automated decisioning solutions. We are an AWS early adopter and have embraced the cloud to drive digital transformation efforts.

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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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