CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are striving to harness the power of digital technologies to reinvent their operations, enhance customer experiences, drive innovation, and thereby create value for stakeholders. But the hard truth is that many digital initiatives fail to deliver results. Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Learn how to perform data quality checks using pandas. From detecting missing records to outliers, inconsistent data entry and more.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data monetization is a business capability where an organization can create and realize value from data and artificial intelligence (AI) assets. A value exchange system built on data products can drive business growth for your organization and gain competitive advantage. This growth could be internal cost effectiveness, stronger risk compliance, increasing the economic value of a partner ecosystem, or through new revenue streams.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is not the first time that I’ve written about AI creativity, and I doubt that it will be the last. It’s a question that comes up repeatedly, and that is very much in the current mind, with events like the strikes by the Writers’ Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild , in which the use of AI to create scripts and to generate images of actors was an issue.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Introduction A goal of supervised learning is to build a model that performs well on a set of new data. The problem is that you may not have new data, but you can still experience this with a procedure like train-test-validation split. Isn’t it interesting to see how your model performs on a data set? […] The post A Comprehensive Guide to Train-Test-Validation Split in 2023 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. It’s come down to earth — sometimes with an unexpected thud onto the wrong side of a company’s balance sheet. “There are so many people who bought into cloud without thinking through the real reasons why they were doing this and what they wanted to accomplish,” says David Mitchell Smith, distinguished vice president and

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For organizations seeking to unlock innovation with data and AI, AWS re:Invent 2023 offers several opportunities. Attendees will discover services, strategies, and solutions for tackling any data challenge. In this post, we provide a curated list of keynotes, sessions, demos, and exhibits that will showcase how you can unlock innovation in data and AI using AWS for Data.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In a surprising turn of events, OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence research lab, has announced the termination of its co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. This unexpected decision, announced on November 17, 2023, has sent ripples through the tech industry, raising questions about the future of the organization and its AI research. Chief technology officer Mira […] The post Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s the fastest-moving new technology in history. Generative AI is transforming the world, changing the way we create images and videos, audio, text, and code. According to a September survey of IT decision makers by Dell, 76% say gen AI will have a “significant if not transformative” impact on their organizations, and most expect to see meaningful results within the next 12 months.

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Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Data is like children, it’s constantly on the move, and loves to get dirty — but holds out the promise of huge new value in the organization, thanks to Generative AI. I just listened to industry veteran analysts Jon Reed and Josh Greenbaum discuss the recent ASUG Tech Connect Event in Orlando. I strongly urge you to take a listen to the whole thing , but one thing jumped out: that bad data is one of the biggest problems organizations face when trying to take advantage of Generative A

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open source frameworks, supporting open table file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a daring move signalling the next AI frontier, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman hints at developing GPT-5, the successor to the wildly popular ChatGPT. This initiative, possibly backed by Microsoft’s financial support, is poised to redefine AI boundaries and achieving AGI. The Evolution of Generative AI OpenAI, a leading AI research lab, has led generative […] The post OpenAI Gears Up for GPT-5 Development with Microsoft’s Backing appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. The reason for this shift is simple: While CIOs can often call on talented teams of internal IT professionals to deliver business solutions, no technology department can be expected to generate every innovation necessary to

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The top vector databases are known for their versatility, performance, scalability, consistency, and efficient algorithms in storing, indexing, and querying vector embeddings for AI applications.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Forrester Research just released “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2023: The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up” by Craig Le Clair with Glenn O’Donnell, Renee Taylor-Huot, Lok Sze Sung, Audrey Lynch, and Kara Hartig and IBM is proud to be recognized as a Leader. IBM named a Leader In the report, Forrester Research evaluated 15 digital process automation (DPA) providers against 26 criteria in three categories: Current offering,

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In a groundbreaking move at the annual Ignite conference, Microsoft unveiled the highly anticipated Maia 100 chip and Cobalt CPU. This strategic initiative aims to seize control of technology, establishing dominance in the fiercely competitive AI computing market. CEO Satya Nadella outlined ambitious plans to harness the power of these innovative chips.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Generative AI, in particular, is at the heart of many of the new product announcements Microsoft is making at the event, including new AI capabilities for wrangling large language models (LLMs) in Azure, new additions to its Copilot range of generative AI assistants, new hardware, and a new tool to help developers de

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze all your data to derive holistic insights about your business and your customers. Amazon Redshift now supports custom URLs or custom domain names for your data warehouse. You might want to use a custom domain name or CNAME (Canonical Name) for the following reasons: A custom domain name is straightforward to recall and use.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Kubernetes , the world’s most popular open-source container orchestration platform , is considered a major milestone in the history of cloud-native technologies. Developed internally at Google and released to the public in 2014, Kubernetes has enabled organizations to move away from traditional IT infrastructure and toward the automation of operational tasks tied to the deployment, scaling and managing of containerized applications (or microservices ).

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Introduction In AI, two distinct challenges have surfaced: deploying large models in cloud environments, incurring formidable compute costs that impede scalability and profitability, and accommodating resource-constrained edge devices struggling to support complex models. The common thread among these challenges is the imperative to shrink model size without compromising accuracy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Competition among software vendors to be “the” platform on which enterprises build their IT infrastructure is intensifying, with the focus of late on how much noise they can make about their implementation of generative AI features. ServiceNow wasn’t the first to announce its generative AI capabilities, but it was among the first of the major platform vendors to make them generally available to all customers.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Integrating AI-powered pair programming tools for data analytics in Databricks optimizes and streamlines the development process, freeing up developer time for innovation.

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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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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This post is written in collaboration with Philipp Karg and Alex Gutfreund from BMW Group. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is a motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Germany with 149,475 employees worldwide and the profit before tax in the financial year 2022 was € 23.5 billion on revenues amounting to € 142.6 billion. BMW Group is one of the world’s leading premium manufacturers of automobiles and motorcycles, also providing premium financial and mobility services.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

OpenAI, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, grapples with an overwhelming surge in demand, prompting a temporary suspension of new subscriptions for its premium ChatGPT Plus service. CEO Sam Altman, addressing the surge in usage following DevDay, acknowledges capacity challenges and emphasises a commitment to ensuring an impeccable user experience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. So congratulations! You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. I’ve been writing about how life is different for software company CIOs for years — more specifically, on how they must make clearer distinctions between IT and product

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Welcome back to Week 2 of KDnuggets’ "Back to Basics" series. This week, we delve into the vital world of Databases, SQL, Data Management, and Statistical Concepts in Data Science.

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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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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In this post, we demonstrate automating deployment of Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) using customer-managed endpoints in a VPC, providing compatibility with shared, or otherwise restricted, VPCs. Data scientists and engineers have made Apache Airflow a leading open source tool to create data pipelines due to its active open source community, familiar Python development as Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) workflows, and extensive library of pre-built integrations.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown significantly in the past few years, mainly because of the rise of large language models (LLMs). These sophisticated AI systems, trained on vast datasets containing abundant human language, have driven myriad technological advancements. LLMs’ sheer scale and complexity, such as GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3), have elevated them to […] The post The Next Frontier of Email Efficiency with LLMs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It’s no secret that companies are committing to DevOps. In fact, according to a recent survey, three-quarters of leaders have adopted DevOps into their operations. DevOps delivers speed and agility to the development process. By cross-training operations and engineering, development teams can move faster through better collaboration, making continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) a reality for organizations.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Go beyond business analytics with Bay Path University's Flexible MS in Applied Data Science. Enrolling now for March.

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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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