O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute. The Times also quoted Meta officials as saying that their models will not be able to keep up unless they follow OpenAI and Google’s lead.

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Data Virtualization

JUNE 19, 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutes The data landscape has evolved and become more complex as organizations recognize the need to leverage data and analytics. Generative artificial intelligence has further put pressure on organizations to manage this complexity. At TDWI, we see companies collecting traditional structured. The post Navigating the New Data Landscape: Trends and Opportunities appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information

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Smarten

JUNE 18, 2024

How Can My Business Understand and Handle Those Pesky Data Anomalies? Why guess at the cause of your business results? Whether you are seeing positive or negative results, it is still important to understand the ‘why.’ Without this information, you cannot adapt and adjust to improve declining results, OR repeat and improve those great results you are experiencing.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 18, 2024

Introduction Ever wonder how to get a complete picture of your company from different databases? SQL can help! Merging data from tables is like putting puzzle pieces together. This lets you analyze and report on all your information at once. In this article, we’ll explore how to use SQL queries like JOIN, UNION, etc. Overview Let’s dive […] The post 11 Ways to Merge Tables in SQL appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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Cloudera

JUNE 18, 2024

The world of Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly evolving, with a wide array of models available for businesses to leverage. These models can be broadly categorized into two types: closed-source (proprietary) and open-source models. Closed-source models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Anthropic’s Claude 3, or Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, are developed and maintained by private and public companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. Berke Menekli, VP of digital platform services, says it’s one of the best things he ever did. BSH’s previous infrastructure and operations teams, which supported the European appliance manufacturer’s application development groups, simply acted as suppliers of infrastructur

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 18, 2024

Multimodal search enables both text and image search capabilities, transforming how users access data through search applications. Consider building an online fashion retail store: you can enhance the users’ search experience with a visually appealing application that customers can use to not only search using text but they can also upload an image depicting a desired style and use the uploaded image alongside the input text in order to find the most relevant items for each user.

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TDAN

JUNE 19, 2024

“What’s a metaphor?” Mr. Biergel posed the question one morning to my high school grammar class. Being typical teenagers, we looked at him with blank-eyed stares. We expected that if we waited long enough, he’d write a paragraph-long definition on the blackboard. “What’s a metaphor?” he repeated. “A place for cows to graze!” We groaned.

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CONTACT Software

JUNE 18, 2024

On January 5, 2023, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) came into effect – but what exactly does that mean? The European Parliament adopted this regulation as a significant step within the European Green Deal framework of 2019.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 19, 2024

Introduction “AI Agentic workflow will drive massive progress this year,” commented Andrew Ng, highlighting the significant advancements anticipated in AI. With the growing popularity of large language models, Autonomous Agents are becoming a topic of discussion. In this article, we will explore Autonomous Agents, cover the components of building an Agentic workflow, and discuss the […] The post Building an Agentic Workflow with CrewAI and Groq appeared first on Analytics Vidhy

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O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 18, 2024

We’re planning a live virtual event later this year, and we want to hear from you. Are you using a powerful AI technology that seems like everyone ought to be using? Here’s your opportunity to show the world ! AI is too often seen as a “first world” enterprise of, by, and for the wealthy. We’re going to take a look at a Digital Green ’s Farmer.Chat , a generative AI bot that was designed to help small-scale farmers in developing countries access critical agricultural information.

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DataKitchen

JUNE 21, 2024

Navigating the Storm: How Data Engineering Teams Can Overcome a Data Quality Crisis Ah, the data quality crisis. It’s that moment when your carefully crafted data pipelines start spewing out numbers that make as much sense as a cat trying to bark. You know you’re in trouble when the finance team uses your reports as modern art installations rather than decision-making tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence, it is widely assumed, will soon unleash the biggest transformation in health care provision since the medical sector started its journey to professionalization after the flu pandemic of 1918. The catch is that bringing this about will require new institutional channels for knowledge, engineering, and ethical collaboration that don’t yet exist.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 19, 2024

Introduction The advent of huge language models in the likes of ChatGPT ushered in a new epoch concerning conversational AI in the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence. Anthropic’s ChatGPT model, which can engage in human-like dialogues, solve difficult tasks, and provide well thought-out answers that are contextually relevant, has fascinated people all over the […] The post Why Does ChatGPT Use Only Decoder Architecture?

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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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KDnuggets

JUNE 20, 2024

Image by author Model deployment is the process of trained models being integrated into practical applications. This includes defining the necessary environment, specifying how input data is introduced into the model and the output produced, and the capacity to analyze new data and provide relevant predictions or categorizations.

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Cloudera

JUNE 17, 2024

Pride Month is underway and we at Cloudera are looking forward to joining the global celebration of diversity, equity and the ongoing effort for LGBTQ+ ( L esbian, G ay, B isexual, T ransgender, Q ueer/ Q uestioning) rights and recognition. Pride Month serves as a reminder that the fight for equality and equity for members of the LGBTQ+ community is not over.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

As a nonprofit R&D center for the US government, MITRE is no stranger to AI. Its researchers have long been working with IBM’s Watson AI technology, and so it would come as little surprise that — when OpenAI released ChatGPT based on GPT 3.5 in late November 2022 — MITRE would be among the first organizations looking to capitalize on the technology, launching MITREChatGPT a month later.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 21, 2024

Introduction If you have been working with data, I’m sure you use Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets on a daily basis. These tools make data storage and organization so easy, that they’ve become indispensable for data analysts, finance professionals, and even students. The best part of using these programs is the built-in functions they have, […] The post Standard Deviation in Excel and Sheets 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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KDnuggets

JUNE 21, 2024

Want to learn AI from the best of resources? Check out these free AI courses from top universities.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 18, 2024

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that enables you to run extract, transform, and load (ETL) workloads on your data in a scalable and serverless manner. One of the main advantages of using a cloud platform is its flexibility; you can provision compute resources when you actually need them. However, with this ease of creating resources comes a risk of spiraling cloud costs when those resources are left unmanaged or without guardrails.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2024

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is ripe for a major makeover thanks to generative AI, as some experts see the tandem as a perfect pairing that could lead to higher profits at enterprises that combine them. The use of gen AI with ERP systems is still in its early days, but the combination is expected to provide several benefits, including helping employees create specialized ERP functionality on their own through code wizards, says Liz Herbert, a Forrester analyst and lead author of the report

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 19, 2024

Introduction In the fast-evolving world of AI, it’s crucial to keep track of your API costs, especially when building LLM-based applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines in production. Experimenting with different LLMs to get the best results often involves making numerous API requests to the server, each request incurring a cost.

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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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TDAN

JUNE 19, 2024

AI governance has become a critical topic in today’s technological landscape, especially with the rise of AI and GenAI. As CEOs express concerns regarding the potential risks with these technologies, it is important to identify and address the biggest risks.

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The Data Visualisation Catalogue

JUNE 19, 2024

Also known as a Tile Cartogram, Tilegram. A Mosaic Cartogram is a type of data map where the geographical regions are made up of uniform, square tiles. In a Mosaic Cartogram, each tile represents a nominal unit from a particular variable (e.g. 1 square = 1 million people). Hence, the number of tiles assigned to a region is proportional to the data value assigned to that region.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 17, 2024

In the 2022 Spring Playoffs for multiplayer video game League of Legends, Team Liquid suffered a shocking 0-3 loss to rival team Evil Geniuses, which prevented it from moving on to the 2022 World Championships. “Out of nowhere, they pulled some counter picks [during the draft] that we just had no visibility on,” says Jesse Hart, senior director of sports science and analytics for Team Liquid.

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 17, 2024

Introduction The log-normal distribution is a fascinating statistical concept commonly used to model data that exhibit right-skewed behavior. This distribution has wide-ranging applications in various fields, such as biology, finance, and engineering. In this article, we will delve into the log-normal distribution, its key parameters, and how to interpret them, as well as explore some […] The post Understanding the Log-normal Distribution appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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

JUNE 21, 2024

The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark is a performance-optimized runtime that is 100% API compatible with open source Apache Spark. It offers faster out-of-the-box performance than Apache Spark through improved query plans, faster queries, and tuned defaults. Amazon EMR on EC2 , Amazon EMR Serverless , Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS , and Amazon EMR on AWS Outposts all use this optimized runtime, which is 4.5 times faster than Apache Spark 3.5.1 and has 2.8 times better price-performance based on an

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 20, 2024

There are a lot of great things that you can do to become a more successful data scientist, which includes engaging in certain hobbies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2024

The market for enterprise applications grew 12% in 2023, to $356 billion, with the top 5 vendors — SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and Intuit — commanding a 21.2% market share between them, according to International Data Corp. “With just 0.2% of market share separating SAP and Salesforce, IDC regards these two companies as statistically tied for the number 1 position in the worldwide enterprise applications market for 2023,” it said in a new study, Worldwide Enterprise Applications Software

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Analytics Vidhya

JUNE 20, 2024

Introduction An introduction to machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) involves understanding two basic concepts: parameters and hyperparameters. When I came across these terms for the first time, I was confused because they were new to me. If you’re reading this, I assume you are in a similar situation too. So let’s explore and […] The post Understanding Parameters and Hyperparameters appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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