Christophe Blefari
JULY 26, 2024
Tallinn ( credits ) Dear members, it's Summer Data News, the only news you can consume by the pool, the beach or at the office—if you're not lucky. This week, I'm writing from the Baltics, nomading a bit in Eastern and Northern Europe. I'm pleased to announce that we have successfully closed the CfP for Forward Data Conf, we received nearly 100 submissions and the program committee is currently reviewing all submissions.
Confessions of a Data Guy
JULY 24, 2024
I’ve had something rattling around in the old noggin for a while; it’s just another strange idea that I can’t quite shake out. We all keep hearing about Arrow this and Arrow that … seems every new tool built today for Data Engineering seems to be at least partly based on Arrow’s in-memory format. So, […] The post PyArrow vs Polars (vs DuckDB) for Data Pipelines. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.
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Snowflake
JULY 25, 2024
Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. With Cortex Search, organizations can effortlessly deploy retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications with Snowflake, powering use cases like customer service, financial research and sales chatbots. Cortex Search offers state-of-the-art semantic and lexical search over your text data in Snowflake behind an intuitive user interface, and it comes with the robust securi
Data Engineering Weekly
JULY 21, 2024
Editor’s Note: A New Series on Data Engineering Tools Evaluation There are plenty of data tools and vendors in the industry. But how can we choose a tool for the specific need? The traditional evaluation of running PoC on all the selected vendor tools is time-consuming and practically unviable for growth-driven companies. Data Engineering Weekly is launching a new series on software evaluation focused on data engineering to better guide data engineering leaders in evaluating data tools.
Speaker: Conrado Morlan
In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:
databricks
JULY 23, 2024
We are excited to partner with Meta to release the Llama 3.1 series of models on Databricks, further advancing the standard of powerful.
KDnuggets
JULY 26, 2024
Discover how Bayesian thinking transforms decision-making with its unique approach to updating initial beliefs with new evidence.
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Snowflake
JULY 22, 2024
A robust, modern data platform is the starting point for your organization’s data and analytics vision. At first, you may use your modern data platform as a single source of truth to realize operational gains — but you can realize far greater benefits by adding additional use cases. In this blog, we offer guidance for leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities around data and AI to build apps and unlock innovation.
Cloudera
JULY 24, 2024
Cloudera recently unveiled the latest version of Cloudera Private Cloud Base with the Zero Downtime Upgrade (ZDU) feature to enhance your user experience. The goal of ZDU is to make upgrades simpler for you and your stakeholders by increasing the availability of Cloudera’s services. How Do You Keep IT Infrastructure (and Buses) Running and Avoid Downtime?
databricks
JULY 23, 2024
In this blog, we are excited to share Databricks's journey in migrating to Unity Catalog for enhanced data governance. We'll discuss our high-level strategy and the tools we developed to facilitate the migration. Our goal is to highlight the benefits of Unity Catalog and make you feel confident about transitioning to it.
KDnuggets
JULY 24, 2024
From the soft tools to the hard tools, these are what make a data scientist successful.
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The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.
Robinhood
JULY 24, 2024
Robinhood was founded on a simple idea: that our financial markets should be accessible to all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers and providing greater access to financial information and investing. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in. … Recently, Robinhood Markets hosted its highly anticipated Annual Women in Tech (WIT) Conference, a day-long event designed to empower and inspi
Snowflake
JULY 24, 2024
Let’s say you are building a house that you plan to put up for sale. You focus on an amazing design, beautiful entry, large windows for plenty of sunlight — things that will create a delightful experience for your future buyer. At the same time, the house also needs less glamorous but vitally important infrastructure, like plumbing, running water, electricity, heating, cooling and so on.
Scott Logic
JULY 25, 2024
Many organisations claim they are applying Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). When you discuss BDD with them, they often present numerous feature files as evidence of their adoption of the BDD methodology. These days, some still believe that writing a test case in the Given-When-Then format constitutes BDD, or that BDD is synonymous with a test automation framework.
databricks
JULY 22, 2024
Today, we're thrilled to announce that Mosaic AI Model Training's support for fine-tuning GenAI models is now available in Public Preview. At Databricks.
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Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.
KDnuggets
JULY 23, 2024
This collection of tutorials from our sister site Statology center on data visualization. Learn more about visualizing your data right here.
Robinhood
JULY 25, 2024
Today, we are excited to launch joint investing accounts, which allow customers to seamlessly manage investments with their partner while keeping their shared assets in one place. Joint accounts make investing more collaborative for families and loved ones, providing shared access for account holders that allows them to combine funds and increase their investment power as they work towards their financial goals.
Confluent
JULY 23, 2024
CC 2024 Q2 adds Flink Private Networking (AWS), Flink SQL Interactive Tables; Enterprise:Connect w/Confluent, Connector Custom Offsets; SI: Build w/Confluent, etc.
Snowflake
JULY 24, 2024
Over the last year, as Snowflake has focused on putting AI tools in the hands of its customers, we have prioritized easy, efficient and safe enterprise generative AI. With that in mind, we’re happy to announce the general availability of safety guardrails for Snowflake Cortex AI with Cortex Guard, a new feature that enables enterprises to easily implement safeguards that filter out potentially inappropriate or unsafe large language model (LLM) responses.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
databricks
JULY 22, 2024
Written in collaboration with Navin Sharma and Joe Pindell, Stardog Across industries, the impact of post-delivery failure costs (recalls, warranty claims, lost goodwill.
KDnuggets
JULY 23, 2024
Tired of staring at bland dataframes? Discover how conditional formatting in Pandas can transform your data visualization experience!
Uber Engineering
JULY 26, 2024
From WWDC reveal to delivery, discover how we tackled new tech, design challenges, and tight timelines to enhance rider & driver experiences with Live Activity® from Apple.
Zalando Engineering
JULY 24, 2024
A disrupted gaming night I do not usually read code when dealing with production incidents, as it is one of the slower ways to understand and mitigate what is happening. But on that Friday night, I was glad I did. I was about to start another session of Elden Ring (a video game in which everything is pretty much trying to kill the player) when I was paged with the following: "campaign service is consuming all resources we throw at it".
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Hevo
JULY 25, 2024
A data lake is a central storage place for an organization’s data in its original format. Unlike data warehouses, data lakes can handle all kinds of data, including unstructured and semi-structured data like images, video, audio, and documents.
databricks
JULY 23, 2024
The communications industry is experiencing immense change due to rapid technological advancements and evolving market trends. Communications service providers (CSP) build various solutions.
KDnuggets
JULY 24, 2024
Setup the environment, load the data, perform data analysis and visualization, and create the data pipeline all using Julia programming language.
DareData
JULY 25, 2024
Embedding ML systems into production is still a hard thing to do (for most companies) Photo by Glen Carrie @ Unsplash.com Have you ever heard of a company that successfully integrated Machine Learning into their business processes overnight, completely transforming the way the organization operated from one day to the next? Yup, me neither! And did you did you know that most ML models never make it to production?
Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal
Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are revolutionizing the way organizations interact with and optimize their software applications. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, DAPs have become essential tools for enhancing user engagement and software efficiency. This session is your guide into the robust world of DAPs, exploring their origins, evolution, and the current trends shaping their development.
phData: Data Engineering
JULY 24, 2024
Effective marketing is crucial for business growth, yet achieving cost-effective and impactful results from marketing can be challenging for companies of all sizes. Marketing leaders are tasked with driving results and determining the best course of action for their team by asking questions like: How much should we spend on this new campaign? Should we focus on retaining our customers or trying to find new ones?
Hevo
JULY 25, 2024
In recent years, Apache Iceberg has seen considerable advancements that highlights its growing importance. Major tech companies like Google, Snowflake, and Databricks have increasingly embraced this table format. This trend, driven by major tech companies, highlights a transformative shift in the data warehousing landscape as Iceberg gains traction.
databricks
JULY 26, 2024
Introduction Time series forecasting serves as the foundation for inventory and demand management in most enterprises. Using data from past periods along with.
KDnuggets
JULY 22, 2024
Let's learn to use Pandas pivot_table in Python to perform advance data summarization
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