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mapGroupsWithState and.batch?

Waitingforcode

That's one of my recent surprises. While I have been exploring arbitrary stateful processing, hence the mapGroupsWithState among others, I mistakenly created a batch DataFrame and applied the mapping function on top of it. Turns out, it worked! Well, not really but I let you discover why in this blog post.

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4 ELT Alternatives To Airbyte – How To Ingest Your Data

Seattle Data Guy

Getting data out of source systems and into a data warehouse or data lake is one of the first steps in making it usable by analysts and data scientists. The question is how will your team do that? Will they write custom data connectors, pay for a data connector out of the box or perhaps… Read more The post 4 ELT Alternatives To Airbyte – How To Ingest Your Data appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.3

ArcGIS

Discover the exciting new features of ArcGIS Pro 3.3. From water flow modeling to direct PDF support, this release has it all. Read our blog to learn more.

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Top 10 Startups in India – Everyone Should Know

Knowledge Hut

As of the beginning of January 2022, India has recognized more than 61,000 startups, thus having the 3rd largest startup ecosystem after the US and China. The government of India has an initiative called Startup India, whose sole purpose is to bring about startup culture and build an ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation. As a result, the startup ecosystem in India has emerged as a major growth engine for the country in the past few years and aims to become a global tech powerhouse.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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OutputModes in Apache Spark Structured Streaming - complementary notes

Waitingforcode

I wrote a blog post about OutputModes 6 (yes!) years ago and after reading it a few times, I realized it was not good enough to be a quick refresher. For that reason you can read about OutputModes for the second time here. Hopefully, this one will be a good try!

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A Roadmap to Machine Learning Algorithm Selection

KDnuggets

The goal of this article is to help demystify the process of selecting the proper machine learning algorithm, concentrating on "traditional" algorithms and offering some guidelines for choosing the best one for your application.

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Six Sigma Green Belt Project Examples & How to Execute?

Knowledge Hut

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification is an important step in becoming a master of the lean six sigma technique and leading improvement projects for a company. LSS Green Belts identify critical areas for improvement and play a key role in executing the necessary changes, based on the ideas and abilities learned throughout LSS Yellow Belt training.

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We’ll See You at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit

Cloudera

The Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in London is quickly approaching on May 13 th to 15 th , and the Cloudera team is ready to hit the show floor! The theme of this year’s summit, “Generating Value Together: Creating Synergies between Data, Analytics & AI,” could not have come at a better time as we push forward on our AI and analytics journey together.

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Free AI Courses from NVIDIA: For All Levels

KDnuggets

Want to build cool AI applications? Start learning AI today with these free courses from NVIDIA.

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Gen AI Perspectives from Industry Leaders Shaping the Future

Snowflake

From its start with efficient batch processing with data warehouses for descriptive analytics, and the inclusion of streaming data in real time to build recommendations, we find ourselves at the forefront of a new stage of evolution: generative AI (gen AI). This generative powerhouse has fueled vertical integration, giving rise to industry-specific solutions that harness the full potential of generative capabilities and unlocked the imagination of many.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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How Systems Thinking Can Be Applied To Agile Transformations

Knowledge Hut

Applying systems thinking views a system as a set of interconnected and interdependent components defined by its limits and more than the sum of their parts (subsystems). When one component of a system is altered, the effects frequently spread across the entire system. While the precise impact may not be foreseeable in and of itself, many behavioral patterns are impactful.

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Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation with Data and AI: Announcing the 2024 Finalists of the Databricks Data Team Transformation Award

databricks

The Data Team Awards celebrates enterprise data teams' essential role in helping businesses across sectors face their most pressing challenges. With more than.

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Ollama Tutorial: Running LLMs Locally Made Super Simple

KDnuggets

Want to run large language models on your machine? Learn how to do so using Ollama in this quick tutorial.

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Snowflake’s Recertification Program: How to maintain your SnowPro status

Snowflake

There are more than 25,000 SnowPros in the Snowflake Certification community today. Earning and maintaining a SnowPro Certification shows a strategic commitment to expand your Snowflake knowledge and skills, and advance your career. As Snowflake continues to grow, the demand for Snowflake experience and expertise is also rapidly increasing. A recent survey of certified SnowPros indicated that: 68% received positive recognition for achieving the certification. 61% noted a greater demand for their

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Water-Scrum-Fall: Is it a Myth or Reality?

Knowledge Hut

Usage of Agile Methods for software Development has caught on like wildfire. Every organization wants to follow Agile methods for software development projects to gain all or some of the following advantages. Faster Software Delivery Continuous Customer Feedback and Optimization Improved Software Quality Improved Communication with Users and Business Sponsors Accommodation for Continuous Changes Early Return on Investment Continuous Visibility on Features Being Developed Optimized Risks Though u

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The Vital Role of Data Governance in Communications, Media and Entertainment

databricks

Discover the vital role of data governance in the communications, media, and entertainment industry. Learn how robust data governance enables personalized experiences, ensures AI transparency, and mitigates compliance risks. Explore how leading companies like Barilla and Anker are accelerating innovation through effective data governance strategies powered by Databricks' Unity Catalog.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Essential Tools for Data Analysts

KDnuggets

Data analyst tools encompass programming languages, spreadsheets, BI, and big data tools. Here are 9ish tools that cover all the tasks of data analysts well.

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5 Things to do When Evaluating ELT/ETL Tools

Towards Data Science

A list to make evaluating ELT/ETL tools a bit less daunting Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash We’ve all been there: you’ve attended (many!) meetings with sales reps from all of the SaaS data integration tooling companies and are granted 14 day access to try their wares. Now you have to decide what sorts of things to test in order to figure out definitively if the tool is the right commitment for you and the team.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

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.

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Common Challenges Faced by First-Time Agile Organizations

Knowledge Hut

After much deliberation on whether Agile is right for your organization and fighting the demons of doubt, you decide to hire an Agile coach. Now that you are gearing up to reap the benefits of Agile, somewhere in the corner of your mind, there is still a doubt about whether your organization is ready for Agile. Implementing Agile for the first time can prove to be a herculean task.

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Production-Quality RAG Applications with Databricks

databricks

In December, we announced a new suite of tools to get Generative AI applications to production using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Since then.

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5 Free Stanford AI Courses

KDnuggets

Want to learn more about Artificial Intelligence? These five courses from Stanford will help you kickstart that journey.

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Beyond the Hype: UK GOV AI – Is innovation guided by principles enough? by Colin Eberhardt

Scott Logic

In this episode, I’m joined by Jess McEvoy and Peter Chamberlin, who have both spent many years in senior roles within public sector organisations. Our conversation covers the excitement and concerns around AI, both from a citizen’s perspective and for those building public services. We discuss the UK government’s approach to addressing AI challenges with its pro-innovation mantra, and whether this creates the right environment for success.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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10 deadly myths of Agile and Scrum

Knowledge Hut

Agile and Scrum have been conquering the minds of engineers, managers especially from software industry, quite effectively since last few years. The impact is so much so that every software engineer thinks that if he/she is not working on an Agile or Scrum project, their career is stuck. It surely is, but so is the reality of this fact. Agile and Scrum have become so pervasive in our thought process that we, as engineers or managers or product owners do not stop to ask ourselves once if we reall

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Building High-Quality and Trusted Data Products with Databricks

databricks

Introduction Organizations aiming to become AI and data-driven often need to provide their internal teams with high-quality and trusted data products. Building.

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Using Groq Llama 3 70B Locally: Step by Step Guide

KDnuggets

Learn how to generate super fast responses in Jan AI and VSCode using Groq LPU Inference Engine.

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DataKitchen Training And Certification Offerings

DataKitchen

DataKitchen Training And Certification Offerings For Individual contributors with a background in Data Analytics/Science/Engineering Overall Ideas and Principles of DataOps DataOps Cookbook (200 page book over 30,000 readers, free): DataOps Certificatio n (3 hours, online, free, signup online): DataOps Manifesto (over 30,000 signatures) One Day DataOps training (paid) Data Observability (the first step in DataOps) I deas and Principles of Data Observability Four-part Da

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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What Is Kanban In Agile Values, Principles, Benefits & Career

Knowledge Hut

Kanban is getting a wide-scale popularity in Agile organizations because of its unmatched values, principles, and benefits. The certified Kanban training courses, designed for different levels, allow the program managers, delivery managers, project managers, software product developers and business analysts etc to choose the best and to boost up their career growth.

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Join us at the Iceberg Summit 2024

Cloudera

Apache Iceberg is vital to the work we do and the experience that the Cloudera platform delivers to our customers. Iceberg, a high-performance open-source format for huge analytic tables, delivers the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data while allowing for multiple engines like Spark, Flink, Trino, Presto, Hive, and Impala to work with the same tables, all at the same time.

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Understanding Python’s Iteration and Membership: A Guide to __contains__ and __iter__ Magic Methods

KDnuggets

Explore __contains__ and __iter__ magic methods, which are essential for implementing iteration functionality for custom classes.

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Better See and Control Your Snowflake Spend with the Cost Management Interface, Now Generally Available

Snowflake

Snowflake is dedicated to providing customers with intuitive solutions that streamline their operations and drive success. As part of our ongoing commitment to helping customers in this way, we’re introducing updates to the Cost Management Interface to make managing Snowflake spend easier at an organization level and accessible to more roles. Snowsight: Your Centralized Console for Cost Management The Cost Management Interface in Snowsight (Snowflake’s web interface) is the centralized con

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.