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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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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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How to build a data team

Christophe Blefari

My personal collection of the best resources to bootstrap a data team and get inspired from what others are doing.

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Reading and Processing JSON with Rust vs Python.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Have you ever wondered about being explicit in your code vs being vague? I think about this a lot as I’m writing code on a daily basis. I’ve found I like being explicit and verbose when writing code, rather than being vague in what I’m doing most of the time. When it comes to debugging […] The post Reading and Processing JSON with Rust vs Python. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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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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A Notebook is all I want or Don't

Data Engineering Weekly

The tweet received strong reactions on LinkedIn and Twitter. To clarify, I quoted it as a Notebook-style development, but it is not exactly a Notebook. There is a lot of context missing in that tweet, so I decided to write a blog about it. People have reservations about using tools like Jupytor Notebook for the production pipeline for a good reason.

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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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Robinhood Response to Receipt of Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Robinhood

Robinhood Markets,Inc.(Nasdaq:HOOD) today announced that RHC has received a Wells Notice from the SEC Staff Earlier today we announced Robinhood Crypto (RHC) has received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff indicating they will recommend that the Commission file an enforcement action. “After years of good faith attempts to work with the SEC for regulatory clarity including our well-known attempt to ‘come in and register,’ we are disappointed that the agency has

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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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Moving Beyond MTEB and BEIR: Snowflake AI Research Joins Forces with the University of Waterloo to Evolve RAG and Retrieval Benchmarks

Snowflake

To accurately answer business questions using LLMs, companies must augment models with their data. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a popular solution to this problem, as it integrates the organization’s factual, real-time data into the prompt for the LLM. While the adoption of RAG has increased, an open question remains: How do enterprises know how effective their system is?

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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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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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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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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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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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Top 8 Snowflake Marketplace Questions, Answered

Snowflake

Snowflake Marketplace is designed to give customers and organizations a place to easily find, try and buy data, apps and AI products that help solve their most pressing business problems. We have more than 540 providers, offering over 2,400 live, ready-to-use data products (as of Jan 31, 2024), so there are many options to help you enrich your own data resources, build new data apps and leverage the power of AI on Snowflake.

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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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5 Simple Steps to Automate Data Cleaning with Python

KDnuggets

Automate your data cleaning process with a practical 5-step pipeline in Python, ideal for beginners.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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Data Engineering Weekly #170

Data Engineering Weekly

Ken Liu: Machine Unlearning in 2024 One of the insightful articles is about the growing adoption of one large language model and the challenge it brings to machine unlearning. The motivation for Machine Unlearning is critical from the privacy perspective and for model correction, fixing outdated knowledge, and access revocation of the training dataset.

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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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Executive Overview: The Rise of Open Foundational Models

databricks

Moving generative AI applications from the proof of concept stage into production requires control, reliability and data governance. Organizations are turning to open.

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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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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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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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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.