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Infoshare 2024: Stream processing fallacies, part 1

Waitingforcode

Last week I was speaking in Gdansk on the DataMass track at Infoshare. As it often happens, the talk time slot impacted what I wanted to share but maybe it's for good. Otherwise, you wouldn't read stream processing fallacies!

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Building cost effective data pipelines with Python & DuckDB

Start Data Engineering

1. Introduction 2. Project demo 3. TL;DR 4. Building efficient data pipelines with DuckDB 4.1. Use DuckDB to process data, not for multiple users to access data 4.2. Cost calculation: DuckDB + Ephemeral VMs = dirt cheap data processing 4.3. Processing data less than 100GB? Use DuckDB 4.4. Distributed systems are scalable, resilient to failures, & designed for high availability 4.5.

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Why Data Analysts And Engineers Make Great Consultants

Seattle Data Guy

Many data engineers and analysts don’t realize how valuable the knowledge they have is. They’ve spent hours upon hours learning SQL, Python, how to properly analyze data, build data warehouses, and understand the differences between eight different ETL solutions. Even what they might think is basic knowledge could be worth $10,000 to $100,000+ for a… Read more The post Why Data Analysts And Engineers Make Great Consultants appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.

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Data Migration Strategies For Large Scale Systems

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Any software system that survives long enough will require some form of migration or evolution. When that system is responsible for the data layer the process becomes more challenging. Sriram Panyam has been involved in several projects that required migration of large volumes of data in high traffic environments. In this episode he shares some of the valuable lessons that he learned about how to make those projects successful.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

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

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Introducing the Robinhood Crypto Trading API

Robinhood

Robinhood Crypto customers in the United States can now use our API to view crypto market data, manage portfolios and account information, and place crypto orders programmatically Today, we are excited to announce the Robinhood Crypto trading API , ushering in a new era of convenience, efficiency, and strategy for our most seasoned crypto traders. Robinhood Crypto customers in the United States can use our new trading API to set up advanced and automated trading strategies that allow them to st

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Building Data Platforms (from scratch)

Confessions of a Data Guy

Of all the duties that Data Engineers take on during the regular humdrum of business and work, it’s usually filled with the same old, same old. Build new pipeline, update pipeline, new data model, fix bug, etc, etc. It’s never-ending. It’s a constant stream of data, new and old, spilling into our Data Warehouses and […] The post Building Data Platforms (from scratch) appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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5 Free MIT Courses to Learn Math for Data Science

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Learning math is super important for data science. Check out these free courses from MIT to learn linear algebra, statistics, and more.

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Latest Computer Science Research Topics for 2024

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Everybody sees a dream—aspiring to become a doctor, astronaut, or anything that fits your imagination. If you were someone who had a keen interest in looking for answers and knowing the “why” behind things, you might be a good fit for research. Further, if this interest revolved around computers and tech, you would be an excellent computer researcher!

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Snowflake Ventures Expands Investment in Sigma, Deepening Commitment to Bringing World-Class BI Directly into the AI Data Cloud

Snowflake

We’re excited to announce today that we’re reinforcing our commitment and deepening our partnership with Sigma with an expanded investment from Snowflake Ventures. Sigma is a leading business intelligence and analytics solution that makes it easy for employees to explore live data, create compelling visualizations and collaborate with colleagues. Sigma allows employees to break free of dashboards and build workflows, powered by write-back to Snowflake through their unique Input Tables capability

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Solving the Dual-Write Problem: Effective Strategies for Atomic Updates Across Systems

Confluent

The dual-write problem can arise in any distributed system. Fortunately, it has solutions in event sourcing & the transactional outbox & listen-to-yourself patterns.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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Terraforming Dataform

Towards Data Science

MLOps: Datapipeline Orchestration Dataform 101, Part 2: Provisioning with Least Privilege Access Control A typical positioning of Dataform in a data pipeline [Image by author] This is the concluding part of Dataform 101 showing the fundamentals of setting up Dataform with a focus on its authentication flow. This second part focussed on terraform implementation of the flow explained in part 1.

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How to Use GPT for Generating Creative Content with Hugging Face Transformers

KDnuggets

Read this concise tutorial to find out how to use GPT to generate creative content with Hugging Face Transformers. No nonsense, just that facts.

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Top 15 R Libraries for Data Science in 2024

Knowledge Hut

While many people opt for Python for data science tasks today, R remains a staple in the data scientist's toolkit. With its clean code, ability to chain functions and the pipe operator, R can often make simple tasks like exploratory analysis or visualization super easy to do. It also stands its ground well when it comes to complex tasks like forecasting or modelling.

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Snowflake Ventures Increases Investment in Hex, Deepening the Partnership for Collaborative Workspace Capabilities in the Data Cloud  

Snowflake

The AI Data Cloud unlocks the power of data for technical and non-technical users alike, including data analysts, data scientists, data engineers and business users. When employees can collaborate seamlessly to generate new insights, share findings and create efficient workflows, organizations can drive even more efficiency, unlocking value from their data, faster.

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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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What’s New from the Geodatabase Team in ArcGIS Pro 3.3

ArcGIS

Here's everything new in ArcGIS Pro 3.3 from the Geodatabase Team.

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Bringing Financial Services Business Use Cases to Life: Leveraging Data Analytics, ML/AI, and Gen AI

Cloudera

The financial services industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the need for data-driven insights, digital transformation, and compliance with evolving regulations. In this context, Cloudera and TAI Solutions have partnered to help financial services customers accelerate their data-driven transformation, improve customer centricity, ensure compliance with regulations, enhance risk management, and drive innovation.

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5 Python Best Practices for Data Science

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Level up your Python skills for data science with these by following these best practices.

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How to Become a Python Full Stack Developer [Step-by-Step]

Knowledge Hut

In less than a decade, Python has become the most popular programming language in the world. It's used by major companies like Google and Facebook, and its versatility and ease of use make it a great choice for beginners too. We all know that Python is a powerful programming language. But did you know that it can also be used to create full-stack web applications?

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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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Retail Media’s Business Case for Data Clean Rooms Part 1: Your Data Assets and Permissions

Snowflake

It’s hard to have a conversation in adtech today without hearing the words, “retail media.” The retail media wave is in full force, piquing the interest of any company with a strong, first-party relationship with consumers. Companies are now understanding the value of their data and how that data can power a new, high-margin media business. The two-sided network that exists between retailers and their brands turns into a flywheel for growth.

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Robinhood Announces $1 Billion Share Repurchase Program

Robinhood

The board of directors of Robinhood Markets, Inc. (“Robinhood”) (NASDAQ: HOOD) has authorized a $1 billion share repurchase program, demonstrating management and the board’s confidence in Robinhood’s financial strength and future growth prospects. “As our business and cash flow have continued to grow, we’re excited to announce a $1 billion share repurchase program to return value to shareholders,” said Jason Warnick, Chief Financial Officer of Robinhood.

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Laying the Foundation for Modern Data Architecture

Cloudera

Behind every business decision, there’s underlying data that informs business leaders’ actions. As the market landscape across verticals from financial services to healthcare and manufacturing grows increasingly competitive, those decisions need to happen ever faster and to make them, businesses need to rely on data to reveal insights quickly, as near-real-time as possible.

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Google Have Just Dropped a New Course: AI Essentials

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A course that helps career switchers and advancers harness the power of AI to transform the way they work.

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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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Importance of Software Engineering: Key Reasons

Knowledge Hut

A software engineer studies, designs, develops, maintains, and retires Software. That’s why in almost every organization, there is a need for a software engineer. And this somehow raises the importance of software engineering today. Though it deals with different areas and serves many functions, educating the software engineer about best software practices and discipline is necessary.

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Retail Media’s Business Case for Data Clean Rooms Part 2: Commercial Models

Snowflake

In Part 1 of “Retail Media’s Business Case for Data Clean Rooms,” we discussed how to (1) assess your data assets and (2) define your data structures and permissions. Once you have a plan on paper, you can begin sizing the data clean room opportunity for your business. Step 3: Commercial Models to Unlock Revenue at Scale Modeling the business value comes down to two things: (1) What data are you making accessible; and (2) How many partners are you willing (and able) to engage?

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The Ultimate Guide to Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024

Monte Carlo

Can you believe Snowflake Summit is almost here? Time really flies when you’re living in the GenAI hype cycle. If you’ll be at Snowflake Summit in San Francisco June 3-6 and you haven’t planned your daily schedule yet, never fear. We bookmarked the can’t miss moments for you. Read on to learn the speaking sessions we’re most excited about, the giveaways on the conference floor that are actually pretty cool, and the after-parties you don’t want to miss.

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Unify your data: AI and Analytics in an Open Lakehouse

Cloudera

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission-critical, large-scale data analytics and AI use cases—including enterprise data warehouses. Nearly two years ago, Cloudera announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in the Cloudera platform, which helps users avoid vendor lock-in and implement an open lakehouse.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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5 Best End-to-End Open Source MLOps Tools

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Explore free and open-source MLOps tools for enhanced data privacy and control over your models and code.

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Future-Proof Your IBM AIX and IBM i Systems with Cloud-Based Data Protection

Precisely

Key Takeaways: Cloud-based High Availability Disaster Recovery (HA-DR) solutions enhance operational efficiency, leveraging automation to streamline recovery processes and reduce downtime expenses. Adopting unique cloud HA-DR strategies improves data redundancy and security, aligns with strict regulatory standards, and proactively manages disaster risks.

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Orchestrating a Dynamic Time-series Pipeline with Azure Data Factory and Databricks

Towards Data Science

Explore how to build, trigger and parameterize a time-series data pipeline in Azure, accompanied by a step-by-step tutorial Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Top 10 Effective Business Analysis Techniques

Knowledge Hut

Today's data-driven digital world provides fresh opportunities and resources for consumers and enterprises. The act of identifying company problems and solutions requires a wealth of ideas, information, and knowledge—business analysis. Business needs such as user requirements, attributes, utility, and resource requirements, among others, are directly related to business solutions.

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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.