Wed.Nov 08, 2023

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Enhancing the security of WhatsApp calls

Engineering at Meta

New optional features in WhatsApp have helped make calling on WhatsApp more secure. “Silence Unknown Callers” is a new setting on WhatsApp that not only quiets annoying calls but also blocks sophisticated cyber attacks. “Protect IP Address in Calls” is a new setting on WhatsApp that helps hide your location from other parties on the call. Privacy and security are at the core of WhatsApp.

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KDnuggets News, November 8: 5 Simple Steps to Master Python, SQL, Scikit-learn, PyTorch & Google Cloud • SQL for Data Visualization

KDnuggets

This week on KDnuggets: Dive into KDnuggets Back to Basics: Getting Started in 5 Steps series to help you master Python, SQL, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and Google Cloud Platform. • Unlock the Power of SQL in Data Visualization: Master the Art of Preparing Data for Impactful Charts and Graphs. • And much, much more!

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Supply Chain Disruption and ESG Risk Management Powered by Bloomberg Data in the Databricks Lakehouse Platform

databricks

This blog is the first of a series of blog posts highlighting industry-leading data providers we collaborate with and Marketplace data providers. Special.

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The New Ethical Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence

KDnuggets

Generative AI's rapid progress necessitates urgent ethical safeguards against data, scale, accountability, copyright, and misinformation risks.

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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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Built-In Governance for Your Databricks Workspace

databricks

Databricks Unity Catalog simplifies data and AI governance by providing a unified solution for organizations to securely discover, access, monitor, and collaborate on.

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Learn How to Design & Deploy Responsible AI Systems

KDnuggets

Learn how to design & deploy responsible AI systems with this white paper from Teradata.

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Density Kernel Depth for Outlier Detection in Functional Data

KDnuggets

The Density Kernel Depth (DKD) method provides a nuanced approach to detect outliers in functional data, offering clarity in complex datasets and ensuring data quality. Its application becomes crucial as we navigate increasingly intricate data landscapes.

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How Modern Automotive Companies Can Generate Value With Connected Mobility

Snowflake

From connected cars and fleets of commercial vehicles to connected smart home devices, it’s estimated there are more than 14 billion products equipped with sensors, processors, software and connectivity worldwide—a number that is projected to almost double by 2030. The sheer amount of connected product data—petabytes generated on a daily basis—is reshaping manufacturing by presenting new business opportunities as well as tackling challenges that have for a long time stalled innovation.

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What’s new in ArcGIS Bathymetry for ArcGIS Pro at 3.2

ArcGIS

New tools and functionality in ArcGIS Bathymetry 3.2 allows you to filter and sort bathymetric data in a BIS.

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Delta Lake?—?Partitioning, Z-Order and Liquid Clustering

Towards Data Science

How are different partitioning/clustering methods implemented in Delta? How do they work in practice?

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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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Precisely Women in Technology: Meet Jamie Heckler

Precisely

Precisely is committed to being a Great Place to Work ® for all and part of this means maintaining an inclusive environment for everyone. Supporting women in technology is an integral part of Precisely’s culture and to encourage the development of more women in the industry, an internal network was established. The Precisely Women in Technology (PWIT) network is a place for women across the organization to come together to support each other, offer guidance and mentorship, and to share resources

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Introduction to Streaming Frameworks

Towards Data Science

Understanding some of the key characteristics to consider when evaluating and comparing streaming technologies.

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What’s new in ArcGIS Parcel Fabric with ArcGIS Pro 3.2/ArcGIS Enterprise 11.2

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro 3.2/Enterprise 11.2 represents the 8th release of the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric. Here is what's new for Parcel Fabrics in ArcGIS Pro 3.

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How we think about Data Pipelines is changing

Towards Data Science

The goal is to reliably and efficiently release data into production Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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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’s New in the ArcGIS Pro SDK 3.2

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro SDK 3.2 includes access to 3D Analyst Namespace, ability to access and query Knowledge Graphs, and Arcade Expression evaluation.

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Accelerate AI-Driven Innovation in Insurance with Databricks and MongoDB

databricks

Insurance companies have seen a tremendous shift in modernization. Traditionally known for the use of legacy systems, leading carriers are modernizing their infrastructure.

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The Impact of Bad Data | Acceldata

Acceldata

A recent banking issue in the U.S. was caused by bad data issues; namely schema drift and data reconciliation. Learn how data teams can eliminate these issues with effective data observability.

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Data Mesh Architecture: Revolutionizing Event Streaming with Striim

Striim

Data Mesh is revolutionizing event streaming architecture by enabling organizations to quickly and easily integrate real-time data, streaming analytics, and more. With the help of Striim’s enterprise-grade platform, companies can now deploy and manage a data mesh architecture with automated data mapping, cloud-native capabilities, and real-time analytics.

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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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Importance of CSPO Certification for Product Owners

Knowledge Hut

Who is a Product Owner ? As the name suggests, the Product Owner is a professional who adds value to the company. The Product Owner understands the product holistically, takes requirements from the clients, discusses the client requirement with the development team, and draft s plans to drive business growth. In short, the Product Owner is the most invaluable asset of an organization w ho plays one of the most significant role s.

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Calculating the Consequence of Failure

ArcGIS

Learn how to use GIS to estimate the consequence of failure for preventative maintenance and asset management purposes.

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Leading SAFe vs SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

Knowledge Hut

Agile certifications have transformed the method of handling software development in enterprises. Companies now develop better products by upgrading with specific adjustments, developing testing methods and considering customer feedback. Agile provides problem-solving and adds value to the methodology. Agile certification courses often train you to optimize performance by implementing various concepts.

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Building Streaming Apps Quickly with Flink SQL Workspaces

Confluent

A complete guide to Flink SQL Workspaces using Confluent for unified streaming data and real-time SQL.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Who is SAFe Product Owner? [Roles, Responsibilities & Insights]

Knowledge Hut

The Scaled Agile Framework® ( SAFe ®) is, in the words of Dean Leffingwell, Creator of  SAFe : “a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, and DevOps.”  © Scaled Agile, Inc.   To know more about SAFe agile , click here. Using SAFe, the process of scaling Agile across a large-scale enterprise can be streamlined.

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Your data, your model: How custom LLMs can turbocharge operations while protecting valuable IP

databricks

Large language models (LLMs) have set the corporate world ablaze, and everyone wants to take advantage. In fact, 47% of enterprises expect to.

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Terrain datasets as ground—Create scenes in ArcGIS Pro and publish to ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS

Terrain datasets as ground—Create scenes in ArcGIS Pro and publish to ArcGIS Online

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Patching the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver

Zalando Engineering

Introduction This blog post describes a recent contribution from Zalando to the Postgres JDBC driver to address a long-standing issue with the driver’s integration with Postgres’ logical replication that resulted in runaway Write-Ahead Log (WAL) growth. We will describe the issue, how it affected us at Zalando, and detail the fix made upstream in the JDBC driver that fixes the issue for Debezium and all other clients of the Postgres JDBC driver.

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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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Calculating the Consequence of Failure

ArcGIS

Learn how to use GIS to estimate the consequence of failure for preventative maintenance and asset management purposes.

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Monitoring Data Quality for Your Big Data Pipelines Made Easy

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Imagine yourself in command of a sizable cargo ship sailing through hazardous waters. It is your responsibility to deliver precious cargo to its destination safely. Determine success by the precision of your charts, the equipment’s dependability, and your crew’s expertise. A single mistake, glitch, or slip-up could endanger the trip. In the data-driven world […] The post Monitoring Data Quality for Your Big Data Pipelines Made Easy appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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What’s new in ArcGIS Bathymetry for ArcGIS Pro at 3.2

ArcGIS

New tools and functionality in ArcGIS Bathymetry 3.2 allow you to filter and sort bathymetric data in a BIS.

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From Server Racks to Serverless: Modern DevOps for Regulated Environments

Precisely

Every business evolves, some are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world, others demonstrate the ability to take smaller steps to incrementally change. Some consider businesses which support critical processes in regulated industries as impossible to change; this simply isn’t true. It’s a complex world, but does it need to be? Complexity of legacy systems often causes organisations to continue with business as usual or continue to outsource to others who can manage the legacy complex

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How to Leverage AI for Actionable Insights in BI, Data, and Analytics

In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.