Tue.Nov 15, 2022

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Enabling The People, Enabling The Data with Kulani Likotsi

Jesse Anderson

My guest this week is Kulani Likotsi , the Head of Data Management and Data Governance at one of the four biggest banks in Africa. She’s had a rising career journey going from an analyst, to a Business Intelligence developer, to the data warehouse team, to the data governance team. I was impressed with Kulani’s volunteer spirit. Whenever there was a need, she volunteered.

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6 Best Free Online Courses to Learn Python and Boost Your Career

KDnuggets

The demand for Data Scientists who are proficient in Python is at an all time high. Python has helped people boost their careers in finance, consulting, research, software tech, and robotics. Explore 6 courses designed to help you learn Python.

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Unlocking HBase on S3 With the New Store File Tracking Feature

Cloudera

CDP Operational Database (COD) is a real-time auto-scaling operational database powered by Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix. It is one of the main data services that run on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud. You can access COD from your CDP console. The cost savings of cloud-based object stores are well understood in the industry. Applications whose latency and performance requirements can be met by using an object store for the persistence layer benefit significantly with lower cost of o

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5 Linguistics Courses for NLP Practitioners

KDnuggets

This collection of 5 courses is intended to help NLP practitioners or hopefuls acquire some of their lacking linguistics knowledge.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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An EDGY approach to designing Enterprises by Oliver Cronk

Scott Logic

I recently attended the Intersection 22 Conference in Stockholm where EDGY was previewed. EDGY is a new graphical design language for visualising enterprises. This new open source design language shows great promise as a tool to bridge across siloed teams. Redefining Enterprise Architecture into a more holistic, cross functional form of “Enterprise Design” that drives shared understanding.

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Top Data Analyst Certification Courses for 2022

KDnuggets

Top certification courses by IBM, Edureka, DataCamp, Udacity, and Google.

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What is Data Engineering? Why is it a Popular Career Path?

Emeritus

Data has become a pivotal asset for all businesses but it can prove useless if it isn’t leveraged effectively. That’s where data engineering comes in. It lays down the foundation for data science applications by preparing raw data for collection and analysis. Specialized in a practice that mainly focuses on the end application of data… The post What is Data Engineering?

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Flexible Daily Budgeting at Pinterest

Pinterest Engineering

Kelvin Jiang , Software Engineer, Ads Intelligence | Keshava Subramanya , Engineering Manager, Ads Intelligence | Perrye Ogunwole , Product Manager, Ads Intelligence Introduction The Ads Intelligence team at Pinterest builds products that help advertisers maximize the value they get out of their ad campaigns. As part of that initiative, we have recently launched Flexible Daily Budgets (FDB) to US advertisers in open beta.

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An Advanced Guide to Shell Scripting in Unix!

U-Next

Introduction . A shell script is a powerful tool that is used to automate a wide variety of tasks. A script is simply a text file containing a series of shell (command line) commands executed in order, one after the other. This allows the user to automate tasks that would otherwise have to be performed manually. . Generation of reports and performing complex administrative tasks is possible due to shell scripting.

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Migrating Confluent Cloud’s Most Critical Services into a New Deployment Management Platform

Confluent

Confluent Cloud hosts Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and more. Here’s how we re-architected the system for a new deployment platform with zero downtime.

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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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11 Steps to Build a Strong and Diverse Network

U-Next

Diversity In Professional Network . Most people think of networking as attending events and exchanging business cards with as many people as possible. While this can be a part of networking, it’s not the be-all and end-all. Networking is about building relationships with people who can help you achieve your professional goals. A strong network can open doors to new opportunities, help you get your foot in the door at your dream company, and provide invaluable advice and mentorship.

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Helping VFX studios pave a path to the cloud

Netflix Tech

By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.), Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Nearly every show that is produced today includes digital visual effects, from the creatures in Stranger Things , to recreating historic London in Bridgerton.

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What to Learn From Industry Experts?

U-Next

Introduction . Learning a new skill is simpler than ever in the modern world. Digital tools put a lot of knowledge at your fingertips, whether you’re attempting to establish yourself as a thought leader or promote yourself within your industry. However, a brief internet search reveals that many people claim to be gurus and industry experts in their respective fields.

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Balancing Velocity and Confidence in Experimentation

DoorDash Engineering

Running thousands of experiments effectively means carefully balancing our speed with the necessary controls to maintain trust in experimental outputs–but figuring out that balance is never easy. Traditionally, experimentation velocity tradeoffs are focused on minimizing the false positive rate (FPR), which heavily leans towards maintaining the status quo.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Occupancy Rate Prediction: Building an ML Module to Analyze One of the Main Hospitality KPIs

AltexSoft

The occupancy rate is a key indicator of the historical, current, and looking-forward performance of a hotel or vacation rental business. Stakeholders — from property owners to managers to housekeeping staff — use this metric to make informed decisions and increase revenue per room or property. Read on to find out what occupancy prediction is, why it’s so important for the hospitality industry, and what we learned from our experience building an occupancy rate prediction module for Key Data Dash

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Efficiency Spells the Difference Between Biological Neurons and Their Artificial Counterparts

KDnuggets

Part 8 of the series explores a single facet of biological neurons which, so far, have kept them way ahead of their artificial counterparts: their efficiency.

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Monte Carlo Announces Power BI Integration to Help Data Teams Triage and Prevent Data Incidents at Scale

Monte Carlo

To help data teams detect, triage, and understand the downstream impact of bad data on their organizations, Monte Carlo is excited to announce a new integration with Microsoft Power BI. In our effort to provide comprehensive, end-to-end data observability for cloud native data stacks across the world, Monte Carlo is committed to integrating with the tools and technologies most requested by our customers.

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What Is a Virtual Network in Cloud Computing?

U-Next

Introduction . By 2025, it is anticipated that the total spending on cloud infrastructure will be $118 billion worldwide. It is because virtualization in cloud computing cuts the expenses to maintain hardware and servers considerably, makes network operations flexible and time-saving, and offers unmatched security. . Let’s begin with “what is a virtual network?

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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The 7 Tenets Of Building A Data-Driven Culture

Monte Carlo

I run the centralized data function at Cribl , a fast growing company that ensures customers have control over their observability data (editor note: it’s a different kind of observability which we’ve even discussed on the informative Cribl podcast ). Data-driven culture is the breadth and depth of an organization’s use of data as part of its day to day operations.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hypothesis Tests: Chi-Square, ANOVA

U-Next

Introduction . A hypothesis test is a statistical test used to determine whether or not there is evidence to support a certain hypothesis. The null hypothesis is the hypothesis that there is no difference between the two groups being compared, while the alternative hypothesis says there is a difference between the two groups. . To conduct a hypothesis test, a researcher must first collect data from a sample of individuals.

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ActivityPub - the open standard that makes Mastodon special by Matt Grabara

Scott Logic

Controversies around Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover sparked questions about the alternatives to big-tech-run social media. Debate about decentralised internet is back in the mainstream and focuses on “the fediverse”. The fediverse, or federated social media, started gaining attention and users. In the last couple of weeks, Mastodon , the most successful one, received coverage from global news outlets, such as BBC and Al Jazeera.

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