Fri.Feb 03, 2023

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Getting Started with The Basics of Docker

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction “Let’s containerize your code to ship worldwide!” If you read the above quote, you must think, what does this all mean? Well, my friend, this is what Docker is. Let me explain it with an example. Say Harish and Lisa are two people working on the same project but on two different systems(say windows and […] The post Getting Started with The Basics of Docker appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Table file formats - Change Data Capture: Delta Lake

Waitingforcode

It's time to start the 4th part of the Table file formats series. This time the topic will be Change Data Capture, so how to stream all changes made on the table. As for the 3rd part, I'm going to start with Delta Lake.

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How to Build and Monitor Systems Using Airflow?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Do you find yourself spending too much time managing your machine-learning tasks? Are you looking for a way to automate and simplify the process? Airflow can help you manage your workflow and make your life easier with its monitoring and notifications features. Imagine scheduling your ML tasks to run automatically without the need for manual […] The post How to Build and Monitor Systems Using Airflow?

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Data News — Week 23.05

Christophe Blefari

Delivering the data news ( credits ) Hey you, it's already February. Every week same analysis for me. I plan too many tasks but I slowly deliver. I guess that's how it is. Still I love this Friday rendezvous that we have together. I'm still amazed by how I changed my old habits to add the writing in my workflow. And it brings me a lot of joy.

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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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YARN or Kubernetes for Apache Spark?

Waitingforcode

I've written my first Kubernetes on Apache Spark blog post in 2018 with a try to answer the question, what Kubernetes can bring to Apache Spark? Four years later this resource manager is a mature Spark component, but a new question has arisen in my head. Should I stay on YARN or switch to Kubernetes?

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How to Implement a Federated Learning Project with Healthcare Data

KDnuggets

Learn about Federated Learning and how you can use it in the healthcare sector.

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AI / ML Survival Guide: Conquer DataOps and Data Composability Challenges and Transform into a Truly Data-Driven Organization

The Modern Data Company

Get to the Future Faster – Modernize Your Manufacturing Data Architecture Without Ripping and Replacing Implementing customer lifetime value as a mission-critical KPI has many challenges. Companies need consistent, high-quality data and a straightforward way to measure CLV. In the past, organizations have struggled to implement CLV as a practical, value-generating metric, but a new data solution could help.

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Predicate pushdown, why it doesn't work every time?

Waitingforcode

Pushdowns in Apache Spark are great to delegate some operations to the data sources. It's a great way to reduce the data volume to be processed in the job. However, there is one important gotcha. Watch out the definition of your predicate because from time to time, even though the pushdown predicate is supported by the data source, the predicate can still be executed by the Apache Spark job!

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The Future of Retail: Key Challenges and Opportunities

The Modern Data Company

Get to the Future Faster – Modernize Your Manufacturing Data Architecture Without Ripping and Replacing Implementing customer lifetime value as a mission-critical KPI has many challenges. Companies need consistent, high-quality data and a straightforward way to measure CLV. In the past, organizations have struggled to implement CLV as a practical, value-generating metric, but a new data solution could help.

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Table formats - reading: Delta Lake

Waitingforcode

In the previous blog post about Delta Lake you discovered the logic for the writing part. Meantime Delta Lake 2 was released and it's for this brand new version that I'm going to share with you some findings related to the data reading.

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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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AI is Not Here to Replace Us

KDnuggets

Is the fear of AI replacing humans justified? Here we have a look at what AI is good for and what it isn’t.

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Observable metrics

Waitingforcode

Observability is a hot topic nowadays, not only for the data but also the software industry. Apache Spark innovates in this field a lot, including new metrics for Structured Streaming and an important update added in the 3.0.0 release that I missed at the time, which are the observable metrics.

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Data Integration Strategies for Time Series Databases

Towards Data Science

Exploring popular data integration strategies for TSDBs including ETL, ELT, and CDC Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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PySpark and vectorized User-Defined Functions

Waitingforcode

The Scala API of Apache Spark SQL has various ways of transforming the data, from the native and User-Defined Function column-based functions, to more custom and row-level map functions. PySpark doesn't have this mapping feature but does have the User-Defined Functions with an optimized version called vectorized UDF!

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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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ChatGPT for Beginners

KDnuggets

List of best crash courses for ChatGPT.

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Table file formats - reading path: Apache Hudi

Waitingforcode

After Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg it's time to see the reading part of Apache Hudi. Despite an apparent similarity with the aforementioned table formats, Apache Hudi has an interesting reading specificity related to the different table types.

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Certification Courses in Operations Management: How to choose one.

Edureka

Earning a specialisation certificate is very important to achieve your career goals. Everyone has both personal and professional objectives in life. In most cases, reaching your personal goals depend greatly on how well you perform professionally. It means that you must get a good job or advance well in your job to reach your life goals. Certain professions are more lucrative than others, and operations management is one such area.

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Wildcard path and partitions

Waitingforcode

Let's suppose you store the partitioned data under the /data/mydir location. What will be the difference if you read this directory with Apache Spark as /data/mydir/ and /data/mydir/* ? You should find the answer to the question just below.

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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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Google Analytics to Azure: 2 Fool-proof Ways to Replicate Your Data

Hevo

“Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.”– Ronald Coase, the Nobel prize Laureate Well, a quote that would only be applicable in the field of data analytics, but very powerful, do you agree? It’s pretty relevant while extracting data from Google Analytics to Azure. Because it’s very tricky.

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Apache Spark listeners

Waitingforcode

Message bus is a common architectural design in the Enterprise Design Patterns. But it's also present at a lower level to enable the event-driven behavior. Apache Spark is not an exception. It uses a publish/subscribe approach in various places.

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Learn How OneWeb Delivers Space-Based Connectivity with Snowflake

Snowflake

OneWeb and its constellation of 648 satellites help connect the otherwise unreachable. Learn how it uses data mesh—and Snowflake—to help manage its data and unlock untapped potential. OneWeb isn’t your typical communications company. Its constellation of 648 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites provides high-speed, low-latency connectivity for governments, businesses, and communities almost anywhere on the planet.

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Generated method too long to be JIT compiled

Waitingforcode

There are days like that. You inherit a code and it doesn't really work as expected. While digging into issues you find usual weird warnings but also several new things. For me one of these things was the "Generated method too long to be JIT compiled." info message.

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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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Serializers in PySpark

Waitingforcode

We've learned in the previous PySpark blog posts about the serialization overhead between the Python application and JVM. An intrinsic actor of this overhead are Python serializers that will be the topic of this article and hopefully, will provide a more complete overview of the Python JVM serialization.

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Azure Synapse Link as Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing

Waitingforcode

I've discovered the term from the title while learning Azure Synapse and Cosmos DB services. I had heard of NoSQL, or even NewSQL, but never of a solution supporting analytical and transactional workloads at once.

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Shuffle in PySpark

Waitingforcode

Shuffle is for me a never-ending story. Last year I spent long weeks analyzing the readers and writers and was hoping for some rest in 2022. However, it didn't happen. My recent PySpark investigation led me to the shuffle.py file and my first reaction was "Oh, so PySpark has its own shuffle mechanism?". Let's check this out!

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Apache Airflow 2 overview - part 1

Waitingforcode

Apache Airflow 2 introduced a lot of new features. The most visible one is probably a reworked UI but there is more! In this and the next blog post I'll show some of the interesting new Apache Airflow features.

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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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Useful classes for data engineers - Scala & Java

Waitingforcode

We all have our habits and as programmers, libraries and frameworks are definitely a part of the group. In this blog post I'll share with you a list of Java and Scala classes I use almost every time in data engineering projects. The part for Python will follow next week!

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Worth reading for data engineers - part 1

Waitingforcode

Hi and welcome to the new series. This time I won't blog about my discoveries. Instead, I'm going to see other blog posts from the data engineering space and share some key takeaways with you. I don't know how regular it will be yet but hopefully will be able to share some of the notes every month.

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Apache Spark as you don't know it

Waitingforcode

It's difficult to see all the use cases of a framework. Back in time, when I was a backend engineer, I never succeeded to see all applications of Spring framework. Now, when I'm a data engineer, I feel the same for Apache Spark. Fortunately, the community is there to show me some outstanding features!

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Apache Airflow 2 overview - part 2

Waitingforcode

Welcome to the 2nd blog post dedicated to Apache Airflow 2 features. This time it'll be more about custom code you can add to the most recent version.

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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