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Data News — Week 23.08

Christophe Blefari

Data engineering team moving data manually ( credits ) Dear readers, I hope you had a great week. Each time I look back and I see the amount of Fridays I've spent reading and writing I'm still surprised. For the last 2 newsletters I've tried to ask your for paying support. From number of people who really paid I can see that I failed to either word it correctly, either to propose a newsletter where you see the value of paying for it.

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The Future Of Online Security: Is Meta Verification The Answer?

U-Next

What’s cooler than having thousands of followers on Instagram? It’s the teeny tiny blue tick next to your name that establishes the fact that you as an individual/product/service is popular as well as reliable. The Instagram ‘Blue Tick’ which is a symbol of celebrity, popularity, and influence on the platform has now been made available to all.

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The Chaos Data Engineering Manifesto

Towards Data Science

The Chaos Data-Engineering Manifesto Another lesson we can learn from software engineers: break stuff to make it more reliable. Photo by Soheb Zaidi on Unsplash It’s midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times currently serving as the “situation room.” A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage.

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Make Quantum Leaps in Your Data Science Journey

KDnuggets

Learn about three levels of data science to make the quantum leap to the next level.

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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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Meta’s head of AR hardware on the future of AR

Engineering at Meta

While VR headsets have been with us for at least a decade, AR hardware barely exists today; indeed, the very components that will comprise the hardware scarcely exist, making it a truly zero-to-one innovation challenge. Meta’s Head of AR Glasses Hardware, Caitlin Kalinowski is helping to lead that charge. Kalinowski hails from Portsmouth, NH and studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University.

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5 SQL Visualization Tools for Data Engineers

KDnuggets

This article will discuss SQL visualization, its role in augmenting the modern-day data engineer, and five categories of SQL visualization tools.

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Meta’s head of AR glasses on the future of AR hardware

Engineering at Meta

While VR headsets have been with us for at least a decade, AR hardware barely exists today; indeed, the very components that will comprise the hardware scarcely exist, making it a truly zero-to-one innovation challenge. Meta’s Head of AR Glasses Hardware, Caitlin Kalinowski is helping to lead that charge. Kalinowski hails from Portsmouth, NH and studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University.

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Important Marketing Analytics Metrics to Measure Marketing Performance

Hevo

Marketing analytics metrics are essential for gaining access to insightful data that may boost sales, profitability, and brand recognition. The right analytics tools can help locate new markets, audience segments, and potential growth regions. However, with the vast amount of data available, it can be challenging to make sense of it all.

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Take your analysis to the next level with SAR

ArcGIS

With a substantial interest in radar, Esri has released a series of capabilities and tools to work with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR).

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3 Types of Marketing Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide

Hevo

Marketing analytics is essential to understand the marketing impact and predict marketing trends to drive sales. Various marketing analytics processes are used by businesses to improve marketing strategies and the overall performance of an organization.

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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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What’s New in ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro | February 2023

ArcGIS

The ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro team started the year off big with the February 2023 release! Read all about it!

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Quantifying Efficiency in Ridesharing Marketplaces

Lyft Engineering

by Alex Chin and Tony Qin Photo by Lisheng Chang on Unsplash The health of Lyft’s marketplace depends on how riders and drivers are distributed across space and time. Within the complex rideshare space, it is not easy to define typical marketplace concepts like “market efficiency” and “supply-demand balance”. A simple question such as “Do we have enough drivers right now?

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Making Sense of Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data, Part 1: The Landscape

Rockset

Introduction Let’s get this out of the way at the beginning: understanding effective streaming data architectures is hard, and understanding how to make use of streaming data for analytics is really hard. Kafka or Kinesis ? Stream processing or an OLAP database? Open source or fully managed? This blog series will help demystify streaming data, and more specifically, provide engineering leaders a guide for incorporating streaming data into their analytics pipelines.

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Write DRY data models with partials and Pydantic

Towards Data Science

Build clean nested data models for use in data engineering pipelines Photo by Didssph on Unsplash Introduction Pydantic is an incredibly powerful library for data modeling and validation that should become a standard part of your data pipelines. Part of what makes them so powerful is they can easily accommodate nested data files like JSON. For a quick refresher, Pydantic is a Python library that lets you define a data model in a Pythonic way, and use that model to validate data inputs, mainly t

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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.