Thu.Jul 07, 2022

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Ten Key Lessons of Implementing Recommendation Systems in Business

KDnuggets

We've been long working on improving the user experience in UGC products with machine learning. Following this article's advice, you will avoid a lot of mistakes when creating a recommendation system, and it will help to build a really good product.

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DataOps Teams Get a Seat at the Adult’s Table as Organizations Recognize their Strategic, Proactive Value

Meltano

Gone are the days when success meant keeping data teams small and getting your insights quickly with tools built in-house. Data is taking on a new level of importance to businesses, and expectations are changing. Reliability, consistency, and accuracy are of greater importance than ever before, and the old ways of data don’t support that, leaving DataOps professionals frustrated.

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High-Fidelity Synthetic Data for Data Engineers and Data Scientists Alike

KDnuggets

Take advantage of your existing data whether it be for testing, training ML models, or unlocking data analysis. Answer nuanced scientific questions, enable better testing, and support business decisions with the synthetic data that looks, feels, and behaves like your production data - because it’s made from your production data.

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7 Lessons From GoCardless’ Implementation of Data Contracts

Monte Carlo

Editor’s Note : We ran into Andrew at our London IMPACT event in early 2022. At the time, he was one of a very few people using the term “data contract.” Not only was he using the term, but his implementation was generating results. Data contracts have since became one of the most discussed topics in data engineering. For posterity, we have preserved Barr’s forward that examines what was then a very nascent trend, but we have also added an updated data contract FAQ as an addendum.

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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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Hidden Technical Debts Every AI Practitioner Should be Aware of

KDnuggets

Coming to think of technical debt in ML systems leads to the additional overhead of ML-related issues on top of typical software engineering issues.

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How streaming data and a lakehouse paradigm can help manage risk in volatile trading markets

Confluent

How Confluent’s data streaming platform enriches real-time stock market data directly into Databricks’ Lakehouse for powerful data modeling, risk management, and analytics.