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How to Learn Math for Data Science: A Roadmap for Beginners

KDnuggets

Blog Top Posts About Topics AI Career Advice Computer Vision Data Engineering Data Science Language Models Machine Learning MLOps NLP Programming Python SQL Datasets Events Resources Cheat Sheets Recommendations Tech Briefs Advertise Join Newsletter How to Learn Math for Data Science: A Roadmap for Beginners Confused about where to start with data science math?

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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

The Pragmatic Engineer

Originally published in The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. An eye-catching detail widely reported by media and on social media about the bankrupt business Builder.ai last week, was that the company faked AI with 700 engineers in India: “Microsoft-backed AI startup chatbots revealed to be human employees” – Mashable “Builder.ai used 700 engineers in India for coding work it marketed as AI-powered” – MSN “Builder.ai faked AI with 700 engineers, now

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Announcing Lakeflow Designer: No-Code ETL, Powered by the Databricks Intelligence Platform

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We’re excited to announce Lakeflow Designer, an AI-powered, no-code pipeline builder that is fully integrated with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

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Building a Custom PDF Parser with PyPDF and LangChain

KDnuggets

Blog Top Posts About Topics AI Career Advice Computer Vision Data Engineering Data Science Language Models Machine Learning MLOps NLP Programming Python SQL Datasets Events Resources Cheat Sheets Recommendations Tech Briefs Advertise Join Newsletter Building a Custom PDF Parser with PyPDF and LangChain PDFs look simple — until you try to parse one.

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Whats New in Apache Airflow 3.0 –– And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Introducing Databricks One

databricks

Skip to main content Login Why Databricks Discover For Executives For Startups Lakehouse Architecture Mosaic Research Customers Customer Stories Partners Cloud Providers Databricks on AWS, Azure, GCP, and SAP Consulting & System Integrators Experts to build, deploy and migrate to Databricks Technology Partners Connect your existing tools to your Lakehouse C&SI Partner Program Build, deploy or migrate to the Lakehouse Data Partners Access the ecosystem of data consumers Partner Solutions

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Snowflake Achieves Prestigious ISO/IEC/IEC 42001 Certification, Demonstrating Commitment to Responsible AI Practices

Snowflake

As a leader in AI and data, Snowflake is dedicated to ensuring that our artificial intelligence practices are not only effective but also ethical, responsible and transparent. That's why we're proud to announce that we've been awarded the ISO/IEC/IEC* 42001 certification. This prestigious international standard recognizes our commitment to establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving a structured framework that helps organizations responsibly and effectively manage the devel

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Unlocking Efficient Ad Retrieval: Offline Approximate Nearest Neighbors in Pinterest Ads

Pinterest Engineering

Authors (non-ordered): Qishan(Shanna) Zhu, Chen Hu Acknowledgements: Longyu Zhao, Jacob Gao, Quannan Li, Dinesh Govindaraj Introduction In the evolving landscape of advertising, the demand for real-time personalization and dynamic ad delivery has made Online Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN) a mainstream method for ad retrieval. Pinterest primarily employs online ANN to swiftly adapt to users’ behavior changes (depending on their age, location and privacy settings), thereby enhancing ad respon

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A Real-time Open Lakehouse with Redpanda and Databricks

databricks

Every lakehouse should be ‘stream-fed’ The ‘open lakehouse’ concept pioneered by Databricks years ago has been more broadly realized through the recent rise of Apache

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A proven approach to legacy modernisation that delivers early value by Duncan Austin

Scott Logic

When you’re working with a complex legacy IT estate, it can often feel like the value to be delivered from legacy modernisation strategies is on an ever-receding horizon. However, an approach pioneered by the financial services industry in recent years can unlock early value, and in a way that places no dependencies on the wider modernisation programme.

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Databricks SQL accelerates customer workloads by 5x in just three years

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Since 2022, Databricks SQL (DBSQL) Serverless has delivered a 5x performance gain across real-world customer workloads—turning a 100-second dashboard into a 20-second one.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025 Keynote Recap: The 5 Biggest Announcements

Monte Carlo

There we were again—in the sonically aggressive techno-scape of Moscone’s ballroom, waiting for the next spate of industry-defining announcements to echo through its halls. It was a full-on visual and auditory assault. However, as soon as Ali Ghodsi’s tailored blazer hit the stage, the announcements came fast and furious. Missed Wednesday’s keynote?

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Announcing full Apache Iceberg™ support in Databricks

databricks

We are excited to announce the Public Preview for Apache IcebergTM support in Databricks, unlocking the full Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake ecosystems with Unity

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Talk me through portal projects

ArcGIS

Have you ever wanted to work together with your colleagues on an ArcGIS Pro project? Simultaneously, in real time, without the project being read-only for others while you have it open? Now you can!

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Announcing the General Availability of Databricks Lakeflow

databricks

We’re excited to announce that Lakeflow, Databricks’ unified data engineering solution, is now Generally Available.

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A Guide to Debugging Apache Airflow® DAGs

In Airflow, DAGs (your data pipelines) support nearly every use case. As these workflows grow in complexity and scale, efficiently identifying and resolving issues becomes a critical skill for every data engineer. This is a comprehensive guide with best practices and examples to debugging Airflow DAGs. You’ll learn how to: Create a standardized process for debugging to quickly diagnose errors in your DAGs Identify common issues with DAGs, tasks, and connections Distinguish between Airflow-relate

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AI Advancements Will Solve Your Top Customer Communications Challenges

Precisely

Customer communications are under pressure – especially in highly regulated industries like financial services, insurance, utilities, and telecom. If you’re a leader in this space, you already know the stakes. Your customers expect seamless, personalized experiences. Your regulators demand compliance. And your teams are stretched thin trying to deliver both, often with outdated systems and manual processes.

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AI/BI Genie is now Generally Available

databricks

Last June, we announced Databricks AI/BI, our entry into the Business Intelligence category, built around AI that deeply understands your data, semantics and usage patterns,

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Robinhood’s Annual Women in Tech Mixer

Robinhood

Robinhood recently hosted its annual Women in Tech Mixer at our Menlo Park office—an evening designed to connect, celebrate, and ignite conversations among women and allies shaping the future of technology—and it did not disappoint! United by a shared commitment to inclusion, innovation, and impact, the event brought together more than 100 attendees from across Robinhood and the broader tech community.

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Introducing Lakebridge: Free, Open Data Migration to Databricks SQL

databricks

We’re excited to introduce Lakebridge, a free migration tool that simplifies and accelerates enterprise data warehouse (EDW) migrations to Databricks SQL.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Big data tools: A guide for scalable data operations

RudderStack

Speed up analysis and decisions using big data tools. Handle complex, high-volume data with ease.

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What’s New with Data Sharing and Collaboration - Summer 2025

databricks

At Databricks, we aim to make data and AI accessible to everyone, not only within a single organization but across organizational boundaries.

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Build Your First Chatbot Using Python-NLTK

WeCloudData

Chatbots have revolutionized the way we engage with technology. Their effect is extensive, ranging from providing customer service to serving as personal assistants. If you’re looking to start building a chatbot in python using nltk, you’re in the right place. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through creating a basic Python chatbot from scratch using […] The post Build Your First Chatbot Using Python-NLTK appeared first on WeCloudData.

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What's new in Preset (July 2025)

Preset

Product Preset Cloud Fully-managed, cloud-hosted service for Apache Superset Managed Private Cloud Preset with additional security in your private cloud Preset Certified Superset Deploy QA-approved Superset on any infrastructure Preset Embedded Dashboards Interactive analytics in your custom applications Preset API Managing your Preset workspaces as code Use Cases Business Intelligence (BI) Analytics and visualizations powered by Apache Superset for modern data stacks Internal Tooling Embedded a

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Scale AI With Trust, Traceability, and Real Value

Teradata

Learn how banks can scale AI with trust, traceability, and real value—beyond the hype.

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Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

Netflix Tech

By Alex Hutter , Alexandre Bertails , Claire Wang , Haoyuan He , Kishore Banala , Peter Royal , Shervin Afshar As Netflix’s offerings grow — across films, series, games, live events, and ads — so does the complexity of the systems that support it. Core business concepts like ‘actor’ or ‘movie’ are modeled in many places: in our Enterprise GraphQL Gateway powering internal apps, in our asset management platform storing media assets, in our media computing platform that powers encoding pipelines,

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Bringing Declarative Pipelines to the Apache Spark™ Open Source Project

databricks

Skip to main content Login Why Databricks Discover For Executives For Startups Lakehouse Architecture Mosaic Research Customers Customer Stories Partners Cloud Providers Databricks on AWS, Azure, GCP, and SAP Consulting & System Integrators Experts to build, deploy and migrate to Databricks Technology Partners Connect your existing tools to your Lakehouse C&SI Partner Program Build, deploy or migrate to the Lakehouse Data Partners Access the ecosystem of data consumers Partner Solutions