July, 2023

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AI Image Generation Explained: Techniques, Applications, and Limitations

AltexSoft

Imagine walking through an art exhibition at the renowned Gagosian Gallery , where paintings seem to be a blend of surrealism and lifelike accuracy. One particular piece catches your eye: it depicts a child staring at the viewer with wind-tossed hair, evoking the feel of the Victorian era through its coloring and what appears to be a simple linen dress.

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Data Engineer vs Data Scientist: Which Career to Choose?

Analytics Vidhya

In the world of data, two crucial roles play a significant part in unlocking the power of information: Data Scientists and Data Engineers. But what sets these wizards of data apart? Welcome to the ultimate showdown of Data Scientist vs Data Engineer! In this captivating journey, we’ll explore the distinctive paths these tech titans take […] The post Data Engineer vs Data Scientist: Which Career to Choose?

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Polars vs Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Nothing gives me greater joy than rocking the boat. I take pleasure in finding what people love most in tech and trying to poke holes in it. Everything is sacred. Nothing is sacred. I also enjoy doing simple things, things that have a “real-life” feel to them. I suppose I could be like the others […] The post Polars vs Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Twitter vs Instagram Threads: two different approaches to throttling

The Pragmatic Engineer

Originally published 6 July 2023 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. If you’re not yet a full subscriber, you missed this week’s deep-dive on What a senior engineer is at Big Tech. To get the full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Data News — mid-2023 popular articles

Christophe Blefari

🧜‍♂️ ( credits ) Hey, this is a mid-2023 edition with some of my favourite articles and the popular articles that have been shared this year in the newsletter. There isn't any fancy calculation on how to find the popular articles. Here how it's done. Every link sent in each newsletter is tracked in 2 ways: when you click on a link it first redirect you to my blog so I know that you've clicked on it it adds ref=blef.fr to the url, so the original articl

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A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System

Tweag

Meta recently announced they have made Buck2 open-source. Buck2 is a from-scratch rewrite of Buck , a polyglot, monorepo build system that was developed and used at Meta (Facebook), and shares a few similarities with Bazel. As you may know, the Scalable Builds Group at Tweag has a strong interest in such scalable build systems. We were thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Meta on Buck2 to help make the tool useful and successful in the open-source use case.

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Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In this era of Generative Al, data generation is at its peak. Building an accurate machine learning and AI model requires a high-quality dataset. The quality assurance of the dataset is the most critical task, as poor data causes inaccurate analytics and unidentified predictions that can affect the entire repo of any business and […] The post Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Anomaly Detection with Machine Learning Overview

Knowledge Hut

Machine learning for anomaly detection is crucial in identifying unusual patterns or outliers within data. It plays a vital role in cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and industrial monitoring. By learning from historical data, machine learning algorithms autonomously detect deviations, enabling timely risk mitigation. They excel at identifying subtle anomalies and adapt to changing patterns.

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The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. If you’re not yet a full subscriber, you missed this week’s deep-dive on Software architect archetypes. To get the full issues, twice a week, subscribe here. Before we start, a small change.

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Snowflake’s Performance Optimizations Help ESO Reduce Costs by 60%

Snowflake

ESO is the largest software and data solutions provider to emergency medical services (EMS) agencies and fire departments in the U.S. With a mission to improve community health and public safety through the power of data, ESO makes software that helps save lives. If you call 911 and a fire or medical team responds, it’s likely they’re using ESO software to make sure you get the right help fast.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Modern Overview of the MIT CDOIQ Symposium

The Modern Data Company

Modern Announces Partnership with Data Mesh Pioneers, ThoughtWorks In July, we collaborated with ThoughtWorks at the annual CDOIQ Conference in Cambridge, MA to discuss real-world Data Products implementation and best practices for Data Mesh. The data community, especially CDOs, emphasized the importance of raising awareness and gaining clarity about data products.

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How to Build a Streaming Semi-structured Analytics Platform on Snowflake

KDnuggets

Building a datalake for semi-structured data or json has always been challenging. Imagine if the json documents are streaming or continuously flowing from healthcare vendors then we need a robust modern architecture that can deal with such a high volume. At the same time analytics layer also needs to be created so as to generate value from it.

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How to design a dbt model from scratch

Towards Data Science

A simple framework for building dbt models that actually get used. When I was researching the Ultimate Guide to dbt , I was shocked by the lack of material around actually building models from scratch. Not the exact steps to take in the tool — that is all covered in innumerable blogs and tutorials. I mean how do you know the right design? How do you make sure your stakeholders will use that model?

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Pattern Recognition in Machine Learning [Basics & Examples]

Knowledge Hut

Pattern recognition is a field of computer science that deals with the automatic identification of patterns in data. This can be done by finding regularities in the data, such as correlations or trends, or by identifying specific features in the data. Pattern recognition is used in a wide variety of applications, including Image processing, Speech recognition, Biometrics, Medical diagnosis, and Fraud detection.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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Introducing the Connect with Confluent Partner Program: Supercharging Customer Growth and Extending the Data Streaming Ecosystem

Confluent

Gain the easiest solution for data streaming and increase data flow to your platform through native integrations with Confluent Cloud and 120+ Kafka connectors.

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3 Ways AI, ML, and Predictive Analytics Can Help Solve the Nursing Crisis

Snowflake

The nursing profession is in crisis. According to McKinsey, over 30% of surveyed nurses said they may leave their current patient care jobs in the next year, and for inpatient nurses it’s higher at 45%. Meanwhile, the average professional tenure of nurses dropped from 3.6 years to 2.8 years between 2020 and 2023. These alarming trends have healthcare systems on red alert.

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Introducing Databricks Assistant, a context-aware AI assistant

databricks

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Databricks Assistant, a context-aware AI assistant, available natively in Databricks Notebooks, SQL editor.

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Unraveling the Power of Chain-of-Thought Prompting in Large Language Models

KDnuggets

This article delves into the concept of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting, a technique that enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). It discusses the principles behind CoT prompting, its application, and its impact on the performance of LLMs.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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How ThoughtSpot Partnered with Google Cloud to put AI at the center of BI

ThoughtSpot

At ThoughtSpot, we believe making data accessible to every knowledge worker requires human-centered technology—an analytics experience that bridges the “language” barrier between technology and people. AI is the perfect compliment to search because it empowers organizations to analyze, understand, and act on data. In order to achieve this vision, we knew we’d need to work with some of the best, most innovative technology companies across the modern data stack —companies that put their users fir

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What is Operation Research in Project Management?

Knowledge Hut

In a world of limitless possibilities driven by cutting-edge technology, innovations, and artificial intelligence, businesses can no longer rely on traditional models for opportunities and expansion. While traditional KPIs may still be important to certain aspects of business and economics, current times demand more enduring efforts to match up with the fast-paced environment and business tactics.

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Analyzing Time Series for Pinterest Observability

Pinterest Engineering

Brian Overstreet | Software Engineer, Observability; Humsheen Geo | Software Engineer, Observability Time series is a critical part of Observability at Pinterest, powering 60,000 alerts and 5,000 dashboards. A time series is an identifier with values where the values are associated with a timestamp. Given the widespread use and critical nature of time series, it’s important to give engineers the ability to adequately express what operations to perform on the time series in a readable, understand

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Powering the Latest LLM Innovation, Llama v2 in Snowflake, Part 1

Snowflake

This blog series covers how to run, train, fine-tune, and deploy large language models securely inside your Snowflake Account with Snowpark Container Services This year there has been a surge of progress in the world of open source large language models (LLMs). This world of free and open source LLMs took yet another major step forward just this week with Meta’s release of Llama v2.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Building your Generative AI apps with Meta's Llama 2 and Databricks

databricks

Today, Meta released their latest state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) Llama 2 to open source for commercial use1. This is a significant development.

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Multivariate Time-Series Prediction with BQML

KDnuggets

Google's BQML can be used to make time series models, and recently it was updated to create multivariate time series models. With the simple code, this article shows how to use it to predict multivariate time series and it can be more powerful than a univariate time series model in this article.

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Unleashing Data Potential: Chaining Data Products for Powerful Use Cases

The Modern Data Company

In the modern data-driven landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to extract valuable insights from their data assets. While individual data products provide significant value, the true potential lies in harnessing the power of interconnected data products. By chaining data products together, organizations can unlock new levels of data-driven decision-making and drive impactful use cases.

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Everything You Need to Know about Lean Project Management

Knowledge Hut

Lean in project management, where the word ‘lean’ is associated with less wastage and more value addition. Lean is an Agile methodology that helps industries to improve productivity, increase customer value, eliminate problems, enhance the organization’s processes, reduce waste, and encourage continuous improvement. Historically, it was first introduced in the manufacturing industry, but today it is prevalent in almost every industry, including healthcare, education, software d

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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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Volunteer Spotlight: Big Day in the UK!

Cloudera

It was a busy day for Cloudera Cares in the UK on June 21, 2023. Not only did we deliver the EMEA Evolve Flagship event with a first of its kind, volunteer component, we also flew the Cloudera flag at a Cloudera Cares event with Mission Motorsport. Hear from Clouderan, Paul Wooding about his day volunteering at two of Cloudera’s impactful UK-based events.

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How to make features illuminate an underlying basemap

ArcGIS

Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are casting light on the basemap below?

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Patient Disease Risk Prediction with Lakehouse

databricks

All healthcare is personal. Individuals have different underlying genetic predispositions, environmental exposures, and past medical histories, not to mention different propensities to engage.

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Mastering GPUs: A Beginner’s Guide to GPU-Accelerated DataFrames in Python

KDnuggets

RAPIDS cuDF, with its pandas-like API, enables data scientists and engineers to quickly tap into the immense potential of parallel computing on GPUs–with just a few code line changes. Read on for more.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.