December, 2023

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How Much Data Do We Need? Balancing Machine Learning with Security Considerations

Towards Data Science

For a data scientist, there’s no such thing as too much data. But when we take a broader look at the organizational context, we have to balance our goals with other considerations. Photo by Trnava University on Unsplash Data Science vs Security/IT: A Battle for the Ages Acquiring and keeping data is the focus of a huge amount of our mental energy as data scientists.

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25 Free Courses to Master Data Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, MLOps, and Generative AI

KDnuggets

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Streaming in Data Engineering

Towards Data Science

Streaming data pipelines and real-time analytics Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

The Pragmatic Engineer

For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been? Three featured speakers listed at DevTernity 2021, 2022 and 2023, and JDKon 2024. These people do not exist. A year ago, I spent months doing an investigative report on how UK events tech company Pollen had its staff work for free, as it had run out of money but still kept operating.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Unlocking the Power of Containers: Exploring the Top 20 Docker Containers for Every Development Need

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Docker containers have emerged as indispensable tools in the fast-evolving landscape of software development and deployment, providing a lightweight and efficient way to package, distribute, and run applications. This article delves into the top 20 Docker containers across various categories, showcasing their features, use cases, and contributions to streamlining development workflows.

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How Meta built the infrastructure for Threads

Engineering at Meta

On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work. While the app’s production launch had been under consideration for some time, the business finally made the decision and informed the infrastructure teams to prepare for its launch with only two days’ advance notice.

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Free MIT Course: TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing

KDnuggets

Curious about optimizing AI for everyday devices? Dive into the complete overview of MIT's TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing course. Explore strategies to make AI smarter on small devices. Read the full article for an in-depth look!

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Making Flink Serverless, With Queries for Less Than a Penny

Confluent

Dive into the serverless architecture of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink and explore its benefits like reduced infrastructure costs, increased reliability, & seamless adoption.

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Mentoring software engineers or engineering leaders

The Pragmatic Engineer

I get asked every now and then if I offer 1:1 mentoring for either software engineers or engineering managers or leaders. While I used to do this in the past, I don't offer this any more. I collected much of the advice I have to offer for software engineers in The Software Engineer's Guidebook. I also write The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter where I do cover topics like what it means to be a senior engineer at various companies , how to deal with a low-quality engineering culture , and

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Practical Magic: Improving Productivity and Happiness for Software Development Teams

LinkedIn Engineering

Co-authors: Max Kanat-Alexander and Grant Jenks Today we are open-sourcing the LinkedIn Developer Productivity & Happiness Framework (DPH Framework) - a collection of documents that describe the systems, processes, metrics, and feedback systems we use to understand our developers and their needs internally at LinkedIn. Now more than ever, developers are navigating so much change and new opportunity in this new era of Generative AI, so ensuring teams have the systems, processes, metrics and f

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Snowflake Announces Agreement to Acquire Samooha to Simplify Building Interoperable Data Clean Rooms in the Data Cloud

Snowflake

When businesses share sensitive first-party data with outside partners or customers, they must do so in a way that meets strict governance requirements around security and privacy. Data clean rooms have emerged as the technology to meet this need, enabling interoperability where multiple parties can collaborate on and analyze sensitive data in a governed way without exposing direct access to the underlying data and business logic.

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Introducing Databricks Vector Search Public Preview

databricks

Following the announcement we made yesterday around Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Databricks Vector Search. W.

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10 GitHub Repositories to Master Machine Learning

KDnuggets

The blog covers machine learning courses, bootcamps, books, tools, interview questions, cheat sheets, MLOps platforms, and more to master ML and secure your dream job.

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Building Trust in Public Sector AI Starts with Trusting Your Data

Cloudera

Recent Government Initiatives on Public Sector AI Solutions In recent years, governments across the globe have recognized the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and have embarked on initiatives to harness this technology to drive innovation and serve their citizens more effectively. These government-led efforts have had a profound impact on the development and adoption of AI solutions in the public sector, paving the way for a future where data-driven decision-making and au

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Changing the Game with MES: Cut Costs, Drive Efficiency, & Achieve Sustainability Goals!

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

In an era where efficiency is king, are you leveraging the right tools to transform your manufacturing processes? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is critical for enhancing operational efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing energy usage—key factors for improving your bottom line and lowering your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, a manufacturing technology expert with 18+ years of hands-on experience, in this new webinar as he uncovers the secrets of MES and how to best utilize thes

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The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023

The Pragmatic Engineer

2023 was the second full year of The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter , and this newsletter is now almost two and a half years old; the first issue came out on 26 August 2021. Thank you for being a reader, I greatly value your support. This year, 102 newsletter issues were published, and this is number 103. You received a deepdive issue on Tuesdays, and every Thursday it was  “The Pulse”  – formerly The Scoop.

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Real-Time Field Service Optimization

Confluent

Telcos use Confluent with event-driven microservices to enable real-time communications with 3rd-party field service providers, fulfilling customer service requests more efficiently.

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Top 6 Episodes of The Data Chief Podcast: 2023

ThoughtSpot

2023 has been a year of breakthrough innovation for many, and a deer-in-headlights moment for others. I keep flashing back to the 90s when the Internet created new businesses and destroyed others—LLMs are doing the same, only with more velocity. From CDAOs to VCs alike, the rate of creative destruction is faster, but there is also an intense focus on value.

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Improve your RAG application response quality with real-time structured data

databricks

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an efficient mechanism to provide relevant data as context in Gen AI applications. Most RAG applications typically use.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.

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The Best Data Science Resources, Bootcamp, and Courses to Learn Data Science in the New Year

KDnuggets

We've partnered with Springboard, the leading data science bootcamp offering personalized 1:1 mentorship, dedicated career support, proven outcomes, and an unbeatable money-back job guarantee, to present a handpicked collection of resources to supercharge your data science journey in the coming year.

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AI debugging at Meta with HawkEye

Engineering at Meta

HawkEye is the powerful toolkit used internally at Meta for monitoring, observability, and debuggability of the end-to-end machine learning (ML) workflow that powers ML-based products. HawkEye supports recommendation and ranking models across several products at Meta. Over the past two years, it has facilitated order of magnitude improvements in the time spent debugging production issues.

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Make this 3D printed globe please

ArcGIS

It's that time of year to warm ourselves beside the electric hum of a plastic filament printer and fall into the joy of making.

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Cash Flow Sensitivity and Scenarios

FreshBI

Amidst the ebb and flow of revenues, expenditures, and accounts receivable/payable, accurately predicting and managing cash flow remains a significant challenge for businesses of all scales. Let’s make it dynamic and easy with Power BI. Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis 1) What is sensitivity analysis? Sensitivity analysis within cash flow management involves assessing how changes in specific variables impact the overall cash position.

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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Our First Netflix Data Engineering Summit

Netflix Tech

Holden Karau Elizabeth Stone Pedro Duarte Chris Stephens Pallavi Phadnis Lee Woodridge Mark Cho Guil Pires Sujay Jain Tristan Reid Senthilnathan Athinarayanan Bharath Mummadisetty Abhinaya Shetty Judit Lantos Amanuel Kahsay Dao Mi Mick Dreeling Chris Colburn and Agata Gryzbek Introduction Earlier this summer Netflix held our first-ever Data Engineering Forum.

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Integrating NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM with the Databricks Inference Stack

databricks

Over the past six months, we've been working with NVIDIA to get the most out of their new TensorRT-LLM library. TensorRT-LLM provides an easy-to-use Python interface to integrate with a web server for fast, efficient inference performance with LLMs. In this post, we're highlighting some key areas where our collaboration with NVIDIA has been particularly important.

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Building Predictive Models: Logistic Regression in Python

KDnuggets

Image by Author When you are getting started with machine learning, logistic regression is one of the first algorithms you’ll add to your toolbox.

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Snowflake’s AWS re:Invent Highlights for Fast-Tracking ML, Gen AI and Application Innovations 

Snowflake

We had a jam-packed week alongside more than 60,000 attendees at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent, one of the largest hands-on conferences in the cloud computing industry. Engaging with partners and customers — and showcasing what’s new on the Snowflake product front — made for a dynamic time in Las Vegas. Here are highlights from the collaborations, integrations and product enhancements that we were proud to dig in to throughout the week.

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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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Join Enhancements in ArcGIS Pro 3.2

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 includes a number of enhancements to the Spatial Join, Add Spatial Join, Add Join, and Join Field tools.

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Reflective Understanding of Prince2® Principles in a Project Environment in 2024

Knowledge Hut

Managing s uccessful p rojects i n diverse areas such as construction , IT, banking , research and product development or in the field of health and service industry requires adoption of best practices that are pan-geographical. Post-COVID, the world is slowly recovering emotionally and economically, and what is needed are robust recovery measures such as project management best practices that will hasten up this recovery and help make things normal again.

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MySQL Master Slave Replication: 7 Easy Steps

Hevo

MySQL replication, specifically, MySQL master slave replication plays a vital role in ensuring data availability by enabling simultaneous copying and replication of data between servers. The MySQL master slave replication proves indispensable for data recovery, offering a reliable backup solution in the face of catastrophes or hardware failures.

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Databricks Named a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems

databricks

We are excited to announce that Gartner has recognized Databricks as a Leader for a third consecutive year in the 2023 Gartner® Magic.

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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.