April, 2023

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8 In-Demand Data Science Certifications for Career Advancement [2023]

Analytics Vidhya

The job opportunities for data scientists will grow by 36% between 2021 and 2031, as suggested by BLS. It has become one of the most demanding job profiles of the current era. As recruiters hunt for professionals who are knowledgeable about data science, the average median pay for a proficient Data Scientist has soared to $100,910 […] The post 8 In-Demand Data Science Certifications for Career Advancement [2023] appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Realtime Data Applications Made Easier With Meroxa

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Real-time capabilities have quickly become an expectation for consumers. The complexity of providing those capabilities is still high, however, making it more difficult for small teams to compete. Meroxa was created to enable teams of all sizes to deliver real-time data applications. In this episode DeVaris Brown discusses the types of applications that are possible when teams don't have to manage the complex infrastructure necessary to support continuous data flows.

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Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?

The Pragmatic Engineer

When I think back on the software engineers I looked up to, they all shared this trait where they never took anything at face value. They regularly questioned statements that did not make sense to them, no matter how small the topic was: even if it involved admitting they did not understand a concept. After a while, I started adopting this approach.

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Mastering AI-Powered Product Development: Introducing Promptimize for Test-Driven Prompt…

Maxime Beauchemin

Mastering AI-Powered Product Development: Introducing Promptimize for Test-Driven Prompt Engineering originally posted here-> [link] AI, AGI, LLM, and GPT are the buzzwords of the moment. Like you, I’m excited, concerned, and constantly getting goosebumps as I try to keep up with everything happening in the field. It’s time for me to put on my helmet, secure it with duct tape, and contribute something that can help propel this frenzy forward ???

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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DuckDB vs Polars for Data Engineering.

Confessions of a Data Guy

I was wondering the other day … since Polars now has a SQL context and is getting more popular by the day, do I need DuckDB anymore? These two tools are hot. Very hot. I haven’t seen this since Databricks and Snowflake first came out and started throwing mud at each other. You might think […] The post DuckDB vs Polars for Data Engineering. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Mastering Generative AI and Prompt Engineering: A Free eBook

KDnuggets

In short, generative AI — and the prompts that power them — are everywhere. But beyond the basics, what do you really know about either? Perhaps you would find a concise, focused ebook on the topics useful.

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Building Self Serve Business Intelligence With AI And Semantic Modeling At Zenlytic

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Business intellingence has been chasing the promise of self-serve data for decades. As the capabilities of these systems has improved and become more accessible, the target of what self-serve means changes. With the availability of AI powered by large language models combined with the evolution of semantic layers, the team at Zenlytic have taken aim at this problem again.

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Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. If you’re not yet a full subscriber, you missed this week’s deep-dive into Figma’s engineering culture. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here.

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Building a Kimball dimensional model with dbt

dbt Developer Hub

Dimensional modeling is one of many data modeling techniques that are used by data practitioners to organize and present data for analytics. Other data modeling techniques include Data Vault (DV), Third Normal Form (3NF), and One Big Table (OBT) to name a few. Data modeling techniques on a normalization vs denormalization scale While the relevancy of dimensional modeling has been debated by data practitioners , it is still one of the most widely adopted data modeling technique for analytics.

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How Device Verification protects your WhatsApp account

Engineering at Meta

WhatsApp has launched a new security feature that further helps prevent attackers from using vectors like on-device malware. This security feature, called Device Verification, requires no action or additional steps from users and helps protect your account. This feature is part of our broader work to increase security for our users from the growing threat of malware.

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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A Guide to Top Natural Language Processing Libraries

KDnuggets

Natural Language Processing is one of the hottest areas of research. While NLP tasks may seem a bit complicated at first, they can be made easier by using the right tools. This article covers a list of the top 6 NLP Libraries that can save you time and effort.

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What is Data Analytics? How to Use it in Your Career?

Analytics Vidhya

In this digital world, Data is the backbone of all businesses. With such large-scale data production, it is essential to have a field that focuses on deriving insights from it. What is data analytics? What tools help in data analytics? How can data analytics be applied to various industries? We will be answering all these […] The post What is Data Analytics?

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An Exploration Of The Composable Customer Data Platform

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The customer data platform is a category of services that was developed early in the evolution of the current era of cloud services for data processing. When it was difficult to wire together the event collection, data modeling, reporting, and activation it made sense to buy monolithic products that handled every stage of the customer data lifecycle.

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The state of startup funding

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 Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. A recent report in Carta’s newsletter caught my eye: The state of angel investing, as reported by Carta. Source: Carta’s The Data Minute newsletter Angel rounds – or pre-seed rounds – usually total less than $1M in funding raised.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Free Dolly: Introducing the World's First Truly Open Instruction-Tuned LLM

databricks

Two weeks ago, we released Dolly, a large language model (LLM) trained for less than $30 to exhibit ChatGPT-like human interactivity (aka instruction-following).

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Viral spam content detection at LinkedIn

LinkedIn Engineering

On the LinkedIn platform, members from around the world share their knowledge, perspectives, and discuss topics important to them. Our goal at LinkedIn is to enable them to do so in a safe, trusted, and professional environment. We’ve previously discussed the various systems used to create a safe and trusted experience for our members and how we keep the LinkedIn Feed relevant for our members on LinkedIn.

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LangChain 101: Build Your Own GPT-Powered Applications

KDnuggets

LangChain is a Python library that helps you build GPT-powered applications in minutes. Get started with LangChain by building a simple question-answering app.

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Data Scientist vs Data Analyst: Which is a Better Career Option to Pursue in 2023?

Analytics Vidhya

Are you a data enthusiast looking to break into the world of analytics? The field of data science and analytics is booming, with exciting career opportunities for those with the right skills and expertise. But with so many job titles and buzzwords floating around, figuring out which path to pursue can be challenging. So, let’s […] The post Data Scientist vs Data Analyst: Which is a Better Career Option to Pursue in 2023?

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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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Building a Data-Centric Platform for Generative AI and LLMs at Snowflake

Snowflake

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing many aspects of both developer and non-coder productivity with automation of repetitive tasks and fast generation of insights from large amounts of data. Snowflake users are already taking advantage of LLMs to build really cool apps with integrations to web-hosted LLM APIs using external functions , and using Streamlit as an interactive front end for LLM-powered apps such as AI plagiarism detection , AI assistant , and MathGPT.

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Uber’s engineering level changes

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. This is a bit of a ‘late scoop,’ which I initially missed when it happened. Better late than never! Until early 2022, the software engineering levels at Uber were: Engineering levels at Uber, 2014-2022 Back when I was at Uber in around 2020, I saw statisti

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Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

Netflix Tech

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable.

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Inside Look: Measuring Developer Productivity and Happiness at LinkedIn

LinkedIn Engineering

Authors: Viktoras Truchanovicius and Selina Zhang At LinkedIn, developer productivity and happiness has always been a priority. It is critical for our engineering leaders to understand how efficiently and effectively their teams are operating to continuously deliver value-added features for our members and build an industry-leading engineering culture.

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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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Unveiling the Potential of CTGAN: Harnessing Generative AI for Synthetic Data

KDnuggets

CTGAN and other generative AI models can create synthetic tabular data for ML training, data augmentation, testing, privacy-preserving sharing, and more.

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Academia to Industry: Data Science Graduate Programs for South Africa’s Future

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction South Africa is not an exception as data science-driven economic change sweeps the world. The nation is seeing an increase in demand for qualified data science workers as a result of its booming IT sector and developing data-driven industries. Effective Graduate Training Programmes, Graduate Development Programmes, and Graduate Programs in data science must be […] The post Academia to Industry: Data Science Graduate Programs for South Africa’s Future appeared first on An

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Conda Init and ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS

We're happy to announce the conda init command is now enabled for ArcGIS users of Python! Learn about how to use it, how it works, and benefits.

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A fine-grained network traffic analysis with Millisampler

Engineering at Meta

What the research is: Millisampler is one of Meta’s latest characterization tools and allows us to observe, characterize, and debug network performance at high-granularity timescales efficiently. This lightweight network traffic characterization tool for continual monitoring operates at fine, configurable timescales. It collects time series of ingress and egress traffic volumes, number of active flows, incoming ECN marks, and ingress and egress retransmissions.

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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Introducing Entity-Centric Data Modeling for Analytics

Preset

Entity-centric modeling is a data modeling approach focusing on enriching tabular datasets with useful "features" to enable segmentation, cohort creation, and complex classification analyses easier.

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How LinkedIn Adopted A GraphQL Architecture for Product Development

LinkedIn Engineering

With the widespread adoption of Rest.li since its inception in 2013, LinkedIn has built thousands of microservices to enable the exchange of data with our engineers and our external partners. Though this microservice architecture has worked out really well for our API engineers, when our clients need to fetch data they find themselves talking to several of these microservices.

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Automated Machine Learning with Python: A Case Study

KDnuggets

How to Automate the Complete Lifecycle of a Data Science Project using AutoML tools, which reduces the programming effort for implementation with H2O.ai.

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Ace Your Data Science Skills with DataHour Sessions

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Well, hold onto your seats because the DataHour sessions are here to revolutionize how you learn about data-driven technologies. If you’re tired of boring, dry sessions that put you to sleep faster than a lullaby, you’re in for a treat. These sessions will cover everything from conversational intelligence to people analytics covering topics like […] The post Ace Your Data Science Skills with DataHour Sessions appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.