January, 2024

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The Future of Data Engineering as a Data Engineer

Monte Carlo

In the world of data engineering, Maxime Beauchemin is someone who needs no introduction. One of the first data engineers at Facebook and Airbnb, he wrote and open sourced the wildly popular orchestrator, Apache Airflow , followed shortly thereafter by Apache Superset , a data exploration tool that’s taking the data viz landscape by storm. Currently, Maxime is CEO and co-founder of Preset , a fast-growing startup that’s paving the way forward for AI-enabled data visualization for modern companie

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The Only Free Course You Need To Become a Professional Data Engineer

KDnuggets

Data Engineering ZoomCamp offers free access to reading materials, video tutorials, assignments, homeworks, projects, and workshops.

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Data Science vs Software Engineering - Significant Differences

Knowledge Hut

With an array of career options, all that matters is choosing the right career path. The right career path for one depends on their skill set, interest, job availability in that field, and, most importantly, your passion for the same. Speaking of job vacancies, the two careers have high demands till date and in upcoming years are Data Scientist and a Software Engineer.

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The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?

The Pragmatic Engineer

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover one out of four topics from today’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue. To get full issues twice a week, subscribe here.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:

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Robinhood Adds New Spot Bitcoin ETFs

Robinhood

The new class of spot Bitcoin ETFs that were approved by the SEC yesterday are now available on Robinhood Earlier today, Robinhood started offering the new class of spot Bitcoin ETFs that were approved by the SEC on January 10. These 11 ETFs became tradable to all customers in the United States this morning in both retirement and brokerage accounts though Robinhood Financial.

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A look under GHC's hood: desugaring linear types

Tweag

I recently merged linear let- and where-bindings in GHC. Which means that we’ll have these in GHC 9.10, which is cause for celebration for me. Though they are much overdue, so maybe I should instead apologise to you. Anyway, I thought I’d take the opportunity to discuss some of GHC’s inner workings and how they explain some of the features of linear types in Haskell.

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Prompt Engineering 101: Mastering Effective LLM Communication

KDnuggets

This article serves as an introduction to those looking to understanding what prompt engineering is, and to learn more about some of the most important techniques currently used in the discipline.

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LLM Training and Inference with Intel(R) Gaudi(R) 2 AI Accelerators

databricks

At Databricks, we want to help our customers build and deploy generative AI applications on their own data without sacrificing data privacy or.

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Accelerate Your Machine Learning Workflows in Snowflake with Snowpark ML 

Snowflake

Many developers and enterprises looking to use machine learning (ML) to generate insights from data get bogged down by operational complexity. We have been making it easier and faster to build and manage ML models with Snowpark ML , the Python library and underlying infrastructure for end-to-end ML workflows in Snowflake. With Snowpark ML, data scientists and ML engineers can use familiar Python frameworks for preprocessing and feature engineering as well as training models that can be managed a

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5 Hard Truths About Generative AI for Technology Leaders

Monte Carlo

GenAI is everywhere you look, and organizations across industries are putting pressure on their teams to join the race – 77% of business leaders fear they’re already missing out on the benefits of GenAI. Data teams are scrambling to answer the call. But building a generative AI model that actually drives business value is hard. And in the long run, a quick integration with the OpenAI API won’t cut it.

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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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Monitoring Cloudera DataFlow Deployments With Prometheus and Grafana

Cloudera

Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) is a complete self-service streaming data capture and movement platform based on Apache NiFi. It allows developers to interactively design data flows in a drag and drop designer, which can be deployed as continuously running, auto-scaling flow deployments or event-driven serverless functions. CDF-PC comes with a monitoring dashboard out of the box for data flow health and performance monitoring.

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Introducing Neighborhood Explorer in ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro now includes Neighborhood Explorer: an experience that will help you understand and refine spatial relationships in your analysis.

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7 Steps to Landing Your First Data Science Job

KDnuggets

Want to make a successful career switch to data science? From learning data science concepts to cracking interviews, read this guide to move one step closer to your first data science job.

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Databricks Announces the Industry’s First Generative AI Engineer Learning Pathway and Certification

databricks

Today, we are announcing the industry's first Generative AI Engineer learning pathway and certification to help ensure that data and AI practitioners have.

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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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Unlock the Power of Your Marketing Data with Snowflake Connector for Google Analytics

Snowflake

Imagine seamlessly integrating your Google Analytics data with Snowflake, allowing you to combine it effortlessly with other key sources like CRM, ERP, social media metrics, email campaign data, and whatever data sources compose the full scope of your data estate. The good news is that it’s possible with the native Snowflake Connector for Google Analytics, now available in public preview.

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React useEffect() Hook: Basic Usage, When and How to Use It?

Knowledge Hut

Hello Readers! Welcome to the world of modern JavaScript! Or should I say, the world of React! React has become the most popular JavaScript Library. It has gained a strong community around it due to its robustness and ease of use. React makes it easy to create interactive UIs and smooth user experiences. Enough about React; I am sure you are already aware of it, which is why you’ve landed on this article.

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How DataOS Nails Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Integration

The Modern Data Company

The Modern Data Company has been given an honorable mention in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration. In honor of this achievement, we’d like to re-introduce ourselves for 2024 and let everyone know why DataOS has been and still is one of the most innovative and reliable ways for organizations not only to interact with their data but to put that data to work once and for all.

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Geoprocessing enhancements in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 for ArcMap users

ArcGIS

Equivalency enhancements to geoprocessing in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 to remove more barriers for those transitioning from ArcMap.

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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, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Enroll in a 4-year Computer Science Degree Program For Free

KDnuggets

Enroll in the free OSSU Computer Science degree program and launch your career in tech today. Learn from high-quality courses from professors from leading universities like MIT, Harvard, and Princeton.

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Serving Quantized LLMs on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs

databricks

Quantization is a technique for making machine learning models smaller and faster. We quantize Llama2-70B-Chat, producing an equivalent-quality model that generates 2.2x more.

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New Snowflake Features Released in December 2023

Snowflake

In the final month of 2023, Snowflake released features around Snowflake Cortex functions, Snowpark ML, cost management and more. Read on to learn more about everything we announced in December. Snowpark Enhancements GPU-powered compute with Snowpark Container Services – public preview in select AWS regions Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that helps you deploy, manage and scale containerized code, whether it’s a large language model (LLM) or a full-stack a

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3 C’s of User Stories- Well Explained

Knowledge Hut

People who work in an Agile environment know the significance of user stories. Agile methodologies put people over processes and carry forward their projects in a way that anyone associated with it gets a complete understanding. That is why writing user stories under Agile is emphasized. There is a responsibility to generate the user stories so efficiently that even the most unversed person gets the entire idea by merely going through it.

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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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Measuring mobile apps performance in production

Booking.com Engineering

“Customers expect apps to perform well. An app that takes a long time to launch, or responds slowly to input, may appear to the user as if it’s not working or is sluggish. An app that makes a lot of large network requests may increase the user’s data charges and drain the device battery. Any of these behaviors can frustrate users and lead them to uninstall the app.

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Enhanced Object Detection using Drones and AI

ArcGIS

We will demonstrate how drone images and AI provide improved object detection achieved through Pixel Space to Map Space transformation.

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Survey: Machine Learning Projects Still Routinely Fail to Deploy

KDnuggets

The author highlights the chronic under-deployment of ML projects, with only 22% of revolutionary initiatives deploying and a lack of stakeholder visibility and detailed planning as key issues, in his industry survey and book "The AI Playbook.

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Welcome to the Data Intelligence Platform: Databricks + Einblick

databricks

At Databricks, we believe that AI will change the way that enterprises interact with their data. That’s why today, we're excited to welcome t.

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Demystifying DAPs: A Practical Guide to Digital Adoption Success

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are revolutionizing the way organizations interact with and optimize their software applications. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, DAPs have become essential tools for enhancing user engagement and software efficiency. This session is your guide into the robust world of DAPs, exploring their origins, evolution, and the current trends shaping their development.

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Zero to CDP: Unlock Your Full Marketing Potential with a Composable CDP on Snowflake

Snowflake

In today’s dynamic business landscape, numerous organizations are transitioning to the Snowflake Data Cloud, seeking more agile, secure and efficient solutions to manage and activate customer data. Yet, the timelines and engineering resources needed to support implementation haven’t always kept pace with the increased market demand, impeding innovation.

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IT Service Catalogue: Tools, Benefits, Examples

Knowledge Hut

The status of working is continually changing, responding quickly to changing environments and, as a result, influencing our insight into the role of technology in our daily lives. As we strive to keep up with the speed of digital change, companies are increasingly reliant on IT as a critical tool, with end users counting on IT staff for services that are critical to their jobs.

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DORA Metrics At Work

Booking.com Engineering

DEVOPS How we doubled our team’s delivery performance within a year as measured by DORA metrics. source Imagine your team secured a budget for doubling the number of software engineers. That’s great! You can finally fix all the bugs, implement new ideas, and clean up all the technical debt that’s been accumulating for years. Right? Wait, wait… Not so fast.

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Cloud-Based Aboveground Biomass Mapping using Landsat and GEDI Data

ArcGIS

Process Landsat and GEDI datasets in the cloud and predict aboveground biomass for the state of Oregon using machine learning in ArcGIS Pro.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.