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Airflow Taskflow API: The Guide

Marc Lamberti

Airflow Taskflow is a new way of writing DAGs at ease. As you will see, you need to write fewer lines than before to obtain the same DAG. That helps to make DAGs easier to build, read, and maintain. The Taskflow API has three main aspects: XCOM Args, Decorator, and XCOM backends. In this tutorial, you will learn what the Taskflow API is, why it is crucial for you, and how to create your DAGs.

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More Performance Evaluation Metrics for Classification Problems You Should Know

KDnuggets

When building and optimizing your classification model, measuring how accurately it predicts your expected outcome is crucial. However, this metric alone is never the entire story, as it can still offer misleading results. That's where these additional performance evaluations come into play to help tease out more meaning from your model.

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Operational Analytics To Increase Efficiency For Multi-Location Businesses With OpsAnalitica

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary In order to improve efficiency in any business you must first know what is contributing to wasted effort or missed opportunities. When your business operates across multiple locations it becomes even more challenging and important to gain insights into how work is being done. In this episode Tommy Yionoulis shares his experiences working in the service and hospitality industries and how that led him to found OpsAnalitica, a platform for collecting and analyzing metrics on multi location

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Keeping Multiple Databases in Sync Using Kafka Connect and CDC

Confluent

Microservices have numerous benefits, but data silos are incredibly challenging. Learn how Kafka Connect and CDC provide real-time database synchronization, bridging data silos between all microservice applications.

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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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Improve Underwriting Using Data and Analytics

Cloudera

Insurance carriers are always looking to improve operational efficiency. We’ve previously highlighted opportunities to improve digital claims processing with data and AI. In this post, I’ll explore opportunities to enhance risk assessment and underwriting, especially in personal lines and small and medium-sized enterprises. Underwriting is an area that can yield improvements by applying the old saying “work smarter, not harder.

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Free Microsoft Excel for Beginners Course

KDnuggets

Are you ready to learn Excel from the beginning? In this course, you will learn data entry, essential formulas, data visualization, pivot tables, and much more.

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Event-Driven Microservices with Python and Apache Kafka

Confluent

A deep dive into how microservices work, why it’s the backbone of real-time applications, and how to build event-driven microservices applications with Python and Kafka.

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#Clouderalife Volunteer Spotlight: Barry Laide

Cloudera

Cloudera’s September Volunteer Spotlight is Barry Laide, accounting manager for LATAM, based in Cork, Ireland. . Barry volunteers with Kerry Mountain Rescue to provide first aid and rescue in the uplands of southwestern Ireland. The organization was founded in 1966 following the deaths of two climbers on the mountains there, and since then has come to the assistance of numerous climbers and walkers in distress. .

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AWS AI & ML Scholarship Program Overview

KDnuggets

This scholarship program aims to help people who are underserved and that were underrepresented during high school and college - to then help them learn the foundations and concepts of Machine Learning and build a careers in AI and ML.

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What Is the Average Salary of a Full Stack Developer in India?

U-Next

Introduction . A full-stack Developer mainly focuses on developing web applications which include front-end development, back-end development, and integration with other platforms like mobile apps, desktop applications, etc. You will need good skills and knowledge about different technologies like JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, etc., to become successful in this field, along with good working experience in these technologies before applying yourself as a full-stack developer candidate in India or a

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How Dr. Squatch Keeps Data Clean & Fresh with Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo

Dr. Squatch provides natural products specifically formulated for men who want to feel like a man, and smell like a champion. Making data-driven decisions is critical for the company to “raise the bar” on men’s personal care products according to their VP of Data, IT & Security, Nick Johnson. “Our mission as a data team is to help all of our decision makers across the business–from marketing and product to customer experience and finance–make better decisions that are informed by data,” Nick

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Ethics Sheet for AI-assisted Comic Book Art Generation

Cloudera

Introduction. This blog is intended to serve as an ethics sheet for the task of AI-assisted comic book art generation, inspired by “ Ethics Sheets for AI Tasks.” AI-assisted comic book art generation is a task I proposed in a blog post I authored on behalf of my employer, Cloudera. I’m a research engineer by trade and have been involved in software creation in some way or another for most of my professional life.

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Build a Text-to-Speech Converter with Python in 5 Minutes

KDnuggets

I have chosen to go through how to build a text-to-speech converter in Python, not only is it simple, but it is also fun and interactive. I will show you two ways you can do it with Python.

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How to create data pipeline and data quality SLA alerts in Databand

Databand.ai

How to create data pipeline and data quality SLA alerts in Databand Helen Soloveichik 2022-09-20 01:49:30 Data engineers often get inundated by alerts from data issues. The last thing an engineer wants to do is get woken up at night for a minor issue, or worse, miss a critical one that requires immediate attention. Databand helps fix this problem by breaking through noisy alerts with focused alerting and routing when a data pipeline and quality issues occur.

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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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Big Data (Quality), Small Data Team: How Prefect Saved 20 Hours Per Week with Data Observability

Monte Carlo

Data teams spend millions per year tackling the persistent challenges of data downtime. However, it’s often the leanest data teams that feel the sting of poor data quality the most. Here’s how Prefect , Series B startup and creator of the popular data orchestration tool, harnessed the power of data observability to preserve headcount, improve data quality and reduce time to detection and resolution for data incidents.

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3 Use Cases for Real-Time Blockchain Analytics

Rockset

Introduction Cryptocurrencies and NFTs have helped bring blockchain technology to the mainstream over the last few years, driven by the potential for astronomic financial returns. As more users become familiar with blockchain, attention and resources have started to shift towards other use cases for decentralized applications, or dApps. dApps are built on blockchains and are the use case layer for web3 infrastructure, offering a wide range of services.

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Dimensionality Reduction Techniques in Data Science

KDnuggets

Dimensionality reduction techniques are basically a part of the data pre-processing step, performed before training the model.

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How Can Real-Time Customer Analytics Lead To More Optimized and Refined Customer Experiences?

Striim

Modern-day customers have higher expectations from the brands they interact with. They crave customer experiences that are more timely, targeted, and personalized to their needs. Brands can meet these expectations by integrating real-time analytics into their customer experience. According to a study from Harvard Business Review, 44% of organizations found the adoption of real-time customer analytics to increase their total number of customers and revenue.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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What Is Bitcoin Mining?

U-Next

Introduction – What Are Bitcoins? Bitcoin is a wholly virtual form of money frequently referred to as a cryptocurrency, virtual currency, or digital cash. Bitcoin acts as a means of payment independent of any one person, group, or entity. A cryptocurrency like bitcoin eliminates the need for third parties to get involved in financial transactions.

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OAuth2 authentication for GraphQL in Node.js | Propel Data Analytics Blog

Propel Data

In this article, you’ll learn how to implement the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow with GraphQL using Node.js.

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How To Calculate Algorithm Efficiency

KDnuggets

In this article, we will discuss how to calculate algorithm efficiency, focusing on two main ways to measure it and providing an overview of the calculation process.

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Data-Driven Change: Essential Mindsets

Elder Research

The post Data-Driven Change: Essential Mindsets appeared first on Elder Research.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Decoding the 4 Different Types of Business Analytics

U-Next

Introduction to Business Analytics . Business Analytics is the process through which organizations analyze data using statistical techniques and technologies to gather knowledge and enhance their strategic decision-making. . Businesses rely on four different forms of analytics to help them make decisions: descriptive analytics, which explains what has occurred; predictive analytics, which shows us what might happen; prescriptive analytics, which explains what ought to occur going forward; and

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Data Governance and Strategy for the Global Enterprise

Cloudera

In a recent blog, Cloudera Chief Technology Officer Ram Venkatesh described the evolution of a data lakehouse, as well as the benefits of using an open data lakehouse, especially the open Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). If you missed it, you can read up about it here. Modern data lakehouses are typically deployed in the cloud. Cloud computing brings several distinct advantages that are core to the lakehouse value proposition.

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7 Machine Learning Portfolio Projects to Boost the Resume

KDnuggets

Work on machine learning and deep learning portfolio projects to learn new skills and improve your chance of getting hired.

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Unit testing in Apache Hop - complete, correct and consistent data

know.bi

What is data testing, and why should you test your data? Apache Hop is a data engineering and data orchestration platform that allows data engineers and data developers to visually design workflows and data pipelines to build robust solutions. However, building data pipelines is just the start. You want to run your workflows and pipelines in production reliably, and you want to make sure your data is processed exactly the way you want it to.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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AWS Solution Architect Roles and Responsibilities

U-Next

Introduction . The Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform is one of the most popular enterprise-grade cloud computing platforms. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that its revenue in the first quarter of 2022 increased by 37 percent when compared to the preceding quarter. . Amazon Web Services (AWS) generates over USD 62 billion in net sales per year, up from about USD 45 billion per year in 2020, making it one of Amazon’s strongest revenue segments.

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SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)

Cloudera

The identity team at Cloudera has been working to add the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) support to Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) and we’re happy to announce the general availability of SCIM on Azure Active Directory! In Part One we discussed: CDP SCIM Support for Active Directory, which discusses the core elements of CDP’s SCIM support for Azure AD.

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KDnuggets News, September 21: 7 Machine Learning Portfolio Projects to Boost the Resume • Free SQL and Database Course

KDnuggets

7 Machine Learning Portfolio Projects to Boost the Resume • Free SQL and Database Course • Top 5 Bookmarks Every Data Analyst Should Have • 7 Steps to Mastering Python for Data Science • 5 Concepts You Should Know About Gradient Descent and Cost Function.

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MLOps Principles to build Picnic’s Data Science Platform

Picnic Engineering

Here at Picnic, we love data. Over the last years, Picnic has grown into a data-driven online supermarket that is active in three countries. By leveraging data and algorithms, we have been able to support the company’s growth while maintaining high service levels. Besides numerous demand forecasting models, we have for example built machine learning models to improve our customer service and increase the efficiency of our trips.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating