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10 Free Top Notch Machine Learning Courses

KDnuggets

Are you interested in studying machine learning over the holidays? This collection of 10 free top notch courses will allow you to do just that, with something for every approach to improving your machine learning skills.

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Organizing And Empowering Data Engineers At Citadel

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The financial industry has long been driven by data, requiring a mature and robust capacity for discovering and integrating valuable sources of information. Citadel is no exception, and in this episode Michael Watson and Robert Krzyzanowski share their experiences managing and leading the data engineering teams that power the business. They shared helpful insights into some of the challenges associated with working in a regulated industry, organizing teams to deliver value rapidly and re

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Data Analytics in the Cloud: It's Not Just Lift and Shift

Teradata

The cloud’s flexibility is becoming an essential success factor for businesses. But moving your data analytics to the cloud isn't just lift and shift. Read more.

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

Netflix Tech

by David Berg, Ravi Kiran Chirravuri, Romain Cledat, Savin Goyal, Ferras Hamad, Ville Tuulos Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

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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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Data Science Curriculum Roadmap

KDnuggets

What follows is a set of broad recommendations, and it will inevitably require a lot of adjustments in each implementation. Given that caveat, here are our curriculum recommendations.

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Integrating Apache Kafka With Python Asyncio Web Applications

Confluent

Modern Python has very good support for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines were first added to the language in version 2.5 with PEP 342 and their use is becoming mainstream following the […].

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Open-Sourcing Metaflow, a Human-Centric Framework for Data Science

Netflix Tech

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Get started at metaflow.org. Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding. Data scientists at Netflix relish our culture that empowers them to work autonomously and use their judgment to solve problems independently.

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Explainability: Cracking open the black box, Part 1

KDnuggets

What is Explainability in AI and how can we leverage different techniques to open the black box of AI and peek inside? This practical guide offers a review and critique of the various techniques of interpretability.

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Providing Timely, Reliable, and Consistent Travel Information to Millions of Deutsche Bahn Passengers with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform

Confluent

Every day, about 5.7 million rail passengers rely on Deutsche Bahn (DB) to get to their destination. Virtually every one of these passengers needs access to vital trip information, including […].

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The Essential Toolbox for Data Cleaning

KDnuggets

Increase your confidence to perform data cleaning with a broader perspective of what datasets typically look like, and follow this toolbox of code snipets to make your data cleaning process faster and more efficient.

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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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A Non-Technical Reading List for Data Science

KDnuggets

The world still cannot be reduced to numbers on a page because human beings are still the ones making all the decisions. So, the best data scientists understand the numbers and the people. Check out these great data science books that will make you a better data scientist without delving into the technical details.

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Why software engineering processes and tools don’t work for machine learning

KDnuggets

While AI may be the new electricity significant challenges remain to realize AI potential. Here we examine why data scientists and teams can’t rely on software engineering tools and processes for machine learning.

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Enabling the Deep Learning Revolution

KDnuggets

Deep learning models are revolutionizing the business and technology world with jaw-dropping performances in one application area after another. Read this post on some of the numerous composite technologies which allow deep learning its complex nonlinearity.

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5 Techniques to Prevent Overfitting in Neural Networks

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In this article, I will present five techniques to prevent overfitting while training neural networks.

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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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The Rise of User-Generated Data Labeling

KDnuggets

Let’s say your project is humongous and needs data labeling to be done continuously - while you’re on-the-go, sleeping, or eating. I’m sure you’d appreciate User-generated Data Labeling. I’ve got 6 interesting examples to help you understand this, let’s dive right in!

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KDnuggets Poll: How well do current AutoML solutions work?

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Take part in our latest poll, asking readers their opinions on the effectiveness of current automated machine learning solutions.

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Top 7 Data Science Use Cases in Trust and Security

KDnuggets

What are trust and safety? What is the role of trust and security in the modern world? Read this overview of 7 data science application use cases in the realm of trust and security.

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Google Open Sources MobileNetV3 with New Ideas to Improve Mobile Computer Vision Models

KDnuggets

The latest release of MobileNets incorporates AutoML and other novel ideas in mobile deep learning.

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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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Vega-Lite: A grammar of interactive graphics

KDnuggets

Vega and Vega-lite follow in a long line of work that can trace its roots back to Wilkinson’s ‘The Grammar of Graphics.’ Since then VegaLite has come into existence, bringing high-level specification of interactive visualisations to the Vega-Lite world.

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Popular Deep Learning Courses of 2019

KDnuggets

With deep learning and AI on the forefront of the latest applications and demands for new business directions, additional education is paramount for current machine learning engineers and data scientists. These courses are famous among peers, and will help you demonstrate tangible proof of your new skills.

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Webinar: Natural Language Processing for Digital Transformation of Unstructured Text

KDnuggets

Learn how pharma and healthcare organizations are using the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to transform unstructured text into actionable structured data.

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Accuracy Fallacy: The Media’s Coverage of AI Is Bogus

KDnuggets

Such as the gross exaggerations Stanford researchers broadcasted about their infamous "AI gaydar" project, there exists a prevalent "accuracy fallacy" in relation to AI from the media. Find out more about how the press constantly misleads the public into believing that machine learning can reliably predict psychosis, heart attacks, sexuality, and much more.

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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

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PyTorch in 2019 and where in Europe you can learn about PyTorch in 2020

KDnuggets

The Reinforce AI Conference is coming to Budapest again. Join us Apr 6-7 for the conference days, and optionally Apr 8 for workshops. Stefan Otte returns as a speaker, while Francois Chollet joins this time as well.

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KDnuggets™ News 19:n46, Dec 4: The Future of Data Science Careers; Which Data Visualization Should I Use?

KDnuggets

This week: The Future of Careers in Data Science & Analysis; Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations; Open Source Projects by Google, Uber and Facebook for Data Science and AI; Getting Started with Automated Text Summarization; A Non-Technical Reading List for Data Science; and much more!

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Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 27 – Dec 03: Data Science Books you should read in 2020

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Also: WTF is a Tensor?!?; A Reality Check on #DataScience Hype; Is Data Science dying?; Indeed Fastest-Rising Tech Skills, 2018-2019; Cartoon: #Thanksgiving, Big Data, and Turkey #DataScience….

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Top Stories, Nov 25 – Dec 1: How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code; Open Source Projects by Google, Uber and Facebook for Data Science and AI

KDnuggets

Also: Getting Started with Automated Text Summarization; A Doomed Marriage of Machine Learning and Agile; The Future of Careers in Data Science & Analysis; The Future of Careers in Data Science & Analysis; Can Neural Networks Develop Attention? Google Thinks they Can.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Statistical Thinking for Industrial Problem Solving – a free online course

KDnuggets

This online course is available – for free – to anyone interested in building practical skills in using data to solve problems better.

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Artificial Friend or Virtual Foe

KDnuggets

Is AI making more good than harm?

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Data Compression for Large-Scale Streaming Experimentation

Netflix Tech

Julie (Novak) Beckley, Andy Rhines, Jeffrey Wong, Matthew Wardrop, Toby Mao, Martin Tingley Ever wonder why Netflix works so well when you’re streaming at home, on the train, or in a foreign hotel? Behind the scenes, Netflix engineers are constantly striving to improve the quality of your streaming service. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

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Data Compression for Large-Scale Streaming Experimentation

Netflix Tech

Julie (Novak) Beckley, Andy Rhines, Jeffrey Wong, Matthew Wardrop, Toby Mao, Martin Tingley Ever wonder why Netflix works so well when you’re streaming at home, on the train, or in a foreign hotel? Behind the scenes, Netflix engineers are constantly striving to improve the quality of your streaming service. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.