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Data Engineering Project for Beginners - Batch edition

Start Data Engineering

1. Introduction 2. Objective 3. Design 4. Setup 4.1 Prerequisite 4.2 AWS Infrastructure costs 4.3 Data lake structure 5. Code walkthrough 5.1 Loading user purchase data into the data warehouse 5.2 Loading classified movie review data into the data warehouse 5.3 Generating user behavior metric 5.4. Checking results 6. Tear down infra 7. Design considerations 8.

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Centroid Initialization Methods for k-means Clustering

KDnuggets

This article is the first in a series of articles looking at the different aspects of k-means clustering, beginning with a discussion on centroid initialization.

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Confluent at a Fully Disconnected Edge

Confluent

Internet connectivity is something we sometimes take for granted. For many, most places we visit, work, or reside have some form of connectivity whether it be cellular, Wi-Fi, fiber, etc. […].

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Scaling Analysis of Connected Data And Modeling Complex Relationships With The TigerGraph Graph Database

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Many of the events, ideas, and objects that we try to represent through data have a high degree of connectivity in the real world. These connections are best represented and analyzed as graphs to provide efficient and accurate analysis of their relationships. TigerGraph is a leading database that offers a highly scalable and performant native graph engine for powering graph analytics and machine learning.

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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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Audio Analysis With Machine Learning: Building AI-Fueled Sound Detection App

AltexSoft

We live in the world of sounds: Pleasant and annoying, low and high, quiet and loud, they impact our mood and our decisions. Our brains are constantly processing sounds to give us important information about our environment. But acoustic signals can tell us even more if analyze them using modern technologies. Today, we have AI and machine learning to extract insights, inaudible to human beings, from speech, voices, snoring, music, industrial and traffic noise, and other types of acoustic signals

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Deep Learning For Compliance Checks: What’s New?

KDnuggets

By implementing the different NLP techniques into the production processes, compliance departments can maintain detailed checks and keep up with regulator demands.

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Optimizing Hive on Tez Performance

Cloudera

Tuning Hive on Tez queries can never be done in a one-size-fits-all approach. The performance on queries depends on the size of the data, file types, query design, and query patterns. During performance testing, evaluate and validate configuration parameters and any SQL modifications. It is advisable to make one change at a time during performance testing of the workload, and would be best to assess the impact of tuning changes in your development and QA environments before using them in product

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How can Airlines Meet the Needs of Today’s Digital Customer?

Teradata

The next generation of customers expects newer technologies & advanced self-service capabilities as the airline business becomes more competitive. How can airlines meet these expectations?

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Free University Data Science Resources

KDnuggets

This is a list of FREE data science resources and notes that are available online, some of which are provided by universities.

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Handling Bursty Traffic in Real-Time Analytics Applications

Rockset

This is the third post in a series by Rockset's CTO Dhruba Borthakur on Designing the Next Generation of Data Systems for Real-Time Analytics. We'll be publishing more posts in the series in the near future, so subscribe to our blog so you don't miss them! Posts published so far in the series: Why Mutability Is Essential for Real-Time Data Analytics Handling Out-of-Order Data in Real-Time Analytics Applications Handling Bursty Traffic in Real-Time Analytics Applications SQL and Complex Queries 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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Tableau Field-level Lineage: A Data Analyst’s Dream Come True

Monte Carlo

If you’ve been a data analyst, BI analyst, or general business user of dashboards and reports, you’ve probably asked these questions (and more) before: What’s the most reliable field to use? When was the last time this table was updated? Should there be this many null entries in this column? Who can I reach out to figure out if this data is expected?

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Technologie, données & transition écologique

Palantir

(Scroll down for English translation below) Avec l’adoption des accords de Paris en 2016, les institutions du secteur public et privé ont considérablement renforcé leurs ambitions en matière de décarbonation. Plus particulièrement, la capacité des organisations à s’adapter et améliorer leur prise de décision va devenir un élément clé de différenciation et de compétitivité.

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Machine Learning Key Terms, Explained

KDnuggets

Read this overview of 12 important machine learning concepts, presented in a no frills, straightforward definition style.

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Introducing the dbt Cloud API Postman Collection: a tool to help you scale your account management

dbt Developer Hub

❓ Who is this for: This is for advanced users of dbt Cloud that are interested in expanding their knowledge of the dbt API via an interactive Postman Collection. We only suggest diving into this once you have a strong knowledge of dbt + dbt Cloud. You have a couple of options to review the collection: get a live version of the collection via. check out the collection documentation to learn how to use 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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Exploring The Insights And Impact Of Dan Delorey's Distinguished Career In Data

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Dan Delorey helped to build the core technologies of Google’s cloud data services for many years before embarking on his latest adventure as the VP of Data at SoFi. From being an early engineer on the Dremel project, to helping launch and manage BigQuery, on to helping enterprises adopt Google’s data products he learned all of the critical details of how to run services used by data platform teams.

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Fine-Tune Fair to Capacity Scheduler in Relative Mode

Cloudera

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) unifies the technologies from Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). A few functionalities that existed in the legacy platforms (HDP and CDH) are substituted by other alternatives based on a detailed and careful analysis. CDH users would have used Fair Scheduler (FS), and HDP users would have used Capacity Scheduler (CS).

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Machine Learning’s Sweet Spot: Pure Approaches in NLP and Document Analysis

KDnuggets

While it is true that Machine Learning today isn’t ready for prime time in many business cases that revolve around Document Analysis, there are indeed scenarios where a pure ML approach can be considered.

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LOWER SQL function: Why we love it

dbt Developer Hub

We’ve all been there: In a user signup form, user A typed in their name as Kira Furuichi , user B typed it in as john blust , and user C wrote DAvid KrevitT (what’s up with that, David??) Your backend application engineers are adamant customer emails are in all caps All of your event tracking names are lowercase In the real world of human imperfection, opinions, and error, string values are likely to take inconsistent capitalization across different data sources (or even within the same data sou

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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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CDC on DynamoDB

Rockset

DynamoDB is a popular NoSQL database available in AWS. It is a managed service with minimal setup and pay-as-you-go costing. Developers can quickly create databases that store complex objects with flexible schemas that can mutate over time. DynamoDB is resilient and scalable due to the use of sharding techniques. This seamless, horizontal scaling is a huge advantage that allows developers to move from a proof of concept into a productionized service very quickly.

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Data Mesh Architecture: Reimagining Data Management

KDnuggets

The objective of data mesh is to establish coherence between data coming from different domains across an enterprise. The domains are handled autonomously to eliminate the challenges of data availability and accessibility for cross-functional teams.

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5 Free Hosting Platform For Machine Learning Applications

KDnuggets

Learn about the free and easy-to-deploy hosting platform for your machine learning projects.

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KDnuggets News, May 11: SQL Notes for Professionals; How To Structure a Data Science Project

KDnuggets

SQL Notes for Professionals: The Free eBook Review; How To Structure a Data Science Project: A Step-by-Step Guide; Everything You Need to Know About Tensors; Free University Data Science Resources; Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

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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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An Overview of Mercury: Creating Data Science Portfolio and Notebook Based WebApps

KDnuggets

Turn your dull Jupyter notebooks into interactive web apps by adding a YAML header and sharing it with your friends and colleagues. You can also use Mercury to create your data science portfolio, which consists of a resume and projects.

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4 Steps for Managing a Data Science Project

KDnuggets

Good planning and preparation will not only improve productivity, but it will help avoid potential pitfalls and roadblocks that could be encountered during project execution.

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Create Efficient Combined Data Sources with Tableau

KDnuggets

Save time and effort with this guide, which will show you how to do data join operations in Tableau.

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Learning Data Science If You’re Broke

KDnuggets

Check out this list of free resources, courses, and more to help you become a Data Scientist for free.

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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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Top 4 tricks for competing on Kaggle and why you should start

KDnuggets

If you aren't familiar with Kaggle, you should be. Hear why from two expert Kagglers in this article.

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oBERT: Compound Sparsification Delivers Faster Accurate Models for NLP

KDnuggets

Discover "compound sparsification" and how to apply it to BERT models for 10x compression and GPU-level latency on commodity CPUs.

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The Curse of Delayed Performance

KDnuggets

Predict the performance of your model - before the ground truth is available.

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The “Hello World” of Tensorflow

KDnuggets

In this article, we will build a beginner-friendly machine learning model using TensorFlow.

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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