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Data Engineering: A Formula 1-inspired Guide for Beginners

Towards Data Science

A Glossary with Use Cases for First-Timers in Data Engineering An happy Data Engineer at work Are you a data engineering rookie interested in knowing more about modern data infrastructures? I bet you are, this article is for you! In this guide Data Engineering meets Formula 1. But, we’ll keep it simple. Introduction I strongly believe that the best way to describe a concept is via examples, even though some of my university professors used to say, “ If you need an example to explain it, it means

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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

The Pragmatic Engineer

For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been? Three featured speakers listed at DevTernity 2021, 2022 and 2023, and JDKon 2024. These people do not exist. A year ago, I spent months doing an investigative report on how UK events tech company Pollen had its staff work for free, as it had run out of money but still kept operating.

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5 Super Cheat Sheets to Master Data Science

KDnuggets

The collection of super cheat sheets covers basic concepts of data science, probability & statistics, SQL, machine learning, and deep learning.

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Introducing Databricks Vector Search Public Preview

databricks

Following the announcement we made yesterday around Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Databricks Vector Search. W.

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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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Make this 3D printed globe please

ArcGIS

It's that time of year to warm ourselves beside the electric hum of a plastic filament printer and fall into the joy of making.

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The Importance Of Project Management Standards And Certification

Knowledge Hut

Better career line, better job, better income are obviously main goals for clearing a certificate, but this is not everything about standards and certification in this field. Many of my project management students are even not employees, instead, they have their own business. So, what is the total picture about this? In addition to what I mentioned from the beginning of this article, it the matter of mastering with this science and coping with the latest research, so that you effectively communi

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Creating High Quality RAG Applications with Databricks

databricks

Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) has quickly emerged as a powerful way to incorporate proprietary, real-time data into Large Language Model (LLM) applications. Today we are.

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Join Enhancements in ArcGIS Pro 3.2

ArcGIS

ArcGIS Pro 3.2 includes a number of enhancements to the Spatial Join, Add Spatial Join, Add Join, and Join Field tools.

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Key Process Groups In Project Integration Management

Knowledge Hut

What is Project Integration Management? As per Project Management Institute (PMI ® ), Project Integration Management is the first project management knowledge area, which mainly pertains to the procedures required to guarantee that the different tasks of the project are coordinated appropriately. While developing a project, the entire sub-processes are integrated to form a whole project, and that constitutes the concept called ‘project handling’.

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5 Free Courses to Master MLOps

KDnuggets

Have you finished learning the basics of machine learning and now wondering what's next? You're in the right place!

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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 your RAG application response quality with real-time structured data

databricks

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an efficient mechanism to provide relevant data as context in Gen AI applications. Most RAG applications typically use.

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Conscientious Computing - Accurately measuring the energy consumption of hardware by Matt Griffin

Scott Logic

In this instalment of the Conscientious Computing series , I wanted to investigate the methods available to measure the energy consumption of your code programmatically. As a Software Developer moving into the realm of sustainability, the number of assumptions made when it comes to estimating carbon impacts was surprising to me. My first thought was how do we automate this process and how can you get closer to a measured energy figure without needing additional hardware.

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How to Become a Marketing Project Manager?

Knowledge Hut

In the ever-evolving field of marketing, the role of a Marketing Project Manager is growing in significance every day. These professionals are the linchpins ensuring that marketing campaigns and projects run without a hitch. In this article, I will guide you through the responsibilities of a Marketing Project Manager, the steps on How to Become a Marketing Project Manager?

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7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Become a Data Scientist

KDnuggets

Is data science really the right career option for you? Well, it depends. And that is why we put together this opinionated guide with insights from data professionals.

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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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Snowflake’s AWS re:Invent Highlights for Fast-Tracking ML, Gen AI and Application Innovations 

Snowflake

We had a jam-packed week alongside more than 60,000 attendees at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent, one of the largest hands-on conferences in the cloud computing industry. Engaging with partners and customers — and showcasing what’s new on the Snowflake product front — made for a dynamic time in Las Vegas. Here are highlights from the collaborations, integrations and product enhancements that we were proud to dig in to throughout the week.

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Atlantis Hardening and Review Fatigue

DoorDash Engineering

Many organizations use infrastructure-as-code (IaC) with pull request (PR) automation to provide a more secure, safe environment for making infrastructure changes. Despite the power and flexibility of IaC software, the lack of strong, secure defaults in PR automation software can make that sense of security a false one. Infrastructure-as-code and pull request automation IaC enables a declarative, reusable, and auditable way to manage configuration changes.

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Best PgMP Study Guide Essentials in 2023 + Study Plan

Knowledge Hut

Like many professionals, I earned the Program Management Professional (PgMP) credential to become proficient in coordinating multiple projects to achieve a common goal. Earning this credential requires experience, specific skills, a structured approach, and an understanding of best business practices. In this article, I will share my firsthand experience with the comprehensive PgMP Study Guide, moving beyond just the theoretical aspects.

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Using Google’s NotebookLM for Data Science: A Comprehensive Guide

KDnuggets

This blog post explores NotebookLM, its functionality, limitations, and advanced features essential for researchers and scientists.

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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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Build an Open Data Lakehouse with Iceberg Tables, Now in Public Preview

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg’s ecosystem of diverse adopters, contributors and commercial support continues to grow, establishing itself as the industry standard table format for an open data lakehouse architecture. Snowflake’s support for Iceberg Tables is now in public preview, helping customers build and integrate Snowflake into their lake architecture. In this blog post, we’ll dive deeper into the considerations for selecting an Iceberg Table catalog and how catalog conversion works Choosing an Iceberg Ta

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Managing Recalls with Barcode Traceability on the Delta Lake

databricks

Recent data show that the number of recall campaigns caused by product deficiencies keeps increasing, while each known recorded case is a multi-million.

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Why You Need To Break The Mold And Get Agile

Knowledge Hut

Things change. While changes are inevitable, they cause problems for software developers and project managers who are used to getting things done sequentially. Being agile solves many of the problems that changes create. The Project Management Problem Whether you’re managing a software development project, a website development and design project, a marketing project, or any other kind of project, you can’t avoid changes.

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Beyond Guesswork: Leveraging Bayesian Statistics for Effective Article Title Selection

KDnuggets

The article discusses how Bayesian multi-armed bandit algorithms can optimize digital media title selection, surpassing traditional A/B testing methods, demonstrated with a Python example, to boost audience engagement and decision-making in content creation.

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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.

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Drive Your Retail Media Strategy with Data Clean Rooms 

Snowflake

Retail media is the topic everyone is talking about in the retail and consumer goods industry. And for good reason: the $45 billion U.S. retail media market is surging as retailers capitalize on the consumer shift to ecommerce while offering advertisers access to their unique audiences and data insights. Many retailers developed their own retail media networks over the last few years, from digital marketplaces and department stores to commerce intermediaries.

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Announcing Databricks Middle East Expansion and Launch of Azure Qatar

databricks

We’re excited to announce the launch of Azure Qatar. With the expanded availability of Azure Databricks, it is now easier than ever for o.

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Delivering Real-Time Manufacturing Predictive Maintenance

Confluent

Confluent Cloud enables organizations to unlock real-time visibility into manufacturing processes, using real-time data collection and analytics to prevent re-work and tooling failures, delivering an outsized impact on production volume and quality.

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Mastering Data Science Workflows with ChatGPT

KDnuggets

This article highlights the skills data scientists can learn to make the most use of the prowess of ChatGPT.

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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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Data Engineering Weekly #151

Data Engineering Weekly

RudderStack is the Warehouse Native CDP, built to help data teams deliver value across the entire data activation lifecycle, from collection to unification and activation. Visit rudderstack.com to learn more. Github: The architecture of today’s LLM applications LLM is slowly changing the application architecture landscape as it becomes integral to app development.

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Add One Line of SQL to Optimise Your BigQuery Tables

Towards Data Science

Clustering: A simple way to group similar rows and prevent unnecessary data processing Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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Automotive Giant Turns Data Into Business Value With Databricks

databricks

This was written in collaboration with Andrew Mullins, Director of Data Science at Kin + Carta. With the rise of new technologies from.

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Personalized AI Made Simple: Your No-Code Guide to Adapting GPTs

KDnuggets

OpenAI revolutionizes personal AI customization with its no-code approach to creating custom ChatGPTs.

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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.