Christophe Blefari

MARCH 2, 2024

Mistral ( credits ) Hello all, this is the Data News, this week edition might be smaller than usual in term of comments as I'm working on a Data News related project that takes me a bit of time, which will probably lead to a series of articles. If you want to register I sill have a 40% promocode: mlops-blef-40.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 5, 2024

Lost between ideas ( credits ) Hey, new Data News edition. Before jumping to the news, I want to let you know that I have improved the Recommendations page and the weekly emails with the recommendation should arrive soon. I did not yet analysed the new map, but I'll try to do it soon. But here we are.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Italy Sora ( credits ) Hey you, time for the Data News. Because I did not send the news last week you will get articles from the 2 last weeks. Last few days have been heavily packed with AI News as well. Before jumping to the news there are a few events I want to write about. We will do it online / in-person. So tune-in.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 12, 2024

The fest we deserve ( credits ) I hope this Data News finds you well. But first I want to welcome all the new members joining this week after my new episode on DataGen with Robin Conquet. this week with a lot of new features. In today's edition we have a large selection of links, I think you will enjoy it.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 23, 2023

There’s plenty of news and anecdotal evidence suggesting the jobs market for software engineers is cooling. I delved into an existing data source for startups hiring software engineers, the monthly “Who is Hiring” thread on Hacker News, and also analyzed a newly available data source, the Indeed Job Postings Index.

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Christophe Blefari

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Back in town ( credits ) Hey, it's been a few weeks since I've not written any news. Still I've accumulated a lot of articles that I think should fit in the Data News so this week might be a huge recap of content that has been produce in the last month. AI News 🤖 Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Anyway this week will be a mixed Data News with links, stuff and ideas and a small wrap-up of the DuckCon + the stuff I presented on Wed. Anyway this week will be a mixed Data News with links, stuff and ideas and a small wrap-up of the DuckCon + the stuff I presented on Wed. I hope you're doing good. I hope you'll enjoy it.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 14, 2024

Back to the usual Data News—with a little delay, I'm sorry. It's a subject close to my heart and I was very happy to share it with you, because I never thought that Data News would become such a big part of my life. Wish me luck and have fun reading the news. Back to school ( credits ) Hello you.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

My ideas these days ( credits ) Hey, fresh Data News edition. This is my third presentation about DuckDB in the last 3 months and I think I'll slow down a bit until I get new crazy things to share. AI News 🤖 Mistral AI will release next week Mistral Next a ChatGPT alternative. Is it Java/Scala or Python?

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The Pragmatic Engineer

JANUARY 4, 2024

” I did some research, and The Wall Street Journal and a handful of other news outlets have covered this change since last March. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In this article, we cover one out of four topics from today’s subscriber-only The Pulse issue.

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Knowledge Hut

APRIL 25, 2024

Users now need to gain media literacy not just concerning conventional media and visual representation but also about the abundance of new technologies accessible and the creation of apps enabling completely novel methods of information transmission. The issue of who will educate our children has not yet been resolved. What Is Media Literacy?

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 20, 2024

Walking in the street be like recently ( credits ) Hey I hope this new edition finds you well. We are deep in the winter, it's time for comfy Data News to read near the fire 🔥 This week, on Monday, I started my annual university lecture. It's been 9 years since I started teaching and this year something was different.

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Christophe Blefari

AUGUST 4, 2023

Summer Edition ( credits ) This is the first article of the Data News Summer Edition: how to build a data platform. I tried to be as short as possible in this first article, details will come in the following ones. The modern data stack has been criticised a lot, a few are saying it's dead other are saying we are in the post-modern era.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Facing the News ( credits ) Hello Data News readers. Let's quickly jump to the news, because it's rather busy. Gen) AI News 🤖 Reinforcement Learning: an easy introduction to value iteration — Title says easy, but the article contains maths formula. But don't worry I don't forget you.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I've taken an unplanned 3-week break since the last Data News, let's be honest, it was necessary! A new year starts in September, new friends, new classes and new things. Data News is back, but with the same recipe: a weekly newsletter to let you catch up on the previous weeks' articles.

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Christophe Blefari

JUNE 16, 2023

Some personal news, next Monday and Tuesday I'll be at Berlin Buzzwords, if you're ping me, it would be a pleasure to meet and hang together. Some personal news, next Monday and Tuesday I'll be at Berlin Buzzwords, if you're ping me, it would be a pleasure to meet and hang together. Casual day at the office finally.

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Christophe Blefari

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Data News is packed this week, take time to enjoy it, rainy times are coming, you can see it as a gift 🎁 Enough dbt use lea 🥰 Max—the first Data News member 🤗—open-sourced carbonfact /lea this week. During 3 days, people shared how they used dbt around the world. What are the main differences?

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Robinhood

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Chartr’s visual storytelling turns complex data into easy-to-understand narratives, and will now give the tens of millions of readers of Sherwood Media the ability to better understand the finer details of important trends and the news of the day.

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Christophe Blefari

JULY 15, 2023

Yesterday I found a way to get sensor data of half of the Tour de France peloton, I was sure it was a good dataset to explore new tools with. Anyway, here a quick press roundup about a few news and articles. Gen AI 🤖 Elon Musk announced xAI , his new company, to show that he's better than the rest.

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Christophe Blefari

APRIL 14, 2023

Anyway, here the weekly Data News, written faster than usual. AI News 🤖 Yann le Cun did a 10 minutes interview at a major French radio. Regarding fake news and ethics he compares to e-mails. He thinks that like when we develop spamming filters to avoid fake mails we will develop the same to avoid fake news.

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Christophe Blefari

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Before moving on to the Data News, a bit of personal news, in December, I took part in the MotherDuck meetup in Berlin. It will talk about my search for a new spicy adventure, the fact that I've finally taken up running again, my new journey as an angel investor, and so on. Enjoy this last 2023 Data News.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is what the metrics store inspires me ( credits ) Dear Data News friend, every week there is a bit of randomness when this email will truly land in your mailbox—which, btw, breaks all the rules of newsletter writing. Yeah, you know, you have to get your readers used to a fixed schedule, which they can trust and bla, bla, bla.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This week on KDnuggets: Learn how to perform data quality checks using pandas, from detecting missing records to outliers, inconsistent data entry and more • The top vector databases are known for their versatility, performance, scalability, consistency, and efficient algorithms in storing, indexing, and querying vector embeddings for AI applications (..)

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 26, 2024

Let's Talk AI podcast new episode Data & AI products Yesterday I went to 5h conference organised in Paris about Data & AI products —in French, the idea of the conference was to mix people coming from data and product ecosystem which is, let's be honest, the key enabler for AI in production. We'll see.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 27, 2023

My view from the train window ( credits ) Dear Data News readers it's a joy every week to write this newsletter, we are slowly approaching the second birthday of this newsletter. Awesome raw ideas with sharks circling around waiting for a new productivity highness. This is enough about my life, let's jump to the news.

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Christophe Blefari

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Delivering the data news ( credits ) Hey you, it's already February. Let's jump directly to the news. The article shows our Netflix art creators are using past data to create new artworks. The article shows our Netflix art creators are using past data to create new artworks. Every week same analysis for me.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is a super late Data News, I wanted to send it earlier but I was travelling then enjoying time with friends and family. Fast News ⚡️ Postgres 16 has been released — featuring a few performance improvements in parallel executions ( string_agg and array_agg ) but also with SELECT DISTINCT and COPY command.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is a super late Data News, I wanted to send it earlier but I was travelling then enjoying time with friends and family. Fast News ⚡️ Postgres 16 has been released — featuring a few performance improvements in parallel executions ( string_agg and array_agg ) but also with SELECT DISTINCT and COPY command.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Open source generative models such as Meta’s Llama 2 are pivotal in making that possible. The next hurdle is finding a platform to harness the power of LLMs. Snowflake lets you apply near-magical generative AI transformations to your data all in Python, with the protection of its out-of-the-box governance and security features. Let’s see how.

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Robinhood

MARCH 20, 2024

Discover trending tokens, top movers, and the latest crypto news directly from the app. Over the coming months, we will keep adding new features as we gather feedback from customers. All customers who previously joined the waitlist can download and get started today. This is just the beginning for Robinhood Wallet on Android.

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Waitingforcode

MARCH 20, 2023

Have you missed any cloud data engineering-related news in the last 3 months? No worries, I got you covered with the new part of the "What's new on the cloud for data engineers."

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 7, 2024

I wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2024. This edition of Data News will focus on the end of 2023 with a good retrospective about me and my activities—content and freelancing. I'm very happy to have the privilege of corresponding with you and it honours me. But you know how bad I'm with goals.

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Christophe Blefari

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Make your data stack take-off ( credits ) Hello, another edition of Data News. But every time I went to a conference in the past, I came back with ideas to change everything because someone introduced me to a new fancy stuff. This week, we're going to take a step back and look at the current state of data platforms. Cloud-first.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A Data Science Portfolio That Will Land You The Job in 2022 • Is OLAP Dead? • 10 Essential SQL Commands for Data Science • Why TinyML Cases Are Becoming More Popular • Ensemble Learning with Examples.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s been a wild weekend, starting Friday. In case you somehow missed it: we went through the fastest bank run in history, in an event that impacted about half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK. ” There was no certainty for startups with money in Silicon Valley Bank. Deposits in Silicon Valley Bank, 1991-2023.

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Christophe Blefari

JULY 22, 2023

Also be ready for the Data News: Summer Edition. Taking charge of tables: introducing OpenHouse for big data management — New data product at LinkedIn: OpenHouse. See you on the road ( credits ) Hey, I hope this newsletter finds you well. This is a small blogpost to give you a few reads while waiting for your next travel.

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The Pragmatic Engineer

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the midst of gloomy news about hiring freezes and layoffs, let's highlight companies which are growing  and hiring. I feel this list is a nice counterbalance to the grim news about widespread headcount reductions. There’s a lot of places which are growing and looking for new colleagues to join! full reset.

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