Project Ideas to Master Data Engineering
KDnuggets
AUGUST 30, 2024
Data engineering is best learned by doing projects. But which ones? Here are six projects focusing on different data engineering skills to ensure you have it all covered.
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Winning at GenAI: Building the right processes for the data intelligence future
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
Learn how companies can create repeatable and scalable workflows that enable users to quickly turn GenAI innovation from experimentation to reality.
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What is Graph Database?
Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 30, 2024
Introduction As data scales and characteristics shift across fields, graph databases emerge as revolutionary solutions for managing relationships. Unlike relational databases that use tables and rows, graph databases excel in handling complex networks. Imagine a social network where members connect as friends, followers, or colleagues—graph databases shine in such interconnected data scenarios.
Digital Transformation Playbook for Modern Businesses
KDnuggets
AUGUST 30, 2024
Check this practical guide sharing insights, challenges, and tactics to be a digital leader with confidence.
Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.
Using R for Predictive Modeling in Finance
Machine Learning Mastery
AUGUST 30, 2024
Predictive modeling in finance uses historical data to forecast future trends and outcomes. R, a powerful statistical programming language, provides a robust set of tools and libraries for financial analysis and modeling. This article explores the key techniques and packages in R that are commonly used for predictive modeling in finance. We’ll cover time series […] The post Using R for Predictive Modeling in Finance appeared first on MachineLearningMastery.com.
Stepping into personalized experiences for every customer with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
Skechers has been at the forefront of the e-commerce industry, focusing on hyperpersonalized experiences to meet customer expectations better. Following significant growth during.
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Highlights from the Databricks Community
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
Within the Databricks Community, there is a technical blog where community members share best practices, tutorials and insights on data analytics, data engineering.
Shining a Light on Dark Data: The Path to Responsible AI Integration
insideBIGDATA
AUGUST 30, 2024
In this contributed article, Soniya Bopache, vice president and general manager, data compliance and governance at Veritas Technologies, discusses how integrating AI into business operations requires addressing the challenge of dark data—unstructured and unused information that can lead to biased or compromised AI outputs. Organizations must prioritize comprehensive data management and governance to ensure AI systems are powered by high-quality data, meeting both operational goals and regulatory
5 Common Data Science Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
KDnuggets
AUGUST 30, 2024
Anxiety or impostor syndrome won't fix your data science project. Learn from mistakes to build a strong career foundation.
Welcome to the Data + AI World Tour 2024
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
We're thrilled to launch our 2024 Data + AI World Tour , a series of free in-person events in cities worldwide. Each stop.
Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Improving Real-World RAG Systems: Key Challenges & Practical Solutions
Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 30, 2024
Introduction Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems are innovative models within the fields of natural language processing since they integrate the components of both retrieval and generation models. In this respect, RAG systems prove to be versatile when the size and variety of tasks that are being executed by LLMs increase, LLMs provide more efficient solutions to fine-tune […] The post Improving Real-World RAG Systems: Key Challenges & Practical Solutions appeared first on Analytic
The GenAI Journey: How Enterprises are Progressing from General-Purpose to Custom LLMs
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
Every company's path from foundational to tailored LLMs will be different. Each will require new tooling to help developers deliver the accurate and governed GenAI that leaders are demanding.
How Artificial Intelligence is Revolutionizing Automotive Retailing
insideBIGDATA
AUGUST 30, 2024
In this contributed article, Devin Daly, CEO and Co-Founder of Impel, discusses five of the most impactful ways that AI is improving the automotive retailing experience.
Crafting bespoke content experiences for every customer with data intelligence
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
As a global media conglomerate housing over 37 distinct brands, Condé Nast faced the challenge of delivering targeted consumer experiences across their brands.
How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control
Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives
Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri
Master Segformer: A Quick Guide to Clothes & Human Segmentation
Analytics Vidhya
AUGUST 30, 2024
Introduction A model that segments clothes and humans into different labels would have many applications today. This model’s ability is based on image processing and fine-tuning efficiency. Image processing is done in different ways, and that is where image segmentation comes into the illustration. This process involves grouping each pixel in an image and identifying […] The post Master Segformer: A Quick Guide to Clothes & Human Segmentation appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
Data Warehousing Trends from Data + AI Summit
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of data management, data warehousing continues to be a cornerstone for businesses seeking to harness the power of.
UK researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
New research from the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging shows compelling evidence that the cognitive impairments observed in long COVID patients share striking similarities with those seen in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Data Engineering and GenAI: The Tools Practitioners Need
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
As organizations leverage their proprietary data for models, many encounter the hard truth: The best GenAI models in the world will not succeed without good data.
Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication. For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor , and has ended with the review of an AMD processor.
Data + AI Use Cases from the World’s Leading Companies
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
At Data + AI Summit 2024, some of the world’s largest and industry-leading organizations showcased how they're using Databricks to build data and AI solutions
City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
The City of Columbus is suing the cybersecurity who revealed what kind of information and how much of it was taken during a cyberattack on the city last month.
Images in the Databricks Notebook: My Vivid Summer Internship
databricks
AUGUST 30, 2024
Over the course of my fun and rewarding 12-week internship at Databricks, I focused on improving the UX for interacting with images in the Databricks notebook.
How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.
Map of job gains and losses
FlowingData
AUGUST 30, 2024
To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to 2019, Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze for the New York Times use a county map with up and down arrows. Green and up means a gain, whereas orange and down means a loss. We’ve seen similar maps with arrows, but they’re usually angled or swooped. I guess I always assumed arrows going straight up and down would jumble together, but this seems to work.
The fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
Half a century ago, an obscure state senator fought to ban gas-powered cars — and almost won.
How to Win the War Against Bad Master Data
Dataversity
AUGUST 30, 2024
Master data lays the foundation for your supplier and customer relationships. It identifies who you are doing business with, how you will do business with them, and how you will pay them or vice versa – not to mention it can prevent fraud, fines, and errors. However, teams often fail to reap the full benefits […] The post How to Win the War Against Bad Master Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
120 Years of New York's Subterranean Literary Muse
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
The subway isn't just buried in the bedrock of New York City — it's embedded within its fiction, too. These archival photographs and literary quotes transport you through time.
Best practices for prompt engineering with Meta Llama 3 for Text-to-SQL use cases
AWS Machine Learning Blog
AUGUST 30, 2024
With the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI), many AWS customers are looking to take advantage of publicly available foundation models (FMs) and technologies. This includes Meta Llama 3, Meta’s publicly available large language model (LLM). The partnership between Meta and Amazon signifies collective generative AI innovation, and Meta and Amazon are working together to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Bay Watch: Northern California is an energy catastrophe waiting to happen
Hacker News
AUGUST 30, 2024
Northern California is an energy catastrophe waiting to happen.
Basketball globe
FlowingData
AUGUST 30, 2024
Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and maps. The result is ATLAS , which is a basketball that is also a globe. Genius. The limited first run already sold out, but they’re taking pre-orders for a larger run now.
The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
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