February, 2024

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A Brief Overview of the Strengths and Weaknesses Artificial Intelligence 

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In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper suggests that since there are strengths and challenges for each form of AI, prudent organizations will combine these approaches for the most effective results. Certain solutions in this space combine vector databases and applications of LLMs alongside knowledge graph environs, which are ideal for employing Graph Neural Networks and other forms of advanced machine learning.

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LinkedIn’s New AI Chatbot Wants to Help You Find a Job

Analytics Vidhya

LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to redefine the job search experience and streamline networking efforts. With new AI-powered features, LinkedIn aims to offer personalized assistance to users navigating the competitive job market and seeking to expand their professional connections.

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Mistral AI’s Large Model: A Formidable Challenger to GPT-4

Data Science Dojo

In the dynamic world of artificial intelligence, strides in innovation are commonplace. At the forefront of these developments is Mistral AI , a European company emerging as a strong contender in the Large Language Models (LLM) arena with its latest offering: Mistral Large. With capabilities meant to rival industry giants, Mistral AI is poised to leave a significant imprint on the tech landscape.

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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.

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OLMo is Here, Powered by Mosaic AI + Databricks

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As Chief Scientist (Neural Networks) at Databricks, I lead our research team toward the goal of giving everyone the ability to build and.

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Google Lengthens, Mixes, Broadens AI With Gemini Toolset

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

The need to mix, broaden and lengthen our use of AI with fluid tokenization control and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures is very of the moment.

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5 FREE Courses on AI and ChatGPT to Take You From 0-100

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Want to learn more about AI and ChatGPT in 2024 for FREE? Keep reading.

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Microsoft Reveals How Hackers Are Using GenAI Tools

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Microsoft, in collaboration with OpenAI, has revealed a concerning trend in the realm of cybersecurity: the utilization of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) by hostile states for offensive cyber operations. Highlighting the involvement of countries such as Iran, North Korea, Russia, and China, Microsoft sheds light on the evolving landscape of cyber warfare.

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Understanding Sora: An OpenAI model for video generation

Data Science Dojo

After DALL-E 3 and GPT-4, OpenAI has now introduced Sora as it steps into the realm of video generation with artificial intelligence. Let’s take a look at what we know about the platform so far and what it has to offer. What is Sora? It is a new generative AI Text-to-Video model that can create minute-long videos from a textual prompt. It can convert the text in a prompt into complex and detailed visual scenes, owing to its understanding of the text and the physical existence of objects in

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Announcing Public Preview of Delta Sharing with Cloudflare R2 Integration

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Special thanks to Phillip Jones, Senior Product Manager, and Harshal Brahmbhatt, Systems Engineer from Cloudflare for their contributions to this blog. Organizations across.

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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.

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The 13 Rs Of Cloud Computing

Adrian Bridgwater for Forbes

Given the plethora of rebuild, restructure and redeploy activities and functions assoicated with cloud computing, what are the top 13 R-words in cloud?

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Heard on the Street – 2/8/2024

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Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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Free Data Analyst Bootcamp for Beginners

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Want to become a data analyst? This free beginner-friendly data analyst bootcamp is all you need.

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Top Data Science Specializations for 2024

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Introduction Data Science is everywhere in the 21st century and has emerged as an innovative field. But what exactly is Data Science? And why should one consider specializing in it? This blog post aims to answer these questions and more. Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to […] The post Top Data Science Specializations for 2024 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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

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Top 8 custom GPTs for data science on OpenAI’s GPT store

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GPTs for Data science are the next step towards innovation in various data-related tasks. These are platforms that integrate the field of data analytics with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions. OpenAI played a major role in increasing their accessibility with the launch of their GPT Store. What is OpenAI’s GPT Store?

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Performance Improvements for Stateful Pipelines in Apache Spark Structured Streaming

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Introduction Apache Spark™ Structured Streaming is a popular open-source stream processing platform that provides scalability and fault tolerance, built on top of the S.

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How Are Conversational and Generative AI Tools Impacting Communication? 

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In this contributed article, Nate MacLeitch, CEO of QuickBlox, believes that communication is good; AI-enhanced communication is great. AI’s ability to offer services like tone assistance, quick-answer responses, real-time translation, and audio-to-text conversions facilitates collaborative efforts among professionals, patients, and customers, regardless of their background.

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The Infrastructure behind the Outputs: Cloud and HPC Unlock the Power of AI

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In this contributed article, Philip Pokorny, Chief Technology Officer for Intelligent Platform Solutions/Penguin Solutions at SGH, provides insights regarding the relationship between high-performance computing (HPC) and generative AI and his expert point-of-view of the growing market. The increasing momentum behind generative AI in recent months has raised the prospective capabilities of enterprise businesses.

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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.

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Scaling Data Quality with Computer Vision on Spatial Data

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In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper discusses a number of hot topics today: computer vision, data quality, and spatial data. Computer vision is an extremely viable facet of advanced machine learning for the enterprise. Its utility for data quality is evinced from some high profile use cases. This technology can produce similar boons for other facets of the ever-shifting data ecosystem.

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NEW RESEARCH: Growing Database Complexity Will Fuel Significant Skills Gaps in 2024

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Increasing complexity, the rapid adoption of emerging technologies and a growing skills gap are the biggest concerns facing IT leaders in 2024, according to The State of the Database Landscape,a major new survey from end-to-end Database DevOps provider Redgate.

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Navigating the Evolution: Transitioning from Traditional Analytics to AI

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In this contributed article, Corne Nagel, Lead Data Scientist at IKASI, provides key considerations for embarking on an AI initiative and discuss how by embracing AI, organizations can unveil hidden patterns, anticipate trends, and unlock a realm of possibilities that traditional analytics could never fully capture. He also shares how businesses across industries are leveraging this dynamic shift to achieve hyper personalization down to the individual level to significantly improve the customer

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The Impact of Data Analytics Integration Mismatch on Business Technology Advancements

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In this contributed article, April Miller, senior IT and cybersecurity writer for ReHack Magazine, believes that when professionals are aware their data sets have missing, incomplete or inaccurate values, cleaning is often their first instinct. While it is an adequate approach, it won’t result in the same benefits as proactive action. If businesses prioritize standardization and compatibility, they can gain a competitive advantage, improve their strategic decision-making and accelerate technolog

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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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Compromising on your Data Stack? Solving Top Analytics Challenges

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Organizations face more pressure than ever to be data-driven, but as economic challenges loom they are forced to do more with less with their IT budgets, making compromises with their analytics databases that end up hindering their data-driven initiatives. In this article, Exasol’s North American Business Lead, John Knieriemen, shares some best practices for how organizations can address these analytics challenges.

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Vector Database for LLMs, Generative AI, and Deep Learning

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Exploring the limitless possibilities of AI and making it context-aware.

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7 Free Harvard University Courses to Advance Your Skills

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Sony AI Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024

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Our friends over at Sony AI have prepared a special set of compelling technology predictions for the year ahead. The Sony AI team is comprised of researchers and leaders with backgrounds in deep reinforcement learning, data science, law, privacy and security, and more. They each offer different perspectives on topics related to AI ethics and policy, the use of AI to augment creativity and scientific research, emerging AI training methods, and more.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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7 Steps to Mastering Exploratory Data Analysis

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A Step-by-Step Approach to Unearthing Trends, Outliers, and Insights in your Data.

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Large Language Models Explained in 3 Levels of Difficulty

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Simple explanations, no matter what your level is right now.

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7 Free Kaggle Micro-Courses for Data Science Beginners

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Interested in learning data science? Check out these free micro-courses from Kaggle to learn essential data science skills.

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Master The Art Of Command Line With This GitHub Repository

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Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, this guide is perfect for familiarizing yourself with basic and advanced command line tools.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!