April, 2021

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Estimation of Neurons and Forward Propagation in Neural Net

Analytics Vidhya

ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction In the previous article, we looked at what are. The post Estimation of Neurons and Forward Propagation in Neural Net appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How Financial Brands Can Use AI and Data To Offer More Personalized Services

Dataconomy

Computing advances and data expansion have suddenly made AI part of everyday life and an invaluable tool for almost every industry. Healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement, national defense, and education all stand on the precipice of revolutions due to AI’s evolution – but perhaps no field is so perfectly suited.

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Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Hacker News

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so quickly. In the last few months, I've thought a lot about where it's going in the next 5-10 years and an wishlist has taken shape in my head.

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3 Top Email Security Practices to Prevent a Data Breach

Smart Data Collective

Cyber-attacks have emerged as a big threat to the world. The World Economic Forum has included cyber-attacks and data breaches in the list of top global risks in 2020. The problems associated with data breaches cannot possibly be overstated. The average data breach cost $3.86 million and that figure could rise even further in the future. While a cyber-attack can take a toll on anyone, it is particularly threatening for business enterprises.

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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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Migrating Data to the Cloud: Things You Need to Know

Alation

Modern businesses have their heads in the clouds… not that they’re daydreaming. The pandemic has caused a major shift to work-from-home culture. The cloud supports this new workforce, connecting remote workers to vital data, no matter their location. Today, enterprises are migrating to the cloud at a brisk pace. But why migrate at all? How do you migrate?

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New in Tableau Catalog: Improved search and monitoring for data quality warnings

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Kate Grinevskaja. Product Manager, Tableau Prep. Kristin Adderson. April 12, 2021 - 10:59pm. April 14, 2021. Data discovery and trust have been core principles of Tableau Catalog (part of Tableau Data Management ) since its introduction with Tableau 2019.3. With every release, we continue to add features that help users find and use trusted data with confidence.

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The Most Prominent Image Annotation Techniques And Their Use Cases

Dataconomy

Let’s forget some of the most complex Artificial Intelligent (AI) systems out there, such as those in self-driving cars, robotic arms, and more, for a while and just focus on the systems on our smartphones. Consider a comparatively simpler application like Google Lens, which uses computer vision for image annotation.

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Guide to Digital Transformation: Data-first Architecture

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author John Ottman. The goal of digital transformation remains the same as ever – to become more data-driven. We have learned how to gain a competitive advantage by capturing business events in data. Events are data snap-shots of complex activity sourced from the web, customer systems, ERP transactions, social media, […].

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The Incredible Impact of Blockchain Technology on the Economy

Smart Data Collective

The crypto market is booming once again. After a 2-year long bear market, prices are skyrocketing far and wide, with Bitcoin leading the charge. In November, Investopedia reported that prices of bitcoin rose 111% and they seem to be increasing even further. Bitcoin has tripled in value since it raced past its previous all-time high of $20.000. This has pushed investors, retail and institutional, into a buying frenzy.

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The Shift toward Intelligent Automation

DataRobot

As organizations start getting back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, AI and machine learning is top of mind for many of these leaders. How to adopt AI and machine learning into business processes is a critical goal to improve process efficiency and scale to handle the increased demand for AI and machine learning for years to come. One topic that is of interest in this space is the term intelligent automation.

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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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All in the Data: Elements of a Data Strategy

The Data Administration Newsletter

I published an article a few months back that was titled Where Does Data Governance Fit in a Data Strategy (and other important questions). In the article, I quickly outlined seven primary elements of a data strategy as an answer to one of the “other important questions.” The list of elements I used in that […].

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Machine Learning Basics For Data Science Enthusiasts

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ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Overview Introduction to Machine Learning Basics Need of Machine Learning. The post Machine Learning Basics For Data Science Enthusiasts appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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The data lakehouse: just another crazy buzzword?

Dataconomy

Data professionals have long debated the merits of the data lake versus the data warehouse. But this debate has become increasingly intense in recent times with the prevalence of data and analytics workloads in the cloud, the growing frustration with the brittleness of Hadoop, and hype around a new architectural.

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The Role of OLAP in the Cloud Era

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author George Demarest. It is the nature of software engineers to quickly adopt new, superior algorithms, tools, and approaches while they quickly and unceremoniously jettison the old. The most positive result of these impulses is rapid and continuous innovation – which savvy business leaders can turn to their advantage. The […].

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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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4 Industries Benefiting from Data-Driven Mobile App Development

Smart Data Collective

As technology continues to evolve, industry leaders are paving the way by using new and emerging capabilities to their advantage. For instance, mobile app development has been an important feature of the last decade. As users demand more intuitive apps and mobile friendly websites from goods and services providers, how are key industries benefiting?

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Snowcase Study: How Data Governance Gives Texas Mutual Insurance Company a Competitive Edge

Alation

Chris Atkinson is partner CTO at Snowflake. He works with Snowflake partners to craft joint solutions. Much of his work focuses on democratising data and breaking down data silos to drive better business outcomes. In this blog, Chris shows how Snowflake and Alation together accelerate data culture. He shows how Texas Mutual Insurance Company has embraced data governance to build trust in data.

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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

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Jordan Steward. Guest Author, Digital Content Manager, Vulcan Inc. Kristin Adderson. April 22, 2021 - 3:26am. April 22, 2021. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Vulcan news. Rhino subadults are a lot like human teenagers: tracking and predicting their behavior can be difficult. In Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park, rangers study the map on their screen to see if there are any places they haven’t checked.

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You Cannot Miss These 8 Python Libraries

Analytics Vidhya

ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Python is an all-time favorite language for beginners and aspiring. The post You Cannot Miss These 8 Python Libraries appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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How data allows TV to be measured the way people watch it

Dataconomy

The TV landscape of 2021 is unrecognizable compared to that of the 1950s when TV ad exposure measurement was born. As viewing habits have evolved over the decades, the advertising industry hasn’t always kept up-to-date. The worldwide pandemic and national lockdowns became a catalyst for change, with UK audiences spending.

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Three Steps to Building a Successful Data Migration and Protection Strategy

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Steve Leeper. Today’s data-hungry organizations face a growing range of management and migration challenges as their use of on-prem storage evolves and their consumption of cloud services continues to climb. Public cloud providers are rapidly increasing the capabilities of their file storage options in addition to their object storage […].

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Business Intelligence for Fairs, Congresses and Exhibitions

Smart Data Collective

For most entrepreneurs, the best way to make money is to find ways to work smarter and not harder. While different companies, regardless of their size, have different operational processes, they share a common need for actionable insight to drive success in their business. Advancement in big data technology has made the world of business even more competitive.

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Using Data and Technology to Increase Employee Productivity

The Data Administration Newsletter

Any successful business knows that high levels of employee productivity is key to ultimate long-term success. Productive employees keep up with the day-to-day tasks of the job and may even manage to take on higher-level projects that can really steer innovation in the company and help fight off competitors. However, productivity has long been a […].

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Visualizing racial disparities of COVID-19 to create a path toward equity

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Channing Nesbitt. Co-lead of Tableau Foundation’s Racial Justice Data Initiative. Kristin Adderson. April 23, 2021 - 2:55am. April 23, 2021. . COVID-19 has affected every person, in every corner of the world. But over a year into the pandemic, the way we understand the virus—through topline data on cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and now, finally, vaccinations—still obscures the deeper stories of the virus’ disproportionate impacts.

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Statistics and Probability Concepts for Data Science

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ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Statistics is the grammar of Science. – Karl Pearson What. The post Statistics and Probability Concepts for Data Science appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Study finds that even the best speech recognition systems exhibit bias

Dataconomy

This article originally appeared on VentureBeat and is reproduced with permission. Even state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms struggle to recognize the accents of people from certain regions of the world. That’s the top-line finding of a new study published by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and the Delft.

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Why AI Should Join Forces with Neuroscience

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Biju Dominic. When AlphaGo made the 37th move in the second game of the famous match between AlphaGo and the leading Go player Lee Sedol, all the commentators of the match were shocked. It was a move no human player would ever think of making. In the thousand-year history of […]. The post Why AI Should Join Forces with Neuroscience appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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New AI Assistants Do Wonders for Marketing Teams

Smart Data Collective

A robust Artificial Intelligence or AI-based virtual assistant can supercharge your lead conversion process and optimize your marketing and sales teams’ performance. Conversica is one such solution, providing Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) for customer engagement that help companies attract, obtain, and grow a customer base at scale. However, while Conversica offers excellent AI assistant features and functionalities, there are pros and cons to using the solution that might not fully addre

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Humans and AI: Business Subject Matter Experts, Forests, and Trees

DataRobot

Gone are the days when AI projects were cool science experiments, worked on exclusively by data scientists , far away from business world realities. A few years ago at a trade show, I asked a business manager who came to our booth if her employer hired any data scientists. She said they did have one data scientist, so I asked if their data scientist was any good.

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Tableau Online launches Salesforce sign-in capabilities

Tableau

Miranda Osterheld. Senior product manager. Kristin Adderson. April 27, 2021 - 9:49pm. April 27, 2021. Tableau Online Site Admins can now enable user authentication with their Salesforce credentials. With more customers leveraging the power of Tableau and Salesforce together, the ability to use Salesforce credentials means fewer passwords to manage and an easier, quicker time shifting between applications.

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How to manipulate a 20G CSV file efficiently?

Analytics Vidhya

ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. This post is to compare the performance of different methods. The post How to manipulate a 20G CSV file efficiently? appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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.