October, 2021

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End-to-End Introduction to Handling Missing Values

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Overview Data provides us with the power to analyze and forecast the events of the future. With each day, more and more companies are adopting data science techniques like predictive forecasting, clustering, and so on. While it’s very intriguing to keep learning about complex […].

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Data-driven Design: Planner 5D launches a Program for Universities and Researchers

Dataconomy

Architects and interior designers have switched from pencils and papers to digital software and iPads, causing a significant change in design practices over the last few decades. Digital tools, as well as VR and AR technologies, are changing the way we learn, work, and live. And a whole new direction.

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Humans and AI: Bargaining Power

DataRobot

I have a confession to make—I’m a back-seat driver! When sitting in a taxi, I can’t help but grumble when the ride isn’t smooth, or the driver chooses the slowest lane of traffic. I have to fight the urge to take control. When it comes to shopping, I passively accept what is offered for sale. But my wife, who grew up in Asia where haggling is part of the culture, is different.

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Be the Best – 9 Ways to Market Your Business with Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has been a highly valuable asset for many companies around the world. Countless companies are utilizing big data to improve many aspects of their business. Some of the best applications of data analytics and AI technology has been in the field of marketing. Data-Driven Marketing is More Important than Ever. The competition out there is fierce, so it is vital that you find ways to make your business stand out from the crowd.

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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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Self-Service Analytics for Google Cloud, now with Looker and Tableau

Tableau

Francois Ajenstat. Chief Product Officer, Tableau. Spencer Czapiewski. October 8, 2021 - 11:41pm. October 12, 2021. It's more important than ever in this all digital, work from anywhere world for organizations to use data to make informed decisions. Speed, agility, and empowerment are crucial to thriving in this new environment. However, most organizations struggle to become data driven.

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Visualizing time-based data

FlowingData

Zan Armstrong, Ian Johnson, and Mike Freeman for Observable wrote a guide on analyzing time series data. Using an energy dataset, they show how asking different questions can lead to different findings and visualizations: These are stories about analyzing data that changes over time. While most of us don’t dig into data about energy day-to-day, we hope the feel of this data and these questions will be familiar to anyone who regularly faces questions like “what changed?

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7 Opportunities for Retailers to Benefit From Better Data Management

Dataconomy

Data is an indispensable resource for retailers. Today, most retail businesses understand that they must capitalize on digital data, but fewer know how to make the most of it. If these companies hope to reach their full potential, they must improve their data management. Data management is often a struggling.

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The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

O'Reilly Media

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. This article poses some questions and (perhaps) some answers, without trying to present any conclusions. First, we wondered about code quality. There are lots of ways to solve a given programming problem; but most of us have some ideas about what makes code “good” or “bad.”

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4 Reasons to Hire a Data Science Company

Smart Data Collective

1.145 trillion megabytes! Unbelievably, this is the amount of data that was created every day in 2021. That’s a lot of data and a lot of work for experts working in the field of data science services. Amidst growing competition, businesses are under increasing pressure to come up with unique and more cost-effective ways to manufacture and market their products.

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Housing Connector uses data to help families find homes

Tableau

Jason Schumacher. Housing and Homelessness Lead at Tableau Foundation. Doug Minkler. Senior Manager of Product and Technology at Housing Connector. Kristin Adderson. October 29, 2021 - 9:45pm. October 30, 2021. Housing Connector was founded on a belief that no unit should sit vacant while there are individuals in need of a home. Housing Connector helps people like Chauncey Williamson , who spent more than two years applying to over 20 apartments, simply to be turned away each time because of a l

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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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How the Longest Running Shows Rated Over Episodes

FlowingData

Most television shows don't get past the first season, but there are some that manage to stick around. These are the 175 longest running shows on IMDb that have ratings. Read More.

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Complete Guide to build your AI Chatbot with NLP in Python

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Overview In this Comprehensive Guide, we are going to be covering the following topics and the end goal is to teach you how to make your own personal intelligent AI chatbot: NLP and its uses in speech interpretation. AI and its uses in […]. The post Complete Guide to build your AI Chatbot with NLP in Python appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How Data Science Helps Insurance Companies Manage Losses and Protect Customers

Dataconomy

Big data, specifically with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), empowers insurance companies to make better financial decisions. Data science can help mitigate fraudulent claims, enhance risk management, optimize customer support, and predict future events, among many other benefits. The result is higher profits for insurance companies and lower premiums.

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5 Common Data Governance Challenges (and How to Overcome Them)

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Nahla Davies. It’s common for enterprises to run into challenges such as lack of data visibility, problems with data security, and low Data Quality. But despite the dangers of poor data ethics and management, many enterprises are failing to take the steps they need to ensure quality Data Governance. Let’s break […].

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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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Using Machine Learning to Improve Cryptocurrency Mining Profitability

Smart Data Collective

Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the world to bitcoin in 2008. Many people speculated that the virtual currency would never gain traction and become extinct. However, it has grown faster than even some of the staunchest supporters originally predicted. Advances in AI and machine learning technology have been important in setting the trend for bitcoin. It’s been over a decade since the cryptocurrencies were introduced to the world and since it has become increasingly popular.

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Mapping technology gap data to address and eliminate the digital divide

Tableau

Channing Nesbitt. Co-lead of Tableau Foundation’s Racial Justice Data Initiative. Kristin Adderson. October 14, 2021 - 11:00pm. October 15, 2021. In the work to close the digital divide in the U.S., Digitunity’s Technology Gap Map TM has become a powerful visualization of the racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities impacting device ownership and driving inequitable access to opportunity.

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How Facebook disappeared from the internet

FlowingData

Cloudflare describes how things looked from their point of view the day that Facebook, along with its other properties, went down. From the Border Gateway Protocol, which defines routing information: A BGP UPDATE message informs a router of any changes you’ve made to a prefix advertisement or entirely withdraws the prefix. We can clearly see this in the number of updates we received from Facebook when checking our time-series BGP database.

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Learn how to make your own Optical Illusion in Python

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon It was just past the midway mark of 2019 and the Internet casually decided to trick us as it normally does. An optical illusion went viral on Twitter which depicted a gray image that looked colored! Confused? Well, let’s dive deep in then! […]. The post Learn how to make your own Optical Illusion in Python 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 Do You Know if Your Procurement Team Is Ready for AI?

Dataconomy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every sector and business function, resulting in a growing interest in it, its subcategories, and related areas such as machine learning and data science. While AI and automation might sound like the same concepts to many. But, in terms of procurement, both vary differently. Let’s.

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The Connection Between Good Data Management and Enterprise Agility

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Russ Ernst. The word “agile” is defined in one dictionary as “quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe.” During the last two years, however, the word has taken on an entirely different meaning for companies navigating the complexities of a pandemic. As the realities of a highly contagious virus set in and hundreds of thousands […].

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Important Steps to Take to Address the Bias in AI

Smart Data Collective

We mentioned previously that bias is a big problem in machine learning that has to be mitigated. People need to take important steps to help mitigate it for the future. Regardless of how culturally, socially, or environmentally aware people consider themselves to be, bias is an inherent trait that everyone has. We are naturally attracted to facts that confirm our own beliefs.

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Transform with trusted data: How good governance accelerates your Data Culture

Tableau

Jeremy Blaney. Director, Tableau Blueprint. Spencer Czapiewski. October 11, 2021 - 3:25am. October 14, 2021. There's a natural tension in many organizations around data governance. While IT recognizes its importance to ensure the responsible use of data, governance can often seem like a hindrance to organizational agility. But business intelligence models have evolved beyond centralized, linear processes—it's time to leave behind historic notions of governance as restrictive and embrace a flexib

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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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Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain

FlowingData

Yuhao Du, Jessica Nordell, and Kenneth Joseph used simulations to study the effects of small gender biases at entry level up to executive level. It doesn’t take much to skew the distribution. For NYT Opinion, Yaryna Serkez shows the simulation in action with moving bubbles and stacked area charts for each work level. The simulation imagines a company where female performance is undervalued by 3 percent.

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An Easy introduction to Flask Framework for beginners

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Overview What is a Framework FrontEnd vs BackEnd What is Flask Framework Installation of Flask Creating our first Flask app Routing Static Route vs Dynamic Route HTML Injections HTML Escaping Hypertext Transfer Protocol GET and POST Methods What is a Framework? The framework […].

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Facebook introduces dataset and benchmarks to make AI more ‘egocentric’

Dataconomy

Facebook has announced Ego4D, a long-term project aimed at solving AI research challenges in “egocentric perception,” or first-person views. The goal is to teach AI systems to comprehend and interact with the world like humans do as opposed to in the third-person, omniscient way that most AI currently does. It’s.

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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices Companies Should Follow

Dataversity

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! All month long, we’ll be exploring cybersecurity-related topics to help you (and your data) stay safe online. Click to learn more about author Troy Gill. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is an important reminder for individuals and companies to reflect on their security best practices and ensure they are building the safest […].

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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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AI Advances Help Contextual Targeted Advertising Strengthen Branding

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence has become essential to modern marketing. Companies are finding newer, more creatives ways to integrate AI into their marketing strategies. This goes for both brand and performance marketing. AI can be useful in both online and offline marketing, but it tends to have greater efficacy in regards to online marketing strategies.

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Your Blueprint for governed analytics at scale

Tableau

Lisa Ginther Huh. Senior IT Audience Expert, Tableau. Spencer Czapiewski. October 26, 2021 - 6:37pm. November 2, 2021. This is the final post in a three-part series about data and analytics governance. In case you missed them, read the first to hear from Tableau’s own data governance team , and the second to learn how good governance accelerates your Data Culture.

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? Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2021 Roundup

FlowingData

Welcome to issue #163 of The Process , the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau and every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for October. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Time Series Analysis

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Synopsis of Time Series Analysis A Time-Series represents a series of time-based orders. It would be Years, Months, Weeks, Days, Horus, Minutes, and Seconds A time series is an observation […]. The post A Comprehensive Guide to Time Series Analysis 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.