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Top 10 Data Science Trends That Defined 2024

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From the unstoppable rise of generative AI to sustainability-driven innovations: a retrospective analysis of the data science trends that revolutionized the field in 2024 and beyond.

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A.I. Isn’t Genius. We Are.

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Since the release of ChatGPT to the public two years ago, we have been awash in extreme claims about the potential benefits and threats of large language models and generative A.I. Boosters and critics alike believe the technologys emergence is an inflection point in human history.

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AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?

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When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, theyll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing business processes. But there are some exceptions.

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Tokyo makes 3D data available

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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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Artificial Intelligence for Noobs

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A beginners guide to AI and how to get started.

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What is an Eigenvector and Eigenvalues?

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Linear algebra is a cornerstone of many advanced mathematical concepts and is extensively used in data science, machine learning, computer vision, and engineering. One of the fundamental concepts in linear algebra is eigenvectors, often paired with eigenvalues. But what exactly is an eigenvector, and why is it so important? This article breaks down the concept […] The post What is an Eigenvector and Eigenvalues?

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Top 12 Open Source Models on Hugging Face in 2024

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Open-source AI models on Hugging Face have become a driving force in the AI space, and Hugging Face remains at the forefront of this movement. In 2024, it solidified its role as the go-to platform for state-of-the-art models, spanning NLP, computer vision, speech recognition, and more. These models rival proprietary ones, offering flexibility for customization […] The post Top 12 Open Source Models on Hugging Face in 2024 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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2024’s Biggest Moments in AI

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2024 has been yet another groundbreaking year for AI, with major breakthroughs, industry shifts, and ethical challenges shaping its future. Let's uncover together the key moments that defined AI this year about to finalize.

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The Imperative of Data Curation

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In this contributed article, Colin Kessinger. Executive Partner at Ethos Capital, touches on why data curation needs to be a priority. He discusses why data lakes ultimately end up being a burden and addresses the misconception that once data is stored, it is inherently useful along with the differences between curation and governance.

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What’s next for Broadcom stock after a 240% three-year climb?

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Broadcom’s impressive rise in the semiconductor market reflects significant revenue growth, driven largely by its custom AI solutions and recent VMware integration. The company’s shares have surged approximately 240% over the past three years, considerably outperforming the PHLX Semiconductor Sector index, which observed a 27% increase during the same period.

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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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Andrej Karpathy Praises DeepSeek V3’s Frontier LLM, Trained on a $6M Budget

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Last year, the DeepSeek LLM made waves with its impressive 67 billion parameters, meticulously trained on an expansive dataset of 2 trillion tokens in English and Chinese comprehension. Setting new benchmarks for research collaboration, DeepSeek ingrained the AI community by open-sourcing both its 7B/67B Base and Chat models. Now, what if I tell you there […] The post Andrej Karpathy Praises DeepSeek V3s Frontier LLM, Trained on a $6M Budget appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Using transcription confidence scores to improve slot filling in Amazon Lex

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When building voice-enabled chatbots with Amazon Lex , one of the biggest challenges is accurately capturing user speech input for slot values. For example, when a user needs to provide their account number or confirmation code, speech recognition accuracy becomes crucial. This is where transcription confidence scores come in to help ensure reliable slot filling.

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How the Age of Generative AI is Changing a CISOs Approach to Security

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In this contributed article, Chris Peake, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Senior Vice President of Security at Smartsheet, explores how the role of CISOs is evolving to address new security challenges posed by generative AI. The article underscores the importance of collaboration and adaptability to keep organizations secure as AI is expected to continue to reshape cybersecurity in 2025.

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How Quantum Computing stock (QUBT) jumped 300%

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The stock price of Quantum Computing Inc. (NASDAQ: QUBT) surged 300% over the past month despite a significant 40% drop on December 19. This volatility highlights the speculative nature of quantum computing stocks, driven by recent advancements and government funding. QUBT specializes in affordable quantum computers that operate at room temperature, focusing on high-performance computing, cybersecurity, imaging, and sensing.

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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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Corrective RAG (CRAG) in Action

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation is a technique that enhances the capabilities of large language models by integrating information retrieval processes into their operation. This approach allows LLMs to pull in relevant data from external knowledge bases, ensuring that the responses generated are more accurate, up-to-date, and contextually relevant. Corrective RAG (CRAG) is an advanced strategy within the […] The post Corrective RAG (CRAG) in Action appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Implementing Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with KD-Trees

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Home Table of Contents Implementing Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with KD-Trees Introduction to Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Mathematical Foundation KD-Trees for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Construction of KD-Trees Querying with KD-Trees Step 1: Forward Traversal Step 2: Computing the Best Estimate Step 3: Backtracking Step 4: Termination or Tree Pruning Time Complexity of KD-Trees Implementing KD-Tree for ANN Search Setup and Data Preparation Setting Up Baseline with the k-

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Capital One Survey Around AI Readiness

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A new Capital Onesurvey"AI readiness survey: Are companies ready for AI adoption?" found that 87% of business leaders see their data ecosystem as ready to build and deploy AI at scale, yet 70% of technical practitioners spend hours daily fixing data issues.

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Apple’s M5 chips will crush performance records

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Apple is reportedly gearing up to revolutionize its chip offerings with the upcoming M5 series, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The new chips, expected to enter mass production in 2025, will be built on TSMC’s advanced N3P process, promising improved energy efficiency and performance. “Apple M5 series chip 1. The M5 series chips will adopt TSMCs advanced N3P node, which entered the prototype phase a few months ago.

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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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Web Scraping with LLMs

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Web scraping has long been a vital technique for extracting information from the internet, enabling developers to gather insights from various domains. With the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGroq, web scraping becomes even more powerful, offering enhanced flexibility and precision. This article explores how to implement scraping with LLMs to fetch structured […] The post Web Scraping with LLMs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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AI in Medical Imaging: A Life-Saving Revolution or Ethical Minefield?

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Author(s): Mukundan Sankar Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium. Photo by Accuray on Unsplash Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaking up all aspects of how we do anything, including the very core of medical imaging. Visualize a machine that analyzes a CT scan and spots early signs of cancer.

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New Advancements in GenAI are Warding Off an AI Winter

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In this analyst piece, Isabel Al-Dhahir, Principal Analyst at GlobalData shares that while delivering on AI is not a straightforward endeavor, advancements in AI algorithms, continued diversification of revenue streams and the rise of SLMs will all see AI and particularly GenAI continue its growth through Q4 and into 2025.

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Top data center trends you need to know in 2025

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The rapid ascent of AI continues to dominate the news and for good reason. But a crucial part of the tech world is often overlooked, despite its equally dynamic growth: the data center industry. It serves as the foundation for AI and nearly all things digital. What data center trends and buzzwords should you be aware of in 2025? How have data centers evolved over the past few decades?

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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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Building a Web-Searching Agent with LangChain and Llama 3.3 70B

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Creating AI agents that can interact with the real world is a great area of research and development. One useful application is building agents capable of searching the web to gather information and complete tasks. This blog post will guide you through the process of creating such an agent using LangChain, a framework for developing […] The post Building a Web-Searching Agent with LangChain and Llama 3.3 70B appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Strategic Priorities for Data and AI Leaders in 2025

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AI remains at the forefront of every business leaders plans for 2025. Overall, 70% of businesses continue to believe AI is critical to.

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NetApp’s 2024 Data Complexity Report Reveals AI’s Make or Break Year Ahead

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NetApp(NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, released its second annualData Complexity Report, which examines how global organizations are navigating the increasing complexity of managing their data for AI.

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Quantum teleportation over the internet? Northwestern just made it happen

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Northwestern University engineers have achieved the first demonstration of quantum teleportation over fiber optic cables transporting conventional Internet data. This breakthrough, led by Professor Prem Kumar, combines quantum and classical communications seamlessly using existing infrastructure. Northwestern engineers demonstrate quantum teleportation over fiber optics The study, published in the journal Optica , reveals that quantum teleportation can occur without the need for dedicated setups

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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

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Top 5 GenAI Products to Use in 2025

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As we step into 2025, generative AI (GenAI) is all set to redefine how we interact with technology. GenAI-powered products are blending creativity and intelligence in many different ways to make our lives easier and simpler. In the near future, we would wake up in the morning to find our virtual assistant not only organizing […] The post Top 5 GenAI Products to Use in 2025 appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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TAI 131: OpenAI’s o3 Passes Human Experts; LLMs Accelerating With Inference Compute Scaling

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Author(s): Towards AI Editorial Team Originally published on Towards AI. What happened this week in AI by Louie OpenAI wrapped up its 12 Days of OpenAI campaign and saved the best till last with the reveal of its o3 and o3-mini reasoning models. These models are successors to the o1 series and are debatably the largest step change improvement yet in LLM capabilities on complex tasks for the first time eclipsing human experts in many domains.

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PEFT fine tuning of Llama 3 on SageMaker HyperPod with AWS Trainium

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Training large language models (LLMs) models has become a significant expense for businesses. For many use cases, companies are looking to use LLM foundation models (FM) with their domain-specific data. However, companies are discovering that performing full fine tuning for these models with their data isnt cost effective. To reduce costs while continuing to use the power of AI , many companies have shifted to fine tuning LLMs on their domain-specific data using Parameter-Efficient Fine Tuning (

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How to Implement Image Captioning with Vision Transformer (ViT) and Hugging Face Transformers

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A beginners guide to getting started with image captioning models with HuggingFace.

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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!