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Motivation for Causal Inference

Dataiku

We are all inquisitive about alternative scenarios, perhaps it’s simply in our nature. For example, one may wonder what their salary would be had they chosen a different major in college; another person may daydream about what the world would look like if there were no conflicts among nations; finally, a more practical question someone may ask is whether or not they would have missed their train if they had left home five minutes earlier.

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Reversing the Video Using Computer Vision

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction In this article, we will be working to develop an application from computer vision techniques that will reverse the video, and also, we will be able to save that reversed video in our local system. In this application, we will also have […]. The post Reversing the Video Using Computer Vision appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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CIOs look to foster innovative IT cultures, post-COVID

CIO Business Intelligence

Asked to define innovation today, most IT leaders will agree: It’s all about digitization and finding new and better ways of thinking about processes and services to solve a problem. “Around here, we think of it as a stool with three legs: quality/safety, patient satisfaction, and cost efficiencies,’’ says Sam Amirfar, CIO and chief medical information officer at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

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The DataHour Synopsis: Text-Based Classification Using AI

Analytics Vidhya

Overview on Text-Based Classification Using AI Analytics Vidhya has long been at the forefront of imparting data science knowledge to its community. With the intent to make learning data science more engaging to the community, we began with our new initiative- “DataHour”. DataHour is a series of webinars by top industry experts where they teach […].

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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Data Mesh Architecture: Reimagining Data Management

KDnuggets

The objective of data mesh is to establish coherence between data coming from different domains across an enterprise. The domains are handled autonomously to eliminate the challenges of data availability and accessibility for cross-functional teams.

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Data Preprocessing Using PySpark – Handling Missing Values

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction In this article, we will be looking at how to handle the missing values using PySpark, as we all know that handling the missing value is one of the most critical parts of any data exploration and analysis pipeline and when we […]. The post Data Preprocessing Using PySpark – Handling Missing Values appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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The DataHour: Traversing the Journey of an Analytics Problem

Analytics Vidhya

Dear Readers, We bring you yet another exciting DataHour session for you. This session will be conducted by Amitayu, who will share his journey in analytics problems. Analytics is everywhere around us. Amitayu is currently working as a Senior Manager in the field of Applied Intelligence, Strategy and Consulting at Accenture. He has a rich […].

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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last decade Africa has gained a reputation for global leadership in mobile money, with Kenya at the forefront, but up to now financial services via mobile phones have not taken deep root in the continent’s most populace country — Nigeria. That may change as telecommunications companies such as Airtel and MTN jump into the mobile money market, after recently receiving licenses to do so.

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Create Efficient Combined Data Sources with Tableau

KDnuggets

Save time and effort with this guide, which will show you how to do data join operations in Tableau.

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Redefining the CIO role post-pandemic

CIO Business Intelligence

As the CIO of Oxford Said Business School, Mark Bramwell’s role was complex enough when the global pandemic moved thousands of students and staff to distance learning. Almost overnight there was a heightened need to drive innovation and reinvent business-as-usual. “It has felt that as a school, team, and personally, we have never worked harder in keeping the school operational in supporting its remote working, onsite, hybrid, and online learning and the new initiatives brought about by the pande

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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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Top 4 tricks for competing on Kaggle and why you should start

KDnuggets

If you aren't familiar with Kaggle, you should be. Hear why from two expert Kagglers in this article.

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Amplify Customer Experience to Propel Next-Level Growth

CIO Business Intelligence

Customers today are buying based on their experience with a company and whether a product or service aligns with their personal values, including access, inclusivity, sustainability and trust. Customer experience (CX) should play the starring role in decision-making and should be woven into technology initiatives. To optimize technology for CX, CIOs must connect technology to customer value, thinking in terms of customer experience rather than customer process.

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Hybrid Multicloud Onramp with Nutanix Cloud Platform on Equinix Metal

Nutanix

Nutanix Cloud Platform on Equinix Metal is a hybrid multicloud platform solution that spans private and multiple public clouds with a unified management plane, license portability, and seamless application migration across multiple cloud environments.

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Digital Experience and Security: Turning Unhappy Paths into Happy Paths for Your Customers

CIO Business Intelligence

The concept of happy and unhappy paths is familiar to user experience (UX) professionals. Happy paths are those steps that a digital user takes along the default or expected use of an application, without triggering error routines. They result in the expected or desired ends for the user. Unhappy paths – also called sad, bad, and exception paths – are those that aren’t happy ones.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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13 Essential Data Visualization Techniques, Concepts & Methods To Improve Your Business – Fast

datapine

“By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes. A sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.” – David McCandless. Did you know? 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual. Concerning professional growth, development, and evolution, using data-driven insights to formulate actionable strategies and implement valuable initiatives is essential.

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Top Middle East tech conferences for 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Regional IT events. United States. Africa. Australia. India. Southeast Asia. Global security events. All IDC Middle East events. The Middle East is home to an ever-expanding number of technology conferences, but not all of them are geared toward IT decision makers. To cut through the clutter, CIO Middle East has compiled a list with some of the most important and exciting technology events in the region, curated especially for IT leaders working in private enterprise and public administrations.

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Enablers of a Sustainable Digital Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Climate change concerns have already impacted data center strategies. Over the past 18 months, industries have had to accelerate their digital transformation journeys to remain competitive. From retail to healthcare and even financial services; no sector has escaped the reality that digitisation is a necessity for survival. Meanwhile, the international calls for urgent action on climate change have made shrinking carbon footprints an additional business imperative.

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Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience

CIO Business Intelligence

Business disruptions happen every day and can cause companies to lose millions of dollars and suffer reputational damage. But these losses can be minimized. When astute executives, including CIOs, cheat disruption by focusing on business continuity management (BCM) programs that build resilience, the enterprise transformation can prosper. CIOs should apply a business lens that informs how the business could be impacted (operationally, financially, legally, etc.) in the event of a disruption, a

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Disruption Doesn’t Make an Appointment. A Guide for Handling the Unwelcome Knock.

CIO Business Intelligence

Disruptions never make appointments; they don’t even knock at the door! But you need to be ready in case it happens to you. Here are some practical immediate responses. Business disturbances can affect organizations of any size in any area. Climate, control blackouts, political occasions, and of course, new to the list, pandemics. Organizations build resiliency over a period through extensive continuity planning.

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Lumentum CIO Ralph Loura on adopting a challenger mindset

CIO Business Intelligence

In the early months of the pandemic, Lumentum SVP and CIO Ralph Loura, like many of his peers, found that IT’s annual planning wasn’t nimble enough to respond to the rapid project prioritization the business needed. The result was a new approach to optimizing IT planning that more closely mirrors the business. Loura sat down with CIO.com contributor Maryfran Johnson on a recent episode of CIO Leadership Live to discuss how he has changed his approach to project prioritization and IT planning, th

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Outmaneuvering the Adversary: How to Detect Cyberthreats You Didn’t Know Were There

CIO Business Intelligence

If you’re concerned about the increased threat of cyberattacks by state-sponsored hackers and hacktivist groups in the current geopolitical atmosphere, you’re certainly justified. Criminal groups are emerging from the shadows and pledging their allegiance to Russia. They’re conducting reconnaissance attacks and coalescing into the roles they’ll play in the global cyberwar many see on the horizon—one that will likely be coordinated by a central command.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

By Siva Sreeraman VP, CTO and Modernization Tribe Leader at Mphasis. Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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What is Customer Identity and Access Management?

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) is a type of identity technology that allows organizations to manage customer identities, providing security and an enhanced experience. The primary purpose of CIAM is to help organizations deliver a great experience to customers and to protect their user data. Digital transformation is changing everything about the way companies operate, and this includes the way they engage with customers.