Wed.Nov 13, 2019

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“AI is a lie”

O'Reilly on Data

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Eric Jonas, assistant professor at the University of Chicago, pierces the hype around artificial intelligence. Highlights from the interview include: Jonas argues that “AI is a lie”—meaning that our expectations far outsize the reality of what’s currently possible. One of the issues arising from that disconnect is a level of corporate investment in the research process that hasn’t been seen before.

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Transfer Learning Made Easy: Coding a Powerful Technique

KDnuggets

While the revolution of deep learning now impacts our daily lives, these networks are expensive. Approaches in transfer learning promise to ease this burden by enabling the re-use of trained models -- and this hands-on tutorial will walk you through a transfer learning technique you can run on your laptop.

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Next Level Power BI – M Language Basics

Paul Turley

This is a series of posts and exercises from a recent full-day workshop called Next Level Power BI. Check back for additional lessons and freely post your questions and feedback in the comments section after this post. Power Query is a modern data acquisition and transformation technology and it is the "Get Data" component of Power BI and many other Microsoft tools.

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Beginners Guide to the Three Types of Machine Learning

KDnuggets

The following article is an introduction to classification and regression — which are known as supervised learning — and unsupervised learning — which in the context of machine learning applications often refers to clustering — and will include a walkthrough in the popular python library scikit-learn.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Improved customer satisfaction for global financial information provider

bridgei2i

Case study: Improved customer satisfaction for global financial information provider. About the Client. A global financial information provider – publisher of one of world’s largest business news and financial information in a variety of media. Business Context. The enterprise has a High volume of Customer interaction data and feedback coming in from many disparate systems in varying formats.

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How I Got Better at Machine Learning

KDnuggets

Check out this author's collection of tips and tricks that I learned over the years to get better at Machine Learning.

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Python Workout / Practices of a Python Pro / Classic Computer Science Problems in Python

KDnuggets

Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, there’s always new ways you can improve your Python coding. Save 40% off this trio of Manning Python books today! Just enter the code nlpropython40 at checkout when you buy from manning.com.

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How Can My Business Get the Most Out of Self-Serve Advanced Analytics?

Smarten

How does an organization help the self-serve advanced analytics model grow and thrive? Responsibility lies in a number of places within the enterprise. Data Analysts/Data Scientists: If the business is large enough and sophisticated enough to have data analysts or data scientists on its team, those individuals will benefit from self-serve analytics.

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KDnuggets™ News 19:n43, Nov 13: Dynamic Reports in Python and R; Creating NLP Vocabularies; What is Data Science?

KDnuggets

On KDnuggets this week: Orchestrating Dynamic Reports in Python and R with Rmd Files; How to Create a Vocabulary for NLP Tasks in Python; What is Data Science?; The Complete Data Science LinkedIn Profile Guide; Set Operations Applied to Pandas DataFrames; and much, much more.

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BRIDGEi2i Analytics Solutions appoints Laura Mills as new SVP – US Sales & Business Development

bridgei2i

FREMONT, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 14, 2019. BRIDGEi2i is pleased to welcome Laura Mills as Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development. She will be responsible for leading the BRIDGEi2i sales team, building and executing sales strategy, and focusing on new business growth specifically for the US market. Laura brings over 30 years of experience across a broad range of functions: client service, client satisfaction, business development, operations, recruitment, and talent management.

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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 KDnuggets tweets, Nov 06-12: 10 FREE must-read ebooks on AI. Things just keep getting more interesting in the field, so use these resources to stay up to speed.

KDnuggets

Also: It's time to make your Data Science LinkedIn profile ready for recruiters.; Python Libraries for Interpretable Machine Learning - KDnuggets; Process your data with Pandas up to 4x faster with this new Python library.; How to Extract Google Maps Coordinates.

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Sirius Wins Two Partner of the Year Awards at 2019 Cisco Partner Summit

CDW Research Hub

November 11, 2019; Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. (Sirius) received two highly-regarded awards presented last week during Cisco’s Partner Summit 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each year, Cisco considers more than 1,000 companies from more than 75 countries for its Partner Summit Awards, which honor its top-performing partners within specific technology markets.

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Your Definitive Guide To Modern & Professional Procurement Reports

datapine

It doesn’t matter how innovative your brand is or how groundbreaking your business model might be; if your business is ridden with glaring inefficiencies, your potential for growth is eventually going to get stunted. In fact, an IDC study showed that over 80% of business leaders surveyed from sales, HR, procurement, and other departments agreed that issues arise because companies are equipped with different internal systems and applications that don’t ‘talk’ to one other. 43% of the surveyed sta

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How AI Is Transforming the Wealth Management Industry

Dataiku

The Credit Suisse Global Wealth report just came out, and while some serious efforts to fight inequalities still have to be made - 1 percent of the adults in the world are millionaires and hold 44 percent of the global wealth - this report also confirms the decrease in the gap between the richest and poorest started in 2016. It also indicates a quicker than anticipated number of new millionaires in high economic growth regions, opening some new challenges for the wealth management industry.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Sisense at AWS re:Invent — Helping Enterprises Win in the Analytic Apps Economy

Sisense

Blog. AWS re:Invent is the single most important gathering of builders every year. As an AWS Data & Analytics Competency partner , we’re honored to join and power this innovative community. It’s an innovative community because it’s being fueled by a thriving economy — the analytic apps economy. Executives, business leaders, and Chief Data Officers are leading the way when it comes to generating new value and new revenue for their customers with analytics products and services.

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Top 5 EPM Reporting Templates for 2019

Jet Global

EPM reporting templates may not sound like significant tools, but they’re actually the centerpiece of a refined reporting strategy. Users who rely exclusively on Oracle Hyperion or Oracle PBCS will understand why. Building reports from the ground up is a lengthy, labor-intensive process that frequently extends out of the finance department and into the IT department.

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Our Top 20 Most-Read Data and Analytics Research Last Week (to Nov 10)

Andrew White

Click here for an interactive PDF to connect to the most read data and analytics research directly. This list excludes our branded research such as Magic Quadrants etc. Erick Brethenoux’s new note ( Five Ways Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Deliver Business Impacts ) entered the charts at number 3 two weeks ago and last week climbed to number 1 spot.