Thu.Nov 07, 2019

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How to Challenge Business Assumptions with Data

Corinium

The notion that businesses should be making data-driven decisions may seem obvious to a CDAO. But the fact is, people in other business functions don’t always see things that way.

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How to Create a Vocabulary for NLP Tasks in Python

KDnuggets

This post will walkthrough a Python implementation of a vocabulary class for storing processed text data and related metadata in a manner useful for subsequently performing NLP tasks.

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Data Science News from Microsoft Ignite 2019

Data Science 101

Microsoft just held one of its largest conferences of the year, and a few major announcements were made which pertain to the cloud data science world. Here they are in my order of importance (based upon my opinion). Azure Synapse. I think this announcement will have a very large and immediate impact. Azure Synapse Analytics can be seen as a merge of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake.

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Set Operations Applied to Pandas DataFrames

KDnuggets

In this tutorial, we show how to apply mathematical set operations (union, intersection, and difference) to Pandas DataFrames with the goal of easing the task of comparing the rows of two datasets.

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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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The Vital Elements of a Big Data Branding Strategy

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing a very important role in the future of branding. Last year, Samantha Bhargav wrote a great article on ways big data can help with branding strategies. There are a number of benefits, as Bhargav points out. One of the biggest is customer-centric marketing. Ways that Big Data Promotes Stronger Branding Practices. Whether you are a brand that has just started off or a brand that has become a dominant force over the years, the same core principles are going to determine whether y

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Data Cleaning and Preprocessing for Beginners

KDnuggets

Careful preprocessing of data for your machine learning project is crucial. This overview describes the process of data cleaning and dealing with noise and missing data.

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Adding Interpretability to Multiclass Text Classification models

MLWhiz

Explain Like I am 5. It is the basic tenets of learning for me where I try to distill any concept in a more palatable form. As Feynman said: I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don’t really understand it. So, when I saw the ELI5 library that aims to interpret machine learning models, I just had to try it out.

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ISPs Use Holistic Big Data Strategy To Shed Customer Cynicism

Smart Data Collective

ISPs are using data analytics in a variety of ways. Many consumers may be concerned about this, because they are known to exploit customer data. However, they use data in a number of benevolent ways, which many people will be okay with. Pew Research has shown most customers are okay with companies collecting their data if it is used for holistic purposes.

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Monitoring Models at Scale

KDnuggets

Catch this Domino webinar on monitoring models at scale, Dec 11 @ 10am PT, covering detecting changes in pattern of real-world data your models are seeing in production, tracking how model accuracy and other quality metrics are changing over time, and getting alerted when health checks fail so that resolution workflows can be triggered.

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Finding a Holistic Predictive Analytics Approach to Boost Employee Retention

Smart Data Collective

The benefits of predictive analytics for businesses are numerous. Most case studies and industry advice columns focus on improved cost effectiveness, the propensity for innovation and the ability to reach new customers. However, predictive analytics can be just as valuable for solving employee retention problems. Towards Data Science discusses some of the benefits of predictive analytics with employee retention.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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How Nutanix Interacts with the Management Layer

Nutanix

Web-scale architectures are rapidly making their way into the core of enterprise datacenters. This shift is being driven by Nutanix. One of the keys to web-scale is the idea of a shared-nothing architecture.

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What to consider when choosing financial consolidation software

Jedox

Manual financial consolidation is time consuming and labor intensive. With modern technology offering new digital solutions to automate complex processes, you can not only streamline your consolidation processes, but also accelerate them. In this blog, we’ll examine what to consider when choosing a software consolidation solution for your organization.

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‘We want to be agile and not just do agile.’ Alex Tran shares key leadership insights at DI Day

Data Insight

Analytics in an agile organisation Data Insight’s very first DI Day welcomed an array of inspiring speakers. One of the members of our ‘Leaders in Data Transformation’ panel, Alex Tran, shared the lessons learnt on working Agile, a hot topic in organisations today. Alex is the General Manager of Commercial for Genesis Energy who are renowned for the amazing things they’re doing through leveraging the power of agile.

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How to Extend the Value of Your JD Edwards Investment

Jet Global

JD Edwards users are loyal for a number of reasons, including its flexibility and ease-of-use. But with the never-ending push toward other ERP systems, you may be wondering how soon before new features and value make your organization consider moving from JD Edwards to a new ERP. The good news is that there are still ways to gain new, long-term value out of your organization’s heavy investment into the JD Edwards ecosystem: Find ways to make your finance and operational teams more efficient.

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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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Protected: Episode IV

Ontotext

Password Protected. To view this protected post, enter the password below: Password: Submit. The post Protected: Episode IV appeared first on Ontotext.

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Nutanix wins Omega NorthFace Award for exceptional Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty for Second Year in a Row

Nutanix

It gives me immense pleasure to share with you some recent great news! For the second year in a row, Nutanix has won the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award from The Omega Management Group.

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A New Hope: The Rise of the Knowledge Graph

Ontotext

It is a period of civil war. Rebel GraphQL developers strike from a hidden base and have won their first victory against the evil SPARQL empire. During the battle, however, it is discovered that Ontotext has secret plans to allow both GraphQL and SPARQL to co-exist, and flourish together, building the ultimate weapon, the ONTOTEXT PLATFORM ! An armored Knowledge Graph platform with enough power to enrich an entire planet.

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The Nutanix Approach to Federal IT – Part II

Nutanix

In Part I of this blog, we talked about “the interesting times we live in” regarding the state of Federal IT. The problem is – managing and delivering IT shouldn’t be an adventure.

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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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How Can Beginners Create a Great Dashboard?

FineReport

In the current trend of big data, data visualization has become an interactive display mode that everyone admires. And dashboards are widely used to display business performance in enterprises. If we can understand and master this technology earlier, I believe it will be very helpful for our career. So how can we create a good dashboard, especially for beginners?

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It’s Time to Elevate IT at VMworld 2015!

Nutanix

It is VMworld San Francisco time again! We are delighted to be a Gold Sponsor again this year and enable the thousands of attendees on their journeys to invisible infrastructure.

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Machine Learning Drastically Curtails Mobile App Development Mistakes

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is disrupting the mobile app development industry. Although mobile app developers have used machine learning in some way or another for years, they are finding new applications for it. Machine learning is particularly useful when it comes to avoiding many of the biggest mistakes that app developers make. The Growing Importance of Machine Learning in Mobile App Development.

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The Promise of the Enterprise Cloud: Changing IT to Inspiration and Transformation

Nutanix

A conversation between Howard Ting, Nutanix CMO, and Madhu Matta, Lenovo Vice President, Server and Storage Product Marketing, about the frontiers of data center infrastructure.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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A world of deepfakes

O'Reilly on Data

Deepfakes have been very much in the news for the past two years. It’s time to think about what deepfakes are and what they mean. Where do they come from? Why now? Is this just a natural evolution in the history of technology? Deepfakes are media that are created by AI. They appear to be genuine (e.g., a video of President Obama ) but have limited connection to reality.

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Unified Data Protection for.NEXT Generation Workloads and Nutanix AHV

Nutanix

Managing the proliferation and performance demands of modern, next-gen workloads can be daunting as businesses continue to accelerate their transition to the multi-cloud world.

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5 Architectural Principles to Consider Before Choosing Your Infrastructure

Nutanix

When it comes to application and desktop virtualization projects, choosing the right infrastructure for your business is among the most important decisions you’ll need to make.

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Nutanix announces support for Intel Skylake

Nutanix

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS is compatible with the widest range of turnkey appliances and validated platforms, including Nutanix NX, Dell EMC XC, Lenovo HX, HPE Proliant, Cisco UCS, and other platforms from these and other vendors are added as they become available.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Meet Nutanix Series - Laura Jordana

Nutanix

This will be the first post in our new series, “Meet Nutanix,” where various employees at Nutanix will be featured. Read on and learn more about life at Nutanix and what various departments here are working on!

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Back to Basics

Nutanix

Not too long ago, the only available storage solution was direct attached storage (DAS). Compute was directly attached to its storage via ATA, SATA, eSATA, SCSI, SAS, and in some cases fibre channel. The system admin was also responsible for managing the storage. Life was simple.

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Nutanix Complete Cluster Certified on VMware's Rapid Desktop Program

Nutanix

In the long run VDI can introduce a great cost savings, provide better manageability, standardizing security, etc. However, the overhead involved in designing, planning and implementing a VDI solution can be a deterrent for many.

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Small is Beautiful

Nutanix

When you are selling for an emerging technology company, a lot of things go against you, such as brand recognition, marketing budget, size of installed base and lack of executive sponsorship in most accounts. But, at least when it comes to Nutanix, customer support is not one of them.

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The Data Metaverse: Unpacking the Roles, Use Cases, and Tech Trends in Data and AI

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Embark on a transformation journey into the heart of the data ecosystem! This webinar is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the foundations that drive the data industry and will equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape. Delve into the diverse use cases where data analytics plays a pivotal role. We’ll explore how these applications are transforming with the introduction of Gen AI, and discuss the anticipated use cases for 2024 and beyond.