Mon.Mar 25, 2024

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Demystifying Multimodal LLMs

Dataiku

Picture this : You’re scrolling through your favorite social media platform, and you come across a stunning image of a picturesque landscape. Intrigued, you type in a question about the location, expecting a response from a fellow user. But instead, a machine seamlessly identifies the scene and its location, provides a detailed description, and even suggests nearby attractions.

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How to Implement Identity Verification using Amazon Rekognition

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, adhering to Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations is paramount for businesses operating within financial services, online marketplaces, and other sectors requiring user identification. Traditionally, KYC processes have relied on manual document verification, a time-consuming and error-prone approach. This guide delves into how Amazon Rekognition, a powerful cloud-based AI service by […] The post How to Implement Identity Verification using Am

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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO Business Intelligence

Judy Balaban has seen firsthand how stepping into the professional spotlight, even on a small stage, pays dividends. Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. She considered her commitments to PMI as a way to give back to her professional community.

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Microsoft Introduce AllHands: LLM Framework for Large-Scale Feedback Analysis

Analytics Vidhya

Traditionally, analyzing large volumes of user feedback, often presented as open-ended text (verbatim feedback), has been a cumbersome task. Existing methods rely heavily on human labeling of data to train machine learning models. This not only requires significant time and resources but also limits the model’s ability to adapt to new situations or handle complexities […] The post Microsoft Introduce AllHands: LLM Framework for Large-Scale Feedback Analysis appeared first on Analytic

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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 to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

CFOs want certainty when it comes to spend. And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. Meanwhile, CIOs want certainty when it comes to funding. Continuous and dependable funding facilitates IT leaders’ ability to deliver leading-edge technology solutions while not increasing technical debt.

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The Promise of Edge AI and Approaches for Effective Adoption

KDnuggets

Organizations are adopting edge AI for real-time decision-making using efficient and cost-effective methods such as model quantization, multimodal databases, and distributed inferencing.

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Ahead of the curve: How generative AI is revolutionizing the content supply chain

IBM Big Data Hub

The global adoption of generative AI is upon us, and it’s essential for marketing organizations to understand and play in this space to stay competitive. With content demands expected to grow in the next few years, organizations need to create more content at a faster pace to meet customer expectations and business needs. Knowing how to manifest these improvements is not always clear: Enter generative AI and the content supply chain.

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Stability AI CEO steps down ‘to fix concentration of power in AI’

CIO Business Intelligence

Emad Mostaque stepped down as CEO of Stability AI, the developer of the Stable Diffusion image generation tool, over the weekend, saying he wanted to “fix” the concentration of power in AI. The company said he had also quit its board of directors, which had appointed COO Shan Shan Wong and CTO Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs while seeking a replacement for him.

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Celebrating the women of IBM AI Ethics

IBM Big Data Hub

For more than 100 years, IBM’s founding principles have inspired efforts to promote equality, fairness and inclusion in the workplace and society. The company has lived the value of “respect for the individual” by championing employment practices that reward ability over identity and that make work more attainable for all. In 1935, approximately twenty years after IBM was founded, it began hiring women into professional roles.

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Pydantic Tutorial: Data Validation in Python Made Simple

KDnuggets

Want to write more robust Python applications? Learn how to use Pydantic, a popular data validation library, to model and validate your data.

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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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Mitigating the impact of climate change in insurance and other financial services  

IBM Big Data Hub

As the effects of climate change intensify, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. The US experienced 25 extreme weather events in 2023, each causing losses of over USD 1 billion, with a total cost of USD 73.8 billion. These climate events have a huge potential impact on financial institutions. In 2021, large-scale floods affected the European countries of Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, causing USD 43 billion worth of damage in addition

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Exploring real-time streaming for generative AI Applications

AWS Big Data

Foundation models (FMs) are large machine learning (ML) models trained on a broad spectrum of unlabeled and generalized datasets. FMs, as the name suggests, provide the foundation to build more specialized downstream applications, and are unique in their adaptability. They can perform a wide range of different tasks, such as natural language processing, classifying images, forecasting trends, analyzing sentiment, and answering questions.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Jess Hohn-Cabana

Cloudera

Meet Cloudera’s new Senior Vice President of Global Communications, Jess Hohn-Cabana. In this Employee Spotlight, we’ll get to know more about Jess, her new role, and her recent award win at the 2024 Ragan Top Women in Communications Awards. Get to Know Jess: A Seasoned Leader in Tech Communications and Branding Coming to Cloudera with nearly three decades of experience in tech communications and branding, Jess is a leader and a visionary on all things storytelling.

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Introducing enhanced functionality for worker configuration management in Amazon MSK Connect

AWS Big Data

Amazon MSK Connect is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka Connect. With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to deploy connectors that move data between Apache Kafka and external systems. MSK Connect now supports the ability to delete MSK Connect worker configurations, tag resources, and manage worker configurations and custom plugins using AWS CloudFormation.

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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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Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new frontier in a distributed world

CIO Business Intelligence

The landscape of applications and their delivery has undergone a dramatic transformation. Applications are no longer standalone entities but are now intricate collections of services, APIs, and distributed applications across various cloud environments. This ecosystem relies heavily on core internet services such as DNS and BGP, while networks have evolved to embrace a variety of complex architectures, including IPv4/6, WAN, SD-WAN, SASE, EDGE, and 5G technologies.

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Become a Business Intelligence Analyst in Less Than 6 Months

KDnuggets

Ready to become a business intelligence analyst right here, right now?

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2024 CSO30 Middle East Awards: Nominations are now open

CIO Business Intelligence

Foundry and IDC Middle East are proud to launch the first edition of CSO30 Awards in the UAE, KSA and Qatar, recognising the top 30 senior security executives in each country with outstanding leadership in driving positive business outcomes through effective risk mitigation strategies Reflecting Foundry’s (formerly IDG Communications) and IDC’s increasing commitment to the region, CSO30 is aligned to a global awards program and viewed as a mark of excellence within the enterprise.

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Chart Snapshot: Variable Width Bar Charts

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

Also known as a Bar Mekko Chart, Cascade Chart, Variwide Chart, Area Bar/Column Graph. A Variable Width Bar Chart is a type of graphical representation that differs from traditional Bar Charts in that the width of each bar carries significant meaning. Rather than all bars being of uniform width, as in conventional bar charts, the width of the bars in a Variable Width Bar Chart is determined by an additional dimension within the dataset.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

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16 Top Hospital KPIs for 2024 Reporting

Jet Global

What is a Hospital KPI and Why is it Important? A hospital key performance indicator ( KPI ) is a quantifiable measure that monitors the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital and measures the overall success of the business. Like many other service providers, hospitals depend on their customers (patients) to run their business. However, in order to thrive, they must also operate sustainably and mange costs.

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7 modi per rendere le IT operation più efficienti

CIO Business Intelligence

Nessun CIO vuole essere alla guida di un’organizzazione IT inefficiente: è un dato di fatto. Tuttavia, a causa della disattenzione o della conduzione di pratiche obsolete, l’IT può diventare progressivamente inefficiente e improduttivo. Il perseguimento dell’efficienza nell’IT dovrebbe essere un processo continuo, non un evento una tantum, afferma Robert Orshaw, global cloud operate leader di Deloitte Consulting.

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Insightsoftware Named Top AI-Powered Business Intelligence Provider

Jet Global

The results are in – Logi Symphony by insightsoftware has been named as a top business intelligence (BI) solution in Info-Tech’s latest Data Quadrant Report. The report names the top seven BI providers for midmarket and enterprise businesses. This year, Info-Tech has turned its focus to BI solutions that implement artificial intelligence (AI) to drive informed decision-making.

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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.