Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 10, 2020

In 2019, I was asked to write the Foreword for the book “ Graph Algorithms: Practical Examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j “ , by Mark Needham and Amy E. I wrote an extensive piece on the power of graph databases, linked data, graph algorithms, and various significant graph analytics applications.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

1) What Is Data Quality Management? 4) Data Quality Best Practices. 5) How Do You Measure Data Quality? 6) Data Quality Metrics Examples. 7) Data Quality Control: Use Case. 8) The Consequences Of Bad Data Quality. 9) 3 Sources Of Low-Quality Data. 10) Data Quality Solutions: Key Attributes.

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Juice Analytics

JULY 8, 2021

Automated data storytelling is the future of analytics. That’s the argument put forth by James Richardson during a conference hosted by automated data storytelling vendor Narrative Science (as reported here ). He's been a champion for data storytelling at Gartner for years. What are you calling data stories?

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Juice Analytics

JUNE 8, 2021

For all the data science skills, tools, and boot camps that are available, I still find that the missing link for many data analysts is the ability to communicate and convince after they’ve analyzed data. All your hard work is wasted if it doesn’t spur someone to change. You’ll be considered the data artist ?????????in

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We hope you’re able to borrow questions you haven’t used before, and even cook up new questions that are more closely related to your personal and professional interests. They will get to what happened, along with when and how and why. . “ “ You can interrogate anyone, no matter what their state of being.

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datapine

MAY 9, 2019

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore, management consultant, and author. In a world dominated by data, it’s more important than ever for businesses to understand how to extract every drop of value from the raft of digital insights available at their fingertips.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

Data Warehousing. And, a thousand other silos (depending on your company size). That’s not really surprising, if your view of your scope is narrow… Your impact will be narrow as well. That’s not really surprising, if your view of your scope is narrow… Your impact will be narrow as well.

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Peter James Thomas

APRIL 3, 2020

A skilled practitioner, hard at work developing elements of a Structured Reporting Framework. © I have been very much focussing on the start of a data journey in a series of recent articles about Data Strategy [3]. In my experience, Structured Reporting Frameworks are much misunderstood. Introduction. Jane woke up.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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Cloudera

JANUARY 20, 2021

Most of what is written though has to do with the enabling technology platforms (cloud or edge or point solutions like data warehouses) or use cases that are driving these benefits (predictive analytics applied to preventive maintenance, financial institution’s fraud detection, or predictive health monitoring as examples) not the underlying data.

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Insight

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This comprehensive and easy three-step tutorial lets you train your own custom image detector using YOLOv3. Our input data set are images of cats (without annotations). As an example, we learn how to detect faces of cats in cat pictures. The only requirement is basic familiarity with Python. the more the better! linux.snap.

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Insight

MARCH 13, 2020

Learn how the best teams adapt to interviewing while they WFH At Insight , we partner with companies to build and scale their tech teams. Use this moment of shifting to remote engagement as a chance to take a good look at your current interview process. At INSIGHT we do thousands of remote interviews each year.

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bridgei2i

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

THE CURRENT STATE OF AI IN SALES: Just like the story of AI, the story of sales too is a series of advancements. I have listed those developments which are translated into solutions to the sales organizations worldwide, in increasing order of efficacy: Price bots: How much to discount? Whether to discount? Certainly not.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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Insight

AUGUST 14, 2019

Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash You’ve studied your share of computer science algorithms/statistics/machine learning/system design for the on-site interview at your favorite tech company. Whether it’s a case study, a DevOps systems debugging scenario, or whiteboard coding problem, your first action should not be solving the problem!

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bridgei2i

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Traditional algorithmic solutions around structured data have gained and continue to gain traction. Matt Hellman a Transformation Leader at Microsoft writes in a September 2018 article titled, “How AI is transforming sales and marketing” in The Marketing Journal. Voice data quality). And sales leaders know this.

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Insight

MAY 8, 2019

In an ideal world, data scientists would focus their time on analysis and modeling, but there is often seemingly unavoidable overhead in visualizing and presenting their results. When you inevitably want your app hosted on the internet, your options, for the most part, fall into two buckets: Managed services (e.g.

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DataRobot

JUNE 17, 2021

True Story About Eureqa. I remember my peers recommended staying in academia, but I thought it would be a distraction–all I wanted to do was work on Eureqa and try to create AI to help scientists to discover new laws of physics in raw data. What if we could replicate this competition of ideas in simulation?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The value of Facebook in "spreading word of mouth," "getting your brand in front of friends of fans," and "engaging fans with five to seven posts a week on your fan page." There are two valuable lessons we can learn from the above story. Here's a summary of the case study presented: 1.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Across one story arc, they said, we often see several structural evolutions —smaller-scale versions of that wider phenomenon. ” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time? .” I am wired to constantly ask “what’s next?”

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Insight

AUGUST 12, 2019

How to prepare for your DevOps interview Over the past decade, DevOps has emerged as a new tech culture and career that marries the rapid iteration desired by software development with the rock-solid stability of the infrastructure operations team. Let’s say you’ve learned the fundamentals and are ready to start your job hunt.

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FineReport

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Many employees are required to spend hours each day compiling data and formatting reports. Recently, I heard an interesting story from an HR friend. Isn’t it just summarizing the data every day? These reports are definitely not as simple as just filling in numbers and writing summaries in the eyes of others!

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And the data tells us it shows up in the workplace as well. . Q3: How did it feel to be named Cloudera’s Chief Diversity Officer? Cloudera recently appointed its first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, Sarah Shin. Q1: What drew you to work in the D&I space? . I thought, this can’t be right! We need to change things. .

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Watch on demand: Modernize your workforce with generative AI skills What is a talent acquisition strategy? The success of any organization relies on its ability to attract, retain and develop top talent. A well-crafted talent acquisition strategy has become a critical component for organizations seeking to secure a competitive edge.

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DataRobot

APRIL 19, 2021

Data Scientists Are AI Experts. Programmers write code based on rules carefully defined by business experts. But for more complex business decisions, including those that use less structured data, we have artificial intelligence systems. They need data assembly, data science, integration, and visualization skills.

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Ontotext

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In our previous post, we covered the basics of how the Ontotext and metaphacts joint solution based on GraphDB and metaphactory helps customers accelerate their knowledge graph journey and generate value from it in a matter of days. The Background Story. Today, users from the general public, journalists, etc.

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Peter James Thomas

MARCH 23, 2020

When I occasionally re-read articles I penned back in 2009 or 210, I’m often struck that – no matter how many things have undeniably changed over the intervening years in the data arena – there are some seemingly eternal verities. My first task was to develop an International Data Strategy. True then, true now.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 23, 2023

What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? Many of these are unsurprising: you can ask it to write a letter, you can ask it to make up a story, you can ask it to write descriptive entries for products in a catalog. It has helped to write a book. Or a text adventure game.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 17, 2023

A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. They’d say that the job involves writing some software, sure. Given that, what would you say is the job of a data scientist (or ML engineer, or any other such title)? Pretty simple.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

My hope is to better assist you in your own journey in using the framework to unlock imagination, build intent-based audience strategies, deliver joy to them and accelerate business profit. I passionately dislike how most Marketers have become selfish – because most companies set deeply selfish goals for them! Thing One.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 4, 2016

Here's something important I've observed in my experience in working with data, and changing organizations with ideas: Great Analysts are always skeptical. But, it has become mission critical over the last few years as the depth, breadth, quantity and every other dimension you could apply to data has simply exploded.

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Depict Data Studio

MARCH 3, 2020

Jon is an economist, writer, teacher, and creator of policy-relevant data visualizations. He is considered a leading voice for clarity and accessibility in how researchers communicate their findings. We’ve known each for nearly a decade already, and even tell the funny story of how we met in the podcast.

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Back by popular demand, we’ve updated our data nerd Gift Giving Guide to cap off 2021. We’ve kept some classics and added some new titles that are sure to put a smile on your data nerd’s face. Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, by Randy Bean.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Ok, not so much hurts my feelings and more that I'm sad you are not taking advantage of all of the features at your disposal to drive smarter decisions by your leadership teams. You'll be surprised at how much you learn, and, like an Easter egg hunt, the whole thing is fun all by itself. This hurts my feelings!

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today’s digital data has given the power to an average Internet user a massive amount of information that helps him or her to choose between brands, products or offers, making the market a highly competitive arena for the best ones to survive. How do you know that? Exclusive Bonus Content: Get Your Reports For Marketing Summary Now!

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datapine

JUNE 13, 2019

Using daily and/or weekly sales reports with your team may be the single most powerful action you can take to increase your team’s performance. Let’s say a friend of yours has a goal of losing 10 pounds of fat or gaining 5 pounds of muscle, over the next 2 months. How are you going to keep track of your goals?”.

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datapine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Historically, the terms data report or business report haven’t got the crowds excited. Data reports have always been important for businesses. The business intelligence industry has been revolutionized over the past decade and data reports are in on the fun. Read on to see why data reports matter and our top data reporting tips.

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