O'Reilly on Data

MAY 25, 2021

So let’s see how GPT-3 does if we were to prompt it to write an article with the title “ North Korean hackers behind the $GME stock short squeeze, not Melvin Capital.”. Among other things. There exist more powerful models that are unknown to the general public. These models will continue to become more powerful.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

How do you scale an organization without hiring an army of hard-to-find data engineering talent? All data engineering work has been done by hand, with each person working hard and trying to service development requests and do production tasks. ” Marcus will not fix his challenges by helping his team write SQL faster.

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Data Science 101

OCTOBER 15, 2023

How did you end up working in the Quantum Computing space? For those curious about how to get into a quantum computing role, I spoke about this at Open Source Summit in Vancouver recently… and there’s a link at the end to a little group we’re putting together to help. My entry into quantum computing came via a headhunter.

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Data Science 101

AUGUST 30, 2023

I never managed to write any complete games, but that low-level knowledge I picked up helped give me a massive head start. Thankfully the degree I chose was heavily software focussed and by the time I came to the end of my undergrad, I wasn’t really doing much low-level electronics at all. Back then it really wasn’t that popular.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

One outcome of this reality is that while every team works hard to do their very best work, it is rare that they earn strategic influence from their work. A key part of how this manifested in our work was doing truly super-advanced machine-learning powered analysis to answer hard questions that few can successfully. Paid Media.

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datapine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

They also offer a more dynamic approach to presenting data compared to the rigid, linear nature of Powerpoint or the numbers-without-a-story approach of Excel. At datapine, we believe the goal of each interactive dashboard you create should be better, faster, and stronger decision making while telling a story.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Afterwards, he shared some more advice for up-and-coming digital leaders and explained why it’s worth choosing to do the hard things. The greatest joy I get is when I hear stories about people like Greg Michelini, who was one of the people who asked a ‘mystery question’ during the podcast. It also has helped me spot talent.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. Salaries by Gender.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

” For one, it’s broad and open-ended. There’s an implied “tell me more” in an open-ended question. They will tell a full story, which may then lead to more questions, which branch into other stories. Everything they do has to end with your purchases winding up in your hot little hands.

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Mark Raskino

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This emerging megatrend of the 2020s and 2030s is one that we have been researching and writing about for several years. One way of explaining it is this – business leaders will end up thinking a lot less about the internet and connected devices as a route to market. But that’s a story for another time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Could the tight controls end up cutting off some great features enabled by the API? Once wild and seemingly impossible notions such as large language models, machine learning, and natural language processing have gone from the labs to the front lines. The next generation promises to deliver the same unstoppable parade of innovation.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Effective DQM is recognized as essential to any consistent data analysis, as the quality of data is crucial to derive actionable and – more importantly – accurate insights from your information. There are a lot of strategies that you can use to improve the quality of your information. 3 – Defining data quality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

I had barely scraped through college, majoring in things that I wasn’t interested in doing as a career, and ended up working at a grocery store. I knew that Ada would see these challenges as strengths and accept my story as one of the many infinitely valid paths that lead people to apply,” she says.

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Data Science 101

JANUARY 19, 2021

Watch the Live Video – Stress Free Goal Setting on Amazon Live. Listen to the Audio. What is the most important part of setting a goal? 2:12 What is Ryan’s Resolution? 5:46 What are common mistakes in goal setting? 9:28 How to prioritize? 11:55 How to use a calendar to prioritize? 18:12 How often to set goals? Fit my days worked out.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 15, 2020

Even if you decide to be transparent about selling data by writing it into your lease agreement, tenants will be less likely to trust you. It’s hard to be a landlord when your tenants don’t trust you. Unfortunately, many tenants end up causing severe, intentional damage to rental units when things don’t go their way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

In the past couple of years, however, the ability to demonstrate empathy has shifted from “nice to have” to a CIO’s force multiplier — the skill that elevates a team’s productivity, keeps hard-to acquire technical people from leaving, and is the sinew and tendon that connects your company’s culture. They won’t call us back,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But things didn’t go according to plan — a story not unique to South Africa or this industry. We pretty much ran on a major production environment, and then we had a hot standby disaster recovery environment, which was far out of support and had come to end of life. This brings its own risks to the table. So we opted to go ahead.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 3, 2022

The secret to increasing profit margins is to harness big data to find the best price at the product—not category—level, rather than drown in the numbers flood,” they write. Witness the true story of price points. Then they will find ways to track prices with analytics and adapt their pricing strategy accordingly.

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The Toolbox is where we talk development best practices, tips, tricks, and success stories to help you build the future of analytics and empower your users with the insights and actions they need. It’s obvious that many different developers at different stages (pre- or post-sale) who work with Sisense will end up in the documentation pages.

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Jet Global

JANUARY 18, 2021

Perhaps more importantly, it provides an opportunity for the organization to implement measures in advance that can reduce risk, lower costs, and improve the end result. For customers migrating from Dynamics AX, that could mean re-writing existing overlay customizations as extensions. Start with a Functional Review.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are two valuable lessons we can learn from the above story. This is a massive continent with lots of countries, should not be hard to do. Attending this presentation inspired me to write this blog post. Why is it so hard to measure the value of Facebook? Facebook Sponsored Stories. How can we do better?

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Jen Stirrup

JUNE 20, 2020

I do see some overlap but I also see missed opportunities for PASS to be a bigger part of that community story. On a personal note, it was a hard effort to set up a conference in a timezone that is eight hours away from mine, and no mean feat to set up a conference in a different continent. I will note the errata and I will fix.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Moreover, while I endeavor to take a critical view of AI-assisted comic book art generation, I believe it’s impossible for me to write with complete objectivity. Stories can affect discourse, as well as inspire, educate, and otherwise move people. Scope, motivation, and benefits. Ethical considerations. Why automate? Who benefits?

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Sisense

JUNE 25, 2020

To this end, the firm now collects and processes information from customers, stores, and even its coffee machines using advanced technologies ranging from cloud computing to the Internet of Things (IoT), AI, and blockchain. We know this journey will be hard. It’s always going to be bigger than that. It won’t be linear.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 23, 2023

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. What is it, how does it work, what can it do, and what are the risks of using it? Or a text adventure game.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

And, just because I love you all so much, I'll end with a little bonus. 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. A thing three that shares optimally aligned See-Think-Do-Care metrics!

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

AI also seems so out there, so hard to grasp. I mean, just imagine how hard it is to do what you see above, and everything I do is actually so much easier! This topic has consumed a lot of my thinking over the last year (you’ll see the exact start date below). Here are the elements I’ll cover: + AI | Now | Local Maxima. +

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Sisense

AUGUST 6, 2020

The Toolbox is where we talk development best practices, tips, tricks, and success stories to help you build the future of analytics and empower your users with the insights and actions they need. Yes, you can write your own logic using map, filter, and reduce functions, but maybe there’s a better, more declarative way.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 10, 2022

Here’s a link to the episode itself, followed by an abridged and edited version of our discussion — and you can find the full list of episodes, with links, at the end of this post. Tom Raftery: Hello everyone, work into the industry insights podcast by SAP. I’ve been talking about them for a long time.

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Andrew White

MARCH 6, 2020

By the way, I am a fan of Diane Coyle and have followed her writings for some time. But that’s another story for another channel. Will there be a data economy, where information is freely traded, and everyone is incentivized to chip in and share their hard-earned data in the public domain? There is great confusion here.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 17, 2024

The following diagram illustrates an indexing flow involving a metadata update in OR1 During indexing operations, individual documents are indexed into Lucene and also appended to a write-ahead log also known as a translog. In the event of an infrastructure failure, an OpenSearch domain can end up losing one or more nodes.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. For instance, problems like “write a Python function that takes a list of names, splits them by first and last name, and sorts by last name.” Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

These are very important questions to answer, and with content reports fragmented in tools like Google Analytics and, worse, metrics spread out across reports (or outright hidden), it is hard to answer those questions easily. 99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. My second prescription was to (repeatedly!)

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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? .” ” Sometimes, the answer is: “more of the same.”

Machine Learning 245

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Occam's Razor

MAY 16, 2011

At the end of the first month, having read every one of my 8 blog posts (reason #2691 I love her so much!), Yet I had never ever imagined that you would write 2x the amount I would! Clearly the less I write the more popular the blog becomes! :). In the middle of the third year I started writing Web Analytics 2.0.

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datapine

JUNE 13, 2019

But I’m going to try really hard so I know I’ll hit my goal,” you would probably question your friend’s judgment. You would think – yes, it’s all and well to try hard, but if you can’t keep track of your progress, how will you know if: What you’re doing is working at all? You need to work hard, on the right things, at the right time.

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