O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Why AI software development is different.

Management 327

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 327

Ontotext

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s fast changing environment, enterprises that have transitioned from being focused on applications to becoming data-driven gain a significant competitive edge. There are four groups of data that are naturally siloed: Structured data (e.g., internal metadata, industry ontologies, etc.)

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Metadata Experimentation Risk 52

Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data-driven organizations are a bad idea. Using data to drive your organization is wonderful. But data, at best, can only be a powerful vehicle, or a reliable GPS system. Except sometimes we call organizations “data-driven” when really the data is driving them up the wall. And it should be.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Analytics Analytics Manufacturing 52

Domino Data Lab

JULY 2, 2019

Paco Nathan ‘s latest article covers program synthesis, AutoPandas, model-driven data queries, and more. In other words, using metadata about data science work to generate code. In this case, code gets generated for data preparation, where so much of the “time and labor” in data science work is concentrated.

Metadata 105

Metadata Machine Learning Data Science Data-driven 105

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions.

Business Intelligence 214

Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s data tool challenges. By enabling their event analysts to monitor and analyze events in real time, as well as directly in their data visualization tool, and also rate and give feedback to the system interactively, they increased their data to insight productivity by a factor of 10. .

Experimentation 81

Experimentation Data Warehouse Dashboards Visualization 81

Ontotext

MAY 18, 2020

Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

Knowledge Discovery 72

Knowledge Discovery Experimentation Data-driven Metadata 72

AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

Data Lake 90

Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Optimization 90

Cloudera

APRIL 9, 2019

of application workloads were still on-premises in enterprise data centers; by the end of 2017, less than half (47.2%) were on-premises. A hybrid, multi-cloud strategy is the best approach to managing these distributed, heterogeneous data ecosystems. Enterprises are moving to the cloud. In 2016, 60.9% of existing apps to public cloud.

Strategy 53

Strategy Experimentation Metadata Business Objectives 53

Cloudera

JANUARY 11, 2021

Requests to Central IT for data warehousing services can take weeks or months to deliver. In data-driven organizations, to fulfill its charter to democratize data and provide on-demand, quality computing services in a secure, compliant environment, IT must replace legacy approaches and update technologies.

Data Warehouse 62

Data Warehouse Data Lake Cost-Benefit Machine Learning 62

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 23, 2023

But Transformers have some other important advantages: Transformers don’t require training data to be labeled; that is, you don’t need metadata that specifies what each sentence in the training data means. Unlike labels, embeddings are learned from the training data, not produced by humans.

IT 258

IT Modeling Testing Risk 258

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. It helps you to amplify what’s proven to work, throw away what isn’t, and tweak the goal-posts when data indicates that they may be in the wrong place.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156