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5 Useful Tools To Provide Effective Data Visualization For Translators

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Language translators are in a world of their own. Our task involves meticulous preparation and quality checks before the final touches are put. The post 5 Useful Tools To Provide Effective Data Visualization For Translators appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How Data Leaders Can Become Powerful Agents for Change

Corinium

Promoting data literacy and culture is essential to the success of any digital transformation. Developing analytical skills is like fishing. Giving someone a rod isn’t enough. They must genuinely want to catch a fish if they’re going to learn how to use it. Even then, they’ll need someone to show them how.

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5 Ways Big Data Has Revolutionized Invoicing Software

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of invoicing software in many ways. In 2015, Spend Matters wrote a detailed report on the applications of big data in the e-invoicing industry. This has changed the perception business owners had of invoicing applications, because they often ignored the benefits of it before then. Big Data Transforms Invoicing Software Applications.

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Setting an AI strategy to unlock the value of your data

IBM Big Data Hub

It’s been said that data is the most valuable resource on the planet. But most companies aren’t getting the maximum value out of their data.

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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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Information Systems Careers Are the New Frontier of Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Are you looking to capitalize off of your knowledge of big data? There are a lot of careers that talented data scientists can pursue. Information systems careers are among the most promising. IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub has talked about some of the biggest changes impacting the world of big data. They found an interesting quandary that many companies are facing.

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What do you mean UX design is horizontal?

Teradata

There's a trend in enterprise organizations where folks are starting to refer to user experience design as a "horizontal" function, but what does this mean?

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Learning SQL the Hard Way

MLWhiz

A Data Scientist who doesn’t know SQL is not worth his salt And that seems correct to me in every sense of the world. While we feel much more accomplished creating models and coming up with the different hypotheses, the role of data munging can’t be understated. And with the ubiquitousness of SQL when it comes to ETL and data preparation tasks, everyone should know a little bit of it to at least be useful.

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Defining Data Acquisition and Why it Matters

Alation

As data drives more and more of the modern economy, data governance and data management are racing to keep up with an ever-expanding range of requirements, constraints and opportunities. It is a little like a data version of the Cambrian Explosion, where data-centricity is giving rise to a rich variety of practices, each distinct and unique in its own way.

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Confidence Intervals Explained Simply for Data Scientists

MLWhiz

Recently, I got asked about how to explain confidence intervals in simple terms to a layperson. I found that it is hard to do that. Confidence Intervals are always a headache to explain even to someone who knows about them, let alone someone who doesn’t understand statistics. I went to Wikipedia to find something and here is the definition: In statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is a type of estimate computed from the statistics of the observed data.

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The Alation Arena: Enter the world of robots

Alation

We’re getting ready to debut the brand new Alation Arena at the Strata Data Conference in New York this week. Inspired by BattleBots, the popular robot combat television series, and built by world robotic tournament champions’, Zachary Lytle and Diana Tarlson, the arena is ready to make a big entrance. It’s a professional grade, bullet proof arena (we promise!

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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.

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Become a Data Scientist in 2020 with these 10 resources

MLWhiz

I am a Mechanical engineer by education. And I started my career with a core job in the steel industry. With those heavy steel enforced gumboots and that plastic helmet, venturing around big blast furnaces and rolling mills. Artificial safety measures, to say the least, as I knew that nothing would save me if something untoward happens. Maybe some running shoes would have helped.

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Alation and Einstein Analytics Announce Deep Integration For Data Cataloging and Governance

Alation

The head of sales needs the most up-to-date statistics on the state of the business, and they need it now — well, actually, yesterday. Creating a set of custom reports would take too much time. But why start from scratch? The calculations that describe the state of the business already exist — in hundreds of dashboards and thousands of reports. The challenge is one of transparency.

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Data integration: The key to AI-supported planning systems

Jedox

In our previous blog post “ Proven AI solutions for modern planning “, we shared detailed insights from Dr. Rolf Gegenmantel, our Chief Marketing & Product Officer, into data management and data integration as a basis for advanced analytics and automated sales forecasts at Mitsui Chemicals Europe. Now we take a closer look at how companies can benefit from the use of AI in the financial sector and how ServiceMaster improved their insights into customer churn rates using the Jedox

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Includes Alation

Alation

Gartner predicts that “By 2020, 50% of information governance initiatives will be enacted with policies based on metadata alone.”. – Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions , Guido de Simoni and Roxane Edjlali, August 10, 2017. Metadata management no longer refers to a static technical repository. Now, it means an active catalog for business.

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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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A Big Data Warehouse – a Want or a Need?

ScienceSoft

Find out what a big data warehouse is and what benefits it brings to the decision-making process.

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Aaron Kalb named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list

Alation

When you first meet Aaron Kalb, you are immediately struck by his boundless enthusiasm for meeting human challenges with bionic solutions. Speaking with Aaron sometimes feels like you suddenly woke up a decade into the future (only he’s already there and you’re struggling to keep up). Born into a world where information often seems more overwhelming than helpful, Aaron was inspired, along with Venky Ganti, Feng Niu and myself, to build a collaborative software platform that helps people find, un

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Using Peripherals with Xi Frame

Nutanix

In this blog, we will update you on the latest Xi Frame supported device, as well as the innovative approach we’ve taken to addressing specific use cases like printing or file transfers with virtual desktops.

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A New Market Is Born: The Data Catalog Market Study

Alation

We’ve seen the trend first hand. Organizations who are so successful in their adoption of self-service analytics, that their own business intelligence (BI) evangelists worry that they’ve created an analytics “wild west.” When they see a data catalog for the first time, they’re thrilled that a product exists that can govern the west and increase analyst productivity.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Using Peripherals with Xi Frame

Nutanix

In this blog, we will update you on the latest Xi Frame supported device, as well as the innovative approach we’ve taken to addressing specific use cases like printing or file transfers with virtual desktops.

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A Catalog-First Approach to MicroStrategy Reporting

Alation

Tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau make it easy for business users to quickly turn raw data into visualizations and reports. But before you can even start, you have to find a relevant data set, understand it, and trust it. Then you have to connect to it, which can involve many steps and typing many slashes and dots (mysql://10.1.abc/xyz, etc.). Even if you have Alation Catalog to facilitate finding, understanding, and trusting data assets, the process of actually connecting to data can be inti

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Using Peripherals with Xi Frame

Nutanix

In this blog, we will update you on the latest Xi Frame supported device, as well as the innovative approach we’ve taken to addressing specific use cases like printing or file transfers with virtual desktops.

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Announcing Alation 4.0 with Alation Connect

Alation

Since we launched the company, Alation has delivered a unique way to catalog data for the enterprise. Inspired by Google’s ability to automatically catalog the Internet by observing consumer behavior, we built Alation 1.0 to catalog enterprise data by observing analyst behaviors. Our approach was contrasted with the traditional manual wiki of notes and documentation and labeled as a modern data catalog.

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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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6 Ways Hyperconvergence Can Enable Financial Services Transformation

Nutanix

Six ways you can leverage hyperconvergence to up-level your organization from a financial center to a competitive banking authority.

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How do you make self-service data analysis work for your organization?

Alation

We are entering an era of self-service analytics. There has been an explosion of data, from social and mobile data to big data, that is fueling new ways to understand and improve customer experience. What has emerged is a whole new set of market imperatives that are changing the way data users tackle data discovery, leading to an increase in self-service analytics, fueling insights and driving innovation.

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6 Ways Hyperconvergence Can Enable Financial Services Transformation

Nutanix

Six ways you can leverage hyperconvergence to up-level your organization from a financial center to a competitive banking authority.

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Self-Service Data’s New Frontier: The Data Catalog

Alation

REFLECTIONS FROM THE GARTNER BI & ANALYTICS SUMMIT I hate to admit that the last time I attended the Gartner BI & Analytics Summit, Howard Dresner was still the host. I started my career in BI, but took a few deviations into CRM, middleware, and databases. For me personally, it was an amazing return this year to the now appropriately re-named, Gartner BI & Analytics Summit held in Grapevine, Texas.

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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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6 Ways Hyperconvergence Can Enable Financial Services Transformation

Nutanix

Six ways you can leverage hyperconvergence to up-level your organization from a financial center to a competitive banking authority.

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Alation Partners with Teradata

Alation

Today Alation and Teradata announced a strategic partnership. There are multiple components to this partnership. Teradata will sell Alation worldwide. Both companies will co-invest in R&D and Marketing. Alation will be the primary solution for Teradata customers seeking a product to help increase the productivity of their data consumers as well as the effectiveness of their data stewards.

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Naive Bayes Sentiment Analysis in Python After Preparing Data Using SQL

Sisense

Analytics is constantly evolving; as datasets become bigger and more complex, only AI, materialized views, and more sophisticated coding languages will be able to glean insights from them. In Next-Level Moves , we dig into the ways advanced analytics are paving the way for the next wave of innovation. Machine learning (ML) refers to the use of existing data, computing power, and effective algorithms to identify patterns in data, recognize those patterns when they occur again, and correctly predi

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These Are Data’s Dark Ages, and That Needs to Change

Alation

For those of us who champion the power of data, the past five years have been an incredible ride thanks to the rise of big data. Consider just these three examples: by 2020, we will have created as many digital bits as there are stars in the universe ; data drove President Obama’s wins in the 2008 and 2012 elections ; and data is powering the incredible rise of new companies like Uber and Airbnb , allowing people to monetize their most illiquid fixed assets like cars and houses.

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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.