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11 ways to kill your IT career (without knowing it)

CIO Business Intelligence

Crafting a successful IT career that keeps you engaged, satisfied, and growing is a balancing act. Stay too long with one technology — or one job — and the industry may shift without you realizing it. Take on too much and your team and your own well-being will suffer. So what’s the best way to lay a foundation for a career that’s challenging and rewarding, amid the day-to-day project demands and workplace stress?

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A Complete Guide to Pyjanitor for Data Cleaning

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction As a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Engineer, your main task is to identify and clean duplicate data and remove errors from the dataset. It is good to spend some time preparing the data and making it reliable for the machine learning models. The […]. The post A Complete Guide to Pyjanitor for Data Cleaning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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7 Data Lineage Tool Tips For Preventing Human Error in Data Processing

Smart Data Collective

Errors in data entry might have serious effects if they are not discovered quickly. Human mistake is the most common cause of data entry errors. Since typical data entry errors may be minimized with the right steps, there are numerous data lineage tool strategies that a corporation can follow. The steps organizations can take to reduce mistakes in their firm for a smooth process of business activities will be discussed in this blog.

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An Overview of HDFS: NameNodes and DataNodes

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Modern applications and products deal with large amounts of data. The quantity of data being processed and utilised in modern times is enormous. So, the question arises? How to manage large files and data. Data size soon outgrows a machine’s storage limit […].

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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A Brief Introduction to Papers With Code

KDnuggets

One-stop shop to learn about state-of-the-art research papers with access to open-source resources including machine learning models, datasets, methods, evaluation tables, and code.

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Preserving Data Quality is Critical for Leveraging Analytics with Amazon PPC

Smart Data Collective

Amazon is without a doubt the largest retailer in the world. More businesses than ever are turning to Amazon to expand their reach. Unfortunately, the Amazon marketplace has become extraordinarily competitive in recent years. Companies that utilize data analytics to make the most of their business model will have an easier time succeeding with Amazon.

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How to Protect the Sensitive Data of Your Company with a Secure Web Gateway?

Smart Data Collective

As an organization, you’re entrusted with a lot of data that you must keep safe. The information might be about your clients, the work of your company, or sensitive data about your employees. With data breaches on the rise, it’s getting more and more difficult to protect organizations from data breaches and data leaks. Hackers are getting savvier and have been discovering new ways to breach companies every year.

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KDnuggets News 22:n16, Apr 20: Top YouTube Channels for Learning Data Science; Data Visualization in Python with Seaborn

KDnuggets

Top YouTube Channels for Learning Data Science; Data Visualization in Python with Seaborn; Deploy a Machine Learning Web App with Heroku; How to Ace Data Science Assessment Test by Using Automatic EDA Tools; Will DeepMind’s AlphaCode Replace Programmers?

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Benefits of Using Analytics to Optimize Your Telemarketing Strategy  

Smart Data Collective

Any company that wants to implement a successful marketing strategy needs to invest in analytics technology. We have talked extensively about the importance of analytics in online marketing, but it can be just as important for traditional marketing strategies as well. Telemarketing is one of the areas where analytics can be very useful. A team of researchers from Jordan conducted a study on the use of analytics in telemarketing.

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How Has the Adoption of AI in Algorithmic Trading Affected the Finance Industry?

KDnuggets

Algorithmic trading is the execution of trading operations according to a given algorithm. Read on to find out more.

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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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Yelena Pevzner: We need to obsess over employee experience

CIO Business Intelligence

As a fully digital bank, Ally has an established track record of innovating new products and services for customers. And Yelena Pevzner, CIO of Corporate Technology at Ally, believes it is equally important to extend that “fierce commitment to obsessing over the customer” to the employee experience. CIO contributing editor Julia King sat down with Pevzner at CIO’s Future of Work summit to discuss how Ally is prioritizing employee experience, improving productivity, and changing mindsets.

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Winning The Room: Creating and Delivering an Effective Data-Driven Presentation

KDnuggets

Don’t miss this practical and eye-opening guide on how to present technical data and analytical results to non-technical audiences in a live setting.

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Software and consulting boost IBM results to start the year

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM posted strong revenue numbers to start the year, as CEO Arvind Krishna continues to focus the company on hybrid cloud and AI. This was the first quarter IBM reported results since it spun out its managed infrastructure services business under the new name of Kyndryl. That business still contributed 5% of total revenue growth for the quarter but won’t count against IBM results from October, Krishna told analysts.

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A Better Pie Chart

Juice Analytics

Pie charts are the Kenny G of visualizations: Massively popular in the face of withering criticism. I used to spend a fair amount of time criticizing pie charts. And I wasn’t alone — everyone who cares about visualizations has spent time shaking their fists at ineffectual pie charts (take this article for example: “The Worst Chart in the World” ). The criticism stems from a basic limitation of the form: radial degrees (e.g. a pie slice) are harder to perceive than linear distance (e.g. the lengt

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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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Eash Sundaram: CIOs offer much-needed expertise to PE-owned businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

After nearly 10 years at JetBlue, where he served as chief digital and technology officer, Eash Sundaram recently took on a new role: operating executive at Tailwind Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on mid-market companies in the business and industrial services markets. I have always loved the “CIO turned private equity executive” career trajectory, as it has all the diversity of consulting, but from the vantage point of an investor.

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Stay Connected to Your Consumers With Customer Satisfaction Reviews

Dataiku

You knew before buying this lawn mower that it was a safe bet. Not only did your neighbor advise you to buy the same one she had, but a colleague also recommended the brand. More importantly, though, the dozens of comments and reviews you read online were mostly positive and described a similar usage scenario. This is the way we buy more and more products now — we look up online reviews to make up our minds.

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CIO Profile: Abhijit Mazumder of TCS on career evolution

CIO Business Intelligence

Abhijit Mazumder started his career with a small manufacturing company called Wesman in Calcutta. After working as an intern at Tata Group during his college days, he then moved to TCS as a consultant and has been there for the last 27 years. “The first couple of years I spent doing what today we would call ERP projects,” says Mazumder. He now wears multiple hats at TCS: CIO, head of the Ultimatix business unit, and head of sales enablement.

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HIMSS 2022: Looking Forward

DataRobot Blog

Another year at HIMSS has come and gone and DataRobot remains as energized as ever! This year was a big moment for the DataRobot team. We debuted our growing and dedicated healthcare organization, offered a preview of the AI Cloud DataRobot 8.0 release, and – most importantly – had hundreds of conversations surrounding the impact of AI and the substantial support for the healthcare industry.

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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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Hybrid work: 2 Australian CIOs share lessons learned

CIO Business Intelligence

The past two years have been incredibly challenging for CIOs and their teams. Coronavirus pandemic-related lockdowns and other restrictions have forced long overdue changes in work environments across Australia. John Sutherland, CIO at aged care provider HammondCare, and Angela Coble, CIO and director, business technology at Johnson & Johnson share what they learned about hybrid work and attraction and retention of tech talent during the pandemic with CIO Australia.

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Top 3 Automation Best Practices for Viewpoint Users

Jet Global

Construction is a vast and complex industry. As such, the simpler and more streamlined your processes are, the better. Complicated, manual tasks hamper construction professionals’ ability to conduct business by slowing down efficiency and productivity. Despite the obvious benefits of modern automated workflows, a survey conducted by McKinsey Global Institute found construction is the second slowest adopter of digitization.

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Middle Eastern CISOs work internationally to tackle security issues

CIO Business Intelligence

While CISOs and other security leaders in government and business in the Middle East have challenges specific to the region, such as concerns about operational technology used in the oil and gas sector, regional and global knowledge sharing is increasingly seen as an important way to fight cybercrime. With a yearly growth rate of 15%, global cybercrime damages are predicted to cost up to $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, up from $3 trillion in 2015, according to Cybersecurity Ventures.

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Emerging tech deployment by African financial services faces hurdles

CIO Business Intelligence

Africa has come a long way in developing new digital payment and banking services , mainly thanks to mobile money products, and the new offerings have helped alleviate problems related to financial exclusion — many people on the continent still do not have traditional bank accounts. Some experts, however, believe that there has not been enough innovation and deployment of emerging technology to expand digital finance beyond basic withdrawals and deposits.

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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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Defacement Monitoring: Deceptively Simple Defense Against Hackers

CIO Business Intelligence

“Prepare for the worst.”. This is how Ukrainians got greeted when accessing the Ministry of Education website in January 2022. It was not only this site impacted but, shockingly, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Defense, the State Emergency Service, the website for the Cabinet of Ministers, and other official sites.

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How Huawei is engaging in the UAE’s cybersecurity efforts

CIO Business Intelligence

Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant, is a key provider of telecoms and cloud infrastructure throughout the world. Huawei has also long been suspected of allowing the Chinese government to use its equipment to spy on foreign governments and companies , which Huawei has always denied. As a result, it faces bans and sanctions in much of the West, to the point that Huawei’s earnings plummeted in 2021, forcing a change in business strategy that seeks new markets where such fears are harder to realise

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Website Defacement: Petty Cyber Attack…Big Consequences

CIO Business Intelligence

“Prepare for the worst.” . This is how Ukrainians got greeted when accessing the Ministry of Education website on the night of the 13-14 of January 2022. This was not the only Ukrainian website attacked: the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Defense, the State Emergency Service, the website for the Cabinet of Ministers, and a few other official sites were also digitally vandalized.