Tue.May 17, 2022

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Hevo’s Guide on MySQL Views for Beginners

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. A MySQL view can be defined as a virtual table based on the result of SQL statements, which helps in simplifying the data for analysis and reporting and offers better security. Here is how to create MySQL views and update, drop or rename […]. The post Hevo’s Guide on MySQL Views for Beginners appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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6 business risks of shortchanging AI ethics and governance

CIO Business Intelligence

Depending on which Terminator movies you watch, the evil artificial intelligence Skynet has either already taken over humanity or is about to do so. But it’s not just science fiction writers who are worried about the dangers of uncontrolled AI. In a 2019 survey by Emerj , an AI research and advisory company, 14% of AI researchers said that AI was an “existential threat” to humanity.

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One-Stop Guide to Your SQL

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction on SQL? The SQL (Structured Query Language) programming language is used to store, manipulate, and query information that is stored in relational databases. SQL first appeared in 1974 when a group at IBM created a prototype for a relational database. Relational Software (later […].

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5 tips for building your innovation ecosystem

CIO Business Intelligence

In their quest for IT innovation, CIOs need to look beyond the typical “most innovative companies” lists. Innovation today is taking place at the platform level, which necessitates thinking more about vendors and partners in terms of how they fit into your ecosystem. According to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2021 Predictions, leaders can no longer view their organization in isolation and future success comes from being part of an industry ecosystem.

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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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Getting Started with NoSQL Database Called HBase

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. HBase is an open-source non-relational, scalable, distributed database written in Java. It is developed as a part of the Hadoop ecosystem and runs on top of HDFS. It provides random real-time read and write access to the given data. It is possible to […]. The post Getting Started with NoSQL Database Called HBase appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 1)

TDAN

Our reactions to the data we receive can cause a great deal of suffering. For example, there was a hospital with an outstanding reputation for being trusted at a deep level by many families. They used data to alert people about various medical actions that they recommended. One such alert was that when a person […].

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Regulatory tech, aiming to streamline compliance, makes inroads in Africa

CIO Business Intelligence

Regulatory technology, also known as regtech, is starting to make inroads among African businesses and government entities that are adopting a new generation of digital tools designed to streamline the process of compliance with regulations such as data protection laws. While adoption of regulatory technology is still in a nascent phase in Africa, usage is expected to rise, particularly as internet use becomes pervasive and policies dealing with personal data become a norm across the continent.

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There is Only One Data Governance

TDAN

There is… but one… Data Governance. I know that some people will disagree with me. Maybe you are one who believes that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0, or maybe even that […].

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Ciena takes aim at the ‘ticket-less’ call center

CIO Business Intelligence

Ciena CIO Craig Williams has an ambitious mission: to deliver a ticket-less help desk experience to the networking systems, services, and software company’s 11,000 customers, employees, and contractors. The decision to transform Ciena’s support system has meant letting go of its call center partner and instead shifting its operations to Amazon Connect, a cloud contact center service offered by AWS, which is also used by Priceline, CI Financial, Traeger Grill, and Ring.

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HuggingFace Has Launched a Free Deep Reinforcement Learning Course

KDnuggets

Hugging Face has released a free course on Deep RL. It is self-paced and shares a lot of pointers on theory, tutorials, and hands-on guides.

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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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Digital Transformation lessons for CIOs from legacy companies

CIO Business Intelligence

Technology transformation is almost never centerpiece for most traditional or legacy organizations, but rather one of many considerations facing business leaders looking to modernize. In the absence of its inclusion in a business’s overall strategic intent, IT can become merely a back office or secluded department expected to simply keep the lights on.

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Should The Data Warehouse Be Immutable?

KDnuggets

Is the data warehouse broken? Is the "immutable data warehouse" the right path for your data team? Learn more here.

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Tableau adds data storytelling to its revamped cloud platform

CIO Business Intelligence

Tableau wants to make it easier for enterprise users to tell stories using their data with a set of new capabilities being added to Tableau Cloud, the new name for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) analytics platform. The new features include simplified self-service tools like Data Stories, smart suggestions through Einstein Discovery, and collaboration tools to work on shared data models.

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The Never-Ending To-Do List of the DBA

TDAN

If you are currently a DBA, I bet you can relate to the title of this article. Doesn’t it seem like there are always more things to do at the end of any given day? The sad truth, though, is that many people do not know what a DBA is, does, or why they are […].

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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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Turning boulders into pebbles: behind Westpac’s cloud journey

CIO Business Intelligence

Westpac decided to increase its investment in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services platform earlier in 2022, to underpin the wholesale modernisation of the bank’s technology environment in a five-year deal to help drive the bank’s digital and hybrid multicloud strategy. The move supports the goal to adopt a standard for all new systems at the bank, whether created by its own tech team or sourced from others, to be built to continuously change using evergreen cloud-native technologies, according to D

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Predictive analytics: opportunities and limits for the future of finance

Jedox

Predictive analytics is a discipline that’s been around in some form since the dawn of measurement. We’ve always been trying to predict the future; go back in history to look at prognosticators like Nostradamus and many other prophets. Predictive analytics have been practiced since the first line graph was drawn and someone put a ruler on the chart to ballpark the trend happening in their business.

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The Value of True CI/CD – And How to Achieve It

CIO Business Intelligence

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software. Agile development has served its purpose over the years, but many forward-thinking companies believe its value in their businesses is lessening. Why? It stresses speed, which can be a downfall when it comes to quality. As an alternative, many organizations are adopting continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), which entails near-constant cycles of iterative development, testing, and deployment.

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Top Posts May 9-15: Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained

KDnuggets

Also: 9 Free Harvard Courses to Learn Data Science in 2022; Free University Data Science Resources; Top Programming Languages and Their Uses; Naïve Bayes Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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XDR Isn’t Enough to Protect Your Organization: The Importance of Adversary Detection and Response

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s more difficult than ever to protect our infrastructure, government, and businesses from becoming victims of well-funded, skilled adversaries. From the Log4j vulnerability to the SolarWinds hack to the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, organizations are more vulnerable to cyberattacks than ever before. In fact, 87% of enterprises across 11 countries have fallen victim to cyberattacks in the past three years.

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What Is Exploratory Data Analysis?

Dataiku

Before building a model, an investigation of the data at hand is not only an ideal practice but a crucial phase of the data science lifecycle. A thorough, comprehensive understanding of your dataset(s) from the get-go is an absolute must for ensuring accurate analysis and insights further down the line.

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How Cybersecurity is Changing in the Post-Pandemic Era

CIO Business Intelligence

By Liam O’Murchu, Director, Security Technology and Response. The last few years have been anything but normal for everyone. As we know at Broadcom Software , even as enterprises try to put a couple of abnormal years in their rear-view mirror, the rampage of ransomware continues to wreak havoc and requires continued focus and diligence. The ransomware threat now dominates every security discussion I have with customers.

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A Complete Guide to Data Access Governance

TDAN

Imagine a coworker logs onto the company’s HR portal to see his benefits and can see your salary!! What? Don’t worry. That won’t happen as these applications are built with the expertise of years of business processes. These processes determine who can see and edit what data there. Suddenly, this data is brought into a […].

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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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Analytics Framework: The need of the hour for Analytics teams

Aryng

This is the last post on 2022 readiness in the Series C Growthonomics. So far, we have discussed as the head of data/ analytics how to get more value from your data by creating an analytics agenda that would help you figure out the 10 to 15 problems to work on, and how to operationalize […] The post Analytics Framework: The need of the hour for Analytics teams appeared first on Aryng's Blog.

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How to Prevent Data Theft and Fraud

TDAN

As a business, obtaining data is not the only crucial part of data collection; protecting such information is just as important. When your users or customers trust you with their details, it is your responsibility to prevent them from getting into the wrong hands. If not well secured and protected, this vital information is at […].

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How Tech’s C-Suite Are Managing the Great Resignation

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past year, more and more American workers have quit their jobs. Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment rates decreased while number of job openings rose. Suddenly, employees found themselves with a plethora of job options, leading to the nation’s highest “ quit-rate ” in 20 years. But why did so many employees quit? And what can companies do to manage their work environments and current jobs during the Great Resignation?

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Data Speaks for Itself: Data Speaks as Product

TDAN

One of the greatest contributions to the understanding of data quality and data quality management happened in the 1980s when Stuart Madnick and Rich Wang at MIT adapted the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) from manufacturing to Information Systems reframing it as Total Data Quality Management (TDQM). It was based on the principle that […].

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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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A Data Analyst’s Guide to the Data Catalog

Alation

The value of an analytics program stems from its ability to answer business questions. As the role in charge of crafting those answers, it should come as no surprise that the most important persona in any analytics program is the analyst. Without the analyst, there’s no analytics. Folks can talk all day about automated insights, but answering ad hoc business questions still relies on human beings who understand the business context and how their bosses communicate.

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Digital Identity Friction: How the Move to Passwordless Can Help and Hurt Your Omnichannel Experience

CIO Business Intelligence

Customer loyalty has always started with a positive experience as evidenced by the old saying, “the customer is always right.” Increasingly, customers want digital omnichannel experiences and companies are providing them. According to Omnisend [1] marketing campaigns using three or more channels increased order rates by 494% over those using a single channel.

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Becoming a Fintech: Capital One’s Move from Mainframes to the Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

By David Andrzejek, head of Financial Services, DataStax. Capital One might be the sixth-largest bank in the United States, but it’s working hard to harness its data and the cloud to execute much more like a fintech. The company is on a mission to revolutionize the banking industry through technology and data and serves as a model for harnessing the power of data for growth. .

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