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How to Engineer Date Features in Python

KDnuggets

This article discusses and demonstrates how to quickly engineer some common date features using Python.

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Background Removal in the Image using the Mediapipe Library

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Overview In this article, we will be making an application that will remove or replace the background of the image with another image. For that, we will be using the media pipe library for segmenting the person from the background and cv2 for performing […]. The post Background Removal in the Image using the Mediapipe Library appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Top Posts Mar 7-13: Build a Machine Learning Web App in 5 Minutes

KDnuggets

Also: Decision Tree Algorithm, Explained; The Complete Collection of Data Science Cheat Sheets – Part 2; Top Programming Languages and Their Uses; The Complete Collection of Data Science Cheat Sheets – Part 1.

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Content Moderation using Machine Learning

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Prelude People like being people. They don’t care what content they are producing. So there can be abusive, illegal, sensitive, and scam content too which is highly dangerous to society and can have an adverse effect. Thus platforms such as youtube, Meta, Twitter spend […].

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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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What is synthetic data? Generated data to help your AI strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Synthetic data defined. Synthetic data is artificially generated information that can be used in place of real historic data to train AI models when actual data sets are lacking in quality, volume, or variety. Synthetic data can also be a vital tool for enterprise AI efforts when available data doesn’t meet business needs or could create privacy issues if used to train machine learning models, test software, or the like.

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A Comprehensive Guide on Recommendation Engines and Implementation

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Overview 1. Introduction 2. What are recommendation engines? 3. Types of recommendation systems a. Content-Based filtering b. Collaborative filtering c. Hybrid filtering 4. Why content-based filtering is not used on a large scale? 5. Recommendation engine algorithms 6. How to solve recommender system problems?

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Vehicle Motion Detection using Background Subtraction

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Overview In this article, we will be working on the object’s motion detection (specifical vehicles) by using the techniques of contours detection and also background subtraction. In this particular we will be using a video of vehicles for the car detection i.e. it is […].

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Data is Risky Business: Thinking the Unthinkable

TDAN

This isn’t the column I was intending to write for TDAN.com. I had something else nearly ready that was expanding on the broad questions of ethics in information and data management I discussed last time, drawing on some work I’m doing with an international client and a recent roundtable discussion I had with some regulators […].

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Learn Arithmetic Operations on Images

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Remember when you were in elementary school and you were learning how to add and subtract numbers? Now, you can do the same with images also! The input images can be subjected to arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, and bitwise operations (AND, OR, NOT, XOR). These operations can help to improve the qualities […]. The post Learn Arithmetic Operations on Images appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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How Integrated Communications Can Save Healthcare

CIO Business Intelligence

Unpredictable shifts . The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light many inefficiencies and blind spots in the global workforce, particularly in the realm of healthcare. Jobs that formerly required employees to be at a certain place by a specific time five-days-per-week were transformed almost overnight. Relying on previously unused or underused technology, businesses experienced a paradigm shift, one which brought with it no choice but to adapt.

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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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Steps to Continuous Data Governance Improvement

TDAN

DevOps. Lean. Kaizen. What do all these disciplines have in common? Continuous improvement. Simply put, these systems pursue progress through a proven process. They make testing and learning a part of that process. And they continuously improve by integrating new insights into future cycles. Borne of the Japanese business philosophy, kaizen is most often associated […].

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UKCloud Operates a Sovereign Multi-Cloud Platform That Addresses the Needs of the UK’s Government Agencies and Healthcare and Defense Sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

In early 2020, when UKCloud published its report “ The State of Cloud Adoption UK Public Sector ,” CEO Simon Hansford wrote, “It is becoming increasingly apparent that we have a tremendous national asset in the invaluable data that powers our public services. Hence, there has never been a better opportunity for the UK to protect and nurture these capabilities which will underpin future innovations that will drive better public services for citizens and business, and better value for taxpayers.”.

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Beyond Data’s Gender Gap: Equity Initiatives

TDAN

In the last installment of this column, we looked at the myriad of identities that are often under-accounted for or missed entirely in research and data collection. It has become increasingly apparent that data collection not only favors men, but also favors those who are white, able-bodied, and middle and upper class, among other privileged […].

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Why Do Most People Fail to Learn Programming?

KDnuggets

Have you spent hours taking coding bootcamps, online courses, and tutorials, only to feel like you aren’t getting anywhere?

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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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Data Quality Is In the Eye of the Beholder

TDAN

We know the phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”1 In this article, I will apply it to the topic of data quality. I will do so by comparing two butterflies, each that represent a common use of data quality: firstly and most commonly in situ for existing systems, and secondly for use […].

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Broadcom Software 2022 Predictions

CIO Business Intelligence

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software. As the end of 2021 approached, the process of digital acceleration remains in a world turned upside down by a lingering global pandemic. Even if Covid-19 recedes from the headlines, ongoing digital transformation at scale looks set to continue to accelerate well into 2022, with organizations looking to reap the full benefits of technology to become more productive and more efficient.

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5 Reasons Data-Savvy Accountants Are Becoming Vital to Businesses

Smart Data Collective

There is no doubt that big data has been a major gamechanger for the financial sector. Companies around the world are expected to spend over $25 billion on financial analytics by 2028. Large financial institutions aren’t the only ones being impacted by big data. Small businesses are also using data analytics to improve their own finances. One of the most important ways to capitalize off of the benefits of it is by hiring accountants that have a detailed knowledge of big data.

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Huawei talks tech at MWC 2022: building an intelligent services portfolio

CIO Business Intelligence

Huawei Enterprise Business Group (EBG) offers a wide range of products and solutions. It supplies solutions, products, services and tools that span the full range of enterprise ICT, including Huawei’s own cloud platform, networking, data centers, storage and enterprise services. At Mobile World Congress 2022, Huawei Enterprise Services made several announcements such as its plans for Huawei digital transformation lifecycle services.

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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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My Internship Experience with Cloudera

Cloudera

Each year, various departments and teams across the organization welcome early talent to embark on internships which allow them to kickstart their careers within the technology and big data industries. One of those early talent interns is Trang Luong, who worked within the APAC Inside Sales team earlier this year for a six-months, supporting the team in connecting with prospects and customers to guide them in their data-driven journey. .

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IT Leadership as a Data-First Change Agent

CIO Business Intelligence

The importance of data-driven insights may dominate C-level discussions, but evolving IT culture and business workflows that can successfully harness that data is less about talk and more about iterative action. The good news: IT leaders are well positioned to play that role. But to serve as effective change agents, CIOs and IT leaders need to marshal the right technology investments while resetting culture and processes to break down silos.

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Data Mesh and Unified Data Access Governance

TDAN

In her groundbreaking article, How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani made the case for building data mesh as the next generation of enterprise data platform architecture. Data mesh is a distributed platform that is organized based on subject-specific data domains which are owned by independent cross-functional teams. […].

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How Agile Scrum is Transforming Sales Teams at Broadcom Software

CIO Business Intelligence

By Tom Thorpe, Vice President International Markets, Broadcom Software. Part of my role as Broadcom Software’s VP of International Markets is to think about the future. And like most of you, I never expected to see a once-in-a-generation pandemic that forced once-in-a-generation change. Businesses responded to the historic challenge by accelerating their rate of cloud adoption and in relatively short order, the enterprise world went entirely remote.

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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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The Stunning Variety of Digital Twins

Dataiku

Building on the feedback and extensive interest in my colleague Doug’s blog post, we decided to go a bit deeper into the subject and show — with real-world examples from our customers — what is possible today in a series of blog posts on digital twins.

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Netflix has Innovated with Data

TDAN

When Netflix unveiled its DVD-by-mail plan back in 1998, it seemed like a quirky aberration in an economic landscape thoroughly dominated by established brick and mortar movie rental shops. Blockbuster was its biggest rival, but it’s unlikely the giant company saw Netflix as much of a threat. In fact, Blockbuster still had 9000 stores open in […].

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3 Ways You Can Use Tally Analytics and BI Reporting to Succeed!

Smarten

If your business is using Tally ERP solution for accounting, finance, inventory, purchasing and other finance-related disciplines, it would behoove you to consider adding integrating, built-in analytics so your skilled professionals can gain insight into results and, most importantly, add value to clients, colleagues and managers by providing advice and counsel that is fact-based and takes into consideration the trends, patterns, issues and opportunities revealed by augmented analytics and busin

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What Leaders Want: Shifting to AI-Driven Healthcare

DataRobot Blog

DataRobot and Snowflake Healthcare Campaign. In our previous healthcare blog , Sally Embrey explained how the integration of health and care services is gathering pace globally and how the creation of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) by England’s National Health Service (NHS) is the latest example of services being organized around a local population.

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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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How CIOs become IT thought leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders have a unique vantage point. They are the only business function that sees the entire organization at a process, data, and transaction level. This cross-functional and multi-dimensional view provides IT with the opportunity to identify cross-departmental process and technology synergies, use internal technologies designed for one part of the organization in other areas with similar operational needs, and assess newly released software and hardware products for applicability across th

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What a Real-Time Customer Data Platform Can Do for Your Business

CIO Business Intelligence

How Actionable Insights Will Fuel Customer Experience 2.0. In the rush to digital commerce, organisations deployed a multitude of technology solutions, each focused on one part of the customer experience (CX)—and each with its own data silo. The resulting fragmented and unorganised customer data is the antithesis of Customer Experience 2.0. Organisations that are striving to succeed are finding they need a single source of “customer truth” to support personalisation, coherent customer journeys,