Wed.Apr 06, 2022

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Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) in Python

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Exploratory Data Analysis is a method of evaluating or comprehending data in order to derive insights or key characteristics. EDA can be divided into two categories: graphical analysis and non-graphical analysis. EDA is a critical component of any data science or machine learning process. You must explore the data, understand the relationships between variables, […].

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4 Factors to Identify Machine Learning Solvable Problems

KDnuggets

The near future holds incredible possibility for machine learning to solve real world problems. But we need to be be able to determine which problems are solvable by ML and which are not.

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How Scotiabank is implementing AI for greater customer retention

CIO Business Intelligence

As one of Canada’s Big Five banks, the Bank of Nova Scotia is taking an approach to data, analytics, and AI intended to better understand and serve customers, said Grace Lee, its chief data and analytics officer. Her charter is to advance business growth, customer experience, and operational efficiency through the use of AI, machine learning, and data-driven insights at the bank better known as Scotiabank.

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Data Ingestion with Pandas: A Beginner Tutorial

KDnuggets

Learn tricks on importing various data formats using Pandas with a few lines of code. We will be learning to import SQL databases, Excel sheets, HTML tables, CSV, and JSON files with examples.

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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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Web accessibility emerges as a top CIO priority

CIO Business Intelligence

The list of tasks facing enterprise CIOs today is so long that it can be tempting to overlook the little things—like making sure the alt text on your website works correctly. But CIOs increasingly ignore such details at their peril: 11 lawsuits are filed every day in U.S. courts over website inaccessibility. And 412 of the top 500 internet retailers have been party to at least one lawsuit over the last four years alleging that their websites discriminate against users with disabilities.

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Neural Network Optimization with AIMET

KDnuggets

Using AIMET, developers can incorporate advanced model compression and quantization algorithms into their PyTorch and TensorFlow model-building pipelines for automated post-training optimization, as well as for model fine-tuning.

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Space-Based AI Shows the Promise of Big Data

Cloudera

This blog post was written by Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D as a guest author for Cloudera. . At a distance of a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the edge of data transfer capabilities. The observatory launched Dec. 25 2021 on a mission to look at the early universe, at exoplanets, and at other objects of celestial interest.

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Corporate defenses must step up to meet a changing geopolitical landscape

CIO Business Intelligence

When the world learned that Russia had invaded Ukraine in late February, outside observers expected a heavy dose of cyberattacks to play out in the invasion’s tactics. But to many people’s surprise, the cyber-attacks have been limited and targeted rather than widespread. Russia certainly has demonstrated its cyber power and capabilities in the past; a key example was the 2016 incident in which Russian hackers took out Ukraine’s power grid. .

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KDnuggets News, April 6: 8 Free MIT Courses to Learn Data Science Online; The Complete Collection Of Data Repositories – Part 1

KDnuggets

8 Free MIT Courses to Learn Data Science Online; The Complete Collection Of Data Repositories - Part 1; DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm in Machine Learning; Introductory Pandas Tutorial; People Management for AI: Building High-Velocity AI Teams.

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7 hot infrastructure and operations trends — and 7 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Change and stability are two competing challenges for IT teams. Everyone wants to trust their platforms, but they also crave endless improvements. The challenge is to deliver the new without sacrificing the rock-solid dependability businesses need. Figuring out how to do this can be a battle between the belts-and-suspenders types who keep everything safe and the rebellious dreamers who want to innovate.

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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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Sirius Named to CRN’s Tech Elite 250 List

CDW Research Hub

CRN , a leading IT news organization, and brand of The Channel Company , placed Sirius , a CDW company, on its 2022 Tech Elite 250 list of innovative solution providers with top-level technical certifications. This marks the 12th year in a row that Sirius has made the Tech Elite 250. Sirius is among a handful of companies to make the Tech Elite 250 every year since the list’s 2011 inauguration.

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Edge Computing is Thriving in the Cloud Era

CIO Business Intelligence

Recently, an increasing amount of hope is attached to edge computing. The industry is buzzing with bold ideas such as “the edge will eat the cloud” and real-time automation will spread across healthcare, retail, and manufacturing. Experts agree that edge computing will play a key role in the digital transformation of almost every business. But progress has been slow.

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How to Be a Successful Business Analyst

Dataiku

The role of a business analyst comes in different forms and can even span across different job positions (think business intelligence analyst, marketing analyst, financial analyst — the list goes on). Regardless of the title, the core mission remains pretty much the same: generate insights for your organization, generally with a big dose of data as a starting point.

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XDR – A Game Changer for Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

In the last decade, we’ve seen a proliferation of threat detection and response tools, each trying to keep ahead of constantly evolving cyber threats. With business functions being moved to the cloud and the remote workforce on the rise, detection and response are not trivial tasks. Organizations have taken a multi-layered approach with solutions and services that span Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Secure Email Gateways, SIEM, and Threat Intelligence, ju

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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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Data Analytics for Crypto Casinos: Significance and Challenges

BizAcuity

What are Crypto Casinos. Casinos, where cryptocurrencies are the primary or only source of payment, are often called Crypto Casinos. Similarly, crypto gaming is a term used for casino games that let you place wagers using popular cryptocurrencies. Crypto Casinos provide hundreds of games, sports and esports betting options and are increasingly getting popular.

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Innovate What’s Next: How Living Labs Brings Ideas to Life

CIO Business Intelligence

Our world today is experiencing an extremely social, connected, competitive and technology-driven business environment. If anything, the past few years have shown us the levels of uncertainty we are facing. Predicting the next big threat or the next big opportunity is becoming increasingly difficult, especially when challenged by a plethora of technology options, fierce competition, talent-sourcing shortages and limited budgets.

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How Treating Data As An Asset Benefits Your Business

Anmut

Maximising the value of your organisation’s most overlooked resource. There’s a clear consensus in today’s business world: data is extremely valuable. Report after report validates this claim, with research showing that data-driven companies consistently outperform competitors by as much as 85% in sales growth , gross margin , operating margins, and other key financial performance indicators.

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Increasing Real-Time Efficiency Through AIOps

CIO Business Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a cornerstone of efficiency. With artificial intelligence operations (AIOps), organizations can collect, analyze and act on real-time data faster. By giving leadership at all levels more timely access to critical data about business operations, businesses can see more of their options, make and automate better decisions, and further improve efficiency to drive higher customer satisfaction and profitability.

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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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Using the Cloud as a Tool to Achieve Business Goals

CIO Business Intelligence

Successful organizations do not merely move traditional data to cloud platforms to have better data access – they shift to the cloud by thinking differently, using the cloud as a tool to achieve business goals by implementing a strong cloud infrastructure. Cloud has become a key enabler for organizations to develop, grow and compete in today’s marketplace and can bring speed, agility, resilience and visibility.

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CIO profile: Cyient’s Pallavi Katiyar on why it’s important to bet on people

CIO Business Intelligence

Pallavi Katiyar began her career as an IT consultant, and today is leading a much broader portfolio as the CIO of Cyient. Throughout her professional journey, she has had opportunities to play different roles: “There has never been a dull moment,” she says. Over the past 22 years, Katiyar has worked in different domains, technologies, and industries, and that has opened up a lot of avenues for her, from coding and product design to running large RFPs and SAP implementations.

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Comment la Banque Scotia met l’IA en œuvre pour mieux fidéliser ses clients

CIO Business Intelligence

L’un des cinq grands établissements financiers du pays, la Banque de Nouvelle-Écosse utilise l’analyse de données et l’intelligence artificielle pour mieux comprendre et servir ses clients. La mission de Grace Lee, chef, données et analytique à la Banque Scotia, augmenter son efficacité et améliorer l’expérience client. Ses outils : intelligence artificielle, apprentissage automatique, et compréhension basée sur les données.

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Open Radio Network Deployments Help Ease 5G Economics

CIO Business Intelligence

The only constant in life is change, and businesses need flexibility to evolve quickly to take advantage of that change. With change comes opportunity, and now more than ever that opportunity extends through the mobile network. . Change can create entirely new industries and will push traditional business models to be reimagined. Consider the past decade, where we have seen the rise of cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI), and a shift to hybrid work.

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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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Data-Aware Security: How to Take a 360 View of Cloud Security

CIO Business Intelligence

Not long ago, security concerns were the number one reason IT executives hesitated to move workloads to the cloud. Much has changed since then. Security is now considered one of the great strengths of both cloud infrastructure and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. But that doesn’t mean total security is assured. The most hardened platforms in the world are only as effective as the people who use them.

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Exit interview: Ajay Bhatia’s journey from technologist to managing director

CIO Business Intelligence

Carsales’s Ajay Bhatia has resigned as managing director at the Melbourne-based organisation he has been part of for the past 13 years. Bhatia, who joined Carsales in 2008 as chief product and information officer, became managing director for consumer business in 2017 and in December 2019 was appointed the local managing director. Bhatia’s path to MD began as a technologist, rather than via a more traditional path such as sales or finance.

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Creating Data Value With a Decentralized Data Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

For decades organizations chased the Holy Grail of a centralized data warehouse/lake strategy to support business intelligence and advanced analytics. Now, with processing power built out at the edge and with mounting demand for real-time insights, organizations are using decentralized data strategies to drive value and realize business outcomes. The proliferation of data at the edge is quickening, whether that data is collected from a retail store customer interaction, a mobile phone transactio

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3 Patterns for Business Success with Data

CIO Business Intelligence

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax. I’ve been a data practitioner responsible for the delivery of data management strategies in financial services, online retail, and just about everything in between. In all of these roles, I’ve come across patterns that enable organizations to build faster business insights and innovation with data.

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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.