Wed.Mar 30, 2022

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The Scientific Discipline of Computer Vision

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction AI and machine vision, which were formerly considered futuristic technology, has now become mainstream, with a wide range of applications ranging from automated robot assembly to automatic vehicle guiding, analysis of remotely sensed images, and automated visual inspection.

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10 tips for getting started with decision intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

For organizations looking to move beyond stale reports, decision intelligence holds promise, giving them the ability to process large amounts of data with a sophisticated mix of tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform data dashboards and business analytics into more comprehensive decision support platforms. Successful decision intelligence strategies, however, require an understanding of how organizational decisions are made, as well as a commitment to evaluate ou

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An Overview and Applications of Artificial Neural Networks

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Have you ever wondered how the human brain functions? There’s a good possibility you learned about it in school. The function of ANN is the same as that of neurons in the human nervous system. Let’s get this Artificial Neural Networks lesson started. […].

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Do Data Companies Need Chief Ethics Officers?

Cloudera

Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus. Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. The catastrophic breach was bad enough on its own — but Equifax waited three months to go public with the news. As the public furore rose to a crescendo, the credit organization dragged its feet on disclosing exactly what kind of information had been leaked.

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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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8 Free MIT Courses to Learn Data Science Online

KDnuggets

Create a data science learning path with courses from the world’s most prestigious university.

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8 Steps to Leveraging Analytics to Create Successful Ecommerce Stores

Smart Data Collective

Analytics technology is taking the ecommerce industry by storm. Ecommerce companies are expected to spend over $24 billion on analytics in 2025. While there is no debating the huge benefits that analytics technology brings to the ecommerce sector , many experts are pondering what those actual benefits are. New ecommerce startups are discovering interesting ways to utilize analytics.

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Use AI to Get the Most Out of Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Smart Data Collective

AI technology has become a very important part of modern business. More companies are using AI to automate a number of aspects of their operations and improve their ROI. One study from Accenture found that AI increases the profitability of the average business by 38%. One of the biggest benefits of AI technology is in the realm of marketing. You can use AI to automate many parts of your marketing strategy.

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Tackle Your Text With Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Dataiku

Dataiku

The last 20 years have seen staggering advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It used to be that “performing text analysis” meant reading hundreds of individual comments or documents to manually tag them and identify sentiment and key themes. Now, advanced machine learning (ML) models such as language transformers and dozens of sophisticated techniques for text preparation and enrichment make NLP one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of AI.

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At Black & Veatch, a new IT operating model enables digital opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

Founded in 1915, Black & Veatch is an employee-owned global business that employs more than 10,000 professionals and provides a wide range of engineering services. The advent of digital technologies has had a major impact on the business, in both what services it delivers and how it delivers them, including IoT (internet of things) technologies and predictive maintenance capabilities.

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GRAMMY Predictions 2022: Composing DataRobot Blueprints

DataRobot Blog

This blog is meant to be a fun take on predicting Song and Record of the Year for the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards. It’s that time of year again. The GRAMMY awards are right around the corner, which means that we have yet another opportunity to leverage DataRobot to make some fun predictions as to who will win Song and Record of the Year. Last year, Billie Eilish went back-to-back, winning Record of the Year for her smash hit “everything i wanted,” and H.E.R took home Song of the Year for her power

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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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Important Considerations When Migrating to a Data Lake

Smart Data Collective

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is based on Azure Blob storage and offers a suite of big data analytics features. It is rapidly becoming the primary choice for companies and developers due to its superior performance. If you don’t understand the concept, you might want to check out our previous article on the difference between data lakes and data warehouses.

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Emerging Technologies: Creating New Ways to Solve Business Problems

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s transformative business environment, emerging technology has a decisive role to play in an organization’s innovations, customer experience and overall success. While business leaders have the greatest insight about the organization’s needs and objectives (and likely have new ideas on how to achieve those objectives), the CIO has the greatest knowledge of what is possible — along with an understanding of emerging technologies and how they can be used.

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Companies Need to Create Data-Centric Procurement Processes

Smart Data Collective

Data is one of the most important assets for modern organizations. Companies are using big data in countless aspects of their business models, including the procurement processes. They are expected to spend $9.3 billion on supply chain data analytics in 2026. Supply-side strategies play a pivotal role in determining the efficiency and end results of business operations.

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Royal Caribbean revamps IT work models in pandemic push

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s hard to imagine an industry more dramatically disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic than the cruise industry. “We as an industry basically stopped, during the pandemic,” says Martha Poulter, CIO, Royal Caribbean Group. “Our industry literally came to a standstill.”. Now, with restrictions lifting and leisure travel resuming, Poulter reflects on how her IT team made the most of the pandemic downtime to address new and existing challenges.

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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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Accelerating Distributed AI Applications

KDnuggets

Let’s take a quick look at some of the key highlights and insights from a recent webinar, Accelerating Distributed AI Applications , with Ziad Asghar, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and resources that developers can use to build distributed AI solutions today.

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Middle East cybersecurity industry explores how to engage more women

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite much discussion about how to icrease the percentage of women in cybersecurity roles over the last decade, women make up only 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce, according to the latest (ISC)² Cybersecurity Workforce Study. The Middle East-focused Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC), held 21-23 March 2022 in Dubai, provided a full-day panel to highlight initiatives meant to close the gender gap in cybersecurity.

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KDnuggets News March 30: The Most Popular Intro to Programming Course From Harvard is Free!; Top 13 Skills That Every Data Scientist Should Have

KDnuggets

The Most Popular Intro to Programming Course From Harvard is Free!; Top 13 Skills That Every Data Scientist Should Have; Junior vs Senior Data Scientist Salary: What’s the Difference?; MLOps Is a Mess But That's to be Expected; Data Science at the Command Line: The Free eBook.

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A new wave of innovation is coming from Industry 4.0 in the years ahead: AVEVA

CIO Business Intelligence

Earlier in the year, a World Bank report into Asia Pacific confirmed something many of us assumed – disruption in business across Asia Pacific has been severe. There are signs of recovery – for example, another report found that new business formation has lifted 35 per cent year-on-year across the region, however businesses still face ongoing disruption into 2022 and beyond, and this is informing an Industry 4.0 mentality towards transformation.

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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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People Management for AI: Building High-Velocity AI Teams

KDnuggets

Practical advice for managers and directors who are looking to build AI/ML teams.

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Informatica launches its first industry-specific Intelligent Data Management Cloud for retail

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise data management vendor Informatica has released the first industry-specific version of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for retail customers. Called the Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Retail, the data management platform customizes Informatica’s suite of machine learning-powered tools to help retail customers catalog, ingest, integrate, and prepare data for use in analytics and AI-powered applications.