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Big Data Ingestion: Parameters, Challenges, and Best Practices

datapine

Businesses are going through a major change where business operations are becoming predominantly data-intensive. As per studies , more than 2.5 quintillions of bytes of data are being created each day. This pace suggests that 90% of the data in the world is generated over the past two years alone. A large part of this enormous growth of data is fuelled by digital economies that rely on a multitude of processes, technologies, systems, etc. to perform B2B operations.

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NLP Essentials: Removing Stopwords and Performing Text Normalization using NLTK and spaCy in Python

Analytics Vidhya

Overview Learn how to remove stopwords and perform text normalization in Python – an essential Natural Language Processing (NLP) read We will explore the. The post NLP Essentials: Removing Stopwords and Performing Text Normalization using NLTK and spaCy in Python appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Is Kaggle Learn a “Faster Data Science Education?”

KDnuggets

Kaggle Learn is "Faster Data Science Education," featuring micro-courses covering an array of data skills for immediate application. Courses may be made with newcomers in mind, but the platform and its content is proving useful as a review for more seasoned practitioners as well.

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Introduction to Blockchain for DBAs

TDAN

Blockchain is a distributed, shared, permissioned ledger for recording transactions with consensus, provenance, immutability, and finality. It is the technology that drives virtual currencies like Bitcoin. But its potential spans many more industries and use cases than just virtual currencies. But let’s back up for a minute. How does blockchain work?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Detecting stationarity in time series data

KDnuggets

Explore how to determine if your time series data is generated by a stationary process and how to handle the necessary assumptions and potential interpretations of your result.

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Top 6 data engineering frameworks to learn

Insight

The industry demand for Data Engineers is constantly on the rise and with it more and more software engineers and recent graduates try to enter the field. Data Engineering is a discipline notorious for being framework-driven and it is often hard for newcomers to find the right ones to learn. We at Insight offer a 7-week tuition-free Fellowship to help programmers transition to Data Engineering and have helped guide hundreds of Fellows overcome this exact hurdle.

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Cash Flow Analysis with BI

Jet Global

Success is not “all about the Benjamins” – but good financial decisions are the foundation for every business’s growth and prosperity. In a country where 25% of businesses fail due to cash flow , it’s more important than ever to have a solid understanding of how cash flow contributes to your business and how technology, like business intelligence (BI), can help keep your cash under control.

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Lean Data Governance Strategies

TDAN

The goal of data governance is to ensure the quality, availability, integrity, security, and usability within an organization. The way that you go about this is up to you. Many traditional approaches to data governance seem to struggle in practice; I suspect it is partly because of the cultural impedance mismatch, but also partly because […].

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Artificial Intelligence Is Not Intelligence – Interview With Andy Cotgreave (Keynote Speaker at Crunch Conf)

KDnuggets

Crunch is coming to Budapest, Hungary on 16-18 Oct. Use code KDNuggets to save on Data Science, Data Engineering, or BI tracks. But first, read this interview with keynote speaker Andy Cotgreave.

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Discover how to infuse analytics into your business at the Data and AI Forum 2019

IBM Big Data Hub

The event formerly known as IBM Analytics University is happening again this fall. Join us at the Data and AI Forum on October 21–24 in Miami, Florida. Here’s a preview of what you can get out of this exciting event.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Syracuse University: Four Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Faculty Positions – Information Studies [Syracuse, NY]

KDnuggets

Seeking scholars and leaders to fill four Assistant Professor (tenure track) faculty positions to start in Fall 2020. Exceptional candidates may be considered at the rank of Associate or Full Professor.

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DAMA International Community Corner: Updates from DAMA-I

TDAN

Good day from DAMA International. We hope your Data Management career and programs are progressing well. If you have issues, please refer to DAMA.org for references, as well as the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBok). You can purchase the DMBoK at your favorite book source or via website link. Your DAMA-I Board of […].

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The road to Artificial Intelligence and the opportunity for New Zealand

Data Insight

At some point in the next decade, robots will be able to physically do what humans can do, and probably better than us too. It’s a tad frightening for some, and it’s happening faster than people might be ready for. At a recent event attended by our Chief Marketing Officer, Justin Flitter a panelist asked the audience for a show of hands. “When will autonomous vehicles be a transport option?”.

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AI in Web Development

TDAN

Building and designing websites have become a profitable industry. There are many people out there who have mastered the use of coding and design to create thousands if not millions of different websites. What would happen if an AI was designed to create a website? Would there be a loss of individuality or skilled design? […].

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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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How to Aggregate Information Across Sites

Depict Data Studio

When you’re working in the weeds of a spreadsheet, it can be hard to step back and find the bigger picture. Here’s the approach I used in a recent training with a government client. Like all my custom workshops , attendees bring examples from their own projects that they’d like feedback on. Then, we remake those visualizations together during the session.

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Tips for Gathering Business Intelligence

TDAN

Gathering business intelligence is a process that starts from within. Collating internal intelligence is of vital importance before searching the market. Oftentimes, the internal departments of your business will offer better suggestions and methods than any others you can find. These suggestions and ideas will help form the basis of the intelligence gathering.

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Unicorns or Data Architects?

Dataiku

Data architects have a tendency to feel like unicorns: somehow they can manipulate data storage and computation structures like putty and also keep business objectives in mind.

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Why Security and Compliance are Paramount in the Cloud

Nutanix

Ok, you’ve decided to move to the cloud. You heard there’s a bunch of cool stuff you can do at a fraction of your current IT spend.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Teradata Earns Spot (Again x2!) on Constellation ShortList for Hybrid Cloud

Teradata

Teradata is named yet again to the Constellation ShortList™ for “Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Relational Database Management Systems." Read more!

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AI-Driven Demand Staffing For Fulfillment Centers

DataRobot

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday—let’s talk numbers. In 2018, 165 million people shopped over Black Friday weekend from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday. Sales on Black Friday totaled over $24 billion. On Cyber Monday, consumers spent $7.9 billion online, a third of which came from mobile devices. Despite these massive numbers, this year’s forecasts for Super Saturday on December 22nd have it surpassing Black Friday with a total of $26 billion.* Clearly, as online shopping continues to gro

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An Overview of Python’s Datatable package

KDnuggets

Modern machine learning applications need to process a humongous amount of data and generate multiple features. Python’s datatable module was created to address this issue. It is a toolkit for performing big data (up to 100GB) operations on a single-node machine, at the maximum possible speed.

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Manual Feature Engineering

Domino Data Lab

Many thanks to AWP Pearson for the permission to excerpt “Manual Feature Engineering: Manipulating Data for Fun and Profit” from the book, Machine Learning with Python for Everyone by Mark E. Fenner. There is also a complementary Domino project available. Introduction. Many data scientists deliver value to their organizations by mapping , developing, and deploying an appropriate ML solution to address a business problem.

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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.