Wed.Jan 11, 2023

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How to Launch First Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data using the popular open-source framework Apache Hadoop. EMR enables you to run petabyte-scale data warehouses and analytics workloads using the Apache Spark, Presto, and Hadoop ecosystems. Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is designed to be flexible […].

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2023 Digital Technology Market Agenda: Innovation for Digital Agility

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I’m proud to share Ventana Research’s 2023 Market Agenda for Digital Technology. Our focus in this agenda is to deliver expertise to help organizations prioritize technology investments that improve customer, partner and workforce experiences while also increasing organizational effectiveness and agility.

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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Welcome to 2023. As the new year arrives, CIOs are facing a challenging to-do list as they strive to maximize IT productivity and efficiency in increasingly unpredictable times. As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting.

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KDnuggets News, January 11: Python Matplotlib Cheatsheets • More Data Science Cheatsheets • Data Science & Machine Learning Developments of 2022

KDnuggets

Key Data Science, Machine Learning, AI and Analytics Developments of 2022 • Python Matplotlib Cheat Sheets • More Data Science Cheatsheets • Free Data Management with Data Science Learning with CS639 • Data-Driven Holiday Cheer: How Santa is Using Analytics to Make the Season Bright.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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Journey Beyond transforms its contact center to deliver better customer journeys

CIO Business Intelligence

Journey Beyond, a part of Hornblower Group, is Australia’s leading experiential tourism group. Headquartered in Adelaide, it operates 13 brands and experiences spanning the country. The company’s overall strategy is to “have a customer experience that’s second-to-none — from the moment they first engage with the company to plan their experience, to when they return home at the end of their travels — regardless of what Journey Beyond adventure you are booking.

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What Role Does Big Data Have on the Deep Web?

Smart Data Collective

The Deep Web is a concept that few people understand. Even fewer people recognize the role that big data plays in shaping it. However, one thing is certain: advances in big data technology have played a huge role in driving changes in the deep web. It is a good idea for database developers, programmers, online businesses and other Internet technology professionals to learn about the impact that new developments in big data have had on both the surface web and deep web.

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Data-Driven Marketing Offers Huge Benefits for Landscapers

Smart Data Collective

Many businesses are taking advantage of big data to improve their marketing and financial management practices. Businesses spent over $14.2 billion on big data marketing in 2020 and this figure is likely to grow further in the years to come. Some of the case studies on the benefits of data-driven marketing are quite promising. One tourist company utilized data analytics to boost website conversions by 40%.

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University of Ottawa’s Martin Bernier on continuous learning

CIO Business Intelligence

A CIO has to understand the focus of the overall business, of course, but there are usually many segments or different dimensions to consider. In Martin Bernier’s case, as CIO of the University of Ottawa, managing the hyper-dynamic environment of 50,000 students, faculties and research groups is a discipline that requires both a holistic and granular approach across many departments in order to bring everything together in relative harmony.

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RAPIDS cuDF for Accelerated Data Science on Google Colab

KDnuggets

GPU-accelerated dataframe library that implements the familiar pandas API for processing and analyzing your data.

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Giant Eagle’s Kirk Ball on grocery retail innovations

CIO Business Intelligence

Kirk Ball, Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer, Giant Eagle, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss grocery retail innovations, digital customer strategies, sourcing global talent, augmented reality and more. Watch this video: Listen to this episode: CIO, CIO Leadership Live.

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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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Topic Modeling Approaches: Top2Vec vs BERTopic

KDnuggets

This post gives an overview of the strengths and differences of these approaches in extracting topics from text.

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Power BI Migration: How to Avoid Migration Bloopers and Ensure Success

Octopai

Ever watched a blooper reel from the filming of one of your favorite movies or shows? You couldn’t stop laughing, right? The dissonance between the “right” scene and how badly it got messed up just tickles our funny bone uncontrollably. How about a blooper reel of data migrations? Like the scene where data analyst Dave used the query “select concat(‘SSS’,null) from dual” in Snowflake right after they migrated from Oracle db, and Dave assumed that it would return SSS – because that’s how it

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Creating Beautiful Histograms with Seaborn

KDnuggets

Visualize the numerical distribution in a beautiful way.

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What is next in Data Literacy? 2023 & beyond…

Aryng

For several years, executives and leaders have called data and analytics a core skill and top priority. But, the reason and expectations have dramatically changed over time. It helps to understand the past to see where enterprise data literacy is going and what it means to your organization’s data literacy initiative. At a glance, what […] The post What is next in Data Literacy?

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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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Events and Awards UK: New for 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

2023 sees the return of in-person events and awards. Here are the details for our packed schedule this year. January Applications launch for the 2023 Next CIO cohort on Friday 20th January. The award recognises and celebrates the best rising stars across the IT Sector in the UK. Through interviews at CIO UK, awards, and mentoring opportunities, Next CIO will help aspiring IT leaders develop their careers, build their networks, and improve their skill sets.

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Data Management as a Team Sport

Dataiku

As explained by Romain Fouache (Dataiku CRO) here , solving data cleansing in a central team can cause some pretty negative outcomes.

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Knowledge Graphs for Retail – Connecting People, Products and Platforms

Ontotext

The competitive dynamics in which retail operates is changing. Think of it from your personal experience, whenever and wherever you buy something, you have a few basic expectations: an easy purchase process, personal interaction, relevancy and availability. The implications of consumer behavior for retailers range from the need to ensure relevant customer service and quick delivery to serving personalized content and managing data from disparate systems.

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Alation Launches New Partner Program to Expand Reach of Data Intelligence Platform

Alation

We are excited to announce the new Partner Program for Open Connector Framework. The purpose of this program is to build a network of development partners to accelerate the development of connectors that expand the reach of Alation’s data intelligence platform. The Open Connector Framework supports connectivity to extract metadata from data tools and platforms so that our customers can gain insight about every piece of their data stack.

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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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Introduction to BigQuery ML

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction With regard to educating its community about data science, Analytics Vidhya has long been at the forefront. We periodically hold “DataHour” events to increase community interest in studying data science. These webinars are hosted by top industry experts and they teach and democratize data science knowledge. Here is the knowledge session by Shanthababu Pandian […].