Fri.Oct 25, 2019

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)

KDnuggets

Have you ever wondered how your personal assistant (e.g: Siri) is built? Do you want to build your own? Perfect! Let’s talk about Natural Language Processing.

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Data Science Fails: There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

DataRobot

When I was young, I took a packed lunch to school every day, and since I grew up in Australia, my packed lunch would include a couple of Vegemite sandwiches. Unless you grew up in Australia, you’ve probably never tasted it. And judging by this American’s first taste reaction of “Oh, that’s bad!”, you probably wouldn’t like the taste if you tried it out.

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5 Advanced Features of Pandas and How to Use Them

KDnuggets

The pandas library offers core functionality when preparing your data using Python. But, many don't go beyond the basics, so learn about these lesser-known advanced methods that will make handling your data easier and cleaner.

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Can we identify 3-D images using very little training data?

Insight

Image credit: [link] As the title suggests, this is a story about a question that may resonate well with many machine learning practitioners trying to build applications in the real world, where clean and annotated data on a specific problem can be sparse— How do we leverage the power of AI when we have very little data? In this blog, I’ll illustrate an approach by walking you through my project during my Data Science Fellowship at Insight , followed by a quick discussion pertaining to broader a

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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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Harnessing Semiotics and Discourse Communities to Understand User Intent

KDnuggets

Semiotics helps us understand the importance of context to determining the meaning of a term and discourse communities provide us with the background context (mental model) by which to correctly interpret its meaning correctly.

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How Lucy Group Transformed Reporting Processes and Migrated from Hyperion Enterprise using CXO Software

Jet Global

The Group Finance team at Lucy Group Ltd. previously produced hard copy financial report packs, many numbering more than 100 pages and sent overseas. The result? Static reports that were time consuming and costly to produce, leaving little time to analyze the business. Guy Hill, Group Reporting Manager at Lucy Group, searched for a dynamic web-based solution that enabled collaboration across four operating businesses and produced the same report packs, but digitally and without unnecessary manua

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A Day in the Life of an Analyst at Gartner IT Symposium XPO 2019 USA – Day 4 Oct 24 2019

Andrew White

6.01. Woke up and yes, as expected, felt tired. My Oura ring gave me the bad news: Sleep score: 78 (down from 86 yesterday). Restlessness and a lower than normal resting heart rate suggest over tiredness and fitful sleep patterns. I can vouch for that! 6.20am Mused. Yes, average Brian activity seems up over yesterday. I think this is due to several new ideas that are bouncing around in my head.

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What is Data Visualization for Large Screen and How to Implement It?

FineReport

1. What is data visualization? In the era of big data, visual dashboards have become an important tool for business decisions. A series of means of visually presenting complex and abstract data in a more understandable form is called data visualization. Data visualization is designed to enable people to quickly understand the meaning behind the data.

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Calling Chief Data Officers!!!

Andrew White

Calling Chief Data Officers – or equivalents like had of analytics/CAOs, head of data and analytics, etc. Add your voice to the Gartner 5th Annual Chief Data Officer (CDO) Study! Free report for participating execs. Click here to complete the survey. Please ensure you have set aside enough time to complete the survey – 20 minutes to avoid losing your valuable work.

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Challenges in Migrating On-Premise to Cloud Microsoft 365

BizAcuity

Some of the key reasons for businesses to move to cloud are mobility, agility, progressive technology, and a need to stay abreast with the industry trends today. Businesses need powerful solutions that allow them to be more competitive, and there are several options cloud available to them today. Among the alternatives provided by the big three providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, several businesses choose to use Microsoft’s Office 365 offering, since it provides effective function

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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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Cybersecurity Starts with You: Celebrating National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Sisense

Blog. Ensuring safety and privacy in today’s online environment is an enormous task. It’s way too much for a single person or a single company to manage on their own. As a security professional, I am personally encouraged by continual reminders that I’m not fighting this battle alone. . Every October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), and I’m proud to announce that Sisense has taken the initiative to sign up as a Champion for the cause.

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Challenges in Migrating On-Premise to Cloud Microsoft 365

BizAcuity

Some of the key reasons for businesses to move to cloud are mobility, agility, progressive technology, and a need to stay abreast with the industry trends today. Businesses need powerful solutions that allow them to be more competitive, and there are several options cloud available to them today. Among the alternatives provided by the big three providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, several businesses choose to use Microsoft’s Office 365 offering, since it provides effective function

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Four Surprising Benefits of Nixing Your System Integrator

Jet Global

When you discover that system integration issues cost companies $500,000 on average each year, it’s understandable why they invest so much in system integrators. The wonders of modern IT depend on data being fully integrated while on disparate systems, working in perfect harmony. Unfortunately, technology is often designed to be proprietary rather than cooperative, meaning that system integrators have to break down the same walls that system developers build up.

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Challenges in Migrating On-Premise to Cloud Microsoft 365

BizAcuity

Some of the key reasons for businesses to move to cloud are mobility, agility, progressive technology, and a need to stay abreast with the industry trends today. Businesses need powerful solutions that allow them to be more competitive, and there are several options cloud available to them today. Among the alternatives provided by the big three providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, several businesses choose to use Microsoft’s Office 365 offering, since it provides effective function

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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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Military IT: The Three Best Ways to Scale & Mature

Dataiku

The United States government is the single largest buyer in the world , spending over $500 billion each year, with a substantial percentage of that spend allocated to IT procurement. However, despite spending large sums of money procuring and sustaining IT, the U.S. government lags behind commercial organizations in terms of technical maturity.

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Key Challenges in Office 365 migration

BizAcuity

Some of the key reasons for businesses to move to the cloud are mobility, agility, progressive technology, and a need to stay abreast of the industry trends today. Businesses need powerful solutions that allow them to be more competitive, and there are several options cloud available to them today. Among the alternatives provided by the big three providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, several businesses choose to use Microsoft’s Office 365 offering, since it provides effective functi

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