Thu.Oct 13, 2022

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AI Makes A Difference — And We Aren’t Just Talking Business

Dataiku

If you’re reading this, you probably know about how AI is changing the world of business by leaps and bounds — efficient pipelines, optimized production, automated workflows, advanced analytics that drive pronounced results, the list goes on and on. However, the waves of impact brought on by AI don’t stop at lines of profit. Sessions at our Everyday AI conferences celebrated AI changing the world around us “ for good.”.

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How to Predict the Election Result With a Coin?

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Introduction Predicting events and happenings has been an interesting skill for humans since the dawn of civilization and remains so today. This ability has been so attractive to many that they have selected the career of “prophecy” for themselves, […].

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Data Representation for Natural Language Processing Tasks

KDnuggets

In NLP we must find a way to represent our data (a series of texts) to our systems (e.g. a text classifier). As Yoav Goldberg asks, "How can we encode such categorical data in a way which is amenable for us by a statistical classifier?" Enter the word vector.

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Aflac’s Rich Gilbert on the 7 Cs of top IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

Rich Gilbert, who joined Aflac in 2019 as chief digital and information officer, now serves as its chief transformation officer and head of individual benefits. The promotion and title are well deserved. Aflac is the leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the United States, and Gilbert has been recognized for his commitment to accelerating the company’s digital transformation strategy.

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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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Classification Metrics Walkthrough: Logistic Regression with Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and ROC

KDnuggets

In this article, I will be going through 4 common classification metrics: Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and ROC in relation to Logistic Regression.

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5 tips for maximizing ROI of IT projects

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the most important parameters for measuring the success of any technology implementation is the return on investment (ROI). Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. This compounding effect shows just how imperative it is for enterprise technology leaders to ramp up the ROI from their deployments.

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Companies Test Possibilities and Limits of AI in Research and Product Development

Smart Data Collective

AI is a game-changing technology that has drastically changed how companies do business. Recent advances have enabled companies to use AI in ways they never have before. It’s not just about improving existing products; it’s also about discovering new possibilities they didn’t know existed. AI helps companies find ways to improve their product development processes.

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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage. Modernizing the application estate through cloud migration is a key part of any digital transformation strategy.

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Why a Cookieless Identity Solution is Critical to Future Advertising

Teradata

Implementing a cookieless identity solution will help businesses maintain advertising efforts amid the phaseout of third-party cookies.

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The Race to Data-first Modernization Is On

CIO Business Intelligence

Data represents a store of value and a strategic opportunity for enterprises across all industries. From edge to cloud to core, businesses are producing data in vast quantities, at an unprecedented pace. And they’re now rapidly evolving their data management strategies to efficiently cope with data at scale and seize the advantage. … Or are they? Well, some are.

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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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How to Use GPUs & Domino 5.3 to Operationalize Deep Learning Inference

Domino Data Lab

Deep learning is a type of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) that imitates how humans learn by example. While that sounds complex, the basic idea behind deep learning is simple. Deep learning models are taught to classify data from images (such as “cat vs. dog”), sound (“meow vs. bark”), or text (“tabby vs. schnauzer”). These models build a hierarchy where each layer is based on knowledge gained from the preceding layer, and iterations continue until its accuracy goal is reached.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Modernization journeys are complex and typically highly custom, dependent on an enterprise’s core business challenges and overall competitive goals. Yet one way to simplify transformation and accelerate the process is using an industry-specific approach. Any vertical modernization approach should balance in-depth, vertical sector expertise with a solutions-based methodology that caters to specific business needs.

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The Efficacy of Citizen Data Scientists is Proven!

Smarten

Listen to the Experts: Citizen Data Scientist Results are Real! Gartner has predicted that, ‘a scarcity of data scientists will no longer hinder the adoption of data science and machine learning in organizations.’ As businesses embrace the concept of transforming business users to Citizen Data Scientists, the Gartner prediction takes on a very practical application and enterprises try to sort through the roles of data scientists, business analysts and Citizen Data Scientists.

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Bubble Wrap: How Eurovision Monitors Covid Risk at Events

CIO Business Intelligence

While pandemic-driven digital transformation has enabled the media and entertainment industry to stream awesome content 24/7 – digital technology is also safeguarding visitors, performing artist, and crew at the Eurovision Song Contest by monitoring their Covid-19 exposure levels in real time. The Eurovision Song Contest, by the way, is the world’s largest live music event, organized each year in May by the local organizer and the European Broadcasting Union.

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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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Automated Financial Storytelling at Your Fingertips: Here’s How

Jet Global

Every financial professional understands that the numbers matter a great deal when it comes to reporting financial results. Accuracy, consistency, and timeliness are important. Those same professionals also know that there’s substantive meaning behind those numbers and that it’s important to tell the stories that lend additional depth and context to the raw financial statements.

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IT Modernization With a Sustainability Edge

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies fast-track IT modernization to accelerate digital transformation and gain business advantage, there is an opportunity to rearchitect a greener IT environment and application portfolio that will drive cost efficiencies and contribute to broader corporate sustainability goals. Across industries, companies are modernizing IT infrastructure and wielding digital tools to increase organizational flexibility, agility, and resiliency in their efforts to stay abreast of the competition.

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Lintasarta Cloudeka is Helping Enterprises in Indonesia Realize the Full Potential of the Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Founded in 2011, Lintasarta Cloudeka is a division of Lintasarta, Indonesia’s leading provider of information and communications technology. Offering everything from fiber optics to data centers and satellite networks, Lintasarta has a presence throughout Indonesia, with 54 facilities spread throughout the nation and more than 2,400 enterprise customers.

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Bin Dasmal’s CIO on sharpening an agile mindset to strengthen business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO.com: Can you detail the Bin Dasmal Group’s digital transformation process and how changes have helped improve business performance? Umesh Moolchandani: Among various IT initiatives undertaken during the last few years, upgrading ERP has revolutionized the organization. The upgrade has allowed the business to optimize the total cost of ownership by approximately 25% to 30%, while deploying serves with the highest standards of security in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, shifting the cost model fr

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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.