Wed.Jun 22, 2022

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Data Visualisation: Alluvial Diagram vs. Sankey Diagram

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Most people tend to have a very minimal set of information about Alluvial and Sankey diagrams. The reality is that the two diagrams have superficial similarities to each other. On the flip side, the two diagrams are completely different, underlying superficial assumptions. […].

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A Complete Guide On How To Set Smart KPI Targets And Goals

datapine

Table of Contents. 1) What Are KPI Goals? 2) What Are KPI Targets. 3) Benefits Of Setting KPIs Targets & Goals. 4) How To Set KPIs Targets? 5) How To Implement A KPI System? 6) KPI Targets Examples. In a world where data represents a major competitive advantage for businesses, the need to monitor performance based on specific goals and targets is critical.

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GATO – A New Generalist Artificial Intelligence Agent

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, particularly computer systems, is known as artificial intelligence. Expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition, machine learning, and machine vision are examples of AI applications. For these above tasks, we are using different types […].

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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships. A key step in creating an effective and meaningful relationship is establishing mutually aligned expectations and a commercial agreement. This takes planning. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit.

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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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Getting Started with Google Big Query

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction In today’s data-driven age, an enormous amount of data is getting generated every day from various sources such as social media, e-commerce websites, stock exchanges, transaction processing systems, emails, medical records, etc. This data is a combination of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured […].

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From CIO to consultant: IT leaders on making the shift

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO role can open a lot of doors for career growth. When they’re ready to move on from leading IT operations at their organization, CIOs can shift into another C-suite position, take a leadership role at a technology vendor, start up their own venture, or leave the corporate environment altogether. For some, consulting is the way to go, whether through the creation of their own advisory firm or joining an existing consultancy.

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Data Science Career: 7 Expectations vs Reality

KDnuggets

Let’s get into some of the expectations of data scientists – and the reality they face.

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Introduction to Energy Analytics 101

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction AI and machine learning are two of our time’s buzz-worthy business terms. As a result, businesses across all industries are looking to implement these technologies to improve and automate their core processes. And the energy industry is no exception. Renewable energy companies […].

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Machine Learning Is Not Like Your Brain Part 4: The Neuron’s Limited Ability to Represent Precise Values

KDnuggets

In the fourth installment, we focus on a fundamental issue: it is difficult to represent numerical values in neurons and impractical to represent them with precision.

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Huawei’s 20-year journey in Malaysia

CIO Business Intelligence

Malaysia entered the digital era in 1996 with the introduction of the Multimedia Super Corridor. Since then, the country has recorded many success stories, attracting both domestic and foreign companies working in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to invest and set up operations across various economic zones. It was also this early initiative that enabled Malaysia to adopt and embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0), a key enabler in the transformation and advancement of

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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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KDnuggets News, June 22: Primary Supervised Learning Algorithms Used in Machine Learning; Top 15 Books to Master Data Strategy

KDnuggets

Primary Supervised Learning Algorithms Used in Machine Learning; Top 15 Books to Master Data Strategy; Top Data Science Podcasts for 2022; Prepare Your Data for Effective Tableau & Power BI Dashboards; Generate Synthetic Time-series Data with Open-source Tools.

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Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

CIO Business Intelligence

AssuredPartners is a full-service insurance broker providing commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits. The company, which has more than 8,500 employees, plans to continue growing by acquisition, and consolidating the global insurance market. I recently spoke with CIO Sankha Ghosh about how he has made IT part of the acquisition machine at AssuredPartners and how his team still finds time to innovate.

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Big Data Leads to the Possibility of a Cashless Society

Smart Data Collective

The financial sector is among the industries most affected by developments in big data. A study by Allied Market Research has found that the market for financial analytics services will be worth nearly $20 billion by 2030. This market doesn’t seem to even include a number of new services financial institutions use that rely on big data. Nor does it seem to cover some of the ways independent businesses are using big data to improve their financial management services.

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Digital Leadership — Outlook and Trends

CIO Business Intelligence

With a career that spans over four decades, Alex Siow is well-known as Singapore’s first Chief Information Officer in the 1990s. He is the author of Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore’s First CIO , which is written for the next generation of CIOs, CTOs, and other executives who work closely with technology. It offers practical tips, case studies, and personal insights that shed light on the central competencies required of CIOs.

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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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Speed up Machine Learning with Fast Kriging (FKR)

KDnuggets

Machine Learning has revolutionized the world, yet expensive computation costs on model trainings are often a large limitation, especially for large data sets or elevated precisions. VMC Consulting offers a new algorithm called Fast Kriging (FKR), which allows to train models with the high precision of Kriging at a speed 100+ times faster, without compromising precision, for any data set size.

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Talent and technology lay the foundation for Asia’s digital economy

CIO Business Intelligence

The digital economy has kicked into gear. As it does so, we’re witnessing increasing collaboration between education, science, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and industries across all sectors, helping to navigate the transformation journey of organizations of all sizes. Digital talent development has therefore become paramount. Asia’s Huge Potential .

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Are You Ready for Cloud Regulations?

Cloudera

Across the globe, cloud concentration risk is coming under greater scrutiny. The UK HM Treasury department recently issued a policy paper “ Critical Third Parties to the Finance Sector.” The paper is a proposal to enable oversight of third parties providing critical services to the UK financial system. The proposal would grant authority to classify a third party as “critical” to the financial stability and welfare of the UK financial system, and then provide governance in order to minimize the p

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ICT infrastructure ignites the growth of the digital-first economy

CIO Business Intelligence

The pandemic has brought significant challenges to everyday life, also throwing a spotlight on the digital divide and the urgent need for socially balanced services, inclusive education, and industrial development addressed through digital technology infrastructure. The future will be resolutely digital first, with this technology and infrastructure driving economic growth and green development.

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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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Diversity in Outcome Optimization of ML Models

Dataiku

ML outcome optimization is the process of finding optimal feature values that give the model prediction minimum (or maximum) over a defined space. For black-box ML models, we cannot assume any of the usual smoothness properties for optimization, such as convexity or even differentiability. Therefore, powerful standard optimization techniques, like gradient descent, are not applicable, and it is common to use meta-heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms.

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Why must CIOs invest in business analysts to obtain better project outcomes?

CIO Business Intelligence

According to the PMI Pulse of the Profession report , inaccurate requirements as a result of poor or missing business analysis processes are the second leading cause of project failure (39%), the first reason being changes in an organization’s priorities (41%). There’s no second thought that the requirement’s quality largely determines the end-product quality.

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Analytics in Emerging Industries: Why ‘Building’ was the Wrong Move for a Cannabis Startup

Jet Global

Analytics are vital in all verticals – even emerging ones such as the cannabis industry. When Jenna Greenfield founded Sagely, a finance and accounting platform for cannabis entrepreneurs, she learned firsthand the challenges that come with building out an analytics platform from scratch. Recently, Ryan MacCarrigan, lean startup coach and Founding Principal at LeanStudio, spoke with Jenna to learn more about how Sagely came about.

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Toward sustainable recovery and development in Thailand

CIO Business Intelligence

At the Asia-Pacific Innovation Day — Digital Talent Summit, Professor Dr. Sirirurg Songsivilai delivered a keynote speech to address the cultivation of digital talent and advancing ongoing collaborations in the region. This is an edited version of his speech. Even though we find ourselves still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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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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Why customers value application mobility in hybrid multiclouds

Nutanix

Nutanix offers a TCO tool that provides a clear and concise estimate of the different options, enabling customers to see the cost and time it will take to move workloads to the public cloud before a specific migration process is selected.

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From technology to talent: Building a strong ecosystem for the digital age in Singapore

CIO Business Intelligence

The COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated the adoption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Singapore, but that has left vulnerable groups even further behind in the digital era. Huawei firmly believes that technological advancement should benefit everyone, regardless of race, gender, or economic status. No One Should Be Left Behind in Today’s Digital World.

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Gradio App for Detecting Whether the Audio Content is Sexist

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Sexism is discrimination or prejudice based on an individual’s gender. It has to do with the beliefs that one sex is worthier to or more valuable than the other, and the roles that each should play in society. It, like other forms […]. The post Gradio App for Detecting Whether the Audio Content is Sexist appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Powering a low-carbon digital Thailand

CIO Business Intelligence

In the journey toward a low-carbon future, Thailand is the first country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to commit to carbon neutrality. At the 2021 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP26, Thailand proposed the visionary Carbon Neutrality 2050 roadmap to address climate change, mirroring the milestone laid out by the European Union (EU).

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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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5 Best Free AI-Based Video Editing Software Applications for 2022

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence technology has many implications for the fields of marketing and multimedia. Many marketers are using AI to create higher quality video content. What Are the Benefits of AI Technology with Video Editing? Video content is becoming more and more popular these days. According to Wyzowl , people now watch approximately 19 hours of online video per week.

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Fostering digital talents to achieve the goals of the ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) journey toward a digital economy and digital society has been radically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years. This situation has led to an unprecedented rise in demand for digital skills while further stressing the importance of having a conducive learning ecosystem capable of cultivating more digital talents in the region.

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Domo Enables Real-Time Collaboration for Analytics

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Organizations are constantly trying to streamline and optimize business data to solve complex problems and identify opportunities to increase revenue and accelerate business growth. The data is usually stored in multiple systems with various data governance rules, which makes it complicated to democratize data and analytics within an organization. The most pressing concerns cited by participants in our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research include difficulty integrating with business processes,

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Innovating nonstop together for a better green digital life

CIO Business Intelligence

The digital economy has become a major engine of the global economy. Green and low-carbon technologies have become new drivers for sustainable development. Asia-Pacific is ripe with opportunities for digital transformation, and a digital Asia-Pacific is rapidly approaching. . According to the ASEAN Development Outlook report and the Southeast Asia Digital Economy Report, by 2030, ASEAN will become the fourth-largest economy in the world.

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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.