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How to Use a Data Lineage Tool to Ensure Data Quality

Octopai

It’s 1902. I just opened a can of corned beef produced by the well-known Armour meatpacking plant in Chicago. Can I offer you some? If you just ran away clutching your stomach, with visions of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle filling your mind, I don’t blame you. While Sinclair’s famous 1906 novel was intended to expose the plight of employees with horrific working conditions, the American public heard and reacted to a message about food safety and quality.

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The DataHour: How to Stay Relevant in the Booming World of AI?

Analytics Vidhya

Dear Readers, We are happy to bring you yet another exciting webinar for you! Yup, you heard it right! The DataHour Series brings Anastasiia to conduct a webinar on how to stay relevant in the Booming World of AI. We hope, you’re excited and eager to learn new things that we have planned for you […]. The post The DataHour: How to Stay Relevant in the Booming World of AI?

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Working Across the Aisle in Analytics: Involving IT and LOB

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

For years, maybe decades, we have heard about the struggles between IT and line-of-business functions. In this perspective, we will look at some of the data from our Analytics and Data Benchmark Research about the roles of IT and line-of-business teams in analytics and data processes. We will also look at some of the disconnects between these two groups.

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Dog Breed Classification Using a Stacked Pre-Trained Model

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. An end-to-end guide on dog breed classification using stacked pre-trained CNN models […]. The post Dog Breed Classification Using a Stacked Pre-Trained Model appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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The Most Popular Intro to Programming Course From Harvard is Free!

KDnuggets

CS50's Introduction to Computer Science has the highest enrollment on Harvard's campus. and is free to anyone interested in taking it!

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Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) – Credit Card Fraud Detection Case Study

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Overview Lots of financial losses are caused every year due to credit card fraud transactions, the financial industry has switched from a posterior investigation approach to an a priori predictive approach with the design of fraud detection algorithms to warn and help fraud investigators. […].

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7 traits of indispensable IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s no better type of job security than indispensability. Once an IT leader is regarded as essential by his or her employer, recognition rises, colleagues begin listening, project doors swing open, and salaries and benefits skyrocket. Achieving indispensability isn’t as challenging as it may sound. It can be easily acquired by embracing several common traits that have been proven to transform mere mortals into IT heroes.

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AI Advances Lead To Improvements in E-Signatures

Smart Data Collective

With the advancement of digital technology, electronic signatures (e-signatures) have gained massive acceptance in the business world, where artificial intelligence (AI) further leads its improvements. What Are E-Signatures? E-signatures, or the digitized or scanned version of handwritten signatures, improve business processes, allowing fast signing and approval of documents.

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KDnuggets News 22:n12, March 23: Best Data Science Books for Beginners; Linear vs Logistic Regression: A Succinct Explanation

KDnuggets

Best Data Science Books for Beginners; Linear vs Logistic Regression: A Succinct Explanation; Why Are So Many Data Scientists Quitting Their Jobs?; Feature Stores for Real-time AI & Machine Learning; How to Generate Tabular Synthetic Dataset.

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Is It Possible to Fully Protect Your Data Nowadays?

Smart Data Collective

Keeping your data safe now is more challenging than ever. We keep a lot of our data on hackable devices, such as mobile phones and computers. One weak password or a phishing attack on our emails is enough to breach and expose our information and have it land in the wrong hands. We also give a lot of our information away to various companies and services we use online.

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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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How African tech leaders can boost their diversity strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Businesses for some years now have had initiatives in place for diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) work environments. While some progress has been made, the pandemic certainly caused setbacks, including for DEI in the tech sector. Women lost their jobs at a much higher rate than men. And they earned less due to lockdown regulations, with Oxfam International reporting that the pandemic cost women globally around US$800 billion in earnings.

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5 Data Mining Tips to Leverage the Benefits of Surveys

Smart Data Collective

Advancements in technology have allowed it to store and collect databases in many fields. If we count the number of data on the web, it is probably a number that we have never heard of. However, it’s all about the quality and not the quantity when collecting data. Moreover, some companies are sitting on loads of consumer data and don’t know what to do with it.

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Securing data and talent top Indian CIOs’ concerns for FY2023

CIO Business Intelligence

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, coupled with the unprecedented arrival of the pandemic pushing enterprises towards a hybrid work culture, IT leaders have played a key part in keeping business afloat these last two years. The resulting redefinition of their role is influencing their priorities as they prepare for the 2023 financial year.

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5 Reasons to Use a Payment Gateway with Sophisticated AI Infrastructure

Smart Data Collective

Payment gateway solutions are investing more heavily in AI technology these days. Some of the leading companies like PayPal have discovered that payment AI technology can be tremendously useful. PayPal has consistently actually been 10-20% more effective at preventing fraud in real-time through the use of AI. There are many other reasons that AI technology is becoming important for payment gateways.

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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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Dine Brands CIO Justin Skelton on what the Board wants to know from CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Justin Skelton is SVP and CIO of Dine Brands, a leading chain restaurant company based in Glendale, Calif., with 345 franchisees operating more than 3,400 restaurants for its two flagship brands, Applebee’s and IHOP. As CIO, Skelton is a member of the Executive Team at Dine Brands Global. His responsibilities extend from digital and business intelligence platforms and product and project management to restaurant and corporate technologies and infrastructure and operations.

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From Bolts to Bots: How AI Is Fortifying the Automotive Industry

Smart Data Collective

AI technology is becoming an integral part of many industries. The automotive sector is a prime example. Global automotive companies are expected to spend $74.5 billion on AI by 2030. From the early days of the automobile, back in 1901, the automobile has never stopped evolving. The rise of industrialization led to the automobile becoming commonplace in many households.

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Future Proof: Technology Solves for Business Value

CIO Business Intelligence

Business and technology were once seen as separate or distinct, but today they are deeply intertwined. In fact, the days of task-driven technology have vanished, replaced by technology as a vehicle for business growth. Organizations must leverage technology to solve for business value or understand that business longevity will suffer. While enterprise transformation is driven by customer and business needs, technology can be the catalyst for large transformational change.

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eCommerce Companies Use AI to Ensure their Sites Are ADA Compliant

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence has become a very important component of modern business practices. This is particularly true when it comes to web marketing, where AI is vital to UX design and helping connect customers with the right products and services. One of the overlooked benefits of AI in website optimization pertains to ADA compliance. As the EEOC starts cracking down on companies with websites that violate the ADA, more businesses are using AI to make sure their websites are compliant.

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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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Digital transformation is on the agenda at Mount Lebanon Hospital

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation goes beyond implementing technological resources — it also requires change in thinking and strategy. In this Q&A, Roula Gharios Zahar, deputy general director of Mount Lebanon Hospital since 1997, discusses technology challenges and successes for the country healthcare sector, as well as hurdles presented for change management.

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A New Way of Managing Deep Learning Datasets

KDnuggets

Create, version-control, query, and visualize image, audio, and video datasets using Hub 2.0 by Activeloop.

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Chest X-Ray Disease Classification With Deep Learning and Dataiku

Dataiku

This blog is a guest post from our friends at Indizen-Scalian. They are experts in the entire business intelligence chain and the transformation of financial performance processes in the enterprise. They are an international company specialized in solutions for companies seeking to make their digital transformation by implementing big data, cloud, cybersecurity, or AI projects.

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Risk Management Framework for AI/ML Models

KDnuggets

How sound risk management acts as a catalyst to building successful AI/ML models.

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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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8 Suggestions to Assure a Great Software Demo!

Smarten

Whether you are a software vendor, and IT consultant or a software customer, you have probably endured your share of software demos. Unfortunately, not every software demo is successful and, when things go wrong, it can be frustrating, and disappointing, for a customer and devastating for the vendor or consultant trying to sell a product. In my mind, there is NO reason for a software demo to go wrong!

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The 4 P’s of Customer Engagement

CIO Business Intelligence

“The 4 P’s of Customer Engagement” is a concept I coined a couple years ago that summarizes what companies need to prioritize to create experiences that matter. For a customer interaction to embody the 4 P’s, it must be personal, predictive, proactive, and pervasive. Here’s what I mean by this: Personal: We all know the more personal you can make an experience, the better.

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5 Reasons to Use Apache Iceberg on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)

Cloudera

Please join us on March 24 for Future of Data meetup where we do a deep dive into Iceberg with CDP . What is Apache Iceberg? Apache Iceberg is a high-performance, open table format, born-in-the cloud that scales to petabytes independent of the underlying storage layer and the access engine layer. By being a truly open table format, Apache Iceberg fits well within the vision of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

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ServiceNow’s San Diego release focuses on personalization and automation

CIO Business Intelligence

With IT workers in short supply, there is growing pressure on enterprises to make the working environment more pleasant, and help existing employees be as productive as possible. The latest release of ServiceNow’s Now workflow automation platform, San Diego, aims to do just that, with some big changes to the look and feel of its user interface and a new Automation Engine to make it easier to drive business processes running in other applications.

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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.