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Data Ethics, Culture and Advanced Analytics Top the Agenda at CDAO Fall

Corinium

Data ethics, data culture and the future of advanced analytics were the three themes that dominated CDAO Fall in Boston, MA last week. As Corinium’s flagship conference, the annual event showcases how the world’s top data and analytics leaders are driving change within their organizations and reveals the key talking points for the year ahead.

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Top KDnuggets tweets, Nov 20-26: How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code

KDnuggets

Also: Deep Learning for Image Classification with Less Data; How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code; 25 Useful #Python Snippets to Help in Your Day-to-Day Work; Automated Machine Learning Project Implementation Complexities.

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The Age of the Customer: How companies transform their customer experience

Corinium

Time and time again, we hear from our contacts asking to hear about real use cases. We have partnered with Zendesk to share their customer stories. "The customer is always right" is a phrase that Zendesk takes very seriously. What a customer needs and wants? That's at the heart and soul of everything Zendesk does. Whether it’s small companies trying to rapidly grow and build their brand, or large companies trying to maintain customer loyalty, Zendesk aims to empower businesses to seamlessly serv

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The Future of Careers in Data Science & Analysis

KDnuggets

As the fields of data science and analysis continue to expand, the next crop of bright minds is always needed. Learn more about the nuances of these jobs and find where you can fit in for a rewarding and interesting career.

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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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Data Visualization for The Unknown and the Unknowable

Juice Analytics

Confession time. I hope you’ll forgive me as I make my way to a larger point. Here goes: I love Crossfit. Yes, the fitness cult that you’ve heard too much about from your Facebook friends — the ones who spout off about WODs, AMRAPs, burpees, and Keto diets. Crossfit calls itself the “Sport of Fitness” with a “constantly varied, functional movement, executed at high intensity” which prepares you for the “unknown and unknowable.

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Spark NLP 101: LightPipeline

KDnuggets

A Pipeline is specified as a sequence of stages, and each stage is either a Transformer or an Estimator. These stages are run in order, and the input DataFrame is transformed as it passes through each stage. Now let’s see how this can be done in Spark NLP using Annotators and Transformers.

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Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations

KDnuggets

This is a summary of a recent paper on an age-old topic: what visualisation should I use? No prizes for guessing “it depends!” Is this the paper to finally settle the age-old debate surrounding pie-charts??

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Challenges in replacing SSRS with Microsoft Power BI

BizAcuity

There are several reporting tools and platforms available today, and enterprises usually choose the one that is best suited for their business needs. Two popular options for reporting platforms are SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Microsoft Power BI. SSRS AND MICROSOFT POWER BI. SSRS is a server-based reporting platform that comes free with SQL Server 2012.

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KDnuggets™ News 19:n45, Nov 27: Interpretable vs black box models; Advice for New and Junior Data Scientists

KDnuggets

This week: Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead; Advice for New and Junior Data Scientists; Python Tuples and Tuple Methods; Can Neural Networks Develop Attention? Google Thinks they Can; Three Methods of Data Pre-Processing for Text Classification.

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5 Ways to Get Wise on Business Email Compromise (BEC)

CDW Research Hub

NPR’s All Things Considered recently ran a story about the persistence of email cybercrimes and the techniques used by cybercriminals to steal money from their victims. This year alone, the U.S. Department of Justice , in collaboration with other government departments, seized nearly $3.7 million stolen through BEC schemes. Scammers still use the oldest trick in the book— deception.

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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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Hiring Data Scientists: What and Where to Look For and How to Assess

ScienceSoft

We answer 3 burning questions about hiring data scientists. Give a minute to each and become a pro in hunting for data science talent.

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DSAT – First Ever Adaptive Learning Platform for Data Science Professionals

Analytics Vidhya

“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” – Steve Jobs We are thrilled to announce the launch of. The post DSAT – First Ever Adaptive Learning Platform for Data Science Professionals appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Kickstart your Google Cloud integration with the Denodo Platform

Data Virtualization

For Google Cloud fans, the wait is over. You can now take advantage of the Denodo Platform’s data virtualization capabilities via offerings on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. With Denodo’s connector for Google BigQuery, you can experience a whole.

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4 Ways Atradius Enhanced Reporting in Oracle HFM

Jet Global

With 300 entities distributed across 50 countries, credit insurance specialist, Atradius, struggled to present a consolidated set of accounts, in a timely manner, that everyone could agree on and trust. Although they used Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) to consolidate their accounts, the reporting tools they used – IBM Cognos Analytics and Oracle’s Smart View – were cumbersome and high maintenance.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Top 10 Analytics And Business Intelligence Trends For 2020

datapine

Over the past decade, business intelligence has been revolutionized. Data exploded and became big. We all gained access to the cloud. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. Suddenly advanced analytics wasn’t just for the analysts. 2019 was a particularly major year for the business intelligence industry.