Wed.May 04, 2022

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A Digital Twin for Product Development

Dataiku

Bunge Loders Croklaan , the plant-based lipids business of Bunge, is a global leader in specialty oils and fats solutions for food manufacturing companies worldwide. As you probably know, the sauce on your favorite fast food chicken sandwich and the chocolate coating on your favorite candy bar didn’t grow on a tree. They were manufactured. Bunge Loders Croklaan makes lipid ingredients for those and many other products, from bakery and confectionery to infant nutrition and plant-based foods.

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Handling Missing Values with Random Forest

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction to Random Forest Missing values have always been a concern for any statistical analysis. They significantly reduce the study’s statistical powers, which may lead to faulty conclusions. Most of the algorithms used in statistical modellings such as Linear regression, Logistic Regression, […].

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Why DBAs Must Automate to Survive

TDAN

You might think the title of this article is some­what controversial, but you should wait until you’ve read to the end to render judgment. There are several important shifts impacting data management and database administration that cause manual practices and procedures to be ineffective. Let’s examine several of these trends. Data Growth But No DBA […].

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The DataHour: Build Your First Chatbot Using Open Source Tools

Analytics Vidhya

Dear Readers, The latest edition of our flagship learning series on everything in and about data analytics is sure to excite your minds, be prepared for the DataHour on Building your First Chatbot using Open Source Tools. The session will be hosted by Dr. Rachael Tatman- Staff Developer Advocate at Rasa, the world’s leading conversational […].

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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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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. More specifically, Rasmussen is boosting her spend on cybersecurity to help manage risk, a key element for enabling Ceridian’s planned global expansion. Some of the extra funds are paying for work to consolidate applications and services, a move Rasmussen classifies as an efficiency play “that will free up money to

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Data Science as a Tool in Biopharmaceutical Industry

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction In the current scenario of the pandemic COVID-19 situation, biopharmaceuticals is an emerging and demanding field of life science, and data science is equally another popular discipline. Abundant literature is available on data science and biopharmaceutical industries with their achievements for public health […].

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Understand Text Mining Using No Code Tool Orange

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Text Mining is also known as Text Data Mining or Text Analytics or is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that uses natural language processing (NLP) to extract essential data from standard language text. It is a process to transform the unstructured data (text […].

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AI-First Benefits: 5 Real-World Outcomes

Cloudera

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a focus for research for decades, but has only recently become truly viable. The availability and maturity of automated data collection and analysis systems is making it possible for businesses to implement AI across their entire operations to boost efficiency and agility. AI has the potential to transform operations by improving three fundamental business requirements: process automation, decision-making based on data insights, and customer interaction.

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Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

KDnuggets

In this article, we’ll look at what Convolutional Neural Networks are and how they work.

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What I Learned from Executing Data Quality Projects

TDAN

Getting to great data quality need not be a blood sport! But there must be a method to the madness, and you need to be persistent and properly involve relevant stakeholders to achieve long lasting improvements. This article aims to provide some practical insights gained from enterprise master data quality projects undertaken within the past […].

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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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3 Steps for Harnessing the Power of Data

KDnuggets

Even though data is now produced at an unprecedented amount, data must be collected, processed, transformed, and analyzed to harness its power. Read more about the 3 main stages involved.

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Recreating Organizational Architecture Through Network Orchestration

CIO Business Intelligence

By Nitin Rakesh, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Director at Mphasis. The COVID-19 pandemic has tested humankind’s resilience in unprecedented ways. For the first time in a century, we continue to live with a mix of restrictions on social interactions, travel, and assembly. Attributes have emerged in our current ‘limited edition’ lives as keys to thriving.

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The Art of Lean Governance: Go Lean and Stop Burning Cash

TDAN

Lean Governance is a proven method to stop burning your company’s cash. This approach is all about saving money by eliminating waste across your data factory. The data factory represents all activities related to the creation, processing, storage, and usage of data for operations, reporting, analysis, marketing, and a myriad of other business activities.

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Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK: How Your Team Can Adopt This Essential Framework

CIO Business Intelligence

What if there were a free, globally accessible, and open framework that could help your team map attacks, visualize strengths and weaknesses in your environment, and understand where you can strengthen controls to protect critical assets against attackers? That would be a tremendous boon for your security team, right? Here’s some great news: that tool already exists.

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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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KDnuggets News, May 4: 9 Free Harvard Courses to Learn Data Science; 15 Python Coding Interview Questions You Must Know For Data Science

KDnuggets

9 Free Harvard Courses to Learn Data Science in 2022; 15 Python Coding Interview Questions You Must Know For Data Science; Best Data Science Career Tracks of 2022; 6 Highest Paying Companies for Data Scientists; Why You Need To Learn Python In 2022.

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CoorsTek’s Matt Mehlbrech on rebuilding IT’s credibility

CIO Business Intelligence

Matt Mehlbrech is VP of IT for CoorsTek, Inc., where he leads the global IT organization. Headquartered in Golden, Colorado, CoorsTek is a privately held, family-owned global supplier of engineered ceramics and advanced materials to customers across industries from semiconductor manufacturing and energy and defense to medical devices, agriculture, and household goods.

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How Lifetime Value (LTV) Maximize Your Marketing ROI

Aryng

When it comes to deciding on marketing budget and marketing strategies, the marketing executives pull up last year’s marketing cost, customer growth, and revenue; and depending upon the next year’s targets (which are mostly set by the top management), they decide the next year’s marketing budget. Likewise, for most start-ups, marketing is a gamble. While […] The post How Lifetime Value (LTV) Maximize Your Marketing ROI appeared first on Aryng's Blog.

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6 African tech companies transforming the KYC landscape

CIO Business Intelligence

A huge swath of the African population lacks any form of identification. This makes it difficult for financial institutions and other companies to conduct KYC (know your customer) protocols and issue spills into various facets of life, leading to financial exclusion and denial of government services. KYC guidelines, including government regulations, are meant to prevent unlawful access to the banking system and typically include anti-money laundering requirements such as verification of customer

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Developer Experience – from intuitive to complex

CONTACT Software

It sounds like an exciting vision of the future: users from every discipline can use ready-made program modules to quickly and easily create simulations, optimization tasks or analyses using artificial intelligence (AI). This can then also be implemented by departments whose employees do not have knowledge of a high-level programming language. That’s the idea.

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Sandbox AQ CEO: Enterprises must prep for quantum threats

CIO Business Intelligence

Sandbox began life as a secretive division of Google parent company Alphabet in 2016, and in March 2022 became a company in its own right, Sandbox AQ. The A is for artificial intelligence, and the Q is for quantum, says CEO Jack Hidary. The company plans to apply those technologies in the development of software-as-a-service products for the enterprise, tackling problems such as cybersecurity, navigation, and drug discovery.

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5 Reasons to Upgrade to the Latest Version of Wands

Jet Global

Thousands of enterprise ERP customers have discovered the convenience and flexibility offered by insightsoftware’s Wands products. If you’re currently running any of the Wands for SAP solutions, you should know about some recent updates to the product line that will enhance your team’s productivity, increase the options available for calendar-year reporting, and improve the underlying technology on which the Wands products are built.

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Top Financial Reporting Challenges and How to Solve Them

Jet Global

Being a finance professional is stimulating and rewarding, but it comes with a set of unique challenges. The accuracy and timeliness of information is essential, yet for most organizations, the volume and complexity of financial information is growing continuously. Simply working harder doesn’t seem to solve the problem; finance professionals must work smarter, applying the right tools to get the job done quickly, efficiently, and accurately.

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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.