Wed.Nov 09, 2022

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Confusion Matrix, Precision, and Recall Explained

KDnuggets

Learn these key machine learning performance metrics to ace data science interviews.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

Data-informed decision-making is a key attribute of the modern digital business. But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. One potential solution to this challenge is to deploy self-service analytics, a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to perform queries and generate reports on their own with little or no help from IT or data specialists.

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KDnuggets News, November 9: 7 Tips To Produce Readable Data Science Code • 30 Resources for Mastering Data Visualization

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7 Tips To Produce Readable Data Science Code • 30 Resources for Mastering Data Visualization • 15 More Free Machine Learning and Deep Learning Books • Simple and Fast Data Streaming for Machine Learning Projects • The AI Education Gap and How to Close It.

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Salesforce announces hundreds of job cuts

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-based CRM software provider Salesforce has become the latest technology company to announce mass layoffs, cutting at least hundreds of jobs from its 73,000-person workforce. “Our sales performance process drives accountability. Unfortunately, that can lead to some leaving the business, and we support them through their transition,” Salesforce said in a statement confirming the layoffs.

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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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3 Ways AI Has Led to Horrifying Cybersecurity Threats

Smart Data Collective

AI technology is driving some tremendous changes in digital technology. Many of the developments brought on by AI have been beneficial. However, some of the changes created by AI have been harmful. One of the biggest examples of problems caused by AI is the growing threat of cybersecurity threats. A growing number of hackers are finding innovative ways to weaponize AI technology to commit cybercrime.

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Examining the digital transformation juggling act at Novanta

CIO Business Intelligence

Headquartered in Boston with more than 2,700 employees worldwide, Novanta is an $800 million global supplier of laser photonics, precision motion control, and vision technologies. As CIO, Sarah Betadam, who joined in 2019 as VP of business applications, and then became global CIO in January 2021, is charged with the strategic direction, leadership, and implementation of the company’s digital transformation, juggling several initiatives simultaneously.

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Business or IT: Who Drives Results with Your Data?

CIO Business Intelligence

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax One of the most painful – and pained – statements I’ve heard in the last two years was from an IT leader who said, “my team is struggling to find ways that our company’s data could be valuable to the business.” Contrast this with what a financial services CIO told me: “Our CEO told every line of business general manager you now have a second job: you’re the general manager of the data produced in your line of business.

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Finally a Book on Attention!

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Finally a book on Attention. Learn how to build your own transformer model with Machine Learning Mastery's new book.

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CIO Leadership Live with Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank

CIO Business Intelligence

Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss the evolving digital customer experience, secure cloud migrations, agile-first, API-first strategies, competing for tech talent and more.

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Analyzing Diversity & Inclusion with SQL

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The most underrated SQL function for analyzing diversity.

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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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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

CIO Business Intelligence

Doing good for the planet is not inversely proportional to doing good business. Today it can actually mean better profit, stronger customer loyalty, and longer company sustainability. First, offices are finding paper less necessary than they used to. Recent surveys show a drop in paper consumption since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Work-from-home and remote offices have played a part in the drop, but even as employees reenter the office full-time or in a hybrid arrangement, paper consumption sti

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Watch all of IMPACT’s breakout sessions ON-DEMAND

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Good news! You can now watch all of IMPACT's breakout sessions ON-DEMAND.

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Approaches to long-term planning with IBM Planning Analytics

IBM Big Data Hub

In our collective rush to react to ever-changing marketplace dynamics and shifts in the economy, it’s easy to focus on short-term plans, to the neglect of long-term planning. Today’s leaders need to have several plans – short-term, medium-term, and long-term. Different plans for different needs. How do these plans differ? A short-term plan is designed to show granular details for a limited time frame.

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3 Tips for Recession Proofing Your Tech Stack

CIO Business Intelligence

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software For several months now, pundits and economists alike have indicated that we are likely to enter, or already have entered, a recession. Regardless, The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has the final say on whether any period of economic decline qualifies as a recession, and that determination might not come for months.

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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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Top 8 Machine Learning Development Companies in 2022

Smart Data Collective

Over 91% of leading businesses use AI technology. It has opened the door for companies to improve their business models in many ways. There are a number of great applications of machine learning. One of the biggest benefits is testing processes for optimal effectiveness. The main purpose of machine learning is to partially or completely replace manual testing.

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Business User Analytics: The Do’s and Don’ts of Success!

Smarten

When a business decides to tackle data democratization and bring data analytics to its business users, it can often fail to comprehensively plan for success. While selecting the right augmented analytics solution is crucial, the business team must also plan for user adoption and solution acceptance. Without that key component, the enterprise is likely to spend time, resources and money and fail to achieve the desired outcome for total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI) and user