Tue.Nov 15, 2022

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Hierarchical Clustering in Machine Learning

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Hierarchical clustering is one of the most famous clustering techniques used in unsupervised machine learning. K-means and hierarchical clustering are the two most popular and effective clustering algorithms. The working mechanism they apply in the backend allows them to provide such a […].

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

During the opening keynote at the recent Gartner IT Symposium in Barcelona, Gartner analysts said that CIOs should look to its latest moniker, IT for sustainable growth , to drive business transformation by focusing on three key strategies: ‘revolutionary work’ to empower the workforce, ‘responsible investment’ to balance financial and sustainability objectives, and ‘resilient cybersecurity’ to support business outcomes “without constraining them”.

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Top Interview Questions on Voting Ensembles in Machine Learning

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Voting ensembles are the ensemble machine learning technique, one of the top-performing models among all machine learning algorithms. As voting ensembles are the most used ensemble techniques, there are lots of interview questions related to this topic that are asked in data […].

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6 Best Free Online Courses to Learn Python and Boost Your Career

KDnuggets

The demand for Data Scientists who are proficient in Python is at an all time high. Python has helped people boost their careers in finance, consulting, research, software tech, and robotics. Explore 6 courses designed to help you learn Python.

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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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4 Tips to Managing Modernization Without Disruption

CIO Business Intelligence

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s digital world, technology can make or break a company’s outcomes for its customers. As a result, all companies that use technology to meet or solve customer needs should consider themselves a tech company. In order to meet ever-changing customer demands, it’s critical that companies understand why and how to successfully modernize their tech stacks in order to provide a top-notch customer experience.

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Advances In AI Help Marketers With Live Streaming Video Marketing

Smart Data Collective

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the marketing landscape , and in many ways for the better. While live streaming and video marketing have long been a part of a marketers toolkit, the prolonged lockdowns, social distancing, and travel bans over the course of the pandemic helped thrust it into the limelight, resulting in widespread adoption and since making it indispensable for business. .

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5 Reasons Why Your Organization Should Store Data in the Cloud

Smart Data Collective

Cloud technology is becoming more essential for modern organizations with each passing day. A report by Gartner shows that cloud technology has transformed modern business in previously unimaginable ways. The report indicated that 75% of organizations using the cloud have a “cloud first” policy, which is a much higher figure than previous versions of the report indicated.

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Leveraging AI for Ecommerce Marketing

BizAcuity

In our previous blog, we discussed the advantages of implementing AI for businesses. Now it’s time to discuss leveraging AI for Ecommerce marketing in various ways. AI-driven marketing is a well-accepted mandate for businesses who are digital. According to SalesForce , 84% percent of marketers today are reported to be using AI, a 186% increase in adoption since 2018.

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5 Linguistics Courses for NLP Practitioners

KDnuggets

This collection of 5 courses is intended to help NLP practitioners or hopefuls acquire some of their lacking linguistics knowledge.

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Episode 2: Future-Proofing Your Business with Agile IT Leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s clear that in the last two years, the global pandemic has created unique circumstances for business and IT leaders at small- and mid-sized businesses. Yet strategic technology decisions, such as vendor consolidation, can help support a business’s ability to handle volatility and remain agile in challenging times. In this second episode of our 5-episode podcast , Essential Connections: The Business Owner’s Guide to Growth During Economic Uncertainty , we examine how to future-proof your busi

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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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Unlocking HBase on S3 With the New Store File Tracking Feature

Cloudera

CDP Operational Database (COD) is a real-time auto-scaling operational database powered by Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix. It is one of the main data services that run on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud. You can access COD from your CDP console. The cost savings of cloud-based object stores are well understood in the industry. Applications whose latency and performance requirements can be met by using an object store for the persistence layer benefit significantly with lower cost of o

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Top Data Analyst Certification Courses for 2022

KDnuggets

Top certification courses by IBM, Edureka, DataCamp, Udacity, and Google.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Investing

TDAN

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already made a significant impact on the world of marketing, health, technology, and transportation. And while it’s yet to make its mark on the world of finance, there are already hedge funds and individual investors who rely on AI and machine learning to boost their portfolios and develop trading strategies. How […].

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Veeam’s new pitch to CIOs: Outcome-based backup and recovery offerings

CIO Business Intelligence

Veeam is all set to shift its selling strategy to appeal to CIOs with performance guarantees that could penalize the data replication, backup and recovery company if it fails to meet agreed-on outcomes. “CIOs more and more seek outcomes, not just services,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. “They need to hedge their risks. They are starting to demand outcomes from their technology providers.

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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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Data Speaks for Itself: Waldo, Where are You?

TDAN

Almost every child knows about the cute search-and-find Waldo with the red-striped shirt and cap hidden in the crowd. But something you may not know is that there was another much earlier Waldo. It was an early robotic device that let a human remotely operate mechanical hands in a sealed chamber. It was first used […].

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Is Cloud Data Integration the Secret to Alleviating Data Connectivity Woes?

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes Many businesses are moving towards a cloud-based approach in terms of managing their data, but that doesn’t mean that incorporating the cloud into businesses is an easy process. Also, after moving to a cloud-based environment, many organizations realize that their. The post Is Cloud Data Integration the Secret to Alleviating Data Connectivity Woes?

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Modern Data Governance Key Components

TDAN

Modern data access governance is a delicate balancing act where organizations have to be both privacy-driven and data-driven, where business leaders have to secure user data and stay compliant, while also uncovering insight and optimizing operations. Maintaining this equilibrium calls for regular recalibration of data access control techniques. After all, data access management is a […].

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Rapid AI Iteration, Reducing Cycle Time: Key Learnings from the Big Data & AI World Asia Conference

DataRobot Blog

Organizations are looking to deliver more business value from their AI investments, a hot topic at Big Data & AI World Asia. At the well-attended data science event, a DataRobot customer panel highlighted innovation with AI that challenges the status quo. A packed keynote session showed how repeatable workflows and flexible technology get more models into production.

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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.

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The Art of Lean Governance: Governance Metadata Management

TDAN

At the recent InfoGovWorld conference, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about the future of Data Governance. Common themes were the growing importance of governance metadata, especially in the areas of business value, success measurement and reduction in operational and data risk. The future lies in metadata management. Governance metadata management […].

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How to implement Alation Data Catalog into your company from day one

Alation

Digital transformation or a change in a company’s mindset to embrace data is an important step towards becoming a truly data intelligent and more efficient business. And a data catalog is an important part of this. But many companies might be wary of the time it takes to implement a new software. Data catalogs can play an important role in fast-tracking and facilitating digital transformation through the intelligent and efficient use of data, while delivering a proven return on investment from t

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Best Dressed for Armageddon

TDAN

In 2006, the world learned an inconvenient truth. The planet we call “home” was getting hotter and we were to blame. Naturally, being intelligent and rational beings, we took the action necessary to prevent the oncoming catastrophe. No? Surely then, being intelligent and rational beings, we prepared for what was to come by stopping building […].

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A Complete Guide To Finding The Product Metrics That Matter

datapine

Table of Contents. 1) What Are Product Metrics? 2) Types Of Product Metrics. 3) Product Metrics Examples You Can Use. 4) Product Metrics Framework. Managing to develop an effective product roadmap goes beyond a product manager’s (PM) vision or intuition, even if these aspects matter as well. In an increasingly data-driven business world, the product management field isn’t exempt from this need.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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What Happens When Your Cyber Defenses Are Breached?

TDAN

It’s past time for a comprehensive data security strategy Information Security professionals tend to focus on network, cloud, application, and IoT security along with perimeter defense. These are essential and provide a high degree of protection for systems and files. But what happens when your defenses are breached by a phishing attack and user credentials […].

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AI Significantly Increases the Dangers of Social Media Hacking

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence has led to some major changes in the nature of business. Companies around the world spent over $328.34 billion on AI last year and this figure is growing at a rapid rate. It is projected to be worth nearly $1.4 trillion by 2029. Many companies have started using AI technology to streamline and automate many aspects of their operations, including social media marketing.

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Are product managers chief executives of their product? It depends.

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s said that every company is now, at least partly, a software company, which is undoubtedly changing the IT landscape. As a result, product managers (PMs) have more opportunities and are more important than ever. Yet it’s often wondered, by everyone from the chief information officer to the help-desk technicians: What exactly does a PM do? The traditional answer is that a product manager is the chief executive of their product.

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Efficiency Spells the Difference Between Biological Neurons and Their Artificial Counterparts

KDnuggets

Part 8 of the series explores a single facet of biological neurons which, so far, have kept them way ahead of their artificial counterparts: their efficiency.

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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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SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news for CIOs wanting to enable domain experts to develop their own apps to solve business problems is that there’s a vast array of low-code development platforms to choose from. The bad news: there’s a vast array of platforms to choose from. CIOs may, therefore, have mixed feelings about SAP’s release of yet another low-code development platform into that crowded market at its Tech Ed developer conference this week.

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Systems Thinking and Data Science: a partnership or a competition?

Jen Stirrup

Information is pretty thin stuff, unless mixed with experience. – Clarence Day (1874–1935), American essayist. Why do organizations get stuck with their data? It is such a fundamental question. Often, this problem can be due to the organization concentrating solely on technology and data. However, organizations can be supported by a synergistic approach by integrating systems thinking with the data strategy and technical perspective.

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Spend Less Time on Report Creation and More Time on Analysis

Jet Global

You know the old saying “work smarter, not harder?” Turns out that’s easier said than done. How can your finance team transform the way it works and add strategic value to your organization? How can you shift your focus from menial tasks to tactical execution, and ultimately from tactical to strategic activities? In most companies, financial reporting consumes an inordinate amount of time and energy.

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Migrating to Cloud-based EPMs – Are You Ready to Follow the Trend?

Jet Global

As the need for greater interactivity and data access increases, more companies are adopting cloud computing. Cloud-based EPM solutions reduce operating costs, but migration can be a time-consuming and complicated process, often resulting in productivity losses. Cloud by the Numbers. Cloud computing is proliferating businesses across all industries.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.