September, 2022

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Enhancing Data Catalog with AI

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Organizations are collecting data from multiple data sources and a variety of systems to enrich their analytics and business intelligence (BI). But collecting data is only half of the equation. As the data grows, it becomes challenging to find the right data at the right time. Many organizations can’t take full advantage of their data lakes because they don’t know what data actually exists.

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How is Big Data Helping in the Development of Healthcare?

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction “Big data in healthcare” refers to much health data collected from many sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), medical imaging, genomic sequencing, wearables, payer records, medical devices, and pharmaceutical research. Its characteristics distinguish it from traditional electronic medical and human health data […].

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How to Correctly Select a Sample From a Huge Dataset in Machine Learning

KDnuggets

We explain how choosing a small, representative dataset from a large population can improve model training reliability.

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Take Your SQL Skills To The Next Level With These Popular SQL Books

datapine

Business leaders, developers, data heads, and tech enthusiasts – it’s time to make some room on your business intelligence bookshelf because once again, datapine has new books for you to add. We have already given you our top data visualization books , top business intelligence books , and best data analytics books. Now it’s time to ponder over our hand-picked list of the 20 best SQL learning books available today.

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The Definitive Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide

Are you thinking of adding enhanced data matching and relationship detection to your product or service? Do you need to know more about what to look for when assessing your options? Our Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide gives you step-by-step details about everything you should consider when evaluating entity resolution technologies. We discuss use cases, technology, and deployment options, top ten evaluation criteria and more.

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MLOps Helps Mitigate the Unforeseen in AI Projects

DataRobot Blog

The latest McKinsey Global Survey on AI proves that AI adoption continues to grow and that the benefits remain significant. But in the COVID-19 pandemic’s first year, many felt more strongly about the cost-savings front than the top line. At the same time, AI remains complex and out of reach for many. For example, a recent IDC study 1 shows that it takes about 290 days on average to deploy a model into production from start to finish.

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AI Meets Data Access Governance

TDAN

Data is the viral sensation crashing the data governance capacity. Use of data is disrupting industries, economies, even some government elections. Unlocking the secrets data holds is the number one challenge in every single company regardless of the size or industry. However, organizations are facing a challenge: having the framework is key. And yet, execution, […].

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Underlying Engineering Behind Alexa’s Contextual ASR

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Conventionally, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system leverages a single statistical language model to rectify ambiguities, regardless of context. However, we can improve the system’s accuracy by leveraging contextual information. Any type of contextual information, like device context, conversational context, and metadata, […].

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How to Select Rows and Columns in Pandas Using [ ],loc, iloc,at and.iat

KDnuggets

Subset selection is one of the most frequently performed tasks while manipulating data. Pandas provides different ways to efficiently select subsets of data from your DataFrame.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Human resources has long understood that money is an inadequate motivator. We know that because workers don’t simply operate according to market conditions, always favoring more money above all else. Instead, people are looking for something more ephemeral, which we’ll call meaning. . Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious.

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How to Avoid Burning Out if You Are a Data Scientist

Dataiku

This is a guest article from Eric Kahuha. Kahuha is an ambitious data scientist and an experienced technical writer. His work has been published in many blogs. He writes highly technical yet easy-to-understand content for beginners and experts in the tech field.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Large Scale Industrialization Key to Open Source Innovation

Cloudera

We are now well into 2022 and the megatrends that drove the last decade in data — The Apache Software Foundation as a primary innovation vehicle for big data, the arrival of cloud computing, and the debut of cheap distributed storage — have now converged and offer clear patterns for competitive advantage for vendors and value for customers. Cloudera has been parlaying those patterns into clear wins for the community at large and, more importantly, streamlining the benefits of that innovation to

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A Year After: Has Blockchain Changed Advertising by 2022?

Smart Data Collective

Last decade made a pretty bold promise to digital advertising, which more than other industries suffers from insufficient transparency and a fraudulent environment. The IAB Tech Lab conferences , in particular, frequently gathered blockchain evangelists and ad tech experts who discussed how this technology would finally drive authentication to programmatic chains.

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Get to Know All About Evaluation Metrics

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Evaluation metrics are used to measure the quality of the model. Selecting an appropriate evaluation metric is important because it can impact your selection of a model or decide whether to put your model into production. The mportance of cross-validation: Are evaluation metrics […].

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More Performance Evaluation Metrics for Classification Problems You Should Know

KDnuggets

When building and optimizing your classification model, measuring how accurately it predicts your expected outcome is crucial. However, this metric alone is never the entire story, as it can still offer misleading results. That's where these additional performance evaluations come into play to help tease out more meaning from your model.

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core. No matter where you are in your analytics journey, you will learn about emerging trends and gather best practices from product experts.

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American Airlines takes flight with analytics transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines have struggled with bad weather, fewer air traffic controllers, and a shortage of pilots, all leading to an unprecedented number of cancelations in 2022. According to Reuters , more than 100,000 flights in the US were canceled between January and July, up 11% from pre-pandemic levels. American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, is turning to data and analytics to minimize disruptions and streamline operations with the aim of giving travelers a s

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Getting Data Into Shape for Reporting with Power BI

Paul Turley

I see a lot of Power BI projects that we are asked to fix or performance tune, and at least nine times out of ten, the answer is that the data needs to be shaped and transformed so it is optimized for reporting.

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Data Governance and Strategy for the Global Enterprise

Cloudera

In a recent blog, Cloudera Chief Technology Officer Ram Venkatesh described the evolution of a data lakehouse, as well as the benefits of using an open data lakehouse, especially the open Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). If you missed it, you can read up about it here. Modern data lakehouses are typically deployed in the cloud. Cloud computing brings several distinct advantages that are core to the lakehouse value proposition.

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What Are the Most Serious Privacy Concerns Regarding Big Data?

Smart Data Collective

Given the growing importance of big data and the rising reliance of businesses on big data analytics to carry out their day-to-day operations, it is safe to say that big data has irrevocably altered the online world for anyone running a digital enterprise or an e-business. Big data’s invaluable insights are an essential factor in the success of enterprises.

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Why Modern Data Challenges Require a New Approach to Governance

A healthy data-driven culture minimizes knowledge debt while maximizing analytics productivity. Agile Data Governance is the process of creating and improving data assets by iteratively capturing knowledge as data producers and consumers work together so that everyone can benefit. It adapts the deeply proven best practices of Agile and Open software development to data and analytics.

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Data Warehousing with Snowflake and Other Alternatives

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Over the past few years, Snowflake has grown from a virtual unknown to a retailer with thousands of customers. Businesses have adopted Snowflake as migration from on-premise enterprise data warehouses (such as Teradata) or a more flexibly scalable and easier-to-manage alternative to […].

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SQL vs NoSQL: 7 Key Takeaways

KDnuggets

People assume that NoSQL is a counterpart to SQL. Instead, it’s a different type of database designed for use-cases where SQL is not ideal. The differences between the two are many, although some are so crucial that they define both databases at their cores.

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The Future of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

Machine learning (ML) is a commonly used term across nearly every sector of IT today. And while ML has frequently been used to make sense of big data—to improve business performance and processes and help make predictions—it has also proven priceless in other applications, including cybersecurity. This article will share reasons why ML has risen to such importance in cybersecurity, share some of the challenges of this particular application of the technology and describe the future that machine

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A 12-Point Checklist for Public and Open Data Sites (with Examples)

Juice Analytics

Let the data run free! Government organizations, academic institutions, non-profits, and even passionate sports fans are gathering and sharing valuable data sets with the public. The topics are wide ranging, from climate change to health to inequality to happiness. It is a powerful way to support a cause and encourage data-driven analysis. These open data sets are set loose on a website in hopes that interested visitors will come flocking.

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Value-Driven AI: Applying Lessons Learned from Predictive AI to Generative

Speaker: Data Robot

Enterprise AI maturity has evolved dramatically over the past 5 years. Most enterprises have now experienced their first successes with predictive AI, but the pace and scale of impact have too often been underwhelming. Now generative AI has emerged and captivated the minds and imaginations of leaders and innovators everywhere. Join our DataRobot experts to reflect on lessons learned from helping hundreds of enterprises grow their AI maturity over the past 5 years.

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The Modern Data Lakehouse: An Architectural Innovation

Cloudera

The promise of a modern data lakehouse architecture. Imagine having self-service access to all business data, anywhere it may be, and being able to explore it all at once. Imagine quickly answering burning business questions nearly instantly, without waiting for data to be found, shared, and ingested. Imagine independently discovering rich new business insights from both structured and unstructured data working together, without having to beg for data sets to be made available.

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Data-Driven Companies Leverage OCR for Optimal Data Quality

Smart Data Collective

OCR is the latest new technology that data-driven companies are leveraging to extract data more effectively. There are a number of benefits of using it to your company’s advantage. OCR and Other Data Extraction Tools Have Promising ROIs for Brands. Big data is changing the state of modern business. A growing number of companies have leveraged big data to cut costs, improve customer engagement, have better compliance rates and earn solid brand reputations.

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Blockchain Technology and its Types

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Blockchain technology is a decentralized, distributed ledger that keeps a record of ownership of digital assets. Any data stored on the blockchain cannot be modified, making the technology a legitimate disruptor for payments, cybersecurity, and healthcare industries. Blockchain is a system of registering […].

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Welcome to TensorFlow!

KDnuggets

TensorFlow in Action teaches you to construct, train, and deploy deep learning models using TensorFlow 2. In this practical tutorial, you’ll build reusable skills hands-on as you create production-ready applications.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

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What is employee experience? A vital factor for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Employee experience has become a key factor in defining your company’s overall success. Positive or negative, employee experience can significantly impact your company’s productivity, efficiency, and its ability to recruit and retain talent. It can even impact your brand’s reputation long after an employee has exited the company. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the future of work by normalizing remote work , placing a new emphasis on workplace flexibility , and introducing hybrid w

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Rejoice! The Vantage Analytics and Data Platform Provide Incredible Power for All in a “Cloudy” Environment

Teradata

With the release of VantageCloud Lake and ClearScape Analytics, Teradata brings a cloud-native architecture to extend the technical innovations and differentiators that Vantage is well known for.

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Improve Underwriting Using Data and Analytics

Cloudera

Insurance carriers are always looking to improve operational efficiency. We’ve previously highlighted opportunities to improve digital claims processing with data and AI. In this post, I’ll explore opportunities to enhance risk assessment and underwriting, especially in personal lines and small and medium-sized enterprises. Underwriting is an area that can yield improvements by applying the old saying “work smarter, not harder.

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Can Data Mining Aid with Off-Page SEO Strategies?

Smart Data Collective

Data mining technology has led to some important breakthroughs in modern marketing. Even major companies like HubSpot have talked extensively about the benefits of using data mining for marketing. One of the most important ways that companies can use data mining in their marketing strategies is with SEO. Data mining is especially useful in the context of offsite SEO.

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From Hadoop to Data Lakehouse

Getting off of Hadoop is a critical objective for organizations, with data executives well aware of the significant benefits of doing so. The problem is, there are few options available that minimize the risk to the business during the migration process and that’s one of the reasons why many organizations are still using Hadoop today. By migrating to the data lakehouse, you can get immediate benefits from day one using Dremio’s phased migration approach.