October, 2023

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. But perhaps more importantly, they must learn from their previous big digital wins — and avoid repeating all-too-frequent mistakes that cause transformations to fail or lag behind expectations.

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Preliminary Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on AI

O'Reilly on Data

Disclaimer: Based on the announcement of the EO , without having seen the full text. While I am heartened to hear that the Executive Order on AI uses the Defense Production Act to compel disclosure of various data from the development of large AI models, these disclosures do not go far enough. The EO seems to be requiring only data on the procedures and results of “Red Teaming” (i.e. adversarial testing to determine a model’s flaws and weak points), and not a wider range of inf

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Embedded Analytics Buyers Guide: Market Observations

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Embedded Analytics research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.

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7 ways diversity and inclusion help teams perform better

CIO Business Intelligence

Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become important social issues. In the wake of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders of 2020, companies made massive, highly publicized efforts to correct for systemic bias and improve the mix of race, gender, and lived experiences in the workplace. According to a recent study from Pew Research, most employed adults in the US think this is a good thing.

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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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Fine-Tuning, Retraining, and Beyond: Advancing with Custom LLMs

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction I’m pretty sure most of you have already used ChatGPT. That’s great because you’ve taken your first step on a journey we’re about to embark on in this article! You see, when it comes to mastering any new technology, the first thing you do is use it. It’s like learning to swim by jumping […] The post Fine-Tuning, Retraining, and Beyond: Advancing with Custom LLMs appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Drag, Drop, Analyze: The Rise of No-Code Data Science

KDnuggets

No-code or low-code functionalities in data science have gained significant traction in recent years. These solutions are well-proven and matured, and they make data science more accessible to a wider range of people.

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Managing Seasonal Fluctuations in Retail with Analytics

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics technology has helped retail companies optimize their business models in a number of ways. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it helps companies improve stability during times of uncertainty. There are inevitable ups and downs that every industry experiences, and recognizing these ebbs and flows can fundamentally impact your business.

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Mobile Analytics Buyers Guide: Market Observations

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Mobile Analytics research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.

Marketing 282
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How Value Stream Management is fueling success at Boeing, Tyson, and Verizon

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.

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Build a RAG Pipeline With the LLama Index

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction One of the most popular applications of large language models (LLMs) is to answer questions about custom datasets. LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard are excellent communicators. They can answer almost anything that they have been trained on. This is also one of the biggest bottlenecks for LLMs. They can only answer the questions they […] The post Build a RAG Pipeline With the LLama Index appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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5 Free Books to Master Machine Learning

KDnuggets

Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in computer science today. In this article, we will take a look at the five best yet free books to learn machine learning in 2023.

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Enable cost-efficient operational analytics with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

AWS Big Data

As the scale and complexity of microservices and distributed applications continues to expand, customers are seeking guidance for building cost-efficient infrastructure supporting operational analytics use cases. Operational analytics is a popular use case with Amazon OpenSearch Service. A few of the defining characteristics of these use cases are ingesting a high volume of time series data and a relatively low volume of querying, alerting, and running analytics on ingested data for real-time in

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RN Coders Can Improve Hospital Data Strategies

Smart Data Collective

Healthcare providers are investing more heavily in big data technology, as they strive to deal with growing challenges such as declining operating margins and an increasingly complex regulatory environment. However, many healthcare providers lack the technology or knowledge to use data prudently. One study found that 56% of hospitals do not have any data analytics or governance strategies.

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Analytics and Data Buyers Guide 2023: Market Observations

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The 2023 Ventana Research Buyers Guide for Analytics and Data research enables me to provide observations about how the market has advanced.

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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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Beyond DevSecOps: Why fintech companies need to consider DevSecRegOps

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology? As the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology strategy at Discover Financial Services, I think about this question often as we work to design our tech sta

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Top 10 Tableau Projects for Data Science

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The world of data science has numerous candidates with technical expertise, but only a few excel at problem-solving. When it is about communicating and expressing these skills effectively, some people are great at it naturally, while others develop this ability over time. Fortunately, with the advent of tools such as Tableau, you get access […] The post Top 10 Tableau Projects for Data Science appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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7 Steps to Mastering Large Language Models (LLMs)

KDnuggets

Large Language Models (LLMs) have unlocked a new era in natural language processing. So why not learn more about them? Go from learning what large language models are to building and deploying LLM apps in 7 easy steps with this guide.

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Fresh Ideas for Data Governance Professionals

TDAN

As a frequent reviewer of data and strategy books, I am always interested in understanding authors’ perspectives on data governance. Two recent books have ideas that are worthy of data governance professionals: “Rewired” by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney W. Zemmel; and “Data Is Everybody’s Business” by Barbara H. Wixom, Cynthia M.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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From “Text Analytics” to “Text and Document Mining and Analytics Platforms”

Boris Evelson

Text analytics is a peculiar software market segment. Vendors typically have a main offering that heavily relies on text mining and analytics, but they rarely position themselves explicitly as “text analytics platforms.

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Using AWS AppSync and AWS Lake Formation to access a secure data lake through a GraphQL API

AWS Big Data

Data lakes have been gaining popularity for storing vast amounts of data from diverse sources in a scalable and cost-effective way. As the number of data consumers grows, data lake administrators often need to implement fine-grained access controls for different user profiles. They might need to restrict access to certain tables or columns depending on the type of user making the request.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.

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Exploring the Advanced Multi-Modal Generative AI

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In today’s ever-advancing world of technology, there’s an exciting development on the horizon – Advanced Multi-modal Generative AI. This cutting-edge technology is about making computers more innovative and great, creating content and understanding. Imagine a digital assistant that seamlessly works with text, images, and sounds and generates information.

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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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Why SQL is THE Language to Learn for Data Science

KDnuggets

SQL is the essential data science language due to its universal database accessibility, efficient data cleaning capabilities, seamless integration with other languages, and requirement for most data science jobs.

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insightsoftware Introduces Logi Symphony Embedded Business Intelligence and Analytics for Any Web-Based Application

Jet Global

From a single solution, organizations can embed cost-effective AI, interactive data visualizations, dashboards, and reports, enhancing the value and engagement of any application RALEIGH, N.C. – October 10, 2023 – insightsoftware , a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, is celebrating the release of extensive new capabilities to th e Logi Symphony software suite to help companies quickly make da ta -rich application experiences that keep their customers

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BI Governance Lets You Have Your Cake And Eat It, Too

Boris Evelson

Democratizing enterprise data while trying to stick to a single trusted enterprise data source (i.e., the “single source of the truth”) is a quagmire. Actually, these are two almost opposing objectives.

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Load data incrementally from transactional data lakes to data warehouses

AWS Big Data

Data lakes and data warehouses are two of the most important data storage and management technologies in a modern data architecture. Data lakes store all of an organization’s data, regardless of its format or structure. An open table format such as Apache Hudi , Delta Lake , or Apache Iceberg is widely used to build data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in a transactionally consistent manner for use cases including record-level upserts and deletes, change data capture (CDC), ti

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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.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO Business Intelligence

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases. As a result of using the extracted tokens from the Okta support system and support cases, the threat actor subsequently gained complete access to many of their customers’ systems.

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How to Build LLM Apps Using Vector Database?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the field of artificial intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 2, Meta’s Llama, Falcon, Google’s Palm, etc., have revolutionized the way we solve problems. LLMs use deep learning techniques to perform natural language processing tasks. This article will teach you to build LLM Apps […] The post How to Build LLM Apps Using Vector Database?

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5 Free Books to Master Data Science

KDnuggets

Want to break into data science? Check this list of free books for learning Python, statistics, linear algebra, machine learning and deep learning.

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Mastering AI Optimization and Deployment with Intel’s OpenVINO Toolkit

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction We talk about AI almost daily due to its growing impact in replacing humans’ manual work. Building AI-enabled software has rapidly grown in a brief time. Enterprises and businesses believe in integrating reliable and responsible AI in their application to generate more revenue. The most challenging part of integrating AI into an application is […] The post Mastering AI Optimization and Deployment with Intel’s OpenVINO Toolkit appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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.