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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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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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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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, we’ll explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, we’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in decision-making, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation. Attendees will leave with practical tools and actionable insights, motivated to embrace AI and leverage its potential in their work. 🦸 🏢 Key objectives:

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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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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Spark on AWS Lambda: An Apache Spark runtime for AWS Lambda

AWS Big Data

Spark on AWS Lambda (SoAL) is a framework that runs Apache Spark workloads on AWS Lambda. It’s designed for both batch and event-based workloads, handling data payload sizes from 10 KB to 400 MB. This framework is ideal for batch analytics workloads from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and event-based streaming from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and Amazon Kinesis.

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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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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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Entity Resolution: Your Guide to Deciding Whether to Build It or Buy It

Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.

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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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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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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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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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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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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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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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A Step-by-Step Guide to PDF Chatbots with Langchain and Ollama

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In an era where technology continues to transform the way we interact with information, the concept of a PDF chatbot brings a new level of convenience and efficiency to the table. This article delves into the intriguing realm of creating a PDF chatbot using Langchain and Ollama, where open-source models become accessible with minimal […] The post A Step-by-Step Guide to PDF Chatbots with Langchain and Ollama appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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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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7 Steps to Mastering Natural Language Processing

KDnuggets

Want to learn all about Natural Language Processing (NLP)? Here is a 7 step guide to help you go from the fundamentals of machine learning and Python to Transformers, recent advances in NLP, and beyond.

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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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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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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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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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How to Use Midjourney AI?

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction The allure of image-generating AI has surged. With the ability to give life to any type of imagination, AI has gained popularity among business people as well as in education. One such AI wizardry is exhibited by Midjourney AI. It translates text prompts into captivating AI-generated images. Here is a tutorial guiding you to […] The post How to Use Midjourney AI?

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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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Integrating Generative AI and Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improvement

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, two key players have come together to break new ground: Generative AI and Reinforcement Learning. These cutting-edge technologies, Generative AI and Reinforcement Learning, have the potential to create self-improving AI systems, taking us one step closer to realizing the dream of machines that learn and adapt autonomously.

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The Power of Advanced Encoders and Decoders in Generative AI

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction In the dynamic realm of Artificial Intelligence, the fusion of technology and creativity has birthed innovative tools that push the boundaries of human imagination. Among these pioneering advancements lies the sophisticated world of Encoders and Decoders in Generative AI. This evolution revolutionises how we create, interpret, and interact with art, language, and even reality. […] The post The Power of Advanced Encoders and Decoders in Generative AI appeared first on Analytics

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Leading the Development of Profitable and Sustainable Products

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.