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Sea change: What happens when Jupyter becomes pervasive at a university?

O'Reilly on Data

Fernando Perez talks about UC Berkeley's transition into an environment where many undergraduates use Jupyter and the open data ecosystem as naturally as they use email. Continue reading Sea change: What happens when Jupyter becomes pervasive at a university?

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How Fannie Mae is Creating a Modern Data Environment

Bruno Aziza

Fannie Mae has established a modern data environment which results in a richer and more granular customer experience.

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GDPR and a history of regulation-driven innovation

IBM Big Data Hub

Changes in rules and regulations create a fertile environment for innovation, in sports and in business. You just have to know where to look and approach things with an open mind.

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Driving Digital Strategy (Review)

DSI Analytics

Many companies fail, despite their best efforts, at reinventing themselves in the digital age. Harvard’s Sunil Gupta, who has worked with top organizations around the globe, presents valuable lessons-learned in his recent book, Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business. This post is a summary and review of that book. Introduction: I really liked the […].

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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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Disease prediction using the world's largest clinical lab data set

O'Reilly on Data

Cristian Capdevila explains how Prognos is predicting disease. Continue reading Disease prediction using the world's largest clinical lab data set.

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Bringing AIOps to Machine Learning & Analytics

Cloudera

Two years ago I founded Hyperpilot with the mission to enable autopilot for container infrastructure. We learned a lot about data center automation based on real-time application and diagnostic feedback using applied machine learning. Last month, I joined Cloudera along with former team members Xiaoyun Zhu and Che-Yuan Liang to bring our expertise in intelligent automation to Cloudera’s modern platform for machine learning and analytics.

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In-depth with CDO Christopher Bannocks

Peter James Thomas

Part of the In-depth series of interviews. Today I am talking to Christopher Bannocks , who is Group Chief Data Officer at ING. ING is a leading global financial institution, headquartered in the Netherlands. As stressed in other recent In-depth interviews [1] , data is a critical asset in banking and related activities, so Christopher’s role is a pivotal one.

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Building accessible tools for large-scale computation and machine learning

O'Reilly on Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Eric Jonas on Pywren, scientific computation, and machine learning. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Eric Jonas , a postdoc in the new Berkeley Center for Computational Imaging. Jonas is also affiliated with UC Berkeley’s RISE Lab. It was at a RISE Lab event that he first announced Pywren , a framework that lets data enthusiasts proficient with Python run existing code at massive scale on Amazon Web Services.

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Meet the newest Data Superheros: The Sixth Annual Data Impact Awards Finalists Are…

Cloudera

Drum roll… Starting from well over 100 nominations, we are excited to announce the finalists for this year’s Data Impact Awards ! Each year, nominees have raised the bar, and this year is no exception. The level of impact that organizations have shown and the variety of use cases are inspiring. From AI models that power retail customer decision engines to utility meter analysis that disables underperforming gas turbines, these finalists demonstrate how machine learning and analytics have become

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Specificity is the Soul of Data Narrative

Juice Analytics

The folks in the front of the room stared with a forced intensity at (what must have been) the 23rd straight slide showing data about website performance. Their glazed eyes would have been entirely evident if the speaker wasn’t so intently focused on pointing out the change in bounce rate between August and July. In the back of the room, Brian wasn’t able to summon the energy to care.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Winning with AI: Industry POV on how to change the game, part 2

IBM Big Data Hub

Ahead of the “Change the Game: Winning with AI,” a September, 13, 2018 event, we asked a virtual roundtable of analytics experts and analysts to wrestle with some of the core issues surrounding AI.

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Jupyter notebooks and the intersection of data science and data engineering

O'Reilly on Data

David Schaaf explains how data science and data engineering can work together to deliver results to decision makers. Continue reading Jupyter notebooks and the intersection of data science and data engineering.

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Introducing Cloudera Enterprise 6.0

Cloudera

Digital technologies are changing business models, reshaping how companies go-to-market, win new customers and drive new revenue-producing opportunities. Consider the following practices that, until recently, were relegated to the R&D department: Data-driven decision making – the collection and analysis of data to guide decisions that improve success.

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7 keys to self-service BI success

CIO Business Intelligence

Self-service business intelligence (BI) is becoming more popular, as organizations look for ways to make it easier for business users at all levels to glean insights from growing volumes of data.

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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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How consistent data governance helps eliminate "Garbage In, Garbage Out"

IBM Big Data Hub

Are your efforts to leverage big data hampered by poor or outdated data management? .

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Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery

O'Reilly on Data

Michelle Gill discusses how data science methods and tools can link information from different scientific fields and accelerate discovery. Continue reading Data science as a catalyst for scientific discovery.

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In the Multi-Cloud Era, Cloud Cost Optimization is an Engineering Problem

Nutanix

A key technology trend we’ve seen recently in enterprise organizations is the increasing adoption of multiple cloud environments — combining on-premises private clouds and public cloud services.

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Data Science Challenges – It’s Deja Vu all over again!

Peter James Thomas

The rather famous tautology, “It’s déjà vu all over again”, has of course been ascribed to that darling of malapropisms, baseball catcher Yogi Berra [1]. The phrase came to mind for me today when coming across the following exhibit: © Business Over Broadway (2018). Based on Kaggle’s State of Data Science Survey 2017 (Sample size: 10,153).

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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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Natural Language Processing for Advanced Analytics!

Smarten

Does Natural Language Processing Work with Advanced Analytics? Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a trend that has taken over technology. Vendors are applying this technique to all types of searching and Advanced Analytics is no exception. Nearly every enterprise is working on data democratization and wants to transform its business users into Citizen Data Scientists with easy-to-use tools that offer sophisticated analytical techniques and simple access and analysis – no matter the skill

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Beyond interactive: Scaling impact with notebooks at Netflix

O'Reilly on Data

Michelle Ufford shares how Netflix leverages notebooks today and describes a brief vision for the future. Continue reading Beyond interactive: Scaling impact with notebooks at Netflix.

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The Only Hypervisor Certified for Production SAP HANA on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): Another First for Nutanix AHV

Nutanix

At Nutanix we strive every day to make infrastructure just a little bit better than it was yesterday. Over the last eight years, Nutanix has reinvented storage, reinvented the hypervisor, and created a delightful private cloud for virtualized workloads that makes the lives of our customers better.

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The future of data-driven discovery in the cloud

O'Reilly on Data

Ryan Abernathey makes the case for the large-scale migration of scientific data and research to the cloud. Continue reading The future of data-driven discovery in the cloud.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Democratizing data

O'Reilly on Data

Tracy Teal explains how to bring people to data and empower them to address their questions. Continue reading Democratizing data.

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