Sat.Sep 10, 2022 - Fri.Sep 16, 2022

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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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Augmented Intelligence Reduces Dependency on AI/ML Skill Sets

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Business intelligence has evolved. It now includes a spectrum of analytics , one of the most promising of which has been described as augmented intelligence. Some organizations have used the term to describe the practical reality that artificial intelligence with machine learning is not replacing human intelligence, but augmenting it. The term also represents the application of AI/ML to make business intelligence and analytics tools more powerful and easier to use.

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Top tips: The most common dashboard pitfalls

Data Insight

Dashboards save time, improve business processes and enable you to spot gaps or issues – but only when designed well and used correctly. A poorly designed dashboard that’s used improperly – or not at all – has limited effectiveness, and can be a waste of digital space.

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5 Data Science Skills That Pay & 5 That Don’t

KDnuggets

This article will go over the top 5 data science skills that pay you and 5 that don’t.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionzing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for

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Hindi Character Recognition on Android using TensorFlow Lite

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction If you ever wanted to build an image classifier for text recognition, I’m assuming you probably must have implemented the classic Handwritten Digit Recognition application from TensorFlow’s official examples. Often referred to as the ‘Hello World’ of Computer Vision, it’s a great starting […].

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New Phocas feature integrates sales and operational drivers

Phocas

Capturing non-financial data from sales and operational teams isn’t easy. It’s typically a manual, time-consuming process where data often becomes out of date by the time it’s published. As a result, too many high-level business plans and budgets are made without enough insights from the teams that need to deliver them.

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5 Concepts You Should Know About Gradient Descent and Cost Function

KDnuggets

Why is Gradient Descent so important in Machine Learning? Learn more about this iterative optimization algorithm and how it is used to minimize a loss function.

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Upcoming DataHour Sessions: Book your Calendars!

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Data science is a practical subject that the experts can best explain in the field. To provide our community with a better understanding of how different elements of the subject are used in different domains, Analytics Vidhya has launched our DataHour sessions. These sessions will enhance your domain knowledge and help you learn new […].

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What is Driver Based Planning?

Phocas

The devil is always in the detail, especially when it’s budgeting time. When we’re in business planning mode we’re looking at what worked well and what didn’t, as well as projecting most likely and stretch scenarios to plan the next year of cash flow. We need the detail to make an action plan to capitalize on opportunities or mitigate risks.

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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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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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AI Technology and Creativity Are Intertwined in Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has helped many companies improve efficiency and address some of the top challenges they have encountered in recent years. A growing number of businesses have invested in AI to improve their business models. As a result, the market for AI technology is projected to be worth over $420 billion by 2028. Surveys have shown that 90% of the top businesses use AI , even though only 37% of companies use it at all.

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Understanding Word Embeddings and Building your First RNN Model

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction Deep learning is one of the hottest fields in the past decade, with applications in industry and research. However, even though it’s easy to delve into the topic, many people are confused by the terminology and end up only implementing neural network […]. The post Understanding Word Embeddings and Building your First RNN Model appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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New Phocas feature integrates sales and operational drivers

Phocas

Capturing non-financial data from sales and operational teams isn’t easy. It’s typically a manual, time-consuming process where data often becomes out of date by the time it’s published. As a result, too many high-level business plans and budgets are made without enough insights from the teams that need to deliver them.

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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

So much has changed since the early days of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to rethink where and how people work. What didn’t change was the need for organizations to continue to move forward with digital initiatives. For CIOs and IT leaders, that meant adopting a sink-or-swim mentality, and accelerating initiatives even as they transitioned to remote work.

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How to Deliver a Modern Data Experience Your Customers Will Love

In embedded analytics, keeping up with the pace of innovation is challenging. Download Qrvey's guide to ensure your analytics keep pace so you can solve your user's biggest challenges, delight them, and set your product apart from the competition. The guide outlines how to use embedded analytics to: Increase user satisfaction Go to market faster Create additional opportunities to monetize your product It also shares what to look for to ensure your embedded analytics are keeping up with the lates

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Benefits of High-Resolution Lidar Data for Data-Driven Companies

Smart Data Collective

A growing number of organizations are resorting to the use of big data. They have found that big data technology offers a number of benefits. Companies that leverage it effectively increase their profitability by 60%. However, utilizing big data is more difficult than it might seem. Companies must be aware of the different ways that data can be collected, aggregated and applied.

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How to Deploy a Machine learning model on AWS EC2

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction AWS is a cloud computing service that provides on-demand computing resources for storage, networking, Machine learning, etc on a pay-as-you-go pricing model. AWS is a premier cloud computing platform around the globe, and most organization uses AWS for global networking and data […].

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What is Driver Based Planning?

Phocas

The devil is always in the detail, especially when it’s budgeting time. When we’re in business planning mode we’re looking at what worked well and what didn’t, as well as projecting most likely and stretch scenarios to plan the next year of cash flow. We need the detail to make an action plan to capitalize on opportunities or mitigate risks.

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Top Open Source Large Language Models

KDnuggets

In this article, we will discuss the importance of large language models and suggest some of the top open source models and the NLP tasks they can be used for.

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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? The Senzing Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide gives you step-by-step details about everything you should consider when evaluating entity resolution technologies. You’ll learn about use cases, technology and deployment options, top ten evaluation criteria and more.

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9 most in-demand IT jobs in manufacturing

CIO Business Intelligence

The manufacturing industry is experiencing its “fourth industrial revolution,” with manufacturers focused on leveraging IT to stay competitive and meet the demand for digital services that can enhance their physical wares. Sensors, AI, and robotics are key Manufacturing 4.0 technologies that fueled data strategies aimed at identifying inefficiencies, streamlining processes, and improving the ability to forecast and predict industry trends.

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How to Use Data to Drive Your Marketing Strategy

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction In the era of big data, it’s no surprise that more and more marketers are using data science in marketing to better position their brands, products, and services in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace. Source: [link] Four points that you need to take into your […].

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Leading Trends of Fintech Development Services in 2022

Smart Data Collective

The fintech sector is growing at a shocking rate. The market was worth over $112 billion last year. By 2028, it should be worth over $332 billion. Some entrepreneurs might think this is the best time ever to invest in fintech. While the market is growing and creating more opportunities for fintech entrepreneurs, the stakes are also higher than ever.

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Removing Outliers Using Standard Deviation in Python

KDnuggets

Standard Deviation is one of the most underrated statistical tools out there. It’s an extremely useful metric that most people know how to calculate but very few know how to use effectively.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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NJ Transit creates ‘data engine’ to fuel transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

NJ Transit’s digital infrastructure has come a long way since Lookman Fazal took the top tech post more than three years ago. The chief information and digital officer for the transportation agency moved the stack in his data centers to a best-of-breed multicloud platform approach and has been on a mission to squeeze as much data out of that platform as possible to create the best possible business outcomes.

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Data Warehouses: Basic Concepts for data enthusiasts

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction The purpose of a data warehouse is to combine multiple sources to generate different insights that help companies make better decisions and forecasting. It consists of historical and commutative data from single or multiple sources. Most data scientists, big data analysts, and business […].

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Big Data Helps Drive the Future of Virtual Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology is shaping the future of healthcare. Global healthcare companies are projected to spend over $105 billion on big data by 2030. One of the biggest benefits of big data in healthcare has been in the field of virtual healthcare. Demand for virtual healthcare services exploded during the pandemic. Big data technology is helping make this new field even more promising.

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How to stay ahead of ever-evolving data privacy regulations

IBM Big Data Hub

Enterprises are dealing with a barrage of upcoming regulations concerning data privacy and data protection, not only at the state and federal level in the US, but also in a dizzying number of jurisdictions around the world. Kicked off several years ago by the groundbreaking introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) , the regulation and compliance trend is only going to intensify.

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Innovation Systems: Advancing Practices to Create New Value

As technology transforms the global business landscape, companies need to examine and update their internal processes for innovation to keep pace. Ultimately, organizations will have to improve the velocity of innovation by creating repeatable processes that support ideation, exploration, and incubation, essential to capturing an idea’s full value.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO Business Intelligence

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck. The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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All you Need to Know About AutoEncoders in 2022

Analytics Vidhya

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Introduction As the world develops rapidly with advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we will soon face a situation of uncontrollable data augmentation. GPUs, TPUs, and other faster storage and processing mechanisms have so far successfully processed vast amounts of data in […].

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Simplifying Decision Tree Interpretability with Python & Scikit-learn

KDnuggets

This post will look at a few different ways of attempting to simplify decision tree representation and, ultimately, interpretability. All code is in Python, with Scikit-learn being used for the decision tree modeling.

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How to Decide Whether a SaaS Tool is Worth Purchasing?

Smart Data Collective

In today’s more competitive, technology-driven corporate environment, all firms seeking to increase activity and productivity are reaping the benefits of the software world. The software industry is quite diverse, with solutions that may fulfill practically any potential business requirement, whether it be increased cloud computing capabilities, artificial intelligence-based automation tools, or merchant processing choices.

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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.