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A Beginner’s Guide to Hierarchical Clustering and how to Perform it in Python

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction It is crucial to understand customer behavior in any industry. I realized this last year when my chief marketing officer asked me – The post A Beginner’s Guide to Hierarchical Clustering and how to Perform it in Python appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Data Engineer vs Data Scientist: What’s the Right Fit for Your Company?

Sisense

Let’s paint a happy picture. Things are progressing nicely at your organization. You’ve got a strong bank of existing customers whose business you can grow. You’ve got a healthy level of interest from the visitors to your website, enquiries, and trials. You’re regularly finding great leads and you’ve got some good ideas for more lead generation. And you’re consolidating your relationships with your partners, potential new partners, your channels, suppliers, and so forth.

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Snowflake: 3 Benefits of a Self-Adapting Data Warehouse

Corinium

With the rise of new data streams, the ability to access more data and derive insights from it more quickly is critical. By 2023, worldwide revenue for big data solutions will reach $260 billion.* Download our new 3 Benefits of a Self-Adapting Data Warehouse ebook to learn how analytics leaders leverage technology shorten time to value for their data.

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Top 7 Free Resources for Data Scientists

Dataiku

Data Scientists are a passionate and curious bunch, who explore the ecosystem to learn new technologies and best practices but you've only got part of the picture if you don't have all the information necessary to understand new industries and technologies. That's why we assembled a set of free resources for data scientists to keep up with the latest in research, corporate practices, and data ethics.

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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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Decoding the Best Papers from ICLR 2019 – Neural Networks are Here to Rule

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction I love reading and decoding machine learning research papers. There is so much incredible information to parse through – a goldmine for us. The post Decoding the Best Papers from ICLR 2019 – Neural Networks are Here to Rule appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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5 Industries That Are Being Revolutionized By Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Big data is completely transforming the way we live and the way companies conduct business. Pretty much every industry you can think of uses some form of big data technology to help optimize their business. In this article, we reveal five industries which have been reshaped by big data technology. 1. Retail. IBM wrote an excellent report about the use of big data in the retail sector.

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Foundations of Data Science – Free Book

Data Science 101

Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan wrote the book, Foundations of Data Science (PDF download). It is free and available for download. It can be useful for academic work or in business. It covers topics such as: Machine Learning Massive Data Clustering and many more. See the video for more.

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Exclusive Interview with Sonny Laskar – Kaggle Master and Analytics Vidhya Hackathon Expert

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction What’s the key to cracking data science competitions? How do you use this experience to break into the data science industry? We regularly. The post Exclusive Interview with Sonny Laskar – Kaggle Master and Analytics Vidhya Hackathon Expert appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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What is a business relationship manager? A key role for bridging the business-IT divide

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a business relationship manager? A business relationship manager (BRM) acts as a liaison between IT and other business units in the organization. As departments increasingly rely on technology, organizations often find they need to establish stronger communication between IT and outside business units. The BRM role is typically a senior-level position, for which candidates need a wide range of experience, hard and soft skills and education to fill the job requirements. [ Get ahead with t

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Exclusive Q&A with Phillipa Cameron, CCO of Stuff NZ

Corinium

Ahead of the Chief Customer Officer New Zealand conference, we caught up with Phillipa Cameron, Chief Customer Officer at Stuff NZ to discuss the biggest challenges she faces in her role, and how to tackle them, how she has encouraged Stuff NZ to be more collaborative as well as how a shift to be more customer focused has impacted the organisation.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Data-Driven Enterprise Architecture: Why Enterprise Architects Need to Look at Data First

erwin

It’s time to consider data-driven enterprise architecture. The traditional approach to enterprise architecture – the analysis, design, planning and implementation of IT capabilities for the successful execution of enterprise strategy – seems to be missing something … data. I’m not saying that enterprise architects only worry about business structure and high-level processes without regard for business needs, information requirements, data processes, and technology changes necessary to exec

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IBM Planning Analytics receives top ranks in world’s largest planning survey

IBM Big Data Hub

Before making any major purchase decision, most of us read reviews to learn about the experiences of other users and get an understanding of a product from the perspective of the marketplace. This is especially important for when evaluating options for a major investment like planning software.

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My Experience Taking Microsoft DP-100: Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure

Data Science 101

I took and passed DP-100 during the beta period. I recorded a live video talking about my experience. Below is that section of the live video. Also, here are the main topics: Azure ML Studio Machine Learning Python High-level knowledge of Azure Products. Also, if you want a checklist to prepare for the exam, I have created one, it is free.

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Big Data Insights Drive Surge In Digital Marketing ROI

Smart Data Collective

Big data is giving savvy brands a significant edge in the market. They are able to use analytics and other data insights to bolster customer service, reduce marginal operating costs and scale production. One of the biggest benefits of big data is in the arena of digital marketing. Dataconomy wrote a post about the value of big data in digital marketing.

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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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The Good, the Bad, and the AI

Andrew White

AI is not ugly, that’s for sure. AI is a promising technology, and it is certainly in the limelight. Several articles in the papers over the last few weeks highlight what is good and bad about AI. Here is a snippet of a couple of them. From the US print edition of the Wall Street Journal: April 30 2019: Data Management Helps Companies Exploit AI.

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Data Power Play: Our Take on the Stanley Cup Finals

DataRobot

This blog is meant to be a fun and unique take on predicting which team will win the Stanley Cup 2019.

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5 Data Visualization Techniques When Designing for Mobile

Sisense

It’s hard to think about life before cell phones. They function as wallets, music players, newspapers, work tools, GPS systems, and much more. Let’s not forget the instant gratification people expect from their phones. Today we want everything, instantly, in the palm of our hands. That includes insights. If you take the amount of data generated on a daily basis, add to it the move to mobile, and combine that with the need for instant gratification…data visualization for mobile has a lot of

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Big Data Leads To An Impressive Array of Chatbots In Customer Service

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the direction of customer service. Machine learning tools have led to the development of chatbots. They rely on big data to better serve customers. Namee Jani wrote a fascinating article on chatbots and data analytics last year. She said they are the next big thing in business optimization in her article on Towards Data Science.

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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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Happy anniversary: The innovation continues with IBM Cloud Pak for Data v2.1

IBM Big Data Hub

It’s been one year since we launched IBM Cloud Pak for Data (previously IBM Cloud Private for Data), IBM's data and AI platform for today's modern enterprise. Since then, this platform has been embraced by hundreds of customers, and Forrester ranked it No.

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How to Drive Marketing Personalization in an Increasingly Non-Personal World

Teradata

Tom Casey discusses marketing personalization and why it's important to the modern customer experience.

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Farewell to Two BusinessObjects Heroes

Paul Blogs on BI

This year’s SAP Sapphire conference started somberly with SAP CEO Bill McDermott attempting to paint a rosy picture of the world of SAP. The conference concluded with the high energy and excitement of a fabulous Lady Gaga concert where she confessed that after much research she didn’t have a clue what SAP does! Despite hundreds of sessions and solutions to see, there was something missing.

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Leveraging The Cost-Cutting Benefits Of Cloud Accounting

Smart Data Collective

CPA Practice Advisor wrote a fascinating article on the applicability of big data in the accounting field. The article showed that the increasing supply of data is making it easier for companies to handle many core accounting functions. Big data is playing an important role in everything from auditing to custom service. There are a lot of benefits of using big data to simplify the accounting process.

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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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Five best practices for better marketing planning from Ventana Research

IBM Big Data Hub

Learn how to upgrade your marketing plans with some insights from Ventana Research.

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3 Easy Ways to Turn Data into Actionable Answers

Teradata

Rob Armstrong explains three critical ways to get better answers from your data.

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Our Top 20 Most-Read Data and Analytics Research Last Week (to May 26)

Andrew White

Click here for an interactive PDF to connect to the research directly. This list excludes our branded research such as Magic Quadrants etc.

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Here’s How Blockchain Can Change Bancassurance

Smart Data Collective

Whether it is identity authentication, increasing the speed of cross-border payments , supply chain optimization or transportation logistics, blockchain technology has been providing solutions to a variety of industries. Blockchain can also become the answer to the problems encountered by bancassurance. The Issues Bancassurance Faces Now, and How Blockchain Can Help.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Cloudera Data Science Workbench: where innovation meets security, compliance and scale on the road to industrialized AI

Cloudera

Gartner states that “By 2022, 75% of new end-user solutions leveraging machine learning (ML) and AI techniques will be built with commercial instead of open source platforms” ¹. Spoiler alert: it’s not because data scientists will stop relying on open source for the latest innovation in ML algorithms and development environments. But rather as businesses look to operationalize machine learning capabilities at scale, they’ll turn increasingly to commercial platforms, with connectors to open so

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Why You Need a Data Catalog & How to Choose One

Octopai

If the point of Business Intelligence (BI) data governance is to leverage your datasets to support information transparency and decision-making, then it’s fair to say that the data catalog is key for your BI strategy. At least, as far as data analysis is concerned. The right data catalog tool can be a powerful complement to your existing BI processes.

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Out Innovate the Competition

CDW Research Hub

In today’s dog-eat-dog digital economy, enterprises have had to adopt an MO of constant innovation. How do you out-innovate the competition? Business transformation is only possible with a high-performance storage and infrastructure solution in place that can handle business-critical workloads. PowerMax has been around a long time. Its performance is trusted.

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IT Teams Play a Critical Role in Scaling Data Science, Advises Forrester Research

DataRobot

“Without alignment, data science projects fail to drive outcomes.” So cautions Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D., author of Best Practices: Scaling Data Science Across The Enterprise , a report from industry analysts at Forrester Research. Kjell identifies a company’s IT team as stakeholders whose support is critical to the success of data science projects, and we concur with Kjell’s research.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.