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A Beginner’s Introduction To The Most Common Data Types In Programming 

datapine

Table of Contents 1) What Are Data Types? 2) The Need For Data Types 3) List Of Common Data Types a) Primitive Data Types b) Composite Data Types c) Abstract Data Types In our digitally-driven age, data is permeating every industry and business function at an increasing pace. In fact, it is estimated that approximately 328.77 million terabytes of data are generated every day.

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Why companies need to accelerate data warehousing solution modernization

IBM Big Data Hub

Unexpected situations like the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing macroeconomic atmosphere are wake-up calls for companies worldwide to exponentially accelerate digital transformation. During the pandemic, when lockdowns and social-distancing restrictions transformed business operations, it quickly became apparent that digital innovation was vital to the survival of any organization.

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Why optimize your warehouse with a data lakehouse strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

In a prior blog , we pointed out that warehouses, known for high-performance data processing for business intelligence, can quickly become expensive for new data and evolving workloads. We also made the case that query and reporting, provided by big data engines such as Presto, need to work with the Spark infrastructure framework to support advanced analytics and complex enterprise data decision-making.

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Gaining Control of Your CDP Environment

Cloudera

Unwelcome… … are platform instability, downtime, hardware failure, poor performance, cluster resource contention, repeated process failures, runaway live queries, critical services alarms, invisibility into alarm cacophony… the list goes on. If those are ailments you would like to remedy … Welcome! To this six-part series, where we’ll look at how to get control of the health of your Cloudera Data platform (CDP) environment.

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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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4 steps to improving your ESG risk management to increase financial performance

IBM Big Data Hub

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk management has emerged as a critical aspect of business strategy for companies worldwide. A 2023 IBM IBV study showed that organizations that are seen as ESG leaders are 43% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability. However, 57% of CEOs admit that defining and measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) and economic benefits of their sustainability efforts remain a significant challenge.

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Dealing With Noisy Labels in Text Data

KDnuggets

The article shows effective coding procedures for fixing noisy labels in text data that improve the performance of any NLP model. The impact is proved by the comparison of the ML algorithm on starting and cleaning the dataset.

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Generative AI Ushers in a New Age of Content and Model Creation

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Generative AI is a class of artificial intelligence used to generate new, seemingly real content. Broadly speaking, AI has traditionally been used to identify patterns in data and apply those patterns to categorize and predict behaviors. For instance, it can organize customers into groups (or clusters) with similar characteristics, or predict which customers are most likely to respond to certain offers.

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What Oracle’s cloud expansion means for businesses in the Middle East

CIO Business Intelligence

To meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services, Oracle has announced plans to open a third public cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Located in Riyadh, the new cloud region will be part of a planned $1.5 billion USD investment from Oracle to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Kingdom. The new region in Riyadh will join Oracle’s existing cloud region in Jeddah and a planned Oracle cloud region in the new city of NEOM.

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How the BMW Group analyses semiconductor demand with AWS Glue

AWS Big Data

This is a guest post co-written by Maik Leuthold and Nick Harmening from BMW Group. The BMW Group is headquartered in Munich, Germany, where the company oversees 149,000 employees and manufactures cars and motorcycles in over 30 production sites across 15 countries. This multinational production strategy follows an even more international and extensive supplier network.

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Can AI-Generated Content Really Be Detected?

Analytics Vidhya

AI Detection Software Flagging the US Constitution as AI-Generated Content ChatGPT, one of history’s most widely adopted internet tools, has become increasingly popular among students and professionals for completing university essays, schoolwork, and other tasks. Along with the rise in generative AI tools and AI-generated content, a number of AI detection tools and software have […] The post Can AI-Generated Content Really Be Detected?

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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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Top Posts April 17-23: AutoGPT: Everything You Need To Know

KDnuggets

AutoGPT: Everything You Need To Know • Baby AGI: The Birth of a Fully Autonomous AI • Mastering Generative AI and Prompt Engineering: A Free eBook • Data Analytics: The Four Approaches to Analyzing Data and How To Use Them Effectively • A Step-by-Step Guide to Web Scraping with Python and Beautiful Soup

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BNY Mellon banks on AI to improve master data

CIO Business Intelligence

Data about who owes how much to whom is at the core of any bank’s business. At Bank of New York Mellon, that focus on data shows up in the org chart too. Chief Data Officer Eric Hirschhorn reports directly to the bank’s CIO and head of engineering, Bridget Engle, who also oversees CIOs for each of the bank’s business lines. “It’s very purposeful because a lot of the opportunities for us around data require tight integration with our technology,” says Hirschhorn.

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Introducing Native Connector for Google BigQuery: Boosting Data Lineage, Migration, and Discovery

Octopai

Octopai is proud to announce the introduction of an automated connector for Google BigQuery. This new native integration enhances our data lineage solution by providing seamless integration with one of the most powerful cloud-based data warehouses, benefiting data teams and enabling support for a broader range of data lineage, discovery, and catalog.

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RedPajama Completes First Step to Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative

Analytics Vidhya

The first stage of the ambitious project RedPajama’s purpose, was to reproduce the LLaMA training dataset. This dataset contains more than 1.2 trillion tokens. Additionally, it aims to create entirely open-source language models. The RedPajama effort seeks to alter the game by developing completely open-source models, facilitating research and customization.

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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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Automate Your Codebase with Promptr and GPT

KDnuggets

Are you looking to streamline your code operations with GPT but are tired of the copy-pasting process? Well, here is the solution in the form of Promptr. An open-source tool to automate your codebase.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud.

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Connect Kafka client applications securely to your Amazon MSK cluster from different VPCs and AWS accounts

AWS Big Data

You can now use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) multi-VPC private connectivity (powered by AWS PrivateLink ) and cluster policy support for MSK clusters to simplify connectivity of your Kafka clients to your brokers. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Kafka to process streaming data.

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Pandas 2.0

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction If you work with programming languages and are familiar with Python, you must have had a brush with Pandas, a robust yet flexible data manipulation and analysis library. It was founded by Wes McKinney in 2008. Its value in the data analysis market cannot be overstated, as it has become the go-to tool for […] The post Pandas 2.0 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.

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Data Visualization Best Practices & Resources for Effective Communication

KDnuggets

This article is meant to help you understand the art of data visualization and how to apply it to your work.

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AI’s one true X factor: Leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

If there are any eternal truths about emerging technologies, it’s that there are always naysayers. Some who deride the value of the latest ingenuity prove prescient. Others, not so much. Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., famously once advised , “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

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5 Best Server Backup Software for Data-Driven Businesses

Smart Data Collective

Big data has led to some huge changes in the way we live. John Deighton recently posted about this in an article on The Economic Times. John Deighton is a leading expert on big data technology. His research focuses on the importance of data in the online world. Searching for a topic on a search engine can provide us with a vast amount of information in seconds.

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Artificial Intelligence’s Latest Technology: “Annie” the AI-Powered Chatbot

Analytics Vidhya

In today’s fast-paced world, people demand quick and efficient solutions to their problems. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), businesses now use chatbots to provide their customers with an always-available virtual assistant. Call Annie is one such example of an AI-powered chatbot that can converse with users at any time of the day.

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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.

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MiniGPT-4: A Lightweight Alternative to GPT-4 for Enhanced Vision-language Understanding

KDnuggets

MiniGPT-4 possesses many capabilities of GPT-4 like generating image descriptions, creating a website with a hand-written draft, and writing a poem based on an image.

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Bots and beyond: How the AI revolution is shifting the paradigm for customer experience in smart banking

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s consumers are accustomed to smooth, frictionless online shopping – and they increasingly expect the same kind of digital experiences from their banks. Insider Intelligence found that 89% of U.S. consumers use mobile banking channels, and 70% said mobile banking is now their primary way of accessing their accounts. “Most people do not want to go into a bank to do banking.

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How ERP is breaking down silos and driving sustainable change

IBM Big Data Hub

While many organizations have established environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and made ESG commitments, driven by purpose and emerging regulatory requirements, they face several challenges when making the transition from ambition to action. A recent IBM study found that global executives cite inadequate data (41%) as the biggest obstacle to their ESG progress, followed by regulatory barriers (39%), inconsistent standards (37%) and inadequate skills (36%).

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OpenAI with Andrew Ng Launches Course on Prompt Engineering (Limited Free Time Access)

Analytics Vidhya

Mastering Prompt Engineering With OpenAI’s ChatGPT OpenAI is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence research organization backed by Microsoft. It has introduced a new short course on prompt engineering for developers utilizing its state-of-the-art language model, ChatGPT. The course, led by acclaimed AI expert and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng, aims to assist developers in crafting more effective […] The post OpenAI with Andrew Ng Launches Course on Prompt Engineering (Limited Free T

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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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Using ChatGPT to Learn SQL

KDnuggets

And how to use this amazing tool to enhance our SQL skills.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last few months, both business and technology worlds alike have been abuzz about ChatGPT, and more than a few leaders are wondering what this AI advancement means for their organizations. Let’s explore ChatGPT, generative AI in general, how leaders might expect the generative AI story to change over the coming months, and how businesses can stay prepared for what’s new now—and what may come next.

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Jabil is building reports with IBM Business Analytics Portfolio

IBM Big Data Hub

Jabil isn’t just a manufacturer, they are experts on global supply chain, logistics, automation, product design and engineering solutions. They are also interested and involved in the holistic application of emerging technologies like additive manufacturing, autonomous technologies, and artificial intelligence. They are a technologically motivated enterprise, so it’s no surprise that they would apply this forward-thinking view to their finance reporting as well.

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GigaChat: Russian Rival of ChatGPT

Analytics Vidhya

In response to the growing interest in artificial intelligence and the rapid adoption of chatbot technologies worldwide, Russia’s dominant financial institution, Sberbank, has recently unveiled its own AI chatbot, GigaChat. The Russian-made chatbot is designed to offer a high-quality alternative to OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT. Moreover, it is currently in its initial invite-only testing phase.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.