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The quest for high-quality data

O'Reilly on Data

Machine learning solutions for data integration, cleaning, and data generation are beginning to emerge. “AI starts with ‘good’ data” is a statement that receives wide agreement from data scientists, analysts, and business owners. There has been a significant increase in our ability to build complex AI models for predictions, classifications, and various analytics tasks, and there’s an abundance of (fairly easy-to-use) tools that allow data scientists and analysts to provision complex models with

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Simplifying Google AI’s Best Paper at ICML 2019 on Unsupervised Learning

Analytics Vidhya

Overview Check out Google AI’s best paper from ICML 2019 There is a heavy focus on unsupervised learning in Google AI’s paper We have. The post Simplifying Google AI’s Best Paper at ICML 2019 on Unsupervised Learning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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8 Examples Of Financial Reports You Can Use For Daily, Weekly, And Monthly Reports

datapine

Regardless of your sector or industry, it’s likely that your financial department is the beating heart of your entire operation. Without financial fluency, it’s difficult for an organization to thrive, which means that keeping your monetary affairs in order is essential. As a business, you need the reliability of frequent financial reports to gain a better grasp of your financial status, both current and future.

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How Will Timeless Moments Assist Organisations In Gaining Their Competitive Advantage.

Corinium

Customer experience is the only way that organisations are able to gain competitive advantage and hold on to their customers. It is the experience that customers have that will keep them coming back.

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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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Enabling end-to-end machine learning pipelines in real-world applications

O'Reilly on Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Nick Pentreath on overcoming challenges in productionizing machine learning models. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Nick Pentreath , principal engineer at IBM. Pentreath was an early and avid user of Apache Spark, and he subsequently became a Spark committer and PMC member. Most recently his focus has been on machine learning, particularly deep learning, and he is part of a group within IBM focused on building open source tools that enable end-to-e

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How do Transformers Work in NLP? A Guide to the Latest State-of-the-Art Models

Analytics Vidhya

Overview The Transformer model in NLP has truly changed the way we work with text data Transformer is behind the recent NLP developments, including. The post How do Transformers Work in NLP? A Guide to the Latest State-of-the-Art Models appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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The Rise of Data Analytics in East Africa

Corinium

Over the last eight years the East Africa region has undergone rapid transformation from new Fintech offerings, mobile money, digitalization and growth of digital financial services.

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Unleash the power of data with a modern data strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

In my last blog , I stressed the need for a modern data architecture (MDA) to underpin the next generation of the cognitive enterprise , fully harness data using the latest technologies, and sustain a

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The AI Comic: Z.A.I.N – Issue #2: Facial Recognition using Computer Vision

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction First – a HUGE thank you to our community for the wonderful response to the first issue of our exclusive AI comic – The post The AI Comic: Z.A.I.N – Issue #2: Facial Recognition using Computer Vision appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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5 Themes from the EGG NYC Conference Morning Sessions

Dataiku

The human-centered AI conference, EGG NYC, is off to a great start! We've brought data enthusiasts and practitioners together to talk about the future of AI and how to keep humanity and empathy at the center as we drive the technology forward. We're enjoying a cloudy day in TriBeCa and we've learned a lot already.

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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 Scalability Leads To New Evolutions In Smart Technology

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of the world we live in. It has created a number of new forms of smart technology, which are simplifying our lives in wonderful ways. The classic example is with smart homes. You can probably remember watching movies about smart houses on the Disney Channel and other networks over the past 30 years. However, they are finally coming to live, largely due to new big data technology.

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AI for AI: IBM debuts AutoAI in Watson Studio

IBM Big Data Hub

AutoAI in IBM Watson Studio makes it possible for you to automate many of the often complicated and laborious tasks associated with designing, optimizing and governing AI in the enterprise.

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2019 Data Summer Reading List

Juice Analytics

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” Sam Keen Now that Summer is here it’s a great time to recharge our batteries. Whether it’s a much needed vacation, a nap in the hammock, hours watching soccer games or curling up with a good book. Here are the books that made it onto the Juice Summer reading list this year. We’ve started some of them, but plan to get through the entire list by Labor Day.

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Innovating the Insurance Customer Experience

Decision Management Solutions

By: Zoe Zhou. There is a common high-level customer journey for insurance customers. The customer researches providers and policy options. Once a preferred provider and policy are decided, the customer applies for the policy. If they are approved the policy is issued. If they have a claim, they fill out the relevant paperwork and the claim is adjudicated.

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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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Machine Learning Delivers Cutting-Edge POS Software For Online Stores

Smart Data Collective

Online retailers are using machine learning solutions to deliver the highest level of service to their customers. They have found that big data makes it easier to personalize services and offer the highest value for the lowest cost. One of the best ways machine learning is helping online retailers is with new POS software applications. If you’re running an online store, you want a POS system that’s going to fit the needs of your business.

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What Really Scares Us in AI

Dataiku

When I very enthusiastically joined Dataiku over 3 years ago, I was full of hope in technology, the startup world, and empowering people with data.

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DataRobot Recognized as a Leader in Forrester New Wave for Automation-Focused Machine Learning Solutions

DataRobot

In 2012, DataRobot co-founders Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy recognized the profound impact that AI and machine learning could have on organizations, but that there wouldn’t be enough data scientists to meet the demand. The technology they invented, automated machine learning, allowed organizations to scale data science capacity by teaching machines to perform much of the tedious and time-consuming work for a data scientist while also giving them access to hundreds of different algorithms.

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Four Reasons Why Upgrading to Vantage is Worth It

Teradata

Running older Teradata analytics software versions may not support the latest innovations of Vantage and could cost you more than upgrading. Learn more.

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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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Cutting-Edge Mobile App Development Protocols In The Big Data Era

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of app development in several major ways. Some of the new practices include: Developing a strategy for aggregating consumer data. Ensuring the app is compliant with GDPR and other data privacy protocols. Integrating your monetization strategy into your new app. Since big data has increased the complexity of app development, you need a clearly outlined strategy.

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Financial services industry blueprints for scalable enterprise data initiatives

IBM Big Data Hub

Financial services organizations face considerable challenges today. From regulatory changes to globalization to shifting customer expectations, the urgent need to re-engineer outdated systems to better manage vast amount of data can apply additional pressure. Organizations must deal with the consistency, accuracy, timeliness and complexity of their data to remain competitive.

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Immersive Reader is now LIVE! New addition to Azure Cognitive Services family

Jen Stirrup

Today, Microsoft launched Immersive Reader , aimed at increasing the opportunities for developers to embed inclusivity in their apps. I love reading, and I love the idea that reading will be brought to people who might otherwise struggle with text reading and comprehension. You can learn more over at the Azure Cognitive Services website. If you want to get started straight away, here is the Ibiza Portal Create Blade and here’s the Documentation.

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Our Top 20 Most-Read Data and Analytics Research Last Week (to June 16)

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. Rita has done it again – her very persuasive research is back at the top of the charts!

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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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Here’s Why Data Conferences Are Important: What You Need To Know

Smart Data Collective

The fact is phrases like “analyst” and “computer engineer” mean different things today than they did just a generation ago. Hardly anybody needs reminding, but computers and information technology move incredibly quickly these days. Whether you’ve got both feet in this world on a professional basis, or you’re an out-of-practice programmer wondering where things are headed, or you’re a CEO or CTO and you want to know what kinds of tech are worth the inves

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VNSG Analytics Day Top Trends

Timo Elliott

Here’s a quick video I put together for the top four analytics trends I talked about at the recent VNSG (SAP Netherlands User Group) Analytics event in Utrecht’s railway museum: Embedded Analytics, Augmented Analytics, Experience Analytics, and… (as ever and always) DATA! And here are the slides : I hope to find the time to write up these trends in more detail in the near future!

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MLOps: A New Frontier in AI Adoption

DataRobot

Today we announced the exciting news that DataRobot acquired ParallelM , the leader in machine learning operations (MLOps).

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Predictive Analytics for Business Users!

Smarten

Encourage Data Literacy and Achieve Results with Assisted Predictive Modeling! If you want to include predictive analytics and forecasting in your planning process, there are numerous analytical techniques and algorithms at your disposal. You may hire a data scientist or analyst to help you plan OR, if your organization wishes to provide analytical access to business users, you will want to implement a self-serve Advanced Analytics solution that incorporates all of the standard, comprehensive te

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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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Data Scalability Raises Considerable Risk Management Concerns

Smart Data Collective

Are you frustrated by an increase in the quantity of the data that your organization handles? Well, you aren’t alone! Many businesses globally are dealing with big data which brings along a mix of benefits and challenges. A report by China’s International Data Corporation showed that global data would rise to 175 Zettabyte by 2025. This growth means that you should prepare to handle even larger internal and external data soon.

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Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance May Require a Village

TDAN

Is your organization struggling to succeed with your Data Governance program? Is adoption by the business an issue for you? Data Governance occurs best when done in conjunction with the business processes and not as a “bolt on”/additional activity. Many organizations have attempted to implement Data Governance and their business glossary with a very limited […].

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Source: Google Trends. Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. The above chart compares monthly searches for Business Process Reengineering (including its arguable rebranding as Business Transformation ) and monthly searches for Data Science between 2004 and 2019.

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'MIT Solve' Enables Tech Entrepreneurs To Conquer Global Social Challenges

Bruno Aziza

How MIT Solve is addressing the global demand for social impact initiatives.

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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.