CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Yet, despite growing investments in advanced analytics and AI, organizations continue to grapple with a persistent and often underestimated challenge: poor data quality.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 8, 2025

In modern data architectures, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a popular table format for data lakes, offering key features including ACID transactions and concurrent write support. Although these capabilities are powerful, implementing them effectively in production environments presents unique challenges that require careful consideration. Consider a common scenario: A streaming pipeline continuously writes data to an Iceberg table while scheduled maintenance jobs perform compaction operations.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 8, 2025

It almost sounds pejorative, doesnt it? But the distinction between senior and junior software developers is built into our jobs and job titles. Whether we call it entry-level or something else, we distinguish between people who are just starting their careers and those who have been around for a while. Were all still learning (one hopes), but entry-level people are still learning the basics, and seniors have greater responsibility, along with the potential for making bigger mistakes.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 8, 2025

Market research is the backbone of customer-driven decision-making, yet gathering reliable insights has never been more challenging. Recruiting and managing a representative sample takes up 60% of a research projects time, but despite these efforts, response rates continue to decline, panel fatigue is growing, and operational costs are rising. At the same time, evolving privacy […] The post Transforming Market Research with Synthetic Panels appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Smarten

APRIL 10, 2025

Embedded BI Assures User Adoption of Analytics When a business sets out to initiate data democratization and improve data literacy, it must choose the right approach to business intelligence and select an augmented analytics product that is self-serve, intuitive, easy to implement and easy for business users to embrace. Transitioning business users into the role of a Citizen Data Scientist can be challenging.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Risk is inescapable. Look around and youll see technological, economic, and competitive obstacles that CIOs must not only handle, but defeat. A PwC Global Risk Survey found that 75% of risk leaders claim that financial pressures limit their ability to invest in the advanced technology needed to assess and monitor risks. Yet failing to successfully address risk with an effective risk management program is courting disaster.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 8, 2025

We all depend on LLMs for our everyday activities, but quantifying “How efficient they are” is a gigantic challenge. Conventional metrics such as BLEU, ROUGE, and METEOR tend to fail in comprehending the real meaning of the text. They are too keen on matching similar words instead of comprehending the concept behind it. BERTScore reverses […] The post BERTScore: A Contextual Metric for LLM Evaluation appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Data Virtualization

APRIL 10, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes Todays world is fast-moving and unpredictable. To keep pace, public sector administrations must evolve just as quickly, to close the gap between what communities need and what governments deliver. In this dynamic environment, time is everything. Citizens expect efficient services, The post Empowering the Public Sector with Data: A New Model for a Modern Age appeared first on Data Management Blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Informat

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

ChatGPT-written term papers? Thats so last semester. Since the AI chatbots 2022 debut, CIOs at the nearly 4,000 US institutions of higher education have had their hands full charting strategy and practices for the use of generative AI among students and professors, according to research by the National Center for Education Statistics. But now higher ed CIOs are beginning to turn their focus to using gen AI to improve operations.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 7, 2025

Doing data science projects can be demanding, but it doesnt mean it has to be boring. Here are four projects to introduce more fun to your learning and stand out from the masses.

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 6, 2025

Evaluating language models has always been a challenging task. How do we measure if a model truly understands language, generates coherent text, or produces accurate responses? Among the various metrics developed for this purpose, the Perplexity Metric stands out as one of the most fundamental and widely used evaluation metrics in the field of Natural […] The post Perplexity Metric for LLM Evaluation appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 10, 2025

The big news last month was the release of the next version of BusinessObjects, known as BI 2025. In addition, it marks the beginning of a new cadence of future BO software releases coming every two years and named after the year that it will be release in BI 2027, BI 2029 etc. The new version is packed with goodies as the new streamlined BusinessObjects focuses on Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports and its powerful underlying semantic layer and feature-rich administration platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

IT environments are constantly growing more complex, with organizations rolling out AI agents and LLMs, operating in multiple clouds, and anticipating breakthroughs like quantum computing. At the same time, many CIOs seem to struggle to demonstrate the value of IT to the broader business because other departments often view their domain as a cost center.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 11, 2025

Give your LLMs the extra ability to fetch live stock prices, compare them, and provide historical analysis by implementation tools within the MCP Server.

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 6, 2025

Metas Llama 4 is a major leap in open-source AI, offering multimodal support, a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, and massive context windows. But what really sets it apart is accessibility. Whether you’re building apps, running experiments, or scaling AI systems, there are multiple ways to access Llama 4 via API. In this guide, I will walk through […] The post How to Access Llama 4 Models via API appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 9, 2025

Discover how AI is reshaping healthcare by enhancing patient care, streamlining processes, and saving lives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

Broadcom and Google Clouds continued commitment to solving our customers most pressing challenges stems from our joint goal to enable every organizations ability to digitally transform through data-powered innovation with the highly secure and cyber-resilient infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. With our longstanding technology and go-to-market partnership, we are yet again innovating to deliver value in the space of cyber and disaster recovery.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 10, 2025

In this article, well explain how to use mind maps within NotebookLM to enhance your productivity and comprehension.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 8, 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become integral to modern AI applications, but evaluating their capabilities remains a challenge. Traditional benchmarks have long been the standard for measuring LLM performance, but with the rapid evolution of AI, many are questioning their continued relevance. Are these benchmarks still a reliable indicator of the real-world performance of LLMs?

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Dataiku

APRIL 10, 2025

Shadow analytics analytics conducted outside of governed IT environments remain one of the biggest blind spots for IT teams. Whether its called shadow IT or decentralized decision-making, the result is the same: duplicated data, scattered workflows, and a lack of oversight that puts compliance and security at risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

For those that attended VMware Explore in Las Vegas and Barcelona, there was a new self-paced hands-on lab released exclusively for the attendees to experience Google Cloud VMware Engine while at the events. I am happy to announce that this lab has now been made publicly available through the VMware Lab Platform website for anyone to enroll and try.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 9, 2025

Tired of dragging messy data through bloated tools? This handbook shows how to clean and transform datasets with Bash.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 8, 2025

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance quickly, one of their most sight after applications is in RAG systems. Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG connects these models to external information sources, thereby increasing their usability. This helps ground their answers to facts, making them more reliable. In this article, we will compare the performance and […] The post LLaMA 4 vs.

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BI-Survey

APRIL 9, 2025

Thank you for giving your time to participatein "Preparing and Delivering Data for AI - Adoption Trends, Requirements and Best Practices"

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. To address these issues, IT organizations are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to gain operational efficiency and agility. There are many challenges in managing a traditional data center, starting with the refresh cycle.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 7, 2025

It's the must-learn data science skill to land a job at big tech.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 8, 2025

In the ever-evolving landscape of large language models, DeepSeek V3 vs LLaMA 4 has become one of the hottest matchups for developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts alike. Whether you’re optimizing for blazing-fast inference, nuanced text understanding, or creative storytelling, the DeepSeek V3 vs LLaMA 4 benchmark results are drawing serious attention.

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BI-Survey

APRIL 7, 2025

Thank you for giving your time to participatein The Financial Consolidation & Group Accounting Survey 25.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

Its impossible to go a day without talking or hearing about AI and what makes it powerful and potentially dangerous.Were well past its hype phase and now operate in a world where the technology has become an even more permanent fixture in our lives. Against this backdrop, everyonehas an opinion on how to make AI more inclusive and ethical, as well as who should be responsible for the safety of its innumerable users.Safety and ethics are equally paramount considering the speed new models are buil

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KDnuggets

APRIL 10, 2025

In this article, well explore what a transformer is, how it originated, why it became so successful that it powered one of the most groundbreaking AI advances, the large language model.

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