O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed cons

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

When a necessary change hits your IT team, getting everyone to buy in and adapt is key — and challenging. Some team members will, by nature, fight any change. Even those once adaptable may have become change resistant due to years of near-constant turbulence. One Gartner study found that willingness to support organizational change dropped from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

The construction of big data applications based on open source software has become increasingly uncomplicated since the advent of projects like Data on EKS , an open source project from AWS to provide blueprints for building data and machine learning (ML) applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). In the realm of big data, securing data on cloud applications is crucial.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 2, 2024

Introduction Large Language Models are often trained rather than built, requiring multiple steps to perform well. These steps, including Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT) and Preference Alignment, are crucial for learning new things and aligning with human responses. However, each step takes a significant amount of time and computing resources. One solution is the Odd Ratio […] The post Finetuning Llama 3 with Odds Ratio Preference Optimization appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

KDnuggets

APRIL 29, 2024

This article is an overview of a particular subset of data structures useful in machine learning and AI development, along with explanations and example implementations.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 1, 2024

Unlocking the full potential of supply chain management has long been a goal for businesses that seek efficiency, resilience and sustainability. In the age of digital transformation, the integration of advanced technologies like generative artificial intelligence brings a new era of innovation and optimization. AI tools help users address queries and resolve alerts by using supply chain data, and natural language processing helps analysts access inventory, order and shipment data for decision-ma

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 2, 2024

AI technology can help sales people make the most of POS systems, which helps them reach their goals more easily.

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Dataiku

MAY 2, 2024

What are the specific implications of the EU AI Act for financial services firms? How can they get ahead of the curve for Generative AI regulation?

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TDAN

MAY 1, 2024

IoT (Internet of Things) incorporates many new and innovative technologies, such as sensors, smart devices, machine-to-machine communication, networking, advanced computing, and data analytics. One of the keys in the success of IoT is the data that flows underneath these technologies. Naturally, the IoT sensors and devices generate a huge amount of data automatically and continuously.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 27, 2024

Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving world, the term ‘Generative AI’ is on everyone’s lips. Studies reveal that Generative AI is becoming indispensable in the workplace, with the market projected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2032. If you’ve been considering a career transition from a non-tech field to Generative AI, now is the time!

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Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

United Parcel Service last year turned to generative AI to help streamline its customer service operations. The in-house developed project, Message Response Automation (MeRA), is already delivering. MeRA, which was initiated last July and went into beta testing in October, leverages publicly available large language models (LLMs) to automate the handling of some customer issues, providing consistent messaging and significant improvement of agent efficiency, aka handle time, according to the mult

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

This is a guest post co-authored with Kanehito Miyake, Engineer at Fujitsu Japan. Fujitsu Limited was established in Japan in 1935. Currently, we have approximately 120,000 employees worldwide (as of March 2023), including group companies. We develop business in various regions around the world, starting with Japan, and provide digital services globally.

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KDnuggets

MAY 3, 2024

Automate your data cleaning process with a practical 5-step pipeline in Python, ideal for beginners.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 29, 2024

A novel text-to-video AI model, named Vidu, has made its debut at the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing. Developed jointly by ShengShu-AI and Tsinghua University, this new model challenges the dominance of OpenAI’s Sora. Let’s explore the features of Vidu and find out what it means for generative AI technologies in China. Also Read: Sora’s […] The post Vidu is Sora’s Latest Competition in AI Video Generation appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. That’s because employees have decidedly mixed feelings about AI coming to their workplaces, according to the recent survey by IT solutions integrator Insight , even as many enterprises are already adopting or experimenting with AI and as AI-enabled phones begin hitting the market.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 30, 2024

Today, we’re excited to announce general availability of Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue. Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI-powered capability of Amazon Q Developer , enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. This reduces the time and effort you need to learn, build, and run data integration jobs using AWS Glue data integration engines.

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KDnuggets

MAY 1, 2024

Top five mistakes made by AI beginners and practical tips to avoid them, along with an engaging "50-Day Challenge" that you cannot afford to miss.

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Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 29, 2024

China’s robotics industry has just marked an impressive leap with the unveiling of a new humanoid robot, Astribot S1. The fully autonomous robot, developed by Stardust Intelligence, redefines the benchmarks of speed, precision, and functionality. Let’s explore how this AI-driven marvel would reshape various sectors with its remarkably human-like capabilities.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

IBM has announced the expansion of its software portfolio to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs). Previously, the digital catalog was available in just five countries. This strategic alliance allows businesses in these countries access to IBM’s software products, including data technologies and AI, directly through the AWS Marketplace, IBM said in a statement.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 2, 2024

In today’s data-driven landscape, the efficiency and accessibility of querying tools play a crucial role in driving businesses forward. Amazon Redshift recently announced integration with Visual Studio Code (), an action that transforms the way data practitioners engage with Amazon Redshift and reshapes your interactions and practices in data management.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 30, 2024

Exploring the merits of data science degrees vs courses, this analysis contrasts their depth, prestige, and practicality in job market preparation

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 3, 2024

Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) are ubiquitous in various applications such as chat applications, voice assistants, travel agents, and call centers. As new LLMs are released, they improve their response generation. However, people are increasingly using ChatGPT and other LLMs, which may provide prompts with personal identifiable information or toxic language.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

To Carm Taglienti, the explosion of all things AI over the past few years has been both a pro and a con to IT teams. On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Apache Spark as one of its backend processing engines (as of this writing, you can use Python Shell , Spark , or Ray ). Data skew occurs when the data being processed is not evenly distributed across the Spark cluster, causing some tasks to take significantly longer to complete than others.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 30, 2024

Want to build and deploy robust machine learning systems to production? Start learning MLOps today with these courses from Google.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 3, 2024

Introduction Clustering is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm that groups together similar data points based on criteria like shared attributes. Each cluster has data points that are similar to the other data points in the cluster while as a whole, the cluster is dissimilar to other data points. By making use of clustering algorithms, we […] The post Understanding Fuzzy C Means Clustering appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

European privacy rights group noyb filed a complaint against OpenAI with the Austrian Data Protection Authority on Monday, accusing the company of breaching the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The EU’s strict privacy rules require that companies allow individuals access to personal information held about them, as well as ensuring that such data is accurate.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 30, 2024

AI has led to some major changes in the financial sector. There are many ways that financial professionals are using AI which includes with algorithmic trading as we stated in this article. One of the many ways that AI is changing finance is by revolutionizing forex trading.

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KDnuggets

APRIL 29, 2024

This is a collection of free courses, books, projects, repositories, cheat sheets, and online compilers on Python to help you get started and gain experience.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 2, 2024

Can you imagine a car race without any drivers? Well, it’s no longer imagination, but a reality now! That’s right, the world witnessed the first-ever professional autonomous car race over the weekend. The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) held at Yas Marina marked a significant leap in the motor racing world. With autonomous cars […] The post World’s First Autonomous Car Race Held at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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