Tag: Data and analytics
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5 Useful jq commands to parse JSON on the CLI
Posted on June 5, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
JSON has become the de facto standard data representation for the web. It's lightweight, human-readable (in theory) and supported by all major languages and platforms. However, working on the CLI with JSON is still hard using traditional CLI tooling. By Fabian Keller.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Build your first data warehouse with Airflow on GCP
Posted on June 2, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
What are the steps in building a data warehouse? What cloud technology should you use? How to use Airflow to orchestrate your pipeline? By Tuan Nguyen.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Conversational AI updates that help you build sophisticated and personalized experiences
Posted on May 31, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Now, more than ever, developers need to respond to the rapidly increasing demand from customers for support and accurate information - meeting them where they are – any time of the day and on an expanding range of platforms and devices. Azure AI has met unprecedented demand, underpinning over 1500 Covid-19 related bots via the Microsoft Health Bot service alone, in addition to the over 1.25 billion messages per month already handled by Azure Bot Service. By GaryPrettyMsft.
Tags data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning
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The nature of machine learning projects
Posted on May 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Michael Ohlsson article about building a data-driven product. Building a data-driven product differs in many ways from how one would create a more conventional software product. A machine learning system is still a software system, but the process to develop the system is different.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics
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The crypto price-innovation cycle
Posted on May 27, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
People who've been in crypto for a long time view the space as evolving in cycles, alternating between periods of high activity and "crypto winters." There have been three cycles so far. The first peaked in 2011, the second in 2013, and the third in 2017. By Chris Dixon and Eddy Lazzarin on Andreessen Horowitz.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering data-and-analytics
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How to exclude URL query parameters in Google Analytics
Posted on May 20, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Query parameters can sometimes store useful pieces of information in our URLs, but they can cause problems in our Google Analytics data. Query parameters can break apart our pages and make them hard to analyze in our All Pages report. By Amanda Geisler.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech
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Change data capture with Debezium: A simple how-to
Posted on May 19, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Eric Deandrea wrote this piece about one question that always comes up as organizations moving towards being cloud-native, twelve-factor, and stateless: How do you get an organization's data to these new applications?
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Convolutional neural network implementation for car classification
Posted on May 18, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art Neural Network architectures that are primarily used for computer vision tasks. CNN can be applied to a number of different tasks, such as image recognition, object localization, and change detection. By Dr. Evan Eames and Henning Kropp.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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The 3 essentials for properly setting up Google Analytics conversion tracking
Posted on May 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
We asked 48 experts to share their most useful tips, tricks, and tools for properly setting up and tracking website conversions via Google Analytics. Written by Belynda Cianci.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Agile and Intelligent Locomotion via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Posted on May 8, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Recent advancements in deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) has enabled legged robots to learn many agile skills through automated environment interactions. In the past few years, researchers have greatly improved sample efficiency by using off-policy data, imitating animal behaviors, or performing meta learning. Posted by Yuxiang Yang and Deepali Jain, AI Residents, Robotics at Google.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design data-and-analytics
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How open-source medicine could prepare us for the next pandemic
Posted on May 3, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
The old drug discovery system was built to benefit shareholders, not patients. But a new, Linux-like platform could transform the way medicine is developed—and energize the race against COVID-19. By Ruth Reader, writer for Fast Company.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics
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How to use Roam Research: a tool for metacognition
Posted on April 24, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
A few weeks ago I discovered Roam which brands itself as "a note-taking tool for networked thought." Let's have a look at how to use Roam Research to achieve your personal growth goals. Written by Anne-Laure Le Cunff.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering