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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The main standard with some applicability to big data is ANSI SQL.

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As extreme weather events worsen, 7Analytics meshes AI and big data to predict flooding

TechCrunch

One of these companies is 7Analytics , a Norwegian startup founded back in 2020 by a team of data scientists and geologists to reduce the risks of flooding for construction and energy infrastructure companies. And Hurricane Ida alone reportedly caused at least $50 billion in damages , depending on what figures we’re to believe.

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

It’s important to understand the differences between a data engineer and a data scientist. Misunderstanding or not knowing these differences are making teams fail or underperform with big data. I think some of these misconceptions come from the diagrams that are used to describe data scientists and data engineers.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

Several co-location centers host the remainder of the firm’s workloads, and Marsh McLennans big data centers will go away once all the workloads are moved, Beswick says. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform. Marsh McLennan created an AI Academy for training all employees.

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The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

CIO

It was not alive because the business knowledge required to turn data into value was confined to individuals minds, Excel sheets or lost in analog signals. We are now deciphering rules from patterns in data, embedding business knowledge into ML models, and soon, AI agents will leverage this data to make decisions on behalf of companies.

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MLOps: Methods and Tools of DevOps for Machine Learning

Altexsoft

When speaking of machine learning, we typically discuss data preparation or model building. Living in the shadow, this stage, according to the recent study , eats up 25 percent of data scientists time. MLOps lies at the confluence of ML, data engineering, and DevOps. More time for development of new models.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

CIO

But 76% of respondents say theres a severe shortage of personnel skilled in AI at their organization, according to the August report. In a November report by HR consultancy Randstad, based on a survey of 12,000 people and 3 million job profiles, demand for AI skills has increased five-fold between 2023 and 2024.