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AI data readiness: C-suite fantasy, big IT problem

CIO

Seventy percent of those IT pros spend one to four hours a day remediating data issues, while 14% spend more than four hours each day, according to the survey. Theres a perspective that well just throw a bunch of data at the AI, and itll solve all of our problems, he says.

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How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack

CIO

Matt Doka, CTO of FiveStars, a marketing platform for small businesses, doesn’t like that trade-off and goes out of his way to outsource whatever he can. They struggled to get new data insights developed into analyses,” he says. The system can automatically know where all the data came from; how it made its way to this final analysis.”

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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

TechCrunch

Snehal Kundalkar is the chief technology officer at Valence. The first is that it can be difficult to differentiate machine learning roles from more traditional job profiles (such as data analysts, data engineers and data scientists) because there’s a heavy overlap between descriptions. Contributor.

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

CIO

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. There are data scientists, but theyre expensive, he says.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. This book is as good for a project manager or any other non-technical role as it is for a computer science student or a data engineer.

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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO

Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals remain in high demand. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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DTN’s CTO on combining IT systems after a merger

CIO

Over the years, DTN has bought up several niche data service providers, each with its own IT systems — an environment that challenged DTN IT’s ability to innovate. “We Very little innovation was happening because most of the energy was going towards having those five systems run in parallel.”. I am a firm believer in in-house resources.