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United Airlines’ AI strategy: The airline that makes decisions fastest wins

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Much of this work has been in organizing our data and building a secure platform for machine learning and other AI modeling. We also built an organization skilled in the data engineering and data science required for AI. Well continue to need data engineering and analytics, data science, and prompt engineering.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines that convert raw data into formats usable by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers.

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

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This approach is repeatable, minimizes dependence on manual controls, harnesses technology and AI for data management and integrates seamlessly into the digital product development process. The choice of vendors should align with the broader cloud or on-premises strategy.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines used by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers. The data engineer role.

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

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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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NJ Transit creates ‘data engine’ to fuel transformation

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Data engine on wheels’. To mine more data out of a dated infrastructure, Fazal first had to modernize NJ Transit’s stack from the ground up to be geared for business benefit. Today, NJ Transit is a “data engine on wheels,” says the CIDO. “We have shown out value,” Fazal says of the transformation.

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IT leaders rethink talent strategies to cope with AI skills crunch

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Staffing strategies emerge Despite the continuously tight labor market and complexity of the task, Napoli believes he has Guardian Life’s AI talent strategy under control. He wants data scientists who can build, train, and validate models for use cases, and who can perform exploratory analysis and hypothesis testing. “All