O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 11, 2018
The two positions are not interchangeable—and misperceptions of their roles can hurt teams and compromise productivity. 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. A key misunderstanding is the strengths and weaknesses of each position.
Luis Goncalves
APRIL 12, 2018
How Communities of Practice Help Companies Have Learning and Growth-Driven Employees. If your building a company that has a ‘culture of sharing’ where people regardless of their roles and tenure are willing to help one another; value learning as an inevitable tool to growth and success; and have the attitude of ‘making each other better’; you are undoubtedly building the right culture of your company.
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The Parallax
APRIL 9, 2018
The Panera Bread cafe and bakery chain, known for its sandwiches, coffee, and year-round broccoli cheddar soup , is suffering from a severe bout of self-induced digital indigestion. Security researcher Dylan Houlihan says he notified Panera Bread, a chain of more than 2,000 stores in the United States, of a website vulnerability in August 2017. He said the site was leaking customers’ personally identifiable information, including usernames, first and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, b
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 12, 2018
Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be You’ve got this. You care, you want results, and as a leader you’re committed to Winning Well. But life gets busy and complicated. Sometimes you just need a quick reminder to get you […]. The post 52 Tips to Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 12, 2018
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Guillaume Chaslot on bias and extremism in content recommendations. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Guillaume Chaslot , an ex-YouTube engineer and founder of AlgoTransparency , an organization dedicated to helping the public understand the profound impact algorithms have on our lives. We live in an age when many of our interactions with companies and services are governed by algorithms.
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Xebia
APRIL 12, 2018
2 minutes read (drawing by Alexander) The short version: yes and no! Scrum is Agile but Agile is not (only) Scrum. Future Fit Organizations Organizations want to become flexible and Agile or as we like to call it at Xebia: Future Fit. Just like when you go to the gym and want to become […]. The post Is Scrum Agile and is Agile Scrum? appeared first on Xebia Blog.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 10, 2018
If your team doesn’t think you trust them, there’s no way they’ll trust you. And of course, when results are lagging or stakes are high, you’re only human if your first inclination is to be just a little skeptical. After all, there’s […]. The post Trust Builders: Five Ways To Convince Your Team You Trust Them appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
O'Reilly Media - Data
APRIL 12, 2018
Discover how data-driven organizations are using Jupyter to analyze data, share insights, and foster practices for dynamic, reproducible data science. I'm grateful to join Fernando Pérez and Brian Granger as a program co-chair for JupyterCon 2018. Project Jupyter, NumFOCUS, and O'Reilly Media will present the second annual JupyterCon in New York City August 21–25, 2018.
NeverFriday
APRIL 10, 2018
Slack transforming team communication networking event took place on 3 April 2018. Taking place at restaurant in Toronto distillery district, cocktails and drinks, RSVP free event, first speaker is Slack VP of Eng, Michael Lopp. After that is showcase of Slack features, and then a customer panel. More networking afterwards. Michael Lopp – Showing off Slack and how it’s managed day to day.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
Change Starts Here
APRIL 11, 2018
Last month, Organization Change Alliance, a community of change practitioners in metro Atlanta, hosted a panel event on the topic of “Developing Change Capability Across Organizations.” Senior-level change practitioners from Cox Automotive, Home Depot, IHG, Newell Brands, and UPS shared their experiences. One of the questions was about the different roles involved in change and […].
Women on Business
APRIL 11, 2018
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Toptal
APRIL 12, 2018
Rails ships with everything you need to prototype your application quickly, but when your codebase starts growing, you'll run into scenarios where the conventional Fat Model, Skinny Controller mantra breaks. When your business logic can't fit in either a model or a controller, that's when service objects come in and let us separate every business action into its own Ruby object.
SCRUMstudy
APRIL 8, 2018
Managing risk must be done proactively, and it is an iterative process that should begin at project inception and continue throughout the life of the project. The process of managing risk should follow some standardized steps to ensure that risks are identified, evaluated, and a proper course of action is determined and acted upon accordingly. In a Scrum environment, risks are generally minimized, largely due to the work being done in Sprints whereby a continuous series of Deliverables is produc
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CTOvision
APRIL 11, 2018
In March I opined on the remarkable engineering in AWS Snowball and AWS Smowball Edge. There are many trends in tech now and some of them, like the specific capabilities in this cloud computing domain, can seem like they are slow to develop till they are right on you. This is one of those times […].
Women on Business
APRIL 12, 2018
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Toptal
APRIL 13, 2018
Deep learning has proven its power across many domains, from beating humans at complex board games to synthesizing music. It has also been used extensively in natural language processing. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Shanglun (Sean) Wang shows how easy it is to build a text classification program using different techniques and how well they perform against each other.
Scott Berkun
APRIL 10, 2018
People who design things for a living depend on optimism. To do their job well, whether it’s designing websites or automobiles, they must believe they have the talent to make things that are better than what currently exists in the world. The problem is that this optimism, when combined with immaturity, creates a shallow view of how organizations work.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
CTOvision
APRIL 12, 2018
The last post, Transformational Cyber Security Part I, discussed exciting inventions that turn cybersecurity upside-down by preventing malware from freeloading CPU instructions in a properly configured software defined data center (SDDC), thereby rendering on-premise cyber attacks null and void. It also discussed root-of-trust encrypted metavisor technology that protects applications and data operating in the cloud. […].
A List Apart
APRIL 10, 2018
A note from the editors: We’re excited to share Chapter 1 of Going Offline by Jeremy Keith , available this month from A Book Apart. Businesses are built on the web. Without the web, Twitter couldn’t exist. Facebook couldn’t exist. And not just businesses—Wikipedia couldn’t exist. Your favorite blog couldn’t exist without the web. The web doesn’t favor any one kind of use.
Toptal
APRIL 12, 2018
While growing investor enthusiasm has contributed to a historic $3 trillion of fundraising over the last five years, the PE industry faces increasing competition amongst firms, record-high multiples and other factors making it difficult to generate attractive returns. One aspect for consideration is succession planning, especially since CEO turnover at portfolio companies occurs at a rate of 73% and can increase hold times and decrease returns.
Women on Business
APRIL 11, 2018
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VironIT
APRIL 9, 2018
There are currently 2.8 billion social media users worldwide. This means that over a third of the world’s population is using some form of social media. Social media is a commonplace platform for communication today, have you ever considered how to create own social media app? Building your first social media app can be a […].
Pandora's Brain
APRIL 8, 2018
A couple of recent events made me think it would be good to post a brief but (hopefully) balanced summary of the discussion about superintelligence. Can we create superintelligence, and if so, when? Our brains are existence proof that ordinary matter organised the right way can generate general intelligence – an intelligence which can apply itself to any domain.
Toptal
APRIL 9, 2018
Great emotional design creates a bond between the consumer and the brand—creating an emotional connection to your target market translates into conversions and sales as well as online and offline interactions.
CTOvision
APRIL 10, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area that’s getting a lot of attention lately. Many companies are thinking about how they can incorporate AI products and services into their company, and how AI can help enhance their workforce. There is a lot of hype right now, but is this technology around to stay or is it […].
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Next Level Blog
APRIL 9, 2018
If you’ve spent any time thinking about your retirement account or other investments you may have, you’re probably familiar with the concept of asset diversification. The idea is to not over-invest in one particular company or class of investments but to balance your portfolio across different types of assets. As a simple example, it makes sense for many people to invest in both stocks and bonds since when one of the two is up the other is often down.
QAspire
APRIL 9, 2018
I created a series of sketch notes for Tiffani Bova’s “ What’s Next ” podcast where she meets brilliant people to discuss customer experience, growth and innovation. Tiffani Bova is a Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. I will post sketchnote versions of selected podcast episodes that enlightened me. When driving large scale change, leaders often fall in trap of presenting the current reality and future state in form of data, numbers and charts.
Toptal
APRIL 12, 2018
80% of businesses fail in their first year—a majority of these casualties are due to a lack of customer research. Effective customer development interviews can help validate product ideas before moving forward.
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