Big Data, Cloud & DevOps

Why aspire to be a ‘Citizen Data Scientist’ when you can truly become a ‘Data Scientist’?
Don’t get swayed by the fancy titles like ‘Citizen Data Scientist.’ It is funny that so much hard selling is happening in data science.

How to get into data science? Learning data science is hard but incredibly rewarding. Applying data science to a field or area you care about helps you stay motivated and stand out.

Growing prevalence of a certain resource in the organisations created a new role in the C-suite, namely how the growing usage of information technology gave rise to the Chief Information Officer. The inundation of data, the abundance of cloud computing and democratisation of analytics as strategic sources of insights have naturally produced a new relevant role – the Chief Data Officer. The unclear scope of CDO responsibility is one of the reasons why CIO and IT see the Chief Data Officer as one more encroachment on their territory.

The picture of CISO roles and security practices still operating bottom up, disconnected from the dynamics of the business. Culture of the organisation, the speed of business change, and the level of board support are the concerns that most affect CISOs ability to deliver against objectives.

As business intelligence solutions and BI Tools evolve into Augmented Analytics, business users can achieve valuable insight and take appropriate action to optimize resources and enable continuous improvement.

Companies can’t progress towards data innovation and AI deployment if they haven’t taken care of the fundamentals of how they are going to manage their data. Explore the most pervasive challenges and how organisations are tackling them.

Machine learning isn’t as hard as it used to be. New books and courses come out daily, and it is becoming harder to pick the ones you’ll stick to. This list should help you get there somewhat quick, irrelevant of your background.

Topics covered in these papers range from the orchestration of the DS workflow to breakthroughs in faster neural networks to a rethinking of our fundamental approach to problem solving with statistics.

No one is perfect when it comes to coding. But if you follow some simple rules used by software engineers, you will improve your coding. Once you start coding every day as part of your job, it will be your habits that will count and what better way to get better habits then starting adapting best practices today!

What do organizations must do to sustain themselves? The answer simply lies in data. But, even with the large banks of data besides you, there is seldom anything you can do if you do not have the right tools. It is where a robust tool is needed. Microsoft’s Power BI is one such tool that enables fast progress in organizations because of streamlining their data capabilities.

Transformers have become the defacto standard for any NLP tasks nowadays. Not only that, but they are now also being used in Computer Vision and to generate music. They are still hard to understand as ever.