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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” A general LLM won’t be calibrated for that, but you can recalibrate it—a process known as fine-tuning—to your own data. Every company will be doing that,” he adds. “In

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

It offers high throughput, low latency, and scalability that meets the requirements of Big Data. The technology was written in Java and Scala in LinkedIn to solve the internal problem of managing continuous data flows. What does the high-performance data project have to do with the real Franz Kafka’s heritage?

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

diversity of sales channels, complex structure resulting in siloed data and lack of visibility. It includes a broad range of tightly interrelated activities that we can arrange into several major groups. And planning, in turn, relies on understanding of current performance, past trends, existing risks, and possible future scenarios.

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Process Mining Explained: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges

Altexsoft

In simple words, it’s about finding out how the processes are actually performed to discover problems and areas for improvement. The control-flow perspective is about the order of activities, and the goal here is to find the optimal path of performing a process. What is process mining? Process mining ?an

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Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions

Erik Bernhardsson

This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL ! Separately, I’m sorry it’s been so long with no posts on this blog. Between kids, moving, and being a startup CTO, I’ve been busy. Lots of companies need to analyze conversion rates.

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Traffic Prediction: How Machine Learning Helps Forecast Congestions and Plan Optimal Routes

Altexsoft

In this post, we explore what’s going on behind the scenes of traffic prediction, which data is used, which technologies and algorithms are implemented, and how to get that desired forecast to your screen. Precise forecasts of road and traffic conditions to avoid congestion are crucial for such companies’ planning and performance.