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NJ Transit creates ‘data engine’ to fuel transformation

CIO

The chief information and digital officer for the transportation agency moved the stack in his data centers to a best-of-breed multicloud platform approach and has been on a mission to squeeze as much data out of that platform as possible to create the best possible business outcomes. Data engine on wheels’. NJ Transit.

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Generative AI is a make-or-break moment for CIOs

CIO

And, in fact, McKinsey research argues the future could indeed be dazzling, with gen AI improving productivity in customer support by up to 40%, in software engineering by 20% to 30%, and in marketing by 10%. It does not allow for integration of proprietary data and offers the fewest privacy and IP protections.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

TechCrunch

-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. As a result, most machine learning tasks in an organization are bottlenecked on an oversubscribed centralized data science team,” Molino told TechCrunch via email.

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive. Mediocre software exists because someone wasn't able to hire better engineers, or they didn't have time, or whatever.

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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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Supercharge your Airflow Pipelines with the Cloudera Provider Package

Cloudera

Many customers looking at modernizing their pipeline orchestration have turned to Apache Airflow, a flexible and scalable workflow manager for data engineers. Airflow users can avoid writing custom code to connect to a new system, but simply use the off-the-shelf providers. Step 0: Skip if you already have Airflow.

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7 data trends on our radar

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Whether you’re a business leader or a practitioner, here are key data trends to watch and explore in the months ahead. Increasing focus on building data culture, organization, and training. The demand for data skills (“the sexiest job of the 21st century”) hasn’t dissipated.

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