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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. “The major challenges we see today in the industry are that machine learning projects tend to have elongated time-to-value and very low access across an organization.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models.

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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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The State of Tech: 4 Trends to Watch in 2022

Mentormate

Sure, you might get lucky and find the right person with the right skills in the right geography, but it’s not realistic to scale up and retain a larger engineering organization that way. Only the largest engineering organizations have the scale to make this kind of continuous investment. Where Did All the People Go?

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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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