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Data + AI Summit is the global event for the data community, where global100,000 practitioners, leaders and visionaries come together to engage in thought-provoking dialogue and share the latest innovations in data and AI. At this year’s Data + AI Summit, we’re excited to announce a full agenda of sessions for data teams in the...

Only 13% of organizations -- super achievers -- are succeeding at their data and AI strategy yet the successful application of data and AI has never been a greater necessity for survival than now1. In order to remain forward-thinking in today’s landscape, data leaders are looking for the ability to eliminate silos that traditionally separate...

With the fast-moving evolution of the data lake, Billy Bosworth and Ali Ghodsi share their mutual thoughts on the top 5 common questions they get asked about data warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses. Coming from different backgrounds, they each provide unique and valuable insights into this market. Ali has spent more than 10 years on...

This is a guest blog from Simona Stolnicu, a data scientist and machine learning engineer at Wehkamp, an e-commerce company, where her team builds data pipelines for machine learning tasks at scale.   Wehkamp is one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the Netherlands, with more than 500,000 daily visitors on their website. A wide...

Companies that are disrupting entire industries, such as Uber and Airbnb, have a common driver in their competitive edge: data and AI. For these brands, big data analytics and machine learning are central to customer experiences, from predicting when your food will arrive to visualizing your next vacation. In today’s fiercely competitive markets, incumbents are...

This is a guest authored post by Data Scientist Eric Yatskowitz and Data Engineer Phan Chuong, T-Mobile Marketing Solutions. The world of online advertising is a large and complex ecosystem rife with fraudulent activity such as spoofing, ad stacking and click injection.  Estimates show that digital advertisers lost about $23 billion in 2019, and that...

Don’t miss our Global Sustainability Leadership Forum to hear how leaders from Goldman Sachs, Grab, Gro Intelligence and Microsoft are using data and AI to build a more sustainable, inclusive and greener future.   Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is a form of sustainable responsible investing (SRI) that considers both the financial returns and...

The importance of supply chain analytics Rapid changes in consumer purchase behavior can have a material impact on supply chain planning, inventory management, and business results. Accurate forecasts of consumer-driven demand are just the starting point for optimizing profitability and other business outcomes. Swift inventory adjustments across distribution networks are critical to ensure supply meets...

This is a guest post authored by Sr. Staff Data Scientist/User Experience Researcher Jing Pan and Senior Data Scientist Wendao Liu of leading health insurance marketplace eHealth. None generates Taichi; Taichi generates two complementary forces; Two complementary forces generate four aggregates; Four aggregates generate eight trigrams; Eight trigrams determine myriads of phenomena. —Classic of Changes...

This is a guest authored post by Shivansh Srivastava, software engineer, Disney Streaming Services. It was originally published on Medium.com Just a bit of context We at Disney Streaming Services use Apache Spark across the business and Spark Structured Streaming to develop our pipelines. These applications run on the Databricks Runtime(DBR) environment which is quite...