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Themes from JupyterCon 2017

This past August was the first JupyterCon—an O’Reilly-sponsored conference around the Jupyter ecosystem, held in NYC. In this post we look at the major themes from the conference, and some top talks from each theme.

Data Ingestion with Spark and Kafka

In this tutorial, we will walk you through some of the basics of using Kafka and Spark to ingest data.

Building a Data-Driven Culture

By far the most difficult thing in being data-driven is getting the right data in the first place.

Five Business Challenges Data Can Solve

In today’s business climate, executives understandably want to see both early results and a long-term direction. A data strategy helps meet business needs, while ordering work in a way that respects constraints and creates future opportunities.

Getting Value Faster with a Data Strategy

In this post, we’ll look at the components that make up a modern data strategy, and how they work to bring you business value quickly

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Getting Started with Predictive Maintenance Models

In this post, we’ll start to develop an intuition for how to approach the remaining useful life (RUL) estimation problem and take the first steps in modeling RUL.

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Managing Spark and Kafka Pipelines

In this post, we will cover some of the basics of monitoring and alerting as it relates to data pipelines in general, and Kafka and Spark in particular.

From Data Managers to Platform Providers

We are seeing evidence of an important pattern: the creation of internal service platform to meet the data science and analytic needs of organizations.

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Noteworthy Links: Artificial Intelligence

Interested in how AI is being applied out in the real world? Check out these stories, ranging from fighting food insecurity, to a very low-level version of a butler.