Monthly Archives: May 2019

What a good modern data analyst has to master

Andriy Burkov, ML at Gartner and author of The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, shares what a good modern data analyst has to master:

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Decision Microservices

Nowadays microservices quickly become a highly popular architectural approach showing a lot of benefits over the legacy style of monolithic single applications. The latest DMN specifies Decision Services and more and more people deploy their decision projects as Decision Microservices. … Continue reading

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State-Based Evaluation of Rules

Ron Ross: “In state-based evaluation of rules, current states of affairs are captured and monitored in real-time by a ‘watcher’ external to processes. This ‘watcher’ automatically intervenes whenever a violation of a rule occurs. The watcher resets the activity – i.e., … Continue reading

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Data Science vs. Decision Science

Data Science Central posted this interesting comparison: “Data scientist is a specialist involved in finding insights from data after this data has been collected, processed, and structured by data engineer. Decision scientist considers data as a tool to make decisions … Continue reading

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Beyond Chatbots: Hyper-Personalized, Intelligent Assistants

Peter Voss, CEO at Aigo.ai, published the article with this name in Forbes: “Recent years have seen a proliferation of chatbots and so called ‘personal assistants.’ These supposedly serve both the convenience of the user.. However, these bots often realize poor … Continue reading

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Ron Ross: Response to Solutions for the “Recreational Fee” Challenge

Ron Ross provided a response to 5 already submitted solutions to our Apr-2019 Challenge “Recreational Fee” and to several posted comments. You may read Ron’s response here. If you have new comments, please post them here as well. Note that … Continue reading

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Your System has State: So Let’s Deal with It

“Making services stateless is widely considered to be a good idea.. The rub is that most applications need state of some form, and this needs to live somewhere, so the system ends up bottlenecking on the data layer.. Event streaming … Continue reading

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Everyone is supposed to be able to read and write code?

This article states: Coding is becoming an essential requirement for virtually every employee in a corporate environment. In an interview on LinkedIn, the former CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, put it this way: “If you are joining the company in … Continue reading

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