Towards Data Science

JANUARY 17, 2024

Parquet vs ORC vs Avro vs Delta Lake Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Unsplash The big data world is full of various storage systems, heavily influenced by different file formats. These are key in nearly all data pipelines, allowing for efficient data storage and easier querying and information extraction.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

DALLE , an image generation tool, Vision, an AI-driven image analysis tool, and Advanced Data Analysis provides the ability to upload a CSV file for AI to identify trends, create graphs, and generate reports. Additionally, nonprofits can create their own custom-trained GPT chatbot with their custom data.

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Candid

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Giving Season kicked into high gear with a robust start on December 3, with the GivingTuesday Data Commons reporting a record $3.6 Lets take a closer look at how donors were using Candids data to inform their giving on GivingTuesday. billion raised in the United States.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 6, 2023

Fitbit activity analysis with DuckDB Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash Wearable fitness trackers have become an integral part of our lives, collecting and tracking data about our daily activities, sleep patterns, location, heart rate, and much more. What insights are buried within my archive of personal fitness activity data?

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Towards Data Science

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Get more data in less time Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash We live in a world of big data. Often, big data is organized as a large collection of small datasets (i.e., one large dataset comprised of multiple files). Obtaining these data is often frustrating because of the download (or acquisition burden).

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The analysis does not account for other nonprofit specialty hospitals, such as psychiatric or long-term acute care. The hospital cost reports are not audited financial reports, but are filed by hospitals with the federal government.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau. Whether this is your first Tableau visualization or your 100th, let this be a chance to practice and grow your viz-building skills using your own personal data!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

Backlink analysis—Identify high-quality links to other websites that increase your site’s authority and its position in the search. One that comes immediately to mind is the SWOT analysis,” Jane said. A SWOT analysis is a task AI could help you launch. After Bard responds, the files can be deleted.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

In February 2010, The Economist published a report called “ Data, data everywhere.” Little did we know then just how simple the data landscape actually was. That is, comparatively speaking, when you consider the data realities we’re facing as we look to 2022. What does that mean for our data world now?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 25, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Ann Harrison In 2006, the Benetech Human Rights Program was asked to participate in one of the most important human rights data projects in the world. These records shed light on the complicity of police and other security forces during the years of violence that killed tens of thousands of Guatemalans.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Today, Candid released our latest research manual, Analyzing Candid’s demographic data. nonprofits currently share some demographic data about their staff and board with Candid. In fact, about 1,000 nonprofits are now adding demographic data to their Candid profiles every month. Over 62,000 U.S. For example, U.S.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Efficient geospatial manipulations for OSM map data Photo by Tabea Schimpf on Unsplash If you’ve worked with OSM data before, you know it’s not the easiest to extract. OSM data can be huge, and finding performant solutions for what you want to analyze is often a challenge. which can be very handy for further analysis.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Since 2014, Candid has been collecting demographic data about the people who work at U.S. To date, over 54,000 organizations have shared some data about how their staff and/or board identify by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and/or disability status. Demographic data sharing varies by nonprofit subject category.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You don’t have to wait for your music streaming service to provide that for you anymore—you can see and learn from your listening data at any point in the year using Tableau. Whether this is your first Tableau visualization or your 100th, let this be a chance to practice and grow your viz-building skills using your own personal data!

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Music Data Chart Files 98

The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types. Excel users have been using Microsoft’s spreadsheet tool for decades to import, organize, and analyze data, but the basic data types have always been limited to text and numbers. Data can also be refreshed to keep it up to date.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

Robotic process automation platform UiPath added its name to the list of companies pursuing public-market offerings this morning with the release of its S-1 filing. Then we’ll dig into four other things that stuck out from its IPO filing. Into the data! They did not. Operating leverage, cost control and COVID-19.

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Tableau

JUNE 8, 2022

delivers new capabilities that make data easier for everyone to use, including more efficient data prep and faster analysis. highlights: Read about data insights. Generate automated natural language dashboard summaries with Data Stories to add context for business users. Track your most important data.

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Tableau

APRIL 12, 2021

Data discovery and trust have been core principles of Tableau Catalog (part of Tableau Data Management ) since its introduction with Tableau 2019.3. With every release, we continue to add features that help users find and use trusted data with confidence. Searching for data isn’t trivial. April 12, 2021 - 10:59pm.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2021

As we start a new year, we’re excited to share important updates, including: Analytics extensions on Tableau Online, Tableau Server in a container, the new file format for Hyper API, and In-Product Extensions Gallery. This feature has been used for prescriptive analytics or sentiment analysis in Tableau. and 2020.1.1,

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

While the technology and business world worked towards the weekend, developer operations (DevOps) firm GitLab filed to go public. Before we get into our time off, we need to pause, digest the company’s S-1 filing, and come to some early conclusions. billion, per Pitchbook data. billion back in 2018. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Spatial analysis platform Carto has raised a $61 million Series C round. Many companies collect a ton of data with some location element tied to it. Carto lets you display that data on interactive maps so that you can more easily compare, optimize, balance and take decisions. Carto can ingest data from multiple sources.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Tableau

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Innovation is necessary to use data effectively in the pursuit of a better world, particularly because data continues to increase in size and richness. And with this work, I invite discussions about this history, my analysis, and the implications for the future of analytics. December 1, 2021 - 11:06pm. December 2, 2021.

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We collect more and more diverse data types, and we’re not always sure how we can turn this data into real value. Or even if we have a pretty good understanding of the problem, there is not enough data to run a successful project and deliver impact back to the business. Who Can Benefit from the Visual Data? Submit Data.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Bringing AI models from research to the PC requires curation of model variants, adaptation to manage all of the input and output data, and quantization to optimize resource usage. With these tools, users can create personalized AI assistants and integrate their own documents and data, helping automate tasks and enhance productivity.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It wouldn't be Tableau Conference without the world’s ultimate data showdown—Iron Viz. Their excitement was contagious as they introduced this year's data rockstars, Pradeep Kumar G , Lisa Trescott , and Samuel Parsons , who earned their place by rising to the top from hundreds of incredible Data + Joy submissions. Ateken Abla.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It wouldn't be Tableau Conference without the world’s ultimate data showdown—Iron Viz. Their excitement was contagious as they introduced this year's data rockstars, Pradeep Kumar G , Lisa Trescott , and Samuel Parsons , who earned their place by rising to the top from hundreds of incredible Data + Joy submissions. Ateken Abla.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 8, 2024

Leveraging TensorFlow Transform for scaling data pipelines for production environments Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash Data pre-processing is one of the major steps in any Machine Learning pipeline. ML Pipeline operations begins with data ingestion and validation, followed by transformation.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2022

The IT Army has leaned heavily on DDoS attacks — carried out on targets like gas, oil and infrastructure companies, the Moscow Stock Exchange , and even the Kremlin website using an app called disBalancer — but the most impactful actions have come from stealing data and posting it to the public. Someone hacked into Russian state TV channels.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Data visualization is becoming an increasingly common method of presenting large and complex data sets, but the principles of visual communication are not widely understood or practiced.” Sue Kraemer. Bronwen Boyd.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 10, 2023

Experts from venture capital, Snowflake, and more discuss how generative AI will benefit data teams and the challenges they must solve. Still, generating a recipe for lasagna is an entirely different process than infusing generative AI capabilities across a business or integrating large language models (LLMs) into data engineering workflows.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Think very carefully Creating and maintaining a data platform is a hard challenge. Data connectors are an essential part of such a platform. Of course, how else are we going to get the data? Maintaining complex code for every single data connector. Data flowing like cars in a highway. spec.containers[0].ports[0].containerPort}")

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service. “We believe we’re the first cloud-native platform for seafloor data,” said Anthony DiMare, CEO and cofounder (with CTO Charlie Chiau) of Bedrock.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the enterprise, there’s been an explosive growth of data — think documents, videos, audio files, posts on social media and even emails. According to a Matillion and IDG survey, data volumes are growing by 63% per month in some organizations — and data’s coming from an increasing number of places.

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Tableau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Data visualization is becoming an increasingly common method of presenting large and complex data sets, but the principles of visual communication are not widely understood or practiced.” Sue Kraemer. Bronwen Boyd.

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