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Building Intelligent Conversational Interfaces
Authors discuss how to build intelligent conversational applications and skills using the conversational AI technology and its three components: interaction flow, natural language understanding (NLU) and deployment.
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Postgres Handles More Than You Think
Thinking about scaling beyond Postgres with a data store like Redis or Elasticsearch? Think again before adopting a complex infrastructure. Postgres can scale for heavy loads and offers powerful features which are not obvious at first sight. For example, it's possible to enable in-memory caching, text search, specialized indexing, and key-value storage. Article
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How to Tell Compelling Stories Using Data: Q&A with Dr. Christine Bailey
The more evidence we have, the more likely our ideas are believed - or so we’re conditioned to think . But data doesn’t always engage people; this is where storytelling can help to combine data, insights, and emotion, said Dr. Christine Bailey. She presented techniques to tell compelling stories with data, and showed how that can increase our influence with external and internal stakeholders.
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Rethinking Flink’s APIs for a Unified Data Processing Framework
Since its very early days, Apache Flink has followed the philosophy of taking a unified approach to batch and streaming. The core building block is the “continuous processing of unbounded data streams, with batch as a special, bounded set of those streams.” Recent updates to the Flink APIs include architectural designs by the community to support batch and streaming unification in Apache Flink.
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Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL
In this article, the author shows how to use big data query and processing language U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics platform. U-SQL combines the concepts and constructs both of SQL and C#. It combines the simplicity and declarative nature of SQL with the programmatic power of C# including rich types and expressions.
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Data Analytics in the World of Agility
Is it all about customer-centric business, or is there any data left? Can we integrate data analytics and customer empathy? This article explores how we can move towards a more customer-centric business and what information we require in order to understand the most valuable thing we have: our customer.
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Fraud Detection Using Random Forest, Neural Autoencoder, and Isolation Forest Techniques
In this article, the authors discuss how to detect fraud in credit card transactions, using supervised machine learning algorithms (random forest, logistic regression) as well as outlier detection approaches using isolation forest technique and anomaly detection using the neural autoencoder.
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Privacy Attacks on Machine Learning Models
Research has shown that machine learning models can expose personal information present in their training data. This vulnerability exposes sensitive user information to attackers savvy enough to learn how to hack a machine learning API. We'll explore the details of several privacy attacks against machine learning models and provide some potential solutions for this growing security issue.
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Stream Processing Anomaly Detection Using Yurita Framework
In this article, author Guy Gerson discusses the stream processing anomaly detection framework they developed by PayPal, called Yurita. The framework is based on Spark Structured Streaming.
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How to Use Open Source Prometheus to Monitor Applications at Scale
In this article, the author discusses how to collect metrics and achieve anomaly detection from streaming data using Prometheus, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra technologies.
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Using Intel Analytics Zoo to Inject AI into Customer Service Platform (Part II)
This article shares the practical experience of building a QA ranker module on Azure’s customer support platform using Intel Analytics Zoo by Microsoft Azure China team. You can quickly learn step by step how to prepare data to train, evaluate and tune a text matching model at scale and finally productionize it as a service using Analytics Zoo.
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How to Mitigate the Pain of Getting and Giving Feedback
Companies that encourage open and honest feedback do better than companies that do not. Nonetheless, giving feedback is difficult because social and physical pain share some of the same neural circuitry. Hence, feedback can feel physically painful, as Sarah Hagan discusses in her 2018 QCon San Francisco talk . Hagan uses scientific research to demonstrate how to give feedback properly.