July 16, 2025

Category: Big Data

AI Isn’t Cheap — Here’s How To Spend Smarter
Big Data

AI Isn’t Cheap — Here’s How To Spend Smarter

While enterprise AI spending remains relatively modest today, the potential for overspending is significant. Most organizations are still experimenting, with only a few production-ready use cases. But that’s about to change. Over the next two to three years, AI investment is expected to grow exponentially as enterprises scale their efforts to operationalize AI. One major […]

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Databricks Invests in Core Data Engineering, Operations
Big Data

Databricks Invests in Core Data Engineering, Operations

(TippaPatt/Shutterstock) AI might be driving the bus when it comes to IT investments. But as companies struggle with their AI rollouts, they’re realizing that issues with the data are what’s holding them back. That’s what’s leading Databricks to make investments in core data engineering and operations capabilities, which manifested this week with the launch of […]

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Announcing Databricks Asset Bundles now in the Workspace
Big Data

Announcing Databricks Asset Bundles now in the Workspace

Today, we’re introducing the Public Preview of Databricks Asset Bundles in the workspace. This will make it easier for data scientists, analysts, and data or AI engineers to work interactively in the workspace with best practices such as version control, testing, and CI/CD. Team members can collaborate directly using Git folders in the workspace UI […]

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How to Build a Data-Led People Strategy That Actually Works
Big Data

How to Build a Data-Led People Strategy That Actually Works

Leading companies are moving away from gut instinct and outdated methods when making talent decisions. Instead, they are embracing people analytics and big data to build workforce strategies that are informed, agile, and effective. This shift toward a data-led people strategy is not just relevant—it is essential. The power of analytics has already transformed sectors […]

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Designing centralized and distributed network connectivity patterns for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Big Data

Designing centralized and distributed network connectivity patterns for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a fully managed search and analytics service that automatically provisions and scales infrastructure to help you run search and analytics workloads without cluster management. With OpenSearch Serverless, you can quickly build search and analytics capabilities into your applications. As organizations scale their use of OpenSearch Serverless, understanding network architecture and DNS […]

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MOSTLY AI Launches 0K Synthetic Data Prize  
Big Data

MOSTLY AI Launches $100K Synthetic Data Prize  

June 10, 2025 — Austrian synthetic data firm MOSTLY AI has launched a $100,000 prize challenge to raise awareness of how synthetic data can be used to create open-access datasets for businesses, AI developers and other organizations. The company said this is the largest prize for a hackathon-style synthetic data development challenge. Entrants will be […]

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Winter Hackathon 2025 – Team DataDivas (DataCamp Donates Scholars)
Big Data

Winter Hackathon 2025 – Team DataDivas (DataCamp Donates Scholars)

Winter Hackathon 2025 – Team DataDivas (DataCamp Donates Scholars) DataDivas team members Ann Lam, Jasmin Rafi, and Vicky Yan entered WiBD Winter Hackathon following their successful completion of WiBD’s transformative education and professional development program through Datacamp Donates, a program designed to equip motivated candidates with essential data science competencies through the Datacamp learning platform. […]

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The Power of AI for Personalization in Email
Big Data

The Power of AI for Personalization in Email

AI helps marketers send emails that feel personal without writing each one by hand. By looking at past actions, such as clicks and purchases, it can guess what someone might like next. This means each person on the list gets something more relevant to them. You don’t gotta do all the work yourself, which makes […]

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Understanding Physical, Legal, and Postal Addresses
Big Data

Understanding Physical, Legal, and Postal Addresses

We use addresses every day – typing them into navigation apps, filling out online forms, printing them on envelopes. Addresses seem pretty straightforward, and we don’t often worry about getting them 100% right. After all, whoever receives the address can figure out the details they need to provide the goods or services we want, right? […]

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