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Data Lake vs Data Warehouse
For a long time, I didn't understand the concepts of Data Lake and Data Warehouse. I thought it was the same thing — a data storage where I could find the data and process it for my purposes. I wasn't wrong but there is a difference.

Dask and RAPIDS: The Next Big Things for Data Science and Machine Learning at Capital One
Our core objective was to migrate our enterprise users of data from an on-premises, predominantly SAS-based platform to a custom built, cloud native platform that supported a wide variety of open source technologies.

[Dataviz] The virus that shut down the world
Lauren Tierney and William Neff for The Washington Post used a rotating globe to show how connections between countries quickly shut down as the coronavirus spread.

Fairlearn
Fairlearn is a Python package that empowers developers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to assess their system's fairness and mitigate any observed unfairness issues. Fairlearn contains mitigation algorithms as well as a Jupyter widget for model assessment. Besides the source code, this repository also contains Jupyter notebooks with examples of Fairlearn usage.

Google Colab Tips for Power Users
Colab is one of the best products to come from Google. It has made GPUs freely accessible to learners and practitioners like me who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford a high-end GPU. While the interface is very easy to use, there are many lesser-known and undocumented features in colab. In this post, I will share features that I’ve discovered from their official talks and basic usage.

Événements

The Second Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting
Monday 06 July 2020 @ 08:00
La conférence annuelle de la Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) et de la Société Canadienne de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (CIAMS) se tiendra en ligne cette année. Il n'y a pas de frais d'inscription. La conférence se tient du 6 au 17 juillet 2020.

Discover privacy-preserving AI in healthcare
Tuesday 07 July 2020 @ 10:30
The webinar and live discussion will provide an overview of techniques for secure, federated and privacy-preserving machine learning with a focus on healthcare and medical imaging.

Benchmarking and Improving Neural Nets Execution + Train and deploy tinyML models
Tuesday 07 July 2020 @ 11:00
tinyML Talks webcast: [1] Benchmarking and Improving NN Execution on Digital Signal Processor for Hearing Instruments. [2] How to train and deploy tinyML models for three common sensor types

Using Python with a Massively Parallel Database to Predict COVID-19 Numbers
Tuesday 07 July 2020 @ 14:00
Python is a powerful programming language that is a good choice for many types of analytics. It is rapidly becoming the language of choice for scientists and researchers of many types. Now by combining a massively parallel (MPP) database like Vertica with Python, you can overcome many scale and analytics challenges that can limit Python users.

($) Accessible Tech and AI Transformation
Wednesday 08 July 2020 @ 19:30
[Talk 1] As I See It; A blind musician's point of view on the importance of accessible technology and shifting social biases - Ioana Gandrabur, musical artist. [Talk 2] AI Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities - Simona Gandrabur, Senior Director, AI Lead, National Bank of Canada

Google Cloud Next OnAir
Tuesday 14 July 2020 @ 09:00
La conférence annuelle de Google Cloud sera en ligne cette année. Celle-ci se tiendra sur 9 semaines avec un thème différent à chaque semaine, incluant: Data Analytics, Cloud AI, Data Management & Databases, et plus encore.