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Smart packaging with IoT goes beyond better tracking

Smarter boxes and a data-driven approach to product delivery create new opportunities for improving both products and customer engagement. Here’s how to seize them.

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InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2023 Nominations Now Open

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2023 5:00PM ET

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5 newer data science tools you should be using with Python

Already using NumPy, Pandas, and scikit-learn? Here are five more powerful Python data science tools ready for a place in your toolkit.

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How to explain data meshes, fabrics, and clouds

Empowering data-driven organizations requires the right tools and practices—and a boss who gets it. Here's how to explain critical data concepts to your CEO.

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Understand the 3 major approaches to data migration

Application-based, file-based, and block-based migration all have their own merits and use cases. Choosing the right solution starts with understanding their differences.

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14 popular AI algorithms and their uses

Large language models have captured the news cycle, but there are many other kinds of machine learning and deep learning with many different use cases.

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R tutorials: Learn R programming for data science

Search for R tutorials by task, topic, or package. Many include videos which are shorter than 10 minutes

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Mojo language marries Python and MLIR for AI development

New programming language aims to combine full Python compatibility with low-level programming features, along with the ability to harness GPUs and other AI accelerators.

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Do more with R: RStudio addins and keyboard shortcuts

Speed up your R programming workflow with RStudio addins and customized keyboard shortcuts

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Optimize Apache Kafka by understanding consumer groups

Getting the most out of any Apache Kafka event streaming deployment requires a thorough understanding of Kafka consumer groups. Here’s what you need to know.

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How to get started with event-driven microservices

Event-driven microservices are an excellent way to deliver both historical and new data to all of the systems and teams that need it, but they come with additional overhead and management requirements. Start small.

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Making the most of geospatial intelligence

How the HEAVY.AI platform accelerates geospatial intelligence and delivers advanced analytics and real-time data visualizations that help telcos, utilities, and government agencies improve operations and minimize risk.

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How InfluxDB revved up for real-time analytics

A new Rust-based database engine, InfluxDB IOx, brings an in-memory columnar store, unlimited cardinality, and SQL language support to the open source time series database, raising the bar for advanced analytics across time series...

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Migrating Mastodon lists

If you move from one Mastodon server to another and you want to migrate the people on your lists, you have few options. Here’s a way to do it with Steampipe and SQL.

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Preview: Google Cloud Dataplex wows

Google Cloud Dataplex is an amazingly complete system for turning raw data from silos into unified data products ready for analysis. And a bit overwhelming to learn.

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Modern data infrastructures don’t do ETL

Business happens in real time but many business systems don’t. It’s time to move past client-server databases, data warehouses, and batch processes.

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The Mastodon plugin is now available on the Steampipe Hub

The fediverse offers an opportunity to reboot the social web and gain control of our information diets. Steampipe and its Mastodon plugin can help you seize it.

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10 best practices for every MongoDB deployment

From security musts and indexing gotchas to replication and sharding tips, follow these essential dos and don’ts to make the most of your MongoDB database systems.

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