All Hands on Data #66
Rounding Out August with a Fusion of AI and Data Engineering Articles: Your Weekly Dose of Insight Awaits—See You in September!
Unraveling the Power of Chain-of-Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting sounds very similar to what my teachers said to me in high school..."show your work!" It was no shock to me that CoT improves model performance, but it was surprising is that the advancements are directly related to the size of the model. Smaller models sometimes followed illogical paths resulting in lower accuracy. Guess we all have to start with a sound premise. - Katt Baum
Sapphire Ventures plans to invest over $1B in enterprise AI startups
Tracking where investors are putting their money is a pulse on what technologies are at the forefront in the industry. This investment has the goal of making AI more accessible from leveraging start-ups to more mature AI companies. - Arynn Martin-Post
Data Engineering Glossary
While it's not actually an article, this glossary is a pretty handy tool for data engineering-specific terms with several accompanying code snippets to illustrate. And you know I love pictures. - John Forstmeier
Data visualization: The underrated skill in business analytics
Data is everywhere, and data is important. But what good is having data if you have no way of interpreting it or visualizing it? This article dives into different techniques that can be used to visualize data as well as the importance of data visualization. Data visualization makes complexity manageable, democratizes data, accelerates the decision-making process, and is crucial for predictive analytics. - Reed Cowan
5 Typical Mistakes to Avoid in Data Engineering
All of these common mistakes are mistakes that our platform helps resolve. - Angel Catalan
Top 10 Data Engineering Books
I've come across numerous one-off books intended for data engineers, but not a list so comprehensive and diverse. If you're a data engineer looking for your next read, this post is for you. - Shawn Fergus