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What is the career prospect for a Data Analyst and how to become one?

The career prospects for a data analyst are generally positive due to the increasing demand for data-driven insights across various industries. Here are some career prospects for a data analyst: High demand: Data analysts are in high demand across industries, including finance, healthcare, technology, retail, and more. As organizations increasingly rely...

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Most common cybersecurity technologies

Cybersecurity technologies are tools and techniques designed to protect computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, theft, and damage. Some of the most common cybersecurity technologies include: Firewalls: These are software or hardware devices that control access to a network by blocking unauthorized traffic while allowing authorized traffic to pass...

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Are you impacted by the most recent cyber-attacks in Australia?

Most recent cyber attacks in Australia: Latitude Financial data breachDate: March 2023Latitude Financial, the company offers loans credit cards and insurance, says more than 100,000 copies of customers' IDs plus 225,000 customer records were stolen. Of the 103,000 documents stolen, around 97 per cent are copies of customers' driver's licences. Update: more...

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Predictive Analytics World June 18 – 22, 2023

Predictive Analytics World for Industry 4.0 is a vendor-neutral conference for machine learning for smart manufacturing and IoT. Manufacturing generates significant amount of data. To understand the data collected and use to advance people's lives, the development of the technology for machine learning and predictive analytics are critical. Hot topics in...

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Open Source Summit May 10 - 12, 2023

Open Source Summit consists of LinuxCon, ContainerCon, CloudOpen, OpenSource on RAMP and the Open Source Leadership summit, SupplyChain SecurityCon. It is a technical conference where developers, operators, and community leadership professionals collaborate, share information and learn about the latest in open technologies such as Linux, containers, cloud computing and more. The...

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Spotify is going big on video podcasts

After spending more than $1 billion on podcast assets, challenging investor skepticism, laying off dozens of podcasting employees, and parting ways with its main podcasting chief, Spotify is establishing its focus for the vertical moving forward: more video, more consolidation, and more splashy names. At the company’s Stream On event in...

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Top 7 Data Warehouse Software and Services

A data warehouse is a centralized repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources, organized in a way that facilitates reporting, analysis, and decision-making. The purpose of a data warehouse is to provide a unified and comprehensive view of an organization's data, which can be used to support business...

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Skills-based hiring continues to rise as degree requirements fade

More employers are leaving behind college degree requirements and embracing a skills-based hiring approach that emphasizes strong work backgrounds, certifications, assessments, and endorsements. And soft skills are becoming a key focus of hiring managers, even over hard skills. Large companies, including Boeing, Walmart, and IBM, have signed on to varying skills-based...

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Bitcoin rewards and NFTs may help grow the blockchain

From TechCrunch: Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode, I interviewed Alex Adelman, the co-founder and CEO of Lolli. Founded in 2018, Lolli is a bitcoin rewards app that lets people earn...

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Domino's Pizza Enterprises spends $23m-plus on digital

From Itnews: Domino’s Pizza Enterprises' digital investment slowed in the back half of 2022, but still came in at more than $23 million. Its spend comprised a “digital capex” of $23.3 million, along with back-of-house systems upgrades reported as part of $5.5 million in other capital expenditure, which CFO Richard Coney...

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World AI Week

The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle head-on the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.  Get ready for two-day of mind-boggling...

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C2 Montréal May 24-26, 2023

C2 is a fusion of creativity and commerce. C2 Montréal is about experiencing the unexpected, taking a step back, recharging and leaving your comfort zone behind. This three-day international event, dubbed the most innovative of its kind, focuses on exploring the relationship between commerce and creativity. It gets you think outside...

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How computers can see may surprise you

YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a real-time object detection system that can classify objects within an image and localize them with a bounding box. It is a popular algorithm used in computer vision tasks and has been implemented in various applications including self-driving cars and surveillance systems. YOLO is known...

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PCs Will soon be the Smallest Gaming Platform

According to Newzoo's forecast, gamers across the globe will spend $137.9 billion on games in 2018. Mobile gaming will continue to be the largest segment. In total, mobile revenues will grow +25.5% year on year to reach $70.3 billion. Smartphones will account for 80% of this, or $56.4 billion in 2018,...

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Rebooting the Brain

The digital health sector has an increasing number of startups are targeting the brain. One of them is Kernel, a company who is developing advanced neural interfaces to improve, evolve and extend human cognition. Check out the speech from the CEO of Kernal Bryan Johnson. Video source: youtube; Cover image source:...

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Digital Economy Compass - Part 2 Social Media

Only a decade ago, social media was little more than a budding trend. Although social sites like Friendster and MySpace that had a decent level of adoption, the population as a whole and businesses had not realised the potential of social media. Facebook was founded at 2004, Twitter appeared around 2005,...

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How Agile Can Help Improve Your Family Life

Agile methodology has gained popularity in recent years. Agile is a concept, it focuses on quick responses to change and continuous development. It has been widely used in software development projects for a number of years and now it is used in many other areas like marketing and operations – same...

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Zoom App Download Surge Amid Pandemic

The download of the video conference apps have increased significantly in March as people being locked down due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Zoom is one of the most popular apps, its download has surged from 4 mil+ in February to 26mil + in March. Zoom offers a basic plan which is free...

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Do you really save on Airbnb than booking a hotel room?

Airbnb tries to provide you "Unique homes and experiences all over the world". People from all over the world list their their properties on the platform. Each listing allows hosts to promote properties through titles, descriptions, photos with captions. A profile about your host is included as well as previous guests...

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The Pandemic impact to Airbnb

Airbnb's IPO has now completed. Shares were originally priced from US$45-US$50 per share it went up to US$55-US$60 the day before listing. By the time of the listing, the final price was US$68. Airbnb is a holiday rental marketplace. Users can book homestys and tourism experiences or become a host by...

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Now you can get your MBA for free

Now you can get your MBA for free. You are up to the challenge of studying a MBA to gain new skills and acquire new knowledge as it could benefit your career or your business. However, you have put this on-hold due to the high cost of MBA programs and the...

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