August 3, 2024

Matthew Harris · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 29 min read · 12 hours ago — Source: GPT-4o TL;DR In the humanitarian response world there can be tens of thousands of tabular (CSV and Excel) datasets, many of which contain critical information for helping save lives. Data can be provided by hundreds of different organizations with different naming conventions, languages and data standards, so having information (metadata) about what each column represents in

Lessons from 30+ years in data engineering: The overlooked value of keeping it simple Bernd Wessely · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 12 hours ago — Image by author We have a straightforward and fundamental principle in computer programming: the separation of concerns between logic and data. Yet, when I look at the current data engineering landscape, it’s clear that we’ve strayed from this principle, complicating our efforts significantly

Without any increase in latency Benjamin Marie · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 6 min read · 12 hours ago — Generated with DALL-E With a LoRA adapter, we can specialize a large language model (LLM) for a task or a domain. The adapter must be loaded on top of the LLM to be used for inference. For some applications, it might be useful to serve users with multiple adapters. For instance, one

Image by AI (Ideogram) Learn how to use the building blocks of Delta Lakes. Thomas Reid · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 13 min read · 12 hours ago — Delta tables are the key components of a Delta Lake, an open-source storage layer that brings ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactions to big data workloads. The concept and implementation of Delta tables ( and by association — Delta Lakes ) were done