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Uncharted Paths - Roterdam 🛳
Thursday, April 11, 2024
What's Hot 🔥
Snowflake previews genAI-based SQL Copilot
Snowflake today announced the public preview of its generative artificial intelligence (genAI) powered SQL assistant — Snowflake Copilot, with limited availability in Amazon Web Services (AWS) US regions. It is designed to make complex SQL queries accessible through simple natural language prompts.
Data exploration: Copilot allows users to inquire about their data’s structure, refine their analysis with follow-up questions and gain deeper insights, without writing complex queries.
Intelligent corrections: Beyond generating queries, Copilot helps users to write cleaner and more efficient SQL queries by suggesting query optimizations, providing explanations and recommending fixes for potential issues in existing queries, streamlining the data analysis process.
Snowflake documentation: Copilot can answer queries about Snowflake documentation, for example, it can help look for a specific function or existing features and capabilities. (Source: SDXcentral.com)
4 Key Takeaways From CEO Andy Jassy's Letter to Amazon Shareholders
Amazon Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andy Jassy released his annual letter to Amazon (AMZN) shareholders Thursday, covering a range of topics across its business from the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) to the benefits of regionalizing its warehouse network. (Source: investopedia.com)
Informatica Expands Partnership with Google Cloud, Launches Extension for Trusted Customer Data Analytics and Enterprise Gen AI Applications
"By collaborating with Google Cloud, a trailblazer in AI innovation, we're empowering our joint customers with a trusted data foundation for their generative AI applications and Customer Data Platform on Google Cloud.
The MDM Extension for BigQuery makes it fast and easy for customers to enhance their enterprise data foundation in BigQuery with Informatica's industry-leading Master Data Management, said Rik Tamm-Daniels, Group Vice President of Strategic Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica.
We're excited to see how our customers will leverage these new capabilities to transform their businesses, making real-time, data-driven decisions easier than ever before." (Source: investing.com)
Beyond the Buzzwords 📦
Data repositories are platforms that hold data, organize it in a logical way, and can make it available for reuse. They are used by research communities to share and discover data. (Source: utoronto.ca)
data repository
Different data repositories offer different services and functions. Some things to consider before selecting a repository include:
Funder or journal requirements
Disciplinary research data
Persistent identifiers (PID)
Access restrictions
Data licensing
Cost
Retention and preservation
Ability to update dataset
Curation services
Federal government use of AI in hundreds of initiatives revealed by new research database 🔬
Joanna Redden, an associate professor at Western University in London, Ont., pieced together the database using news reports, documents tabled in Parliament and access-to-information requests.
Of the 303 automated tools in the register as of Wednesday, 95 per cent were used by federal government agencies. "There needs to be far more public debate about what kinds of systems should be in use, and there needs to be more public information available about how these systems are being used," Redden said in an interview. (Source: cbc.ca)
Uncharted Path - Roterdam NL 🛳
Roterdam's smart shipping has several project in the works that are creating a digital twin of the port to enable better data analytics insights.
Here's a sample:
HaMIS: The Port Management Information System (Haven Management Informatie Systeem, HaMIS) is the central system for the administrative settlement, guidance and inspection of port calls.
PortMaps: PortMaps is the digital version of Rotterdam’s geographical chart of the port area.
Smart Infra: Fitting the port infrastructure with sensors and data communications devices (Internet of Things) has yielded a mass of useful information about, for example, the duration and intensity of a specific object’s use.
Floating Lab: The Port Authority has fitted one of the Harbour Master Division’s former harbour patrol boats (RPA3) with an array of cameras, measuring devices and sensors for the development and testing of new applications in the field of smart shipping and autonomous shipping.
(Source: portofroterdam.com)