An ODSC East Cyber Monday Deal, Instruction Tuning, Financial Data Engineering, and Digital Twins
The Role of Prompt Tokens in Enhancing Instruction Tuning
Instruction tuning is a helpful LLM fine-tuning technique for improving the performance of certain tasks, such as providing prompts for specific use cases and natural language communication.
Navigating the Complex World of Financial Data Engineering
Here’s an exploration of a recent podcast, which provides a roadmap for understanding the challenges, opportunities, and future of financial data engineering.
Driving Progress with Open Data Science: Trends, Tools, and Opportunities
Let’s explore the movement of unlocking creativity through analytics access, and data science tools and opportunities.
The Role of the Confusion Matrix in Addressing Imbalanced Datasets
As simple as they are, confusion matrices are an essential tool for building and training a classification model with imbalanced datasets.
ODSC Highlights
ODSC & Google Cloud AI Meetup in Boston, MA
Thursday, December 12th, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM ET
This is your chance to level up your AI game with Google Cloud experts. Dive deep into the cutting edge of the field, network with fellow AI rockstars, and fuel your passion with interactive discussions, delicious snacks, and an electric atmosphere!
Announcing ODSC East 2025 — The 10th Anniversary of the Best AI Builders Event Around!
The 10th anniversary of ODSC East is coming up May 13th-15th in Boston! Learn more about what to expect from this massive event here and why you won’t want to miss it.
ODSC East 2025 Cyber Monday Deal
For a limited time, get 70% off ODSC East passes and 6 months of Premium access to our AI+ Training Platform for FREE, packed with live and on-demand courses designed to fast-track your skills.
Industry, Opinion, Career Advice
3 Examples of AI Helping Police Solve Cold Cases
Solving cold cases has never been easy, but thanks to modern AI tools, it has gotten a lot easier.
How AI Impacts Diversity in College Admissions
Here’s the current landscape of AI in college admissions across the entire process and how it affects diversity in particular.
Data Science & AI News
University of California Researchers Unveil AI Tool to Standardize Microplastics Research
A team of environmental scientists developed an innovative AI-driven application designed to streamline the study of microplastics.
Greece Breaks Ground on Data Center, Boosting Regional Tech and AI Ambitions
Data4, a French data center operator, and the Greek government officially broke ground on a new data center campus just outside of Athens.
Magic AI Secures $5M to Supercharge Home Fitness with AI-Powered Mirror
London-based Magic AI has raised $5 million in its latest funding round, which signals AI’s entry into the fitness market with the Magic AI Mirror.
New AI Tool From MIT Offers Realistic Satellite Views of Future Flooding
The Earth Intelligence Engine AI tool from MIT could revolutionize how communities prepare for hurricanes and flooding.
U.S. Secures Top Spot in Global AI Innovation Rankings
The United States continues to dominate global AI innovation, surpassing China and other nations in key metrics.
Announcing the AI Builders Summit: LLMs, AI Agents, & RAG
A Virtual Month-Long Training Summit
Jan 15 — Feb 8
The AI Builders Summit is a month-long virtual training event designed to equip data scientists, ML and AI engineers, and innovators with the latest advancements in LLMs, AI agents, and RAG.
New Podcast Episode: Digital Twins and the Virtual Human Economy with Natalie Monbiot
In this episode of ODSC’s Ai x Podcast, we speak with Natalie Monbiot, the Founder & Futurist of Virtual Human Economy, about the benefits of digital twins aka virtual humans, the feasibility of the virtual human economy, and how virtual humans can be a part of our daily lives.
Video of the Week: Building and Deploying LLM applications with Apache Airflow
Discover how to build reliable, scalable LLM applications using Apache Airflow in Kaxil Naik’s insightful talk. Explore design patterns that integrate proprietary enterprise data to create value-driven AI applications. From orchestrating structured and unstructured data to interacting with tools like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and HuggingFace, learn how Airflow enables seamless machine learning workflows at scale.
Upcoming Webinars, Meetups, and Ai+ Live Training Sessions
Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Vector Database
Tuesday, December 10th, 12:00 PM ET
This talk will share insights into building image-text search and Composite Image Retrieval (CIR) using multimodal embeddings and the Milvus open source vector database, demonstrating how multi-modality unlocks new use cases in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Function Calling, Structured Output, and Agents with Vertex Gemini
Tuesday, December 17th, 12:00 PM ET
This session explores how Vertex Gemini empowers developers to build advanced applications with its powerful function calling, structured output, and agent capabilities. In the second session, we will explore how to harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate SQL query generation and seamlessly stream results into Confluent using Vertex AI.
