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What is generative AI? The evolution of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is already designing microchips and sending us spam, so what's next? Here's how generative AI really works and what to expect now that it's here.

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IT’s lovefest with GPT-3 needs to meet reality now

As we’ve seen with other highly-hyped technologies — such as the Web back in ‘95 and blockchain more recently — companies can get ahead of themselves when they jump into investments based on things other than strategic goals.

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Google Sheets power tips: Create an automatically updating spreadsheet

Tired of finding, copying, and pasting data into spreadsheets? With just a few lines of code, you can set up a self-updating spreadsheet in Google Sheets that fetches and stores data for you.

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Tableau re-engineers dashboards, adds new analytics tools for business analysts

In its latest update, Tableau offers new dashboard, data model, predictive, and other capabilities to make it easier and faster for users to uncover data insights for business, while optimizing performance and cost.

Cookie conundrum: The loss of third-party trackers could diminish your privacy

Web giants who have been advocating for an end to a nearly 30-year-old technology that follows you around the internet may be motivated more by profit than altruism.

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PDF to Excel conversion: Your ultimate guide to the best tools

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources.

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How to choose an enterprise search platform

Beyond indexing content from multiple data sources into a single interface, advanced enterprise search tools analyze data, identify patterns, make smart recommendations, and provide insights to users. Here's what to look for and 10...

Mining gold from Amazon reviews

Why negative feedback is your friend -- and what ‘Amazon’s Choice’ really means

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Beginner's guide to R: Syntax quirks you'll want to know

Why x=3 doesn't always mean what you think it should, about data types and more.

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8 key technologies for the future of work

As the hybrid workplace becomes the norm, technologies designed to accommodate, protect, and improve productivity for remote and in-office employees will be critical.

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New Goldman Sachs-AWS data service points to a larger banking trend

Goldman Sachs and AWS have teamed up to launch a financial services data analytics and management service to help businesses seeking to crunch massive pools of data for smarter business insights.

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4 big ways to put Zoom apps to work

From collaboration tools to security platforms, Zoom apps and integrations can help you hold better meetings, capture and secure important data, analyze Zoom usage, and more.

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Tableau’s new Slack capabilities democratize data

Tableau is counting on Slack to make its data visualization tools more accessible and is adding new data prep and governance tools to make enterprise data more trustworthy.

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Zoho One suite expands to more than 50 apps

The first major update to Zoho’s “operating system for business” in two years adds a shared email inbox, AR remote assistance tool, retail website creation platform, and more.

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Great R packages for data import, wrangling, and visualization

Here are my go-to R packages — in a handy searchable table.

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Real IT leadership: Selling the transformative dream

It's one thing to cook up a great new initiative, but making it happen requires powers of persuasion, solid partnerships, and access to genuine technical insight.

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Zoho brings business intelligence to the mass market

Zoho's new business intelligence suite puts deep, data-driven business insights within reach of many smaller enterprises.

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Driving better social outcomes in NZ through data and analytics

New Zealand’s ImpactLab CEO explains how government data and other information can be made available, analysed, and used to marry hard data and human stories to grow services’ impact.