Proud of how we helped VodafoneZiggo upskill data-savvy employees to become proficient data engineers

https://customers.xebia.com/vodafoneziggo-upskills-data-savvy-employees-to-become-data-engineers

I’m still proud to be one of those 600 contributors and that guy that introduced it to ING in 2016 (days after it was open sourced by Airbnb)

Last chance to register to join Henk Griffioen, Julian de Ruiter, and Daniel van Dijk today at 3 PM CET.

They’ll discuss how to unlock AI investment potential, avoid budget waste, and create sustainable AI-driven growth!

 Learn more and register here:  https://xebia.ai/ml-ops-1-gl

As I walk by through Delhi, I was reminded of a life-saving trick I learned in Naples.

When crossing 🚶🏻a road full of traffic, with multiple lanes and speeding vehicles, you have to take a leap of faith and expect the drivers to naturally avoid you but…

Don’t change your walking speed, or, even worse, run! Never! Keep a constant and not too fast not too slow pace, and you’ll be safe at the other end of the road (albeit scared to death).

If you change pace, you will break the mental model of the drivers, and they won’t know how to avoid you if your speed isn’t constant, and you’ll end up hospitalized. 🏥

BTW, I had a great time with the Xebia team!

Anand Sahay Preetpal Singh Mayank Verma Niels Zeilemaker Diederik Greveling Xebia

If you’re into #genai, you might have heard the last amazing story of the week: “Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company’s new code is created by AI”. (article below)

And you might feel left behind: 25% productivity increase* across all your software developers, analysts, etc. WOW!

Where’s the catch?

Well, in the famous internet forum Hacker News, a Google employee gives us a bit more details (link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42002212). The money quote:

“I work for Google, and I just got done with my work day. I was just writing I guess what you’d call ‘AI generated code.’ But the code completion engine is basically just good at finishing the lines I’m writing. […] So basically, it’s a helpful productivity tool but it’s not doing any engineering at all.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earnings-q3-2024-new-code-created-by-ai-2024-10?international=true&r=US&IR=T

*Not really 25%, but you get what I mean.

When we started working with Danone in 2020, they realized data literacy was no longer a useful skill but an essential one.

Today, with #genai all around us (literally and figuratively), data literacy is even more important as knowing when and how to leverage data & AI is critical to succeed.

To help you all to get started, we’ve invited Sandra Oudshoff—who has led analytics development across 87 companies at The HEINEKEN Company—, Ronald Root—head of Data & Analytics at Van Oord—and Steven Nooijen—head of Data & AI Strategy at Xebia to discuss:

🎯 The impact of Data Literacy on your business 🎯 How a data-first mindset enhances decision-making 🎯 How to ensure your data literacy efforts are successful.

Register here https://xebia.ai/data-literacy-webinar-gl

#dataliteracy

A train to Haarlem, a picturesque city in the Netherlands, on an early morning on route to deliver an Hadoop training.

There, 10 years ago, I started to prepare our first in-house training, Data Analysis with pandas.

The #Hadoop MapReduce paradigm was already in decline, as many companies realized their data would fit on a single machine. And there was nothing better than #pandas to do the wrangling!

Fast-forward to today, and our time has come to train people on Polars, the spiritual successor of pandas.

Want to know more?

Join my colleague Enrico Erler as he explains what makes Polars so special!

Register here 👉🏻 https://xebia.ai/polars-webinar-gl

Mindlessly use Copilot at your own risk

“In fact, the study found that developers using Copilot introduced 41% more bugs into their code, according to CIO”

https://www.techspot.com/news/104945-ai-coding-assistants-do-not-boost-productivity-or.html

I can see where the market is going by seeing what my colleagues are up to, often months or years before the rest find out.

This time, it’s all about Polars 🐻‍❄️, and we’re organizing an in-depth webinar with Enrico Erler on October 22nd so you too can find out: ❄️How the Rust-power library leverages memory safety and performance optimization ❄️Why Polars is faster than Pandas ❄️How to get started with data transformations and filtering

Sign up https://xebia.ai/polars-webinar-gl

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