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ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks is a global IT consultancy delivering bespoke applications, no-nonsense consulting, and helping organisations to drive agility and create software. By hiring exceptional people, it can solve its clients' biggest and most pressing problems. All of its services are offered both on and offshore, and are delivered with pride and passion.
Skills Matter & ThoughtWorks
Skills Matter and ThoughtWorks work in close partnership in the UK, providing Skills Matter eXchanges and Skills Matter In-the-Brain sessions to support the Open Source and Agile community.
As proud YOW! supporters for 14+ years, Thoughtworks is dedicated to sharing knowledge and inspiring debate with technologists. We write books, blog, run events and champion Open Source. Stay connected via our Access Thoughtworks newsletter, a learning community where we share tech ideas and trends.
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Why Most Data Projects Fail and How to Avoid It
Featuring Jesse Anderson
Unfortunately, the majority of data projects fail. Yet, they fail for the same reasons. Most management and data teams don’t know the reasons a project succeeds or fails. It just appears to be random, hard work, or luck.
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Lessons Learned from DAG-based Workflow Orchestration
Featuring Kevin Kho
Workflow orchestration has traditionally been closely coupled to the concept of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). Building data pipelines involved registering a static graph containing all the tasks and their respective dependencies. During workflow execution, this graph would be traversed and...
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Managing Data Pipelines with Conductor
Featuring Doug Sillars
Data pipelines are a challenging part of working in data science. Netflix Conductor is a battle-tested workflow orchestration tool invented at Netflix to automate millions of microservice workflows. Using a workflow tool like Conductor as a part of your data analysis pipeline can help streamline...
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Building better and more responsible datasets
Featuring Peter Bailey
Bigger isn't always better and is definitely more likely to be irresponsible when it comes to datasets. But datasets are the unsung heroes of modern machine learning and AI systems, just as much as the algorithms, advanced hardware, and models that support them. In this talk, I share some...
