A Gentle Introduction to Lists and Data Frames in R

Vectors in R are supposed to be of homogeneous data type. You can use a list as the container if there are mixed data types, such as numbers and strings. The list and data frame are closely related in R. The data frame is probably more useful because it reflects how we usually collect statistics. …

Zero-party Data Marketing vs. First-party Data Marketing: Differences and Uses

Third-party cookies have been dying an extremely slow death since 2019, when Apple, Firefox, and Google announced they were phasing them out. Facing a world in which third-party data on consumers is no longer easily available, brands have been embracing two alternatives. They are: first-party data and zero-party data. Here, we highlight the difference between …

A Gentle Introduction to Vectors in R

Last Updated on August 18, 2023 R is a language for programming with data. Unlike many other languages, the primitive data types in R are not scalars but vectors. Therefore, understanding how to deal with vectors is crucial to programming or reading the R code. In this post, you will learn about various vector operations …

Applying cyber resilience to DORA solutions

The Digital Operational Resilience Act, or DORA, is a European Union (EU) regulation that created a binding, comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) risk-management framework for the EU financial sector. DORA establishes technical standards that financial entities and their critical third-party technology service providers must implement in their ICT systems by January 17, 2025. DORA applies to all …

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Autonomous visual information seeking with large language models

Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team There has been great progress towards adapting large language models (LLMs) to accommodate multimodal inputs for tasks including image captioning, visual question answering (VQA), and open vocabulary recognition. Despite such achievements, current state-of-the-art visual language models (VLMs) perform inadequately on …

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Implementing MLOps tools and processes for supply chain science at Wayfair

In our previous blog post, we presented Wayfair’s MLOps vision and how we implemented it within our Data Science & Machine Learning organization using Vertex AI, supported by tooling that we built in-house and state-of-the-art MLOps processes. We shared our MLOps reference architecture that includes a shared Python library that we built to interact with …