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Are you new to data warehouses (DWH)? Do you need to check whether your data warehouse follows the best practices for a good design? In both cases, this webinar is for you.
A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
- How to gather information about a business;
- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
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Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
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Overview
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Key Topics Covered
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2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
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6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
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- 1. KRISTEN KOH GOLDSTEIN FOUNDER CEO / SCALUS
- 2. BACKGROUND BEEN A PART OF NUMEROUS SUCCESSFUL START-UPS Sold to Shopping.com / eBay (1999) Sold to Tibco (2010) Bootstrapped to $3M in 18 months and raise $10M from Tier 1 VCs Founded Scalus in 2014 as a spinout of BackOps
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- 5. As CEO, your second (or third) full-time job as Recruiter starts immediately and lasts forever THE 10 THINGS THAT CHANGE WHEN YOU STOP BOOTSTRAPPING 3 1. People 2. Product 3. Process HIRE SLOW, FIRE FAST HIRING OUTSIDE VS. INSIDE CIRCLE
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