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📊 K-Means Cluster Evaluation with Silhouette Analysis
🦾Plus: 🧠 Ilya Sutskever says AI's 'age of scaling' is ending
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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🧮Top 10 Free Open Source Business Intelligence Software!
📌10 Must-Know Concepts Every Analyst Should Know
🚀 Your guide to building apps with Google Antigravity
🚕How Uber Standardized Mobile Analytics for Cross-Platform Insights
📈 Anthropic: AI could double U.S. productivity growth
✨ Klarna is Launching a U.S. Dollar-Backed Stablecoin
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Build a Product-Launch Landing Page
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
This article focuses on how to evaluate and interpret cluster quality through silhouette analysis, that is, an analysis of cluster structure and validity based on disciplined use of the silhouette metric. Silhouette analysis has practical implications in real-world segmentation tasks across marketing, pharmaceuticals, chemical engineering, and more.
A Framework for Smarter Voice AI Decisions
Deploying Voice AI doesn’t have to rely on guesswork.
This guide introduces the BELL Framework — a structured approach used by enterprises to reduce risk, validate logic, optimize latency, and ensure reliable performance across every call flow.
Learn how a lifecycle approach helps teams deploy faster, improve accuracy, and maintain predictable operations at scale.
This data and the subsequent information is becoming essential for the businesses to plan their future development and marketing strategies. That is why the use of Open-Source Business Intelligence software is becoming the need of time.
This publication is for anyone transitioning into data analytics from another field, or, like me, who studied outside the U.S. and later had to unlearn why a “confidence interval” is actually uncertainty and not, you know… confidence.
Google is pushing how the future IDE might operate with a few subtle but powerful tweaks: Agentic Platform: Google Antigravity is an experimental, free AI-powered development tool that evolves IDEs into an “agent-first” experience, using AI agents for autonomous coding tasks powered by Gemini 3.
Uber rebuilt its mobile tracking system so all its apps collect data the same way. Before, each team tracked taps and views differently, which made the data messy and hard to trust. Now, shared tools automatically record common actions and details, saving engineers time and improving accuracy.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Coresignal’s Free Webinar: How to Evaluate External Data Quality with Confidence. Join Coresignal’s free, vendor-neutral webinar on December 2, where Data Analyst Egidijus Griska will share practical tools and metrics you need to be confident when assessing B2B data.
hl (GitHub Repo)
hl is a high-performance log viewer and processor that transforms logs in JSON and logfmt formats into a human-readable output.
Mojo-V (GitHub Repo)
Mojo-V is a new RISC-V extension that implements secret computation, enabling secure, efficient, and data-oblivious execution.
AI News:
Safe Superintelligence founder Ilya Sutskever just appeared on the Dwarkesh Podcast, giving his take on scaling, ASI, his secretive startup, and more — arguing that research breakthroughs, not compute, will drive the next wave of progress. Sutskever said that 2020-2025 was the “age of scaling”, but we’ve reached the point where research becomes the differentiating factor for AI breakthroughs.
84% Deploy Gen AI Use Cases in Under Six Months – Real-Time Web Access Makes the Difference
Your product is only as good as the data it’s built on. Outdated, blocked, or missing web sources force your team to fix infrastructure instead of delivering new features.
Bright Data connects your AI agents to public web data in real time with reliable APIs. That means you spend less time on maintenance and more time building. No more chasing after unexpected failures or mismatches your agents get the data they need, when they need it.
Teams using Bright Data consistently deliver stable and predictable products, accelerate feature development, and unlock new opportunities with continuous, unblocked web access.
Anthropic published new research analyzing 100K Claude conversations to track AI’s productivity gains, estimating that widespread AI adoption could boost annual U.S. labor productivity growth by 1.8% — doubling the current rate. Anthropic researchers fed 100K anonymized conversations through its Clio privacy tool, mapping tasks to federal labor data to calculate productivity gains.
Black Forest Labs dropped Flux.2, a new family of powerful image models — featuring multi-reference capabilities that maintain character and style consistency across up to ten input images and cost reductions compared to rivals.
Ready to buy KlarnaUSD? The new stablecoin token is being launched by Swedish fintech firm Klarna and will be fully backed by the U.S. dollar. The move makes Klarna the latest major payments company to move deeper into digital assets. While currently in testing, it’s expected to be available on the mainnet in 2026.
Alibaba's Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch. The company will gradually add agentic AI features to support online shopping in the coming months. Alibaba has rebranded itself as an AI-first business. It plans to deeply integrate core lifestyle and productivity services directly into the Qwen app.
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AI Tutorial
How to Build a Product-Launch Landing Page in YouWare
Create an account on YouWare and confirm your email to start a new project. Choose a Landing Page or a blank site.
Generate the Page with One Prompt by pasting this into YouWare's AI:
"Create a modern product-launch landing page with hero, features, testimonials, email signup, pricing, FAQ, and footer. Use my brand colors and a clean, responsive layout."
Replace headline, subheadline, and CTAs, and add product screenshots, short description, 3 features, and simple FAQs.
Add Email Capture & Integrations by connecting Mailchimp/ConvertKit or pasting your form action. Add analytics (GA4 or Plausible) via site settings.
Customize Design from the colors to the fonts and spacing. You can use YouWare's AI to rewrite sections or generate icons/images.
Preview mobile view, fix spacing and CTA placement, and publish to YouWare subdomain. Now you can connect a custom domain when ready.
CTV ads made easy: Black Friday edition
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🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:
Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt:
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
podcast.ai, a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
Verk- Hire AI employees to add more firepower to your team, who work 24/7 to do sales, be your personal assistant, do graphic designing and more
Codetoflow enables you to understand the code in simple terms using a flowchart which enables you to understand the details
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