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[Featured Image] Two colleagues stand in an office and discuss the Hadoop Distributed File System that is used to handle their company's big data.

What Is the Hadoop Distributed File System?

Hadoop is key for big data processing and analytics. Learn more about the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), including the benefits of an Apache Hadoop Distributed File System, and how to find a career that uses HDFS.

April 10, 2024

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[Featured Image] Two coworkers stand together in an office and talk about their favorite machine learning frameworks while looking at a smartphone and tablet.

What Are Machine Learning Frameworks?

Machine learning frameworks make working with complex deep learning and machine learning models accessible. Discover details about popular machine learning frameworks, how they work, and how you can start building your career with them.

April 10, 2024

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[Featured image] A health care business intelligence analyst works on their laptop from home, analyzing data for actionable insights.

What Is Health Care Business Intelligence?

Learn how health care business intelligence can help your hospital or health care organization run more efficiently and provide better quality patient care, as well as options for a career in this field.

April 10, 2024

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[Featured Image] A person sits at a laptop learning about hidden layers in neural networks during an online course.

What Is a Hidden Layer in a Neural Network?

Uncover the hidden layers inside neural networks and learn what happens in between the input and output, with specific examples from convolutional, recurrent, and generative adversarial neural networks.

April 10, 2024

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[Featured Image] A programmer sits at a desk and uses a laptop application that includes lexical analysis.

What Is Lexical Analysis?

Lexical analysis is the first step of text processing used in many artificial intelligence algorithms. Learn why this process is a key step in natural language processing, allowing machines to understand human text more effectively.

April 10, 2024

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[Featured Image] Two tech employees in an office discuss using a masked language model.

Understanding NLP Algorithms: The Masked Language Model

Expand your understanding of natural language processing (NLP) with exciting algorithms such as masked language models. Plus, discover how different models compare and where you might have seen masked language modeling in action.

April 10, 2024

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