Prompt Engineering Best Practices, the ODSC West 2024 Full Schedule, and LLM Fine-Tuning Strategies

Prompt Engineering Best Practices, the ODSC West 2024 Full Schedule, and LLM Fine-Tuning Strategies


The ODSC West 2024 Schedule is Live!

From October 29th to 31st, we’ve curated a schedule packed with over 150 hands-on workshops and expert-led talks designed to help you sharpen your skills and elevate your role as a data scientist or AI professional.

Best Practices for Prompt Engineering in Claude, Mistral, and Llama

Every LLM is a bit different, so the best practices for each may differ from one another. Here’s a guide on how to use three popular ones: Llama, Mistral AI, and Claude.

Got an LLM That Needs Some Work? Here Are Five LLM Fine-Tuning Strategies

These 5 LLM fine-tuning strategies can enhance clarity, learning, and overall effectiveness.

Building Scalable AI Pipelines with MLOps: A Guide for Software Engineers

Let’s explore using MLOps for software engineers, such as how they can address common issues, enabling scalable and efficient AI development pipelines.

AI and Data: Enhancing Development with GitHub Copilot

How can GitHub Copilot be used in environments like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, or Azure Data Studio to significantly reduce coding time?

Industry, Opinion, Career Advice

AI for Robotics and Autonomy with Francis X. Govers III

This blog will summarize key insights from our recent podcast with Francis X. Govers III, highlighting the integration of AI in robotics, its current state, and future potential.

ODSC Highlights

Announcing the Keynote Speakers for ODSC West 2024: Experts from NVIDIA, Google, and More!

The keynotes for ODSC West 2024 represent the best in the field of AI, featuring experts from UC Berkeley, NVIDIA, Anthropic, Voltron Data, MIT, and Google Cloud.

ODSC Europe 2024 Virtual Sessions Now Available On-Demand!

Missed out on ODSC Europe 2024 virtual sessions? Here’s everything that you can watch on-demand whenever you like!

10 of Our Favorite AI Slides from ODSC Europe 2024

These ten AI slides from ODSC Europe 2024 will teach you plenty about generative AI applications, the AI development lifecycle, RLHF, and plenty more.

Building an Effective OSS Management Layer for Your Data Lake

Ahead of her ODSC West session on OSS management layers, the speaker discusses how data lakes can benefit from this system.

AI Startup Showcase

Unlocking Innovation: Explore Cutting-Edge AI Startups at ODSC West

No industry is immune from disruption and AI has become a core strategic advantage for many businesses. As part of our efforts to grow the data science community, we are offering our support to startups in these fields to help them spread the word to VCs, conference audiences, and the data science community.

AI Startup Make the Jump Dinner

Thursday, October 10th | 6:30pm to 8:30pm | San Francisco

If you are an experienced roboticist, AI, data science, or data engineering practitioner and exploring starting a company, ODSC in partnership with Cortical and Village Global would like to invite you to “make the jump” dinner. Apply now for a chance to participate, and we’ll be in touch if space is available.

ODSC & Google AI Meetup

Tuesday, October 15th | 6:00pm to 8:00pm | San Francisco

Join us for a special AI meetup on October 15th in San Francisco. This exclusive gathering will bring together the city’s AI community for an evening of networking, learning, and engaging with fellow enthusiasts and Google experts.


Discover the cutting-edge innovation at ODSC West this October. Connect with thought leaders in AI automation and take the first step to:

  • Automating routine tasks
  • Supercharging your organization’s productivity
  • Increasing efficiency

Register by Friday for 40% off!


Data Science & AI News

ODSC’s AI Weekly Recap: Week of September 27th

This week’s AI Weekly Recap is all about the DOD’s urge to accelerate AI adoption, Meta’s AI celebrity voices, and tons of open-source updates.

Sign up here to get this as a newsletter every Friday morning.

OpenAI Launches Tools to Accelerate Development of AI Voice Assistants

OpenAI has announced a suite of new tools designed to simplify and expedite the creation of AI-powered voice applications.

OpenAI Restructuring Sparks Executive Exodus Amid Non-Profit Board Tensions

OpenAI is undergoing significant restructuring and internal changes related to status and sparking an exodus of high-profile executives.

FTC Launches Operation AI Comply to Tackle Deceptive AI Practices

The FTC has announced a major crackdown on companies misusing AI to deceive consumers, unveiling five law enforcement actions.

Celebrities Fall Victim to ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Hoax as Fake Privacy Message Goes Viral

The viral Goodbye Meta AI hoax on Instagram has ensnared over 600,000 users, including high-profile celebrities with fake privacy messages.


New Podcast Episode: Google’s AI-Powered Tools for Data Scientists: Building the Automated Future of Data Science with Paige Bailey

In this episode of ODSC’s Ai X Podcast, we speak with Paige Bailey, the engineering lead for GenAI Developer Experience at Google, about Google’s AI-powered tools for data scientists.

Spotify | Apple | SoundCloud


Video of the Week: Orchestrating LLM AI Agents with CrewAI

Discover the fundamentals of Large Language Models (LLMs), the challenges of integrating multiple AI agents, and how CrewAI streamlines their communication, dynamic task decomposition, and adaptive learning.


Upcoming Webinars, Meetups, and Ai+ Live Training Sessions

Learn more about Google Cloud AI, Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI

Wednesday, October 9th, 2024, 12:00 PM ET

Get ready for an exciting fall lineup of Google Cloud AI events! Whether you’re joining us virtually or in person, each event offers a unique opportunity to network, learn, and engage with fellow AI enthusiasts and Google experts.

Ai+ Live Training: Structuring Healthcare Data for Usage with LLMs

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024, 12:00 PM ET

Getting your data RAG-ready for usage within LLM’s is no easy task. When your data consists of various patient chart document types (e.g. PDFs, HTML, PPT not to mention handwritten notes) you will have your work cut out for you. Join us in a workshop where we will structure healthcare patient data for usage with LLM’s. With the help of ‘unstuctured.io’ packages we will transform, clean, chunk, generate summaries and embeddings, then write our ‘structured’ healthcare data to a vector database (weaviate) where it can be used to interact with LLMs or Chatbots.

Q&A session with NVIDIA

Thursday, October 17th, 2024, 01:00 PM

Ready to dive into the world of AI innovation? Your hackathon journey begins with NVIDIA’s exclusive webinar on October 10th, where Kaggle Master Chris Deotte and NVIDIA experts will answer all your questions about the upcoming virtual and in-person hackathons.

Developing Equitable AI Diagnostics: A Technical Approach to Bias Mitigation

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, 01:00 PM

In this talk, we will explore the critical need for fairness in AI-driven healthcare, with a focus on mitigating bias in machine learning models. As AI systems become more integrated into healthcare diagnostics, addressing the disparities in model performance across diverse ethnic groups is paramount. This session will present a technical deep dive into the challenges of bias in medical imaging datasets and the resulting impact on healthcare outcomes for underrepresented populations.

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