My #sigmod2020 Trip Report. Takeaways: 1) Gap between real world and academia on data integration 2) Academia is starting to study data catalogs 3) More interest in non-SQL interfaces to access data 4) Graphs continue to gain more industry traction juansequeda.com/blog/2020/06/2…

Just saw an amazing talk by Arun Kumar on his work on detecting feature types for ML with the ML data prep zoo: adalabucsd.github.io/papers/2019_Da… Excited to use it to benchmark how dabl is doing and improve its type detection! Talk will be available here soon: remziarpacidusseau.wixsite.com/mlos

Delighted to share this overview of our strong & growing Database Lab! 🙌 UCSD CSE Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Video: youtube.com/watch?v=GlLrog… PDF: cseweb.ucsd.edu/~arunkk/DBLabV… Learn about the group's faculty, history, current research projects & students, & the eclectic data tech ecosystem in town.

I’m seeing a massive disconnect (more so than usual) between the two twitter worlds I usually inhabit — the US and India. It is important to bridge the two now for a very important reason: #CovidIndia Please read the whole thread and amplify. THREAD 1/17

We've launched a new forum for people to find resources related to Covid-19. Team & Volunteers at @DocVitaOfficial check for information and bring it all together in one place for you to access - docvita.com/covid19

1/7: 🚨ATTENTION!🚨 A panel debate you DO NOT WANT TO MISS is coming soon to SIGMOD/PODS 2021! Thank you Joe Hellerstein, Ihab Ilyas, Sarah Catanzaro, Luna, Felix, & Dr. A. Diaboli for joining! ML/AI hell hath no FURY like DB folks scorned! This is WAR! 🎆 Spread the word. A 🧵👇

The DEEM workshop (DEEM: Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning) @2022Sigmod goes into another round. So don't miss out on a hopefully hybrid workshop with many unexpected discussions, and submit your papers by Mar 01: deem-workshop.org

As I finished up my academic interviews, I had some time to reflect on the most useful advice that I got or wish I had gotten for the CS academic job market: 1) You need an excellent 45m job talk. Don't believe anyone who says you have any longer than that.

🌟New Benchmark! 🌟 Do you work on RAG? Are you interested in Multi-Turn conversations? Very excited to share the new MTRAG benchmark we have released! Data: github.com/ibm/mt-rag-ben… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.03468 Danish Contractor Kshitij Fadnis Chulaka Gunasekara Vraj Shah Lucian Popa