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Beware of 2020 Data, Alation Says
As 2020 (mercifully) winds down, forward-looking companies are looking to get a jump on planning for 2021. Just be careful using data from 2020 as the basis for those projections, warns Alation in its latest State of Dat Read more…
Prediction Time
"Those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat it," argued George Santayana in his work The Life of Reason. If you cannot learn from your past mistakes, you will be ill-prepared to make good decisions going f Read more…
Nature Index Provides AI-Generated Academic Article Summaries
When publishing an article in a major journal, researchers jump through a near-endless series of hoops to ensure the rigor of their research and the article’s conformity with the style of the journal. The most accessib Read more…
Observable Seeks Democratization of Data Visualization
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then how much is a rich, interactive data visualization worth? If you’re Observable, the San Francisco startup founded by the creator of D3.js and a VP of engineering at Google, then Read more…
AWS Launches Managed Services for Grafana, Prometheus
Grafana Labs, developer of a popular open source tool for visualizing logs and metrics, joins a growing list of Amazon Web Services partners, allowing AWS customer to run Grafana’s dashboards natively as a managed ser Read more…
H2O Wave: A New UI for AI
AI and machine learning by themselves do not move the needle. The technologies must be applied somehow to have the desired impact. With that in mind, H2O.ai today unveiled an open-source Python development framework call Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: December 2020 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Why AI Is a Slam Dunk for the NBA
Thanks to the advent of player-tracking data in the NBA and the use of machine learning software running on powerful servers, we’re on the cusp of having some fouls called automatically in professional basketball. But Read more…
Building a Cost-Effective, High-Performing BI Ecosystem on the Cloud
The shift from on-premise environments to the cloud is happening at a tremendous pace. However, once enterprises move their data to the cloud and make it available to their business users, they face several challenges, s Read more…
Hear the Music Behind Your Data
Every minute, Zoom hosts 208,333 participants, and Instagram users post 347,222 stories. Two platforms alone generate an incredible amount of data. Add in the fact that the internet reaches 4.57 billion people, and you r Read more…