GDPR in real life: Transparency, innovation, and adoption across borders and organizations

Part two: Auditing data on premise and in the cloud, spurring innovation in machine learning and interpretable AI, and influencing organizations, consumers, and legislation all over the world, GDPR is here to stay.
Read More →GDPR in real life: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Part one: Why are most organizations still not ready for GDPR? And what are the implications and mechanisms of applying GDPR provisions for companies, individuals, and regulators?
Read More →Modernizing Hadoop: Reaching the plateau of productivity

What's new in Hadoop, and how is vendor dynamics and strategy evolving?
Read More →Water data is the new oil: Using data to preserve water

Data and water do mix, apparently. Using data and analytics can lead to great benefits in water preservation.
Read More →Data.world: The importance of linking data and people

Notepads, graphs, data lakes, collaboration, and data manifestos. Data.world has an interesting blend of philosophy and technology going on — and it all converges around one thing: Facilitating data-driven analysis by making it a team sport.
Read More →The Reskilling Revolution: Taking control of skills with Open Badges

In a rapidly shifting job market, being able to formalize skills is a requirement for job seekers and employers going forward. Open Badges is a data specification that may be able to help do that.
Read More →Opening banking data and APIs: Land of opportunity or Pandora’s box?

The EU directive PSD2 may not be as famous as GDPR, but its effects may be even more dramatically felt by financial institutions and anyone transacting with them.
Read More →Towards a unifying data theory and practice: Combining operations, analytics, and streaming

We've heard the one data platform to rule them all story before. Could it be this time it's actually true? New Pivotal-backed and Spark-compatible open source solution SnappyData promises so, and we take the opportunity to look inside and around for whys, hows, and options.
Read More →Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale

The problem with advertising data and what to do about it. Plus, the future of big data architecture, and other stories from the Ad Tech trenches
Read More →Error – data not found: Precarious data and architectures of the future

Can data from organizations as prominent as NASA vanish into thin air? A grass-roots initiative lead by scientists and researchers believes it just might, and is doing everything in its power to prevent this.
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