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Superconductive scores $21M Series A funding to sustain growth of its Great Expectations open source framework for data quality

Ensuring data quality is essential for analytics, data science and machine learning. Superconductive’s Great Expectations…

May 20, 2021

It’s all about the data: Explorium’s bet pays off in $75M Series C funding

Data science and machine learning are being commoditized, so it’s the datasets that make the…

May 18, 2021

OtterTune sets out to auto tune all the databases

Tuning databases is key to application performance and stability, but it’s a hard job. Auto-tuning…

May 12, 2021

Open-source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS

Trying to capture the value open-source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS…

May 3, 2021

Open source AI stack is ready for its moment

Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working…

Apr 27, 2021

Chainlink 2.0 brings off-chain compute to blockchain oracles, promotes adoption of hybrid smart contracts

A new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for…

Apr 15, 2021

Technical

OctoML announces the latest release of its platform, exemplifies growth in MLOps

OctoML is announcing the latest release of its platform to automate the deployment of production-ready…

Dec 16, 2021

LinkedIn and Intel tech leaders on the state of AI

AI is on a roll. Adoption is increasing across the board, and organizations are already…

Nov 30, 2021

Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that wants to take the embedded key-value store world by storm

RocksDB is the secret sauce underlying many data management systems. Speedb is a drop-in replacement…

Nov 17, 2021

SambaNova is enabling disruption in the enterprise with AI language models, computer vision, recommendations, and graphs

SambaNova just added another offering under its umbrella of AI-as-a-service portfolio for enterprises: GPT language…

Nov 15, 2021

Nvidia doubles down on AI language models and inference as a substrate for the Metaverse, in data centers, the cloud and at the edge

At Nvidia’s GTC event today, CEO Jensen Huang made announcements the company claims have the…

Nov 9, 2021

Socio-Technical

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…

May 24, 2018

GDPR in real life: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Part one: Why are most organizations still not ready for GDPR? And what are the…

May 18, 2018

Controversy, thy name is Europe: Open credit scores, data-driven counter-forensics, and the regulation debate

Europe’s biggest digital culture festival raises questions beyond the use of data. Europe’s SXSW: The…

May 7, 2018

Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe

The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and…

Apr 20, 2018

Conway’s Law and the future of healthcare data management: Genome, Blockchain, and GDPR

Maladies in healthcare data management are obvious, but what about solutions? From selling Genome data…

Apr 11, 2018

Use Cases

How machine learning is taking on online retail fraud

Fraud is one of the biggest causes of lost revenue for online retailers. Fraugster and…

Jul 14, 2017

Shipping to data: The case of Amazon Prime Day

Did you ever wonder how retail hallmarks like Amazon Prime Day and global shipping are…

Jul 10, 2017

NBA analytics: Going data pro

For the NBA, like every other sports league, awards are important. They can generate attention,…

Jun 26, 2017

Planet analytics: big data, sustainability, and environmental impact

What is the relation between big data applications and sustainability? What is the net effect…

Apr 22, 2017

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