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Data meets science: Open access, code, datasets, and knowledge graphs for machine learning research and beyond
A new interconnected ecosystem for research is shaping up, and machine learning is just the tip of the iceberg. Science…
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Business
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…
Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL
Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not.…
IOTA still wants to build a better blockchain and get it right this time
In 2014, IOTA set out to offer an alternative to the key issues with blockchain:…
OctoML scores $28M to go to market with open source Apache TVM, a de facto standard for MLOps
The open source Apache TVM project is becoming a de facto standard in MLOps, and…
Cutting-edge Katana Graph scores $28.5 million Series A Led by Intel Capital
Here’s why and how a startup founded by a duo of researchers some months back…
Up and to the right: TigerGraph scores $105M Series C funding, the Graph market is growing
The largest funding round to date in the graph market is good news not just…
Technical
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…
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…
Another cloud native SQL database unicorn: Yugabyte raises $188M Series C funding at $1.3B valuation
A number of successive funding rounds have given Yugabyte unicorn status while positioning the company…
Cloud, microservices, and data mess? Graph, ontology, and application fabric to the rescue.
Knowledge graphs are probably the best technology we have for data integration. But what about…
The State of AI in 2021: Language models, healthcare, ethics, and AI agnosticism
Takeaways from an action-packed 2021 for AI: Healthcare is just getting started with its AI…
Socio-Technical
Healthcare’s $3 trillion question: Should the likes of Google and Facebook control this data?
How is data managed? Do users get to have consent over how their data is…
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…
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…
Going data-driven on a budget
How can you think and do data analysis globally, aiming to act and have an…
Who’s automating the enterprise? Meet Amelia and the future of work
Imagine all enterprise functions automated by software and performed through a single point of access,…
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Keep on Uberin the free world
Uber is still operating in London, in you case you did not notice. Uber will…
Use Cases
NBA analytics: Going data pro
For the NBA, like every other sports league, awards are important. They can generate attention,…
Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale
The problem with advertising data and what to do about it. Plus, the future of…
Planet analytics: big data, sustainability, and environmental impact
What is the relation between big data applications and sustainability? What is the net effect…
Language agnostic document processing: Finding relations using statistics, machine learning, and graphs
Would you like to be able to find related work regardless of domain or language,…
Data Works, Hadoop 3.0 is round the corner, and ‘Horton Hatches the Egg’
What’s coming in Hadoop 3.0? How is Hortonworks’ strategy evolving? And what are some examples…
Big Data versus money laundering: Machine learning, applications and regulation in finance
Could financial fraud such as the Laundromat be avoided by applying machine learning to scan…