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Open source observability marches on: New Relic and Grafana Labs partnership brings benefits to developers

The perfect observability storm with open source leading the way, and a partnership that makes…

Aug 10, 2020

Technical

The state of MLOps in 2021

MLOps is the art and science of bringing machine learning to production, and it means…

Sep 3, 2021

Amazon Neptune update: Machine learning, data science, and the future of graph databases

Amazon Neptune just added another query language, openCypher, to its arsenal. That may not sound…

Jul 30, 2021

Building MLGUI, user interfaces for machine learning applications

Machine learning is eating the world, and spilling over to established disciplines in software, too.…

Jul 19, 2021

Open-source growth and venture capital investment: Data, databases, challenges, and opportunities

Open-source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it’s often approached in…

Jul 7, 2021

More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess

Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It’s a…

Jun 22, 2021

Socio-Technical

Media hype and moral panic: fake news and populism in the Netherlands

What led towards an election result that did not live up to Geert Vilders’ hopes…

Mar 17, 2017

How i learned to stop worrying and love telling stories

I’ve got tech, data, and media, and i’m not afraid to use them. Here’s my…

Aug 29, 2016

From a basement in Athens to Space and beyond: the unlikely story of Climate Watch

We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after…

May 10, 2016

Earth Day special: on big issues, breaking news, and using data and tech to get insights and build stories

Earth day is one of those things pretty much everyone can stand behind. With virtually…

Apr 22, 2016

The evolution of Retail and what to do with your Big Data

SPS Commerce is one of the biggest vendors in the retail domain. They act as…

Oct 3, 2014

Intellectual property thoughts: on Ideas and Patents

Recently we have seen 2 US court rulings that could bring on important changes in…

Jun 23, 2014

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