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Own your newsfeed, own your data
A guide to keeping all your news sources and items in one place We all have things we care about…
Business
A troubleshooting platform for free: Netdata scores $14.2M funding to extend its open-source application monitoring platform
Netdata thinks what the world lacks is a troubleshooting platform to bring real-time metrics to…
Data.world secures $26 million funding, exemplifies the use of semantics and knowledge graphs for metadata management
Data.world wants to eliminate data silos to answer business questions. Their bet to do this…
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…
Data Lakehouse, meet fast queries and visualization: Databricks unveils Delta Engine, acquires Redash
Data warehouses alone don’t cut it. Data lakes alone don’t cut it either. So whether…
Streamlit wants to revolutionize building machine learning and data science applications, scores $21 million Series A funding
Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases:…
Technical
Building MLGUI, user interfaces for machine learning applications
Machine learning is eating the world, and spilling over to established disciplines in software, too.…
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…
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…
The biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j
A $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j’s valuation to over $2 billion. A…
Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking…
Graphs as a foundational technology stack: Analytics, AI, and hardware
How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic — which also…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Intellectual property thoughts: on Ideas and Patents
Recently we have seen 2 US court rulings that could bring on important changes in…