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Data governance and context for evidence-based medicine: Transparency and bias in COVID-19 times
In the early 90s, evidence-based medicine emerged to make medicine more data-driven. Three decades later, we have more data, but…
Business
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:…
Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding
Your good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. Being a pure-play open-source cloud-native…
Technical
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…
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…
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…
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…
Socio-Technical
Online Marketing and Data Protection: Dos, Don’ts, and a hint for a way forward
We have seen how marketing campaigns can backfire when common sense and CRM – MDM…
The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure
Do you think cold-calling still works? Trying to sell random stuff to random people on…
Twitter doesn’t like me, but it’s nothing personal: stock plunges, engagement, and walled gardens
I’m a very late joiner on Twitter. Even though as an analyst being active on…
World Wide Web Conference 2012: From technical to socio-technical
Extending the reach and scope of the Web I just returned from this year’s edition…
Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012
Distributed, Collaborative Decision Making? Music to my ears – we should be doing more of that…