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A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake
From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support, is one of the pain-points…
Business
A guide for prescriptive analytics: The art and science of choosing and applying the right techniques
Prescriptive analytics is nothing short of automating your business. But there’s lots of hard work,…
Google Cloud gives open-source data vendors a break. Will that save open source?
Google will give open-source data vendors that offer their software on Google Cloud a share…
The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring
How do you bring Hadoop to the AI, hybrid, and multi cloud era, making it…
2019 will be another ‘Year of the Graph’: OpenCorporates is evidence No. 1
Graph databases are crossing the chasm to mainstream use cases, adding features such as machine…
Technical
The state of AI in 2020: Biology and healthcare’s AI moment, ethics, predictions, and graph neural networks
Research and industry breakthroughs, ethics, and predictions. This is what AI looks like today, and…
The state of AI in 2020: Democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence
From fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI…
Towards a Knowledge Graph economy. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 21, Summer 2020
These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused…
Hybrid AI through data, space, time, and industrial applications: Beyond Limits scores $113M Series C to scale up
Machine learning approaches to AI alone don’t cut it. Good old-fashioned AI alone does not…
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…