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NBA analytics: Going data pro
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NBA analytics: Going data pro

For the NBA, like every other sports league, awards are important. They can generate attention, spur debate, make money, and…

Jun 26, 2017
Kafka: The story so far

Kafka: The story so far

Jun 20, 2017
Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

May 26, 2017
Graph databases and RDF: It’s a family affair

Graph databases and RDF: It’s a family affair

May 19, 2017
The continuing rise of graph databases

The continuing rise of graph databases

May 15, 2017

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Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
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Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL

Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence…

Apr 9, 2019
Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future
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Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future

Startup Run:AI exits stealth, promises a software layer to abstract over many AI chips It’s…

Apr 3, 2019
The new Cloudera-Hortonworks Hadoop: 100 percent open source, 50 percent boring
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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…

Mar 25, 2019
Nvidia GPUs for data science, analytics, and distributed machine learning using Python with Dask
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Nvidia GPUs for data science, analytics, and distributed machine learning using Python with Dask

Nvidia wants to extend the success of the GPU beyond graphics and deep learning to…

Mar 22, 2019
Salesforce Research: Knowledge graphs and machine learning to power Einstein
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Salesforce Research: Knowledge graphs and machine learning to power Einstein

Explainable AI in real life could mean Einstein not just answering your questions, but also…

Mar 18, 2019
Streamlio, an open-core streaming data fabric for the cloud era
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Streamlio, an open-core streaming data fabric for the cloud era

Apache Kafka replacement and beyond. This is open-core Streamlio’s claim to fame, and today’s announcement…

Mar 13, 2019

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