AI / Machine Learning

Machine learning is going real-time: Here’s why and how

Organizations are turning to machine learning because of the return on investment. The ones doing…

Jan 25, 2022

What will applied AI look like in 2022?

AI adoption has skyrocketed throughout the last 18 months. Besides Joe McKendrick, who wrote the…

Dec 29, 2021

Taking the world by simulation: The rise of synthetic data in AI

Would you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real-world…

Dec 21, 2021

2022 technology trend review, part two: AI and graphs

AI and graphs have a few things in common: they are multi-faceted, ubiquitous in their…

Dec 21, 2021

OctoML announces the latest release of its platform, exemplifies growth in MLOps

OctoML is announcing the latest release of its platform to automate the deployment of production-ready…

Dec 16, 2021

Data / Analytics / Data Science

AI and automation vs. the COVID-19 pandemic: Trading liberty for safety

Reports on the use of AI to respond to COVID-19 may have been greatly exaggerated.…

Sep 10, 2020

Explainable AI: A guide for making black box machine learning models explainable

In the future, AI will explain itself, and interpretability could boost machine intelligence research. Getting…

Aug 6, 2020

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,…

Jul 27, 2020

Garbage in, garbage out: Data science, meet evidence-based medicine

Did you ever wonder how data is used in the medical industry? The picture that…

Jul 20, 2020

Nvidia Rapids cuGraph: Making graph analysis ubiquitous

A new open-source library by Nvidia could be the secret ingredient to advancing analytics and…

Aug 21, 2019

Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing. The Year of the Graph Newsletter, July/August 2019

Pinterest gets with the knowledge graph program. Facebook releases a new dataset for conversational Reasoning…

Aug 12, 2019

Graph database reinvented: Dgraph secures $11.5M to pursue its unique and opinionated path

Imagine a graph database that’s not aimed at the growing graph database market, selling to…

Jul 31, 2019

Innovation

Make Apache Cassandra great again: DataStax going cloud, Kubernetes, open source, and multi-model

Actions and words, code and advocacy. DataStax is changing strategy, re-engaging with the Apache Cassandra…

Mar 31, 2020

Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated

What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors — specifically, Amazon…

Feb 18, 2020

DevOps and observability in the 2020s

What do the data tell us on the direction modern software development is going? Cloud,…

Jan 14, 2020

Quantum Orchestration Platform: A virtual machine for quantum computing

Startup Quantum Machines unveils what could be a key to accelerating quantum computing adoption, already…

Jan 6, 2020

5 technology trends for the roaring 20s, part 1: Blockchain, cloud, open source

Data is changing the paradigm in everything from business to social interactions. Here is what…

Jan 3, 2020

Logz.io moves toward application observability in the cloud, raises questions on open source

Logz.io unveils its cloud offering for infrastructure monitoring based on open source platforms Elastic and…

Dec 3, 2019

Other Topics

The rise of Kubernetes epitomizes the transition from big data to flexible data

Can a platform conceived to support running ephemeral applications become the operating system of choice…

Dec 12, 2018

The best programming language for data science and machine learning

Hint: There is no easy answer, and no consensus either. Arguing about which programming language…

Jul 19, 2018

Data-driven software development in the cloud: Trends, opportunities, and threats

Software development has been fundamentally changing. It’s following the data and going to the cloud.…

Jul 6, 2018

GraphQL for databases: A layer for universal database access?

GraphQL is a query language mostly used to streamline access to REST APIs. Now, a…

Jun 19, 2018

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