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2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID-19 effect
AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological progress and adoption Last year,…
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AI / Machine Learning
AI ethics in the real world: FTC commissioner shows a path toward economic justice
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter lays out machine learning and AI’s potential for harm and…
Building MLGUI, user interfaces for machine learning applications
Machine learning is eating the world, and spilling over to established disciplines in software, too.…
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…
Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking…
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…
Data / Analytics / Data Science
Business intelligence, meet graph. Neo4j introduces BI connector for data discovery tools
Mixing graph and relational data is now even more accessible. What does this mean for…
Data science vs the COVID-19 pandemic: Flattening the curve — but how?
Whether they are epidemiologists or not, a few people have attempted to use data and…
Machine learning vs payment fraud: Transparency and humans in the loop to minimize customer insults
What are customer insults, and what does machine learning have to do with it? False…
Data science vs social media disinformation: the case of climate change and the Australian bushfires
While a newly released World Weather Attribution study ties the Australian bushfires to anthropogenic climate…
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…
Semantics and virtualization, data integration and data governance on the way to the cloud
It’s official – data analytics is swiftly moving to the cloud. AtScale is facilitating this,…
Knowledge graphs, AI, and interoperability. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: February 2019
Knowledge graphs are spreading everywhere: from Airbnb and eBay to Alexa, and from using JSON-LD…
In Between Years. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: January 2019
In between years, or zwischen den Jahren, is a German expression for the period between…
Data, crystal balls, looking glasses, and boiling frogs: Reviewing 2018, predicting 2019
Data gets flexible. Machine learning reigns supreme and transforms everything, including software and hardware. Regulation,…
More graph databases. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 8, December 2018
Redis announces RedisGraph and a benchmark, TigerGraph goes AWS, AWS hands-on experiences, new features from…
Graph gets funding. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 7, November 2018
October 2018 was the busiest month in the busiest year in graph history, hence the…
Innovation
Hazelcast open source in-memory data grid secures $21.5 million funding, expands platform to real-time streaming data
The streaming data pie is growing, and Hazelcast wants a piece of it. It’s got…
The Graph: An open-source query protocol for blockchains, using GraphQL
Querying blockchains is hard, but it does not have to be. This is the vision…
Chainlink launches Mainnet to get data in and out of Ethereum smart contracts
Smart contracts promise to take execution of processes and agreements to the Ethereum global computer.…
Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up…
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,…
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…
Other Topics
Alibaba: Building a retail ecosystem on data science, machine learning, and cloud
What does it take to compete in a global arena in which retail and cloud…
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…
Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus: Can analytics bridge the gap?
Despite what they’d have you believe, Devs and Ops don’t always get along nicely. Pepperdata…
MapR, DataStax offer options for container persistence
If it’s lack of options for persistence that’s keeping you from using containers, maybe it’s…
Staying agile: data-driven IT operations
Would you like to have an end-to-end picture of your IT operations, but are lost…
Digital transformation as a data-centric service
Is digital transformation something you can just buy into? No, but it is a data-centric…