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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,…

Jan 3, 2019

From big data to AI: Where are we now, and what is the road forward?

It took AI just a couple of years to go from undercurrent to mainstream. But…

Nov 21, 2018

Processing time series data: What are the options?

Get your data from everywhere you can, anytime you can, they said, so you did.…

Sep 28, 2018

Knowledge graphs beyond the hype: Getting knowledge in and out of graphs and databases

What exactly are knowledge graphs, and what’s with all the hype about them? Learning to…

Sep 19, 2018

The past, present, and future of streaming: Flink, Spark, and the gang

Reactive, real-time applications require real-time, eventful data flows. This is the premise on which a…

Sep 11, 2018

Artifictional Intelligence: is the Singularity or the Surrender the real threat to humanity?

Artificial intelligence is one of those things: overhyped and yet mystical, the realm of experts…

Sep 7, 2018

Google can now search for datasets. First research, then the world?

Did you ever need data on a topic you wanted to research, and had a…

Sep 5, 2018

The web as a database: The biggest knowledge graph ever

Imagine you could get the entire web in a database, and structure it. Then you…

Aug 30, 2018

AI chips for big data and machine learning: Hard choices in the cloud and on-premise

How can GPUs and FPGAs help with data-intensive tasks such as operations, analytics, and machine…

Aug 20, 2018

Zen and the art of data structures: From self-tuning to self-designing data systems

Designing data systems is something few people understand, and it’s very hard and costly. But…

Aug 6, 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

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