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Using Lean Agile to Establish a Data Governance Organization Framework
Click here to learn more about Tami Flowers. I am a huge proponent of Lean Agile. Not because it is a giant industry buzzword, but because I’ve lived it and witnessed first-hand the benefits Lean Agile can provide in delivering quality, useful functionality quickly to the business. There are several commonalities no matter which flavor […]
Read More →Databricks Announces General Availability of Community Edition
by Angela Guess A new article out of the organization reports, “Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced the General Availability of Databricks Community Edition (DCE), a free version of the just-in-time data platform built on top of open source Apache Spark, at Spark Summit 2016. DCE is accessible […]
Read More →IDEA Announces Strategic Alliance With Stibo Systems
by Angela Guess A new article out of Stibo Systems reports, “The Industry Data Exchange Association, Inc. (IDEA) announces its strategic alliance with Stibo Systems, the global leader of multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. IDEA has selected Stibo Systems’ MDM solution STEP Trailblazer to power the next-generation Industry Data Warehouse (IDW). The platform will […]
Read More →MapR Redefines Big Data Landscape with Dedicated Enterprise-Grade Spark Distribution
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, announced today at Spark Summit a new enterprise-grade Apache Spark distribution. This new distribution includes the complete Spark stack engineered to support advanced analytic applications, along with patented innovations in the MapR Platform, […]
Read More →New IoT Scanner Reveals Security Vulnerabilities to Consumers
by Angela Guess Ian Barker reports in BetaNews, “Protecting yourself online is no longer just about your PC and your mobile phone. There are now a whole host of other devices which are potentially vulnerable. Internet security specialist BullGuard is launching a new, free tool for consumers that reveals connected devices which could be vulnerable […]
Read More →Enabling Effective Decision Making with Artificial Intelligence and Semantics
by Angela Guess Luca Scagliarini recently wrote in ITProPortal, “Speed and scale were once the most important features of computing power but the so-called ‘information era’ has radically changed the business drivers of any organisation, putting data at the centre of their strategies. Today, intelligent systems making sense of information enable the most effective data-driven […]
Read More →Education and Training in Data Science with University and Industry Partnerships
Modern enterprises have an immense responsibility to harness ever-evolving data technologies to get maximum business benefits. However, with new technological capabilities promising more value-added outcomes, global organizations face a challenge to recruit the most qualified Data Scientists and Data Analysts who can do justice to such promising technologies as Big Data, Hadoop or Predictive Analytics. […]
Read More →7 of the 21 Most Valuable Career Skills Directly Relate to Data Management
by Angela Guess Cybele Weisser recently wrote in MSN.com, “In this complex, fast-changing job market, just putting in the hours and being good at what you do may not be enough. You need an edge. And the surest one these days is to possess the skills that are most in demand in your field, that […]
Read More →IS Solutions Enhances Data Analytics Expertise Through Partnership with ThoughtSpot
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “IS Solutions Plc, a leading AIM-listed data solutions provider, has announced that it has become a channel partner for ThoughtSpot, the leader in search-driven analytics in the enterprise. ThoughtSpot’s relational search technology – providing instant answers to business questions through search-driven analytics – is […]
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Jun 9 Smart Data Webinar: Sense and Sensors – From Perception to Personality
DATE: June 9, 2016 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Business and public-sector entities use individual and aggregated data to understand customer/constituent wants and needs. This can range from basic satisfaction survey data to analyzing movement in physical spaces and tracking shopping cart habits online. […]
Read More →Jun 14 Data-Ed Webinar: Data Modeling Fundamentals
DATE: June 14, 2016 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Every organization produces and consumes data. Because data is so important to day to day operations, data trends are hitting the mainstream and businesses are adopting buzzwords such as Big Data, NoSQL, data scientist, etc., […]
Read More →Jun 16 RWDG Webinar: DIY and Purchased Data Governance Tools
DATE: Jun 16, 2016 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Data Governance tools are enablers to program success. The metadata stored in these tools become the backbone of a successful Data Governance program. The question of whether to build your own Data Governance tools versus […]
Read More →Jun 21 DAMA Webinar: The Theory of Everything – Is it Time to Rethink Data Management?
DATE: June 21, 2016 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar With the arrival of big data, data science and the internet of things, you could be forgiven for thinking that our sophistication with data is advancing at a phenomenal rate, and from a technical perspective […]
Read More →Jun 28 Webinar: Subscribing to Your Critical Data Supply Chain – Getting Value from True Data Lineage
DATE: June 28, 2016 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar Operational Data Governance is more than a stewardship process for critical Business Assets. As organizations build structure around KPI’s and other critical data, a workflow develops that revolves around the […]
Read More →Jul 7 CDO Webinar: Coordinating Your Data Strategies – When Data Management Worlds Collide
DATE: July 7, 2016 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free for all attendees About the Webinar Big Data, Master Data Management, Data Quality, etc. are all various initiatives you hear about within a company. And often a company may have separate management and governance areas. Many have similar technologies involved. Join […]
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Using Lean Agile to Establish a Data Governance Organization Framework
Click here to learn more about Tami Flowers. I am a huge proponent of Lean Agile. Not because it is a giant industry buzzword, but because I’ve lived it and witnessed first-hand the benefits Lean Agile can provide in delivering quality, useful functionality quickly to the business. There are several commonalities no matter which flavor […]
Read More →Leveraging COBIT to Manage and Govern Data, in the Perspective of Risk
Click here to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Data Governance enables us to harness the right data fit for the purpose of raising an organization’s confidence and trust in their data. There is definite value associated by leveraging the right data for business functions. At the same time, there is also risk related to data and […]
Read More →June 2016 DATAVERSITY Letter from the Editor
We are almost half way through 2016. It’s amazing how much we’ve been through and accomplished so far this year and how many new exciting things yet to come, including our semi-annual Top 20 report to be published next month. We have officially launched our Online Training Center offering two Learning Plans to start, one […]
Read More →New Jobs Analysis with Python
Click here to learn more about author Steve Miller. The presidential race is heating up as primaries come to an end. And if it’s Trump vs Clinton, there’ll be no shortage of strong opinion among the electorate as to which offers the best policies for economics, defense, energy, health care, etc. Last year I posted […]
Read More →Don’t Fence Me In: Tensions on the Data Science Frontier
Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. Data scientists can be a stubborn, proud, and independent lot. In their hearts, they’re new-age prospects whose primary occupation is to uncover hidden veins of insight buried deep in data. Self-starting genius is a great thing, but it’s not what pays the bills. In the new […]
Read More →Data Privacy: Why Can’t We Be “Friends”?
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Do you have Facebook Friends on your personal account that you barely know or who are friends of friends? Maybe it’s time to do some un-friending and review your privacy settings. While some people think they are in a competition to see how many Facebook “friends” they […]
Read More →Data Governance: Making Big Data Manageable
Click to learn more about author Avi Kalderon. Some businesses are swimming through their “lake” of big data. Some feel like they are drowning. The difference, often, is the ability to actively adapt data governance and data management capabilities right from the start. Here are five ways data governance can make big data manageable and empower […]
Read More →Where are We with Machine Learning?
Learn more about video blogger Stefan Groschupf. Over the course of the next few months we will be releasing insights in Machine Learning, the Cloud, and Big Data in this new video blog series presented by Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. Here’s Stefan’s first short video blog on “Where are We with Machine Learning?.”
Read More →Big Data: Why Insights-as-a-Service?
Click to learn more about author Ariel Amster. One of the great lessons big data is showing us is that, just because a company captures and stores heavy amounts of data, doesn’t mean that data has value. As always, value hinges on context. And the value of big data hinges on a cycle of analysis, […]
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Education and Training in Data Science with University and Industry Partnerships
Modern enterprises have an immense responsibility to harness ever-evolving data technologies to get maximum business benefits. However, with new technological capabilities promising more value-added outcomes, global organizations face a challenge to recruit the most qualified Data Scientists and Data Analysts who can do justice to such promising technologies as Big Data, Hadoop or Predictive Analytics. […]
Read More →MarkLogic’s New Enterprise NoSQL Solution Drives Next-Gen Apps and Processes
It’s time for the enterprise to seize the opportunity to build new applications and processes based on a synthesis of meaningful data brought together from diverse systems. Doing so requires some key things, though, starting with a database platform that supports seamlessly integrating the data and ensuring that it is understandable at the conceptual level. […]
Read More →Intelligent Crowdsourcing: A Big Data Solution
IDG (International Data Group) predicts the use of unstructured Big Data will steadily grow at a rate of 62 percent annually. They also predict by the year 2022, 93 percent of all data being processed will be unstructured. The issue of processing unstructured Big Data is currently one of the most challenging problems facing Data […]
Read More →The Future of Analytics: Collaboration, Deep Learning, and Telling the Story
Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) Gentimis, Assistant Professor of Math and Analytics at Florida Polytechnic University sees the future of analytics as a team effort, where subject matter experts (SMEs) collaborate in teams with Data Scientists and each team member plays to his or her strengths. He also sees a reliance on Deep Learning for creation of […]
Read More →Data Science Education at NCSU: Education with a Mission
The Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is one of the oldest Data Science degrees in the country. The program began in 2007, with the school’s Institute for Advanced Analytics focused on supporting the success of its students. A presentation about the program at the school sets its ambitions […]
Read More →Natural Language Generation: A Revolution in Business Insight
“Think about just how interconnected the world is now,” said Matt Gould, the co-founder of Arria NLG, a prominent enterprise in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation (NLG) technologies worldwide. “Think about it from just a personal context. How much data are you generating personally every day?” Modern, connected humans interact constantly online […]
Read More →Schema.org Semantics Vocabulary Expands with the Help of FIBO
Schema.org and the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) are teaming up to bring more semantics technologies to a greater audience. Enhancements to the core of the proposed Release Candidate 3.0 of the Google-, Microsoft-, Yahoo- and Yandex-sponsored community activity to create a shared vocabulary for marking up web pages will include contributions from the business […]
Read More →A Brief History of Semantics
Generally speaking, Semantics is the study of language and its meaning. As a word, Semantics was first used by Michel Bréal, a French philologist in 1883, and can be used to describe how words can have different meanings for different people, due to their experiential and emotional backgrounds. A language can be a natural language, […]
Read More →The Business Benefits of Deep Learning
Over the past several years, the global Data Science community has watched the rise and steady penetration of such concepts as neural networks, Deep Learning, and back propagation. As research in Artificial Intelligence continues to evolve, an increasing interest in Neural Networks and Deep Learning has caught the fancy of worldwide business owners and operators. […]
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Databricks Announces General Availability of Community Edition
by Angela Guess A new article out of the organization reports, “Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced the General Availability of Databricks Community Edition (DCE), a free version of the just-in-time data platform built on top of open source Apache Spark, at Spark Summit 2016. DCE is accessible […]
Read More →IDEA Announces Strategic Alliance With Stibo Systems
by Angela Guess A new article out of Stibo Systems reports, “The Industry Data Exchange Association, Inc. (IDEA) announces its strategic alliance with Stibo Systems, the global leader of multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. IDEA has selected Stibo Systems’ MDM solution STEP Trailblazer to power the next-generation Industry Data Warehouse (IDW). The platform will […]
Read More →MapR Redefines Big Data Landscape with Dedicated Enterprise-Grade Spark Distribution
by Angela Guess A recent article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, announced today at Spark Summit a new enterprise-grade Apache Spark distribution. This new distribution includes the complete Spark stack engineered to support advanced analytic applications, along with patented innovations in the MapR Platform, […]
Read More →New IoT Scanner Reveals Security Vulnerabilities to Consumers
by Angela Guess Ian Barker reports in BetaNews, “Protecting yourself online is no longer just about your PC and your mobile phone. There are now a whole host of other devices which are potentially vulnerable. Internet security specialist BullGuard is launching a new, free tool for consumers that reveals connected devices which could be vulnerable […]
Read More →Enabling Effective Decision Making with Artificial Intelligence and Semantics
by Angela Guess Luca Scagliarini recently wrote in ITProPortal, “Speed and scale were once the most important features of computing power but the so-called ‘information era’ has radically changed the business drivers of any organisation, putting data at the centre of their strategies. Today, intelligent systems making sense of information enable the most effective data-driven […]
Read More →7 of the 21 Most Valuable Career Skills Directly Relate to Data Management
by Angela Guess Cybele Weisser recently wrote in MSN.com, “In this complex, fast-changing job market, just putting in the hours and being good at what you do may not be enough. You need an edge. And the surest one these days is to possess the skills that are most in demand in your field, that […]
Read More →IS Solutions Enhances Data Analytics Expertise Through Partnership with ThoughtSpot
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “IS Solutions Plc, a leading AIM-listed data solutions provider, has announced that it has become a channel partner for ThoughtSpot, the leader in search-driven analytics in the enterprise. ThoughtSpot’s relational search technology – providing instant answers to business questions through search-driven analytics – is […]
Read More →Snowflake Sparkles with Native Apache Spark Connector
by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “Snowflake Computing, the cloud data warehousing company, today announced Snowflake Data Source for Spark — a native connector that joins the power of Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse with Apache Spark. This tight integration provides Spark developers a ready-to-use platform for diverse data that […]
Read More →5 Truths About the Internet of Things and Your Business
by Angela Guess Nick Heath recently wrote in TechRepublic, “Hyperbole is the norm when talking about how businesses can transform themselves using Internet of Things and big data. What you hear less often is just how difficult it can be to get these projects right. After more than 10 years of working on big data […]
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