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The Cutting Edge: Detecting Objects in Those Hard to Reach Areas

Click to learn more about author Will Ochandarena. Easily the most talked about application of AI is detecting and classifying objects in images and videos. Having long outgrown obscure trade magazines and conferences, it has been featured in TV with HBO’s Silicon Valley “Not Hotdog” app, and there was news recently about how Chinese police […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Veeva Systems today introduced a new commercial data warehouse for life sciences. Veeva Nitro eliminates the burden of custom-built data warehouses with an industry-specific data model and standard integrations that unify companies’ most important data sources. Now the life sciences industry will have a ready-to-use commercial data warehouse in […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

A recent press release reports, “FD [First Derivatives] announces that its Kx technology, a world leader in time -series analytics for streaming, real-time and historical data, now supports rapid access to unstructured data with the release today of kdb+ 3.6, the latest version of its database and analytics technology. The rapid analysis of unstructured data […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Levyx Inc. and Serisys Solutions Ltd. announced plans to provide real-time, cost-effective access to the large amount of “static” data required for effective real-time processing of securities transactions through the entire post-trade life cycle. Their joint solution brings together best-of-class technologies from Serisys’ advanced securities processing platform and Levyx’s […]

By Paramita Ghosh 4 days ago

An important reason for global enterprises of all sizes to embrace Self-Service Analytics & Business Intelligence (BI) is to allow business users and business units to conduct their daily Analytics work without relying on IT. According to Gartner, by 2019, business users indulging in self-service tools will deliver more Analytics-related output than qualified data professionals. […]

By Justin Blanchard 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author Justin Blanchard. Your business would be nothing without its data. That sounds like a bold claim given how many different types of business there are, but I’m prepared to stand by it. Every US business, from solopreneur manufacturing businesses to midsize eCommerce retailers to multinational corporations, depends on data. […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

A recent press release reports, “Thycotic, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions for more than 7,500 organizations worldwide, today announced that it has entered into an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with IBM Security. As part of this agreement, IBM Security will now offer a new privileged access management solution, IBM Security Secret […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

A recent press release states, “Cohesity, a leader of hyperconverged secondary storage, today announced expanded integration with Microsoft Azure to empower enterprises to run a wide range of secondary data workloads seamlessly across on-premises and Azure infrastructure. Joint customers can now optimize long-term retention utilizing Cohesity Data Platform with the global scale and cost-effectiveness of […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider since 1986 today announced its latest release v14 “Cloud Backup Evolved” to address the growing challenges of modern data protection. The company’s newest generation of software converges data protection and cyber security to counter rapidly growing malware threats, […]

May 22 Webinar: Modeling Data Governance

By Shannon Kempe 3 months ago

DATE: May 22, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar When starting a data governance initiative, the stakeholders may not fully grasp the complexity of the data architecture or know how to define the processes needed to implement a governance […]

By Shannon Kempe 4 months ago

DATE: May 23, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Smarter businesses apply AI to learn and continuously evolve the way they work. To extract full value from AI, companies need data strategy that gives them access to all their […]

By Shannon Kempe 4 months ago

DATE: May 24, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar With the rise of the data-driven organization, the pace of innovation in data-centric technologies has been tremendous. New tools and techniques are emerging at an exponential rate, and it is […]

By Shannon Kempe 4 months ago

DATE: June 6, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is hosted by This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar “Data debt” is a term taken from the Agile development world and the concept of “technology debt.” As a concept and metric, it can reveal […]

By Julie Lowery 4 months ago

DATE: June 7, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: and About the Webinar Join Kelle and John as they speak with an analytics leader about the ins and outs of this key role in driving data-driven decision-making and insights for increased […]

By Shannon Kempe 4 months ago

DATE: June 12, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Much like project team management and home improvement, Data Governance sounds a lot simpler than it actually is. In a nutshell, Data Governance is the process by which an organization […]

By Julie Lowery 4 months ago

DATE: June 14, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Natural Language Processing (NLP) is rapidly becoming a requirement for application interfaces. Today, one can build a system that allows natural language text or speech input without knowing much more than a few API specs. […]

By Julie Lowery 4 months ago

DATE: June 21, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar For many data-focused initiatives to be considered successful, they require improved documented understanding of the organization’s data. Improvements in data understanding require accountability for the actions of putting clear definition behind your organization’s most valuable […]

By Julie Lowery 4 months ago

DATE: June 28, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Artificial Intelligence (AI) may conjure up images of robots and science fiction. But AI has practical applications in today’s data-driven organization for product recommendation engines, customer support, inventory management, and more. To support AI in […]

The Cutting Edge: Detecting Objects in Those Hard to Reach Areas

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By Steve Miller 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. It seems I write something on the nature of Data Science every year. Early on, my take on DS was in motion, but now it’s much more grounded. My points of Data Science departure are the iconic “what is DS” pronouncements from Drew Conway and David Donoho. […]

By Shweta Baidya 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Shweta Baidya. The tech world is buzzing with the words like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. But there is a new kid on the block— Cognitive Computing. Artificial Intelligence or AI is an umbrella term for the technologies that provide augmented intelligence with the help of machines so much […]

By Charles Roe 6 days ago

We invited Hannah Sanford back for her third year of Graphic Recording (also called Graphic Facilitation) at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2018 Conference from April 22-27 in San Diego, CA. Her ability to skillfully illustrate the essence of many of the conference presentations throughout the event has become quite popular with attendees and presenters […]

By Laura Kahn 7 days ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 3 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]

By Mark Hensley 7 days ago

Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. Organizations increasingly understand the importance of Data Governance, or the method of control that ensures data entered into a system meets a precise standard. In fact, the topic has been addressed extensively here at DATAVERSITY®, with articles on how to get buy-in from executives and set up […]

By Ben Lorica 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Ben Lorica. Despite some claims that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is over-hyped, companies continue to invest in Deep Learning to improve their own products and services and make employees’ jobs easier. In order to truly reap the benefits of all AI has to offer, organizations need highly skilled engineers and […]

By Grace Carter 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Grace Carter. Your company’s information is extremely important, and writing an information security policy is paramount to keeping it secure. You will need to figure out how management views security, get a good framework, and then adapt it to the company. Decide on your mandates, sub-policies, and supplementary documents. […]

Data Architects and Data Modelers: The SQL/NoSQL Debate is Dead

By Amber Lee Dennis 5 days ago

Karen Lopez says that when it comes to surviving as a Data Architect, “Hybrid is the future.” It’s no longer enough to speak only one language or stay attached to one set of technologies. According to Lopez, “purely relational (SQL) databases don’t exist any longer,” since most applications developed now use various types of database […]

By Charles Roe 6 days ago

In his Monday evening lighting talk at the Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2018 Conference, Daragh O’Brien remarked that coming to a conference like EDW is similar to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. It’s an opportunity to get out of the caves of our day jobs, move into the light, gain new frames of reference, and […]

By Keith D. Foote 2 weeks ago

Big Data describes massive amounts of data, both unstructured and structured, that is collected by organizations on a daily basis. This Big Data can then be filtered, and turned into Smart Data before being analyzed for insights, in turn, leading to more efficient decision-making. Smart Data can be described as Big Data that has been […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Does this scenario sound familiar? In an organization’s quest to become data-driven and analytics-savvy, it has worked to implement a Data Lake. The initial hope was that such an organization would realize greater agility for certain use cases than was possible with a Data Warehouse – which were time-consuming to set up, costly to maintain, […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

The tail end of 2017 saw the official delivery of Hadoop 3.0 from the Apache Software Foundation. With it came HDFS erasure coding, which enables a significant reduction in storage overhead and its costs. Opting to use erasure coding instead of three-way replication – in which three copies of each block of data must be […]

By Paramita Ghosh 3 weeks ago

The journey of Advanced Analytics has been a long in development, with many hurdles along the way. Some of the most complicated aspects of Data Analytics that still remain today are data gathering technologies, data cleansing methods, and skill support for Advanced Analytics. It has taken years to come to the automated age of Business […]

By Keith D. Foote 3 weeks ago

In February of 2018, TigerGraph released the 2.0 version of its Graph Database platform, described as “the next evolutionary step for Graph Databases.” TigerGraph was founded by its CEO, Dr. Yu Xu, in 2012. He is an expert in parallel database systems and Big Data. In 2011, while working Twitter, he said he discovered Graph […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 weeks ago

“The role of Master Data Management (MDM) and the opportunity it presents in the marketplace has never been more critical and strategic to the overall success of today’s business,” said” Prashant Bhatia, Chief Product Officer at Stibo Systems. Real-time systems, Artificial Intelligence, and the influx of Cloud-based service providers are reinforcing the need for MDM […]

By Michelle Knight 4 weeks ago

Data Curation needs to be guided by Data Governance so it can secure itself a place as a core Data Management requirement. The MIT Technology Review Insights states, “Data is the single biggest asset at most organizations. It’s time to start treating it accordingly.” Towards that end, leaders and boards have been called to action […]

Veeva Introduces Next-Generation Commercial Data Warehouse for Life Sciences

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A new press release reports, “Looker, a leading data platform company, today announced tools and integrations that optimize data science workflows. Looker accelerates the data science stack by removing the struggle to prepare data and freeing up time for data scientists to use their unique skill set to perform higher-value tasks. Looker already delivers reliable, […]

By A.R. Guess 5 days ago

According to a new press release, “Segment, the customer data platform, today announced the general availability of Personas, a new product which helps businesses intelligently organize, synthesize and act on their customer data. With Personas, companies can effectively leverage Segment’s first-party customer data infrastructure to provide a consistent user experience across email, web, advertising, push […]

By A.R. Guess 5 days ago

A recent press release reports, “FixStream, a pioneer in solutions for Artificial Intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), today introduced an advanced version of its product, the industry’s first AIOps platform to quickly predict business application issues across an enterprise’s entire hybrid IT stack. With new Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, advanced multi-layer correlation from business transactions […]