“Most data is bad in most companies,” said Thomas Redman, “the Data Doc,” of Data Quality Solutions in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Enterprises are buried in data, whether it’s legacy data floating around in old data warehouses or a seemingly incalculable range of newer Big Data assets sitting in any number of NoSQL database platforms, […]
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 […]
Enterprise Data World 2016: 8 Data-Driven Takeaways
How do you transform your enterprise from being data-incompetent to data-driven? How do you incorporate and leverage your legacy data assets with your latest Big Data assets? How do you successfully implement Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management into your existing business and IT structures without causing undue chaos or friction? How do […]
The Future of the Data Center: Heterogeneous Computing
“The whole point of Heterogeneous Computing is to have the right tools available, so you can use the right processor, in the right place, at the right time,” said Pat McGarry, the VP of Engineering at Ryft in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Such a statement certainly sounds both pertinent and beneficial, but in reality what […]
DAMA’s New Certified Data Management Practitioners (CDMP) Exam
The Data Management Association International® (DAMA) has significantly redesigned their Certified Data Management Practitioners (CDMP) exam. The Associate level is already online and DAMA will be releasing the Practitioner level, along with Data Governance and Data Quality elective exams at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2016 Conference (April 17-22) in San Diego, California. The CDMP […]
2016 Trends in NoSQL: Next Stages of Development
The myriad NoSQL database offerings in the marketplace today are testament to the fact that such systems, along with their diverse architectures, are here to stay. Such a statement was not the case only a few years ago when such “trends” were still the purview of industry thought leaders, innovative startups, and apocalyptic harbingers proclaiming […]
Happy New Year: Data Visualizations on a Positive Note
It’s now 2016 and to ring in the New Year with some good news – and with an enjoyable Data Visualization focus – we decided to publish this Happy Data New Year post from the Data Visualization blog Visual Cinnamon. Created by Nadieh Bremer, an Astronomer who became a Data Scientist, Visual Cinnamon is a […]
The Big Data Transition
Predictions for 2016 are flowing in and Big Data is being talked about from all corners of the industry, “with each passing year, as the world transitions to digital era technologies, the consumption of data is increasing exponentially. On Facebook alone there are four million posts every minute and in same time Instagram users post […]
Cognitive Computing has a Bright Future
IBM and Watson have made Cognitive Computing famous and are now employing such technologies for a range of different applications, “cognitive systems have the potential to reshape computing, and are an area of computing that you should not ignore. I recently watched this video The Future of Cognitive Computing by Dr. John Kelly, Senior Vice […]
Where is Data Science Going Next?
Data Science is no longer just the purview of academic conferences and scholarly papers, it is now a significant movement within Data Management as a whole and has numerous benefits that are now only being understood. According to Daniel Gutierrez at InsideBigData, “Eighty-nine percent of corporations believe that not leveraging big data will result in […]