Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Last year I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that poor Data Governance (DG) programs are getting in the way of data programs being as successful as possible. As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance I get a […]
Microgrids For Data Centers: Enhancing Uptime While Reducing Costs and Carbon
Click to learn more about author Carsten Baumann. Once upon a time, data center reliability was all that mattered. The conversation has now evolved to include sustainable resiliency. Grid power disturbances are becoming more frequent due to higher demand, aging infrastructures, intermittent renewable energy sources, and more frequent storms or other disasters. Combining this with […]
Guided Labeling Episode 7: Weak Supervision Deployed via Guided Analytics
Click to learn more about author Paolo Tamagnini. Welcome to the seventh episode of our Guided Labeling Blog Series. In the last six episodes, we have covered active learning and weak supervision theory. Today, we would like to present a practical example of implementing weak supervision via guided analytics based on a Workflow. The other […]
Data Opportunity Is Knocking! Should You Answer?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. As business people, we are often presented with what might seem like a great opportunity. Maybe we have a chance to open another location or to buy out a competitor or to add a product or service to our existing portfolio, or to acquire more customers, resources, material, […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Using SQL in Data Science
Click to learn more about author Ashok Sharma. With the increasing hype of trends like AI and digital transformation, companies have become data-driven. They have started relying on data and analytics instead of gut feelings, and Data Science has emerged as a lucrative profession. There are 2.72 million job openings for data scientists at present, and […]
Generally Accepted Data Modeling Principles
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. What can data modelers learn from accountants? Accounting is a solidly established practice that the world cannot live without. One of the established guidelines for accountants is called GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the US), and there are similar international setups. You might guess these standards […]
Here’s How IT Can Prepare for What’s Coming Next
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. In the sparkly, golden days before the new normal, many office workers probably considered “infrastructure” to be the buildings they worked in and their desks and computers. But in what seemed like the blink of an eye, workers learned infrastructure has become a complex digital amalgam — it’s […]
The “Actionable” Metadata
Click to learn more about author Anand Govindarajan. During the days of building data warehouses and BI systems, all that was captured, as truly “metadata,” was the data about creation/access of the data structures for audits, data about the execution of data loads, and so on. Primarily, whatever supported the “operations” of the data warehouse. […]
Data Science and Social Visibility: An Emerging Tech Revolution for 2020
Click to learn more about author Pratip Biswas. Costumes, trick-or-treating, “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” the “Ghostbusters” movie — this year’s Halloween was eerie, as usual! While the origin of the day is rooted elsewhere, these days, it’s all about getting socially visualized! So, on this holiday, when you sipped your pumpkin latte or vampire […]
Traditional SAN and Virtual SAN (vSAN): What to Choose?
Click to learn more about author George Williams. Whether it’s time to deploy a platform for new projects, set up a CRM server, or build a data center suitable for an industry-standard hypervisor, there comes a time in every IT manager or storage administrator’s career when they’re confronted with this question: “Should I use a […]