Click to learn more about author Dávid Szakallas. In recent years, the size and complexity of our Identity Graph, a data lake containing identity information about people and businesses around the world, begged the addition of Big Data technologies in the ingestion process. We used Apache Pig initially, and then migrated to Apache Spark a […]
Talend Introduces New Cloud Solution
Talend has announced the Talend Cloud, which is “now available on Microsoft Azure, offering a secure and scalable Integration Platform-as-a-Service for collecting, transforming and cleaning data. With embedded data quality and native integration performance, Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure delivers the trusted data companies need to make real-time business decisions, accelerate advanced analytics, and meet […]
The Data Analysts of the Future: What Will They be Doing?
The need for citizen data scientists — people who can use real-time, data-powered insights — will be on the rise with the widespread availability of data and AI-enabled, self-service analytics platforms. So, the best job of the century may be at risk. Smart machine learning algorithms can analyze and interpret data, and even produce content […]
How Long Will IT Remain a Viable Career in the Age of AIOps?
Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. IT tends to go in and out of fashion as a career path, in terms of the money, glamour, and potential for career advancement. But it has always seemed to be a safe bet, in terms of giving the reasonably competent access to a wide range of opportunities. […]
Visualizing Data for Insight into the Customer Journey
Click to learn more about author Victor DeMarines. Skills related to User Experience (UX) design are high in demand. They are among the top 10 in-demand skills in 2019 ranked by a LinkedIn study, and finding qualified UX designers is tied with finding software engineers in terms of hiring priorities, according to a recent Adobe study. […]
The State of Data Science: Expertise Shortage Creates a Need for Innovation
The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil but data. As a result, the skills required to convert data into insights that generate revenues are in high demand. Unfortunately, one of the biggest hurdles companies face when trying to capitalize on their data sets is a lack of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. […]
The Three Pillars of Agile Data Mastering
Click to learn more about author Mark Marinelli. We’ve explored the benefits of an agile data mastering approach in a previous post, but let’s do a quick recap: Many businesses that collect a large amount of data have an accumulating data mastering issue that leaves their data largely untouchable and riddled with inaccuracies. The problem […]
Moving Data from an IT Issue to a Business Imperative
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. We all know businesses are trying to do more with their data, but inaccuracy and general Data Management issues are getting in the way. For most businesses, the status quo for managing data is not working. However, there is new research that shows data is moving […]
Cybersecurity Data Science: Minding the Growing Gap
Click to learn more about author Scott Mongeau. Following cybersecurity Data Science best practices can help beleaguered and resource-strapped security teams transform Big Data into smart data for better anomaly detection and enterprise protection. Future Shock: Growing Vulnerabilities and Liabilities The consequences of ignoring security challenges are rising. According to the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity […]
Is it Time to Drain the Data Lake?
Click to learn more about author Karthik Ramasamy. It sounds appealing – easily store all of your data in a single location, where all of your users and applications can access it and put it to use. It’s no wonder that interest in data lakes rose rapidly at the same time hype around “Big Data” was […]