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The Flow of Data: What Internal Workflows Look Like for the Media and Entertainment Industries
To say that creative organisations will revert back to operating in the exact same ways they once did prior to the Covid-19 pandemic is a very unlikely statement. In the past year, fully cloud-based operations and hybrid Read more…
Bigeye Spawns Automated Data Quality Monitoring from Uber Roots
Having high quality data is essential to having high quality analytics and accurate machine learning algorithms. But as data volumes grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep tabs on data quality using traditional Read more…
The True Cost of IT Ops, The Added Value of AIOps
Today’s IT landscape is complex, hybrid, and fast-moving, and the adoption of multi-cloud infrastructure, applications, and new digital transformation initiatives is accelerating. IT operations teams, playing a vital r Read more…
Five Real-World Applications for Sports Analytics
When Moneyball first published nearly two decades ago, it was a chronicle of an industry slow to adopt advanced statistical methods for evaluating player worth. Since then however, and due in no small part to the book it Read more…
TPC Accuses Nvidia of Violating Rules in Benchmark Test
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) this week accused Nvidia of violating its fair use policy by altering a big data analytics benchmark test last year and failing to submit official results. Nvidia has Read more…
News In Brief
Cloudera, Nvidia Team to Speed Cloud AI via Spark
Cloud access to GPUs for AI development will expand under a partnership between Cloudera and Nvidia that calls for the data cloud provider to integrate Nvidia’s accelerated Apache Spark 3.0 platform as a way to scale d Read more…
Nvidia’s Jarvis Offers Real-Time Machine Translation
Automated speech recognition services with improved accuracy for enterprise applications are the object of a new batch of pre-trained deep learning models and software from Nvidia aimed at interactive AI conversational s Read more…
Big Data Via Connected Cars Hits the Open Road
Data engineers at Purdue University are using a wealth of connected vehicle data to help improve highway safety and efficiency while laying the groundwork for the ultimate edge device, the autonomous vehicle. In an ef Read more…
RapidAPI Adds Kafka Support, Centralized Interfaces
The adoption by Apache Kafka users of asynchronous APIs that return data depending on the availability of microservices and other resources is said to be on the rise. That trend has prompted API vendors to offer platform Read more…
No-Coder Upsolver Aims to Ease Use of Cloud Data Lakes
Upsolver, the no-code data lake platform vendor, has closed a $25 million funding round this week, boosting total venture funding for its cloud analytics tools to about $42 million. The financing round announced Tuesd Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2024 — Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona, today announced the general availability of Raster Inference for WherobotsAI. Read more…
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 17, 2024 — The YYC Data Society is pleased to announce YYC DataCon 2025, set to take place from February 27 to March 1 at Calgary’s BMO Centre. Read more…
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 12, 2024 – Databricks, the Data and AI company, has officially launched operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the opening of a new office in Riyadh. Read more…
TOKYO, Nov. 25, 2024 — Physical reservoir computing (PRC) utilizing synaptic devices shows significant promise for edge AI. Researchers from the Tokyo University of Science have introduced a novel self-powered dye-sensitized solar cell-based device that mimics human synaptic behavior for efficient edge AI processing, inspired by the eye’s afterimage phenomenon. Read more…
NEWTOWN, Pa., Nov. 11, 2024 — EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, has announced the release of the StatGPT 2.0 Platform, created in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for evaluating and testing by Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) sponsor organizations and selected national statistical organizations. Read more…