Tag: Data Analytics
Credit Union Finds ‘Sound’ Use for Analytics Amid COVID-19 Chaos
When the state of Washington imposed stay-at-home orders in early March to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, it upended life for millions of people. Many businesses in the area simply closed, but thanks to a n Read more…
Visualization Startup Brytlyt Combines AI, GPUs, PostgresSQL
The world may seem like it has slowed down in the midst of a pandemic, but technologies like real-time data analytics keep accelerating as one startup after another comes up with new ways to crunch numbers and leverage t Read more…
Sisu Seeks to Answer Why
In a typical business, analysts are tasked with using data to finding answers to questions. They’ll often use a BI tool to explore and query data stored in analytical database to figure out why something happened. Desp Read more…
COVID-19 Has a Data Governance Problem
The COVID-19 pandemic has put many of the world’s activities at a stand-still. Scientists and government officials have been working furiously behind the scenes to forecast the spread and growth of the virus since the Read more…
Detecting Consumer Signals in the 90% Economy
As COVID-19 lockdowns are lifted across the United States, consumers will venture out of their homes and begin to spend money again. But the new buying patterns in the 90% economy are likely to look dramatically differen Read more…
COVID-Induced Cabin Fever Erodes Distancing Gains
An analysis of smartphone location data since mid-March reveals an outbreak of what’s benignly been described as “quarantine fatigue.” University of Maryland researchers studying how social distancing and shelte Read more…
Customer Data and Analytics Platforms: Build or Buy?
As companies travel through the various stages of digital transformation, this enterprise-wide push invariably seeks to improve focus on the customer, especially by personalizing their experience with the company across Read more…
Data Manager Cohesity Pushes VC Total Past $650M
Cohesity, the data management specialist and cash magnet, has raised another quarter-of-a-billion dollars in its latest funding round. That total, $250 million, matches an earlier series D round that closed in June 20 Read more…
NOAA Expands its Data Drone Fleet
As it ramps up a national AI strategy, the U.S. government is beefing up its drone fleet to collect ever-greater amounts of environmental data. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said this Read more…
DARPA Floats an ‘Ocean of Things’
The Pentagon’s top research agency is pushing the notion of a data lake to new depths with an oceanic network of floating sensors that would provide the raw data for analytics, including everything from sea state and w Read more…
Machine Data Intelligence Market Heats Up
The rise of connected devices and the flood of unstructured data they churn out is spurring the introduction of new machine data intelligence platforms designed to handle data frequency as well as sheer volume. Adding to Read more…
Databricks Snags $400M, Now Valued at $6.2B
Databricks, the commercial venture behind Apache Spark, has just completed a Series F round of funding worth $400 million. That brings the cloud analytics vendor's valuation to more than $6 billion, more than twice what Read more…
The Critical Importance of Data Literacy
Quick: What's the leading indicator of individual success in data and analytics? You might be tempted to say technical and statistical skills. While those are important, the top predictor is actually data literacy, inclu Read more…
Corporate Culture Continues to Stymie Data Insights
Reports of the death of spreadsheets have been greatly exaggerated. That reality is among the findings of a recent survey on the state of business analytics released by the consulting firm Deloitte. Even as enterprise Read more…
MIT Aims to Ease AI Programming
A new AI programming language seeks to ease the process of writing inference algorithms and other predictive models without the hassle of grinding out complicated equations and code. Among the goals of the probabilist Read more…
Google, Looker Eye Data Scaling via Multi-Cloud
Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker. Underscoring a trend among infrastructure vendors, Googl Read more…
‘Data Workers’ Failing to Cope
More evidence is emerging that “data workers” in general and data scientists in particular are bogged down by the sheer breadth of their company’s data. Meanwhile, the skills gap between data experts and line-of Read more…
BI Leader Sisense Acquires Periscope Data
Sisense’s acquisition of Periscope Data combines the buyer’s business intelligence platform with Periscope’s cloud data analytics expertise as Sisense looks to up its analytics game. The merger announced on Tues Read more…
The Rise of the Data Team
Leaks of confidential customer data, whether the result of malicious hacks or corporate missteps, are a growing threat across industries. In the first half of 2018, there were 945 major data breaches globally that expo Read more…
How to Implement a Successful BI Strategy
Whatever size your business, having a successful business intelligence strategy is important. Business intelligence (BI) can include a wide variety of data, but basically it is a set of processes or methodologies that ta Read more…
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