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Fourteen Big Data Predictions for 2024

Never before have the challenges of big data--how we store it, manage it, govern it, and use it--been so pressing. Advances in artificial intelligence may be the driving force in 2024, but that doesn’t mean a thing if Read more…

Insights From Ascend’s Annual DataAware Pulse Survey

Since its launch four years ago, the Annual DataAware Pulse Survey has established itself as the leading industry benchmark survey. It provides key insights into current industry best practices, current sentiment around Read more…

Starburst Brings Dataframes Into Trino Platform

Starburst customers who prefer to manipulate data using dataframes as opposed to regular SQL will be happy with a pair of announcements made today. That includes the introduction of PyStarburst, which provides a PySpark- Read more…

Bigeye Sounds the Alarm on Data Quality

In the past six months, 20% of companies have faced two or more severe data incidents that directly impacted the business’s bottom line, according to a new report on data quality issued today by Bigeye, a provider of d Read more…

Why DataOps-Centered Engineering is the Future of Data

DataOps will soon become integral to data engineering, influencing the future of data. Many organizations today still struggle to harness data and analytics to gain actionable insights. By centering DataOps in their proc Read more…

Three Ways Companies Can Cope with the AI and Analytics Talent Crunch

With inflation in the United States at a 40-year high and unemployment near a 50-year low, these are tough times to attract and retain employees in just about every sector. When you add the growing demand for talent in h Read more…

How to Stop Failing at Data

Innovate or die. It’s one of the few universal rules of business, and it’s one of the main reasons we continue to invest so heavily in data. Only through data can we get the key insights we need to innovate faster, s Read more…

Bad Data Pipelines Costing Companies Big, Fivetran Finds

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Overworked data engineer builds faulty data pipeline, which leads to bad data, which leads to a bad outcome. It may be the same old song, but it’s also the current state of af Read more…

Battle for Data Pros Heats Up as Burnout Builds

“Tell me about your motherboard.” This bit of grim psychological humor accompanied a rather gruesome statistic in a recent data engineering survey, which found 78% of data engineers say they wished their jobs came wi Read more…

Hiring Outlook Bright for Data and Open Source Pros

While the future is uncertain for many types of jobs, folks in the tech business can rest easy knowing there is substantial demand for their services, particularly for data engineers, which was the focus of a new study f Read more…

Kinks in the Data Supply Chain

It goes without saying that having a good data supply chain is instrumental in being a data-driven organization. Without a smooth and repeatable process for acquiring, validating, and preparing data for downstream consum Read more…

Data Pros Are Maxed Out: Survey

The demands of the data-driven life are wearing on data professionals, according to survey results unveiled this week by data pipeline automation solution developer Ascend.io, which found that 96% of data professionals a Read more…

Data Salaries Get a COVID Bump

Data science and application development skills centered on AI, machine learning and cloud deployments remain in high demand, pushing salaries higher in a pandemic year that strained enterprise infrastructure. Accordi Read more…

Data Management Self Service is Key for Data Engineers–And Their Business

In a post-COVID-19 world, remote access has rapidly emerged as the new normal, for every organization. The shift to a remote-first world was already well underway. In fact, in 2019, 54% of U.S. workers reported working r Read more…

Dataiku’s Collaborative AI Platform Attracts New Investors

Dataiku, the enterprise AI platform vendor, again made the case this week its collaborative approach to data science is gaining enterprise adherents, announcing a $100 million funding round. The Series D funding round Read more…

Getting Data Scientists and Data Engineers on the Same Page

Like cats and dogs, data engineers and data scientists often seem like two incompatible species. Scientists love probabilities and experimentation, while engineers live for repeatability and efficiency. They have differe Read more…

How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Market for Data Jobs

The United States has shed nearly 10 million jobs in the past two weeks due to the COVID-19 shutdown, and there are some data science, data engineering, and data analytics positions among them. However, surveys indicate Read more…

Demand for Data Engineers Up 50%, Report Says

Looking to hire a data or machine learning engineer? You’re not alone, as those two positions are among the fastest growing jobs in the country, according to recent figures. The Dice 2020 Tech Job Report labeled dat Read more…

Kaskada Accelerates ML Workflow with Its Feature Store

There’s a lot of surface area in the typical data science workflow for the purveyors of automation to attack. What moves the needle for the folks at the startup Kaskada is the feature engineering and deployment stage, Read more…

2019: A Big Data Year in Review – Part One

At the beginning of the year, we set out 10 big data trends to watch in 2019. We correctly called some of what unfolded, including a renewed focus on data management and continued rise of Kubernetes (that wasn’t hard t Read more…

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