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How Data-Centric AI Bolsters Deep Learning for the Small-Data Masses

It’s no coincidence that deep learning became popular in the AI community following the rise of big data, since neural networks require huge amounts of data to train. But organizations with much smaller data sets can b Read more…

The Data Is Not All Right

A funny thing happened on our quest to be data-driven and data-centered beings and organizations--we discovered how bad our data really is. And like a self-help program stuck in an endless Groundhog Day-like loop, we see Read more…

Regs Making Legit Data More Valuable, Neutronian Says

The market for third-party data has exploded in recent years, giving companies an abundance of sources to choose from. That’s even more critical today in light of the demise of third-party cookies and Apple’s new pri Read more…

The Search for Better COVID Data Is Not Over

From a public health perspective, the past 23 months have been, shall we say, eventful in the United States. More than 70 million Americans have contracted COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker, an Read more…

Data Intelligence Focus Rewarding for Collibra

What the world needs now, according to Collibra co-founder and CEO Felix Van de Maele, is a hefty dose of data intelligence. That is, it needs an intelligent approach to managing, governing, tracking, and securing data, Read more…

What We Can Learn From Famous Data Quality Disasters in Pop Culture

Bad data can lead to disasters that cost hundreds of millions of dollars or — believe it or not — even the loss of a spacecraft. Without processes that guard the integrity of your data every step of the way, your Read more…

It’s Time for Governance on Streaming Data, Confluent Says

One of the toughest aspects of big data is simply managing it and ensuring that it’s clean, accessible, and secure. This is hard enough when the data is at rest, but it’s another ballgame entirely when it’s moving. Read more…

Do You Need a CDP? And Other Data Mysteries

In the mad rush to leverage big data, a multitude of data-oriented systems have been created, from data lakes and warehouses to data hubs, and even fabrics and meshes. For certain types of data opportunities, however, a Read more…

Alation Springs Into Data Governance

Alation is best known as a data catalog company. But due to heavy demand from its data catalog customers, Alation today launched a data governance tool to help them better manage and govern their data. When paired with t Read more…

COVID-Driven Cloud Surge Takes a Toll on the Data

The stepped-up pace of migration to the cloud over the past 18 months wasn’t exactly forced, but neither was it completely voluntary. For many companies, accelerating digital transformation during COVID was a matter of Read more…

Still Wanted: (Much) Better COVID Data

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. With three effective COVID vaccines, we were supposed to be on the tail-end of the pandemic by now. But that hasn’t happened. Infection rates are increasing quickly as the Delta Read more…

Data Integrity a Major Concern, Precisely Says

Companies are facing considerable headwinds when it comes to their analytics and AI strategies, particularly when it comes to the data, according to Precisely’s new report, titled “Data Integrity Trends: Chief Data O Read more…

Databricks Unveils Data Sharing, ETL, and Governance Solutions

Databricks’ primary objective is to build the world’s first enterprise AI platform, which is a noble goal and a work in process. But first things being first, the data is a mess, and it needs some work. To that end, Read more…

Lighting Up Data’s GIGO Problem

It goes without saying that companies need good data if they’re going to become data-driven. But all too often, companies are working with data that’s erroneous, sub-standard, or just plain wrong. The latest vendor t Read more…

8 Key Considerations for Embarking on a Data Integrity Journey

Modern enterprises are reliant on data, and as the volume of it increases, making that data useful is absolutely critical. However, more data also means the likelihood of incomplete, inconsistent data sets is on the rise 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…

Data Engineering Cloud Launched by Trifacta

Trifacta today launched what might be the world’s first cloud designed specifically for data engineering. Running on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, the new Trifacta Data Engineering Cloud provides a place for Read more…

The ‘Rage Design’ Behind Flatfile’s Onboarding Success

David Boskovic was excited to join a company called Envoy back in 2016. He had worked with B2B startups since he was 18, and was looking forward to helping another tech startup scale an idea. But that excitement turned t Read more…

Precisely to Expand M&A After Being Acquired in $3.5 Billion Deal

Precisely, previously known as Syncsort, will be acquired by Clearlake Capital and TA Associates in a deal that values the data integrity company at $3.5 billion, it was announced this week. Precisely says the deal will Read more…

Ataccama Puts Its Name on the Data Map

When Roman Kucera joined Ataccama over a decade go, the company had a single product: a data quality tool. Today, Kucera is the CTO, and Ataccama sells a range of products, including a data catalog, ETL, MDM, and data go Read more…

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