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Looker Announces VC Haul to Fund Platform Push

Looker announced a $100 million-plus funding round this week as it looks to transition from a business intelligence and data visualization provider to a full-fledged data platform vendor. Looker said Thursday (Dec. 6) Read more…

Looker Spies Next Step In Data-Based Evolution

Every company evolves, and some evolve faster than others, which appears to be the case with Looker. At its JOIN 2018 conference here in San Francisco, Looker's next step seems tantalizingly close, just around the corner Read more…

App Developers Embedding More Analytics

Enterprise applications increasingly come with embedded analytics features such as data visualization tools that serve to differentiate products from each other while helping businesses hang on to customers while attract Read more…

Infogix Acquires Data Prepper Lavastorm

Lavastorm, a well-regarded data preparation and analytics vendor, has attracted a buyer backed by an aggressive equity investor as the market sectors continue to consolidate and players seek to scale their operations. Read more…

Self-Serve Platform Promotes Collaboration

Among the goals of self-service big data analytics vendors is unifying the entire technology stack to allow business analytics to glean insights from data lakes. Combining the ability to run natively on Hadoop clusters a Read more…

Huawei Adds MapD GPUs to Latest Servers

Data analytics and visualization specialist MapD Technologies has inked a deal with Huawei, the multinational networking and telecommunications giant, to juice the Chinese vendor's server hardware with scalable GPU-suppo Read more…

MapD Partners on Network Analytics Platform

High-flying analytics software vendor MapD Technologies is partnering with Canadian mobile data vendor Tutela Technologies on an analytics platform that provides real-time metrics on mobile network performance and device Read more…

‘Time Machine’ Visualizes Evolving Data

The ability to build queries using visualization tools and explore connections within data as they develop over time is among the features folded into the latest version of graph visualization software from graph databas Read more…

Inside Our Data Obsession: A Graphic Depiction

Humans are obsessed with data. There's just no two ways about it. We can't help but to count, sort, name, and categorize everything we find. And thanks to digital technology, we've taken our data fixation to lofty new he Read more…

Microsoft Looks to Build on Power BI Momentum

Microsoft used its data insights summit to tout the progress of its flagship business intelligence offering introduced two years ago as a cloud-based platform that provides connectivity to critical enterprise data stored Read more…

‘Climbing’ Big Data With Virtual Reality

Thanks to virtual reality technology, analysts can now "climb" big data. So says business intelligence platform vendor Looker, which claimed to take big data to new heights with a virtual reality app for exploring data as well as how businesses "interact with their data." Read more…

8 Interactive Visualizations for Election Day

Election Day is upon us, marking an end to a memorable and data-rich political campaign season. As the returns roll in, you'll want to use these eight interactive data visualizations to track the news and sentiment expre Read more…

Data Visualizations Follow the Campaign Money

The cottage industry of political polling is approaching a fever pitch at the end of a long, tortuous U.S. presidential campaign. However, a better metric for gauging whom will win next Tuesday's (Nov. 8) election may be Read more…

Fleet Manager Leverages Video Analytics

The management of transportation fleets is increasingly viewed as an ideal fit for big data tools like predictive analytics that can be used to cut costs and increase safety. A key hurdle to wider implementation is that Read more…

Oracle Adds Visualization Service to Analytics Push

Oracle rolled out a new cloud-based data visualization service this week as it and other analytics vendors seek to drive data science deeper into organizations. The database giant (NYSE:ORCL) said Monday (Oct. 26) dur Read more…

Salesforce Adds Analytics Dashboard, Visualization

Salesforce rolled out an "analytics cloud" this week that is touted as tying analytics to businesses processes and workflows so users can act directly on business intelligence from its new Wave Actions dashboard. The Read more…

Patriots Vs. Seahawks: The Big Game by the Numbers

Nobody knows what will happen when the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots take the field on Sunday for Super Bowl XLIX.  But thanks to data analytics, we can get an idea how certain aspects of the teams matc Read more…

Spotfire: Now With Automated Vizzes

Figuring out how best to display a piece of data can be a big part of the big data analytics battle. When is a pie chart best, and where would a funnel graph work better? With the new Recommendations feature that TIBCO a Read more…

Report: Dropbox Acquires Stealthy Data Startup

Dropbox, the secure file-sharing specialist, has reportedly acquired a stealthy big data startup, TechCrunch reported earlier in the week. According to the June 16 report, Dropbox has acquired Parastructure, which dev Read more…

Tableau’s Data Vis Suite Gets Speed and Flexibility Boost

Tableau Software announced today the general availability of their Tableau 8.0 analytics and visualization software, aimed at making their insight tool more flexible and accessible for organizational data. Read more…

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