Tag: open data
OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data lea Read more…
Polaris Catalog, To Be Merged With Nessie, Now Available on GitHub
Seven weeks after taking the wraps off Polaris Catalog at its annual user conference, Snowflake today announced that its metadata catalog for the Apache Iceberg table format is now available on GitHub and as a public pre Read more…
Databricks to Open Source Unity Catalog
At its Data + AI Summit today, Databricks announced that it’s open sourcing Unity Catalog, the metadata catalog that governs how users and compute engines can access data. Coming off of last week’s news around Apache Read more…
It’s Go Time for Open Data Lakehouses
If you’re a supporter of open data, it’s hard not to feel good about last week’s news around Apache Iceberg. Customers demanded an open storage format, and the two leading providers, Snowflake and Databricks, are d Read more…
How Open Will Snowflake Go at Data Cloud Summit?
Snowflake is holding its Data Cloud Summit 24 conference next week, and the company is expected to make a slew of announcements, which you will be able to find on these Datanami pages. But among the most closely watched Read more…
Onehouse Breaks Data Catalog Lock-In with More Openness
Onehouse, the Apache Hudi-backer that bills itself as the most open data platform in the world, further opened up its platform today with the launch of a data catalog synchronization feature that streamlines user access Read more…
Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown
If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…
Snowflake, AWS Warm Up to Apache Iceberg
Apache Iceberg, the table format that ensures consistency and streamlines data partitioning in demanding analytic environments, is being adopted by two of the biggest data providers in the cloud, Snowflake and AWS. Custo Read more…
It Takes a (Data Science) Village: How GRMDS Fosters an Open Ecosystem
Openness is one of the hallmarks of modern data science – openness of data, of code, and of methods. By sharing our successes and failures with others, we raise our collective intelligence level beyond what we could ea Read more…
U.S., China Jockey for AI ‘Lead’
The U.S. is maintaining its lead in AI development as China hustles and spends to catch up, outpacing its rivals in areas like AI funding, adoption and access to data. Still, a report released this week by the Center Read more…
Augmented Analytics Driving ‘Smart’ Data Market
Emerging tools like augmented analytics are expected to drive the “smart data” market to more than $30 billion over the next several years, a market forecaster predicts. Frost & Sullivan pegs the smart data an Read more…
U.S. Open Data Push Advances
The push for open government data got a boost this week with passage of a budget bill that includes language codifying open data requirements for the federal government. Senate passage of the Defense Department spendi Read more…
Exploring Governments’ Civic Data Connections
An individual data point is practically worthless by itself. Only when combined with other pieces of data can it contribute to the emergence of the bigger picture. For those in knowledge extraction industries, one of the Read more…
TaxBrain Brings Open Data Science to Federal Models
Some of the most important decisions made in Washington D.C. are influenced heavily by sophisticated computer models refined over the course of decades. However, most of the models are proprietary, which hinders the abil Read more…
New Platform Visualizes Open U.S. Data
Federal agencies are sitting on tons of data, particularly in areas like healthcare, employment, weather and education. A new initiative called Data USA seeks to unleash this trove via a free and open platform that colle Read more…
Peering In On the Pols with Big Open Data
It's no secret that our government is using big data technologies to track and monitor the activities of regular citizens, ostensibly to protect our freedom. But data analytics can also be used to keep track of what our Read more…
Schools Get a Leg Up on Terrorists with Big Data
Governments around the world spend billions of dollars each year trying to prevent terrorist attacks, with varying degree of success. When preventative efforts fail, the next best option is to help potential victims prep Read more…
Three Ways Open Data Could Make California Golden
While California is widely regarded as the high-technology hub of the world, the state lacks a cohesive open data policy. Last week, a non-profit think tank in the Golden State released a report detailing why the state g Read more…
Will Big Metadata Rat You Out?
Data scientists are usually taught to be cautious with personally identifiable (PII) data and take pains to ensure that it's properly anonymized and aggregated for authorized uses. But as MIT researchers recently showed, Read more…
‘Liquid’ Data Seen as Engine of Economic Growth
The free flow of data, especially government data, on open platforms could generate more than $1 trillion in annual U.S. economic activity, according to a recent global survey. That forecast depends however on greater in Read more…
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