by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Issues & Insights
GPU giant Nvidia has announced that its new open source GPU-acceleration platform called Rapids could transform the data analytics space with its ability to process huge amounts of data “to make accurate predictions at an unprecedented speed.” Carly Page reported on...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Deals
Netradyne, a startup that focuses on comprehensive, real-time driver analytics to encourage safer driver behaviour, has received $12 million in Series B financing from Microsoft’s corporate venture arm M12 along with smaller contributions from Point72 Ventures and...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Deals
Hortonworks will become a subsidiary of Cloudera and will fill four seats on the nine-member Cloudera board. Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly will stay in charge. The merger comes as cloudy future faces Hadoop technology, which is now squeezed by the growing popularity of...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 18, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Many firms have very little to show for all the investment they have put into data. Thomas C. Redman, president of Data Quality Solutions, wrote a thoughtful accounting of the five elements that must come together to make any firm’s data strategy a success....
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Tools
Google’s newly-launched What-If Tool gives users the ability to analyze a machine learning (ML) model without having to write code for it. Given the increasing scrutiny leveled on the opaque nature of machine learning, the What-If tool will offer greater...