by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Deals
Tamr, a data analytics startup that draws on AI techniques to hasten analytics workflows, announced that it has secured new funding worth $10 million from Pear Tree Partners and Granite Hill Capital Partners. Tamr has now raised over $68 million in total startup...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
Researcher Chris Lindner distilled the information from the resumes that piled up in his company and discovered a wealth of diversity in data science. Lindner found out that data scientists come from all sorts of backgrounds from zoology to astrophysics. Even people...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
A World Economic Forum report says that while the data science field will be the biggest gainer in new jobs, the lower strata of data sector jobs will get hammered by job losses. Donal Power filed this report in RT Insights: The report determined that changes in the...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Big data has the answers. Lots of good ones, and lots of bad ones, too. Sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff requires disciplines from outside the realm of data science. Bill Luker writes in the Predictive Analytics Times: Big data is and has been less easy...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Fei-Fei Li, one of the most respected names in cloud-based AI (artificial intelligence) is leaving Google after less than two years at the company. She will be replaced by Andrew Moore, currently dean of the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Li is set to...
