by CDO Review Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Market Research, People
Hyune Hand has joined global information services provider Neustar as General Manager of Customer Intelligence, Marketing Solutions. Neustar’s main product is a unique, accurate, and real-time identity system bolstered by billions of transactions that allow critical...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Market Research, People
Krista Macomber is the latest new hire of Storage Switzerland, an IT analytics firm that focuses on the storage, cloud, and virtualization marketplaces. More information about Macomber is available from Business Wire: Macomber comes to Storage Switzerland from...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Market Research
The consumer research firm Nielsen is up for sale and could fetch up to $10 billion. The Blackstone Group of billionaire Stephen Scwharzman is reportedly one of the leading suitors for the 95-year-old TV ratings company. Josh Kosman reports on the efforts to sell...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Market Research
Data catalog company Alation Inc. collared $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Alation offers its users access to a “curated catalog of internal and external data” that helps users of self-service analytics make the right data choices...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 15, 2019 | Market Research
Second Measure, a market research firm that develops actionable insights to consumer behaviour as it analyses billion of consumer purchases every day, has received $20 million in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Second Measure indicated that the new...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 12, 2019 | Tools
MIT researchers have developed a new data science tool that empowers non-statisticians with the power to uncover trends and discover new insights from massive datasets just by writing a few lines of code. Rob Matheson explains how the new tool pioneers a new approach...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 12, 2019 | Tools
Three years after the initial version of TensorFlow debuted, developers are eagerly awaiting the release of TensorFlow 2.0 which promises to simplify the API and make model building that much easier. More information on the upcoming TensorFlow 2.0 can be found in this...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 12, 2019 | Tools
Go, Kotlin, and Python remain hot languages in the latest HackerRank poll but previous Top 3 favorite Scala is dropping fast. David Ramel tells us more in this post from ADTMag: “Developers are as eager as they were last year to learn Go, Kotlin, and Python in...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 12, 2019 | Tools
A survey of more than 20,000 Python users indicates that overall Python use is still growing among developers and that data analysis (including machine learning) is now the main use case. Python is also preferred for use in web development, testing, and automation....
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 12, 2019 | Tools
So what if there is a talent gap? Companies that are early adopters of automated data science tools can evade the shortage of developer talent plaguing their competition. New tools have been developed that simplify data prep, deploy pre-trained AI models, and automate...