by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Deals
As more and more data piles up in siloed electronic warehouses, the greater is the need for a data management solution that will allow companies to identify and access all data at hand especially in the face of greater penalties for non-compliance of privacy...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Apple CEO Tim Cook came out swinging in favour of tougher data privacy laws in the United States and in the rest of the world. Cook even recommended the adoption of privacy rules similar to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Union...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Analytics software now processes our verbal communication almost seamlessly but what if we can also interpret and process non-verbal cues that allow us to identify a subject’s moods and attitudes in real time? Emolytics or Emotional Analytics holds great promise but...
by CDO Review Staff | Nov 9, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Data handling scandals have rocked the world’s biggest tech companies and resulting disillusionment may bring about a sea change as “the carefree oversharing of opinions, photographs and personal messages that characterised the early days of social media may well be...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 29, 2018 | Tools
Researcher Michael Betancourt proposes the need for a ‘principled’ workflow based on Bayesian inference. Betancourt describes his principled workflow model in the following excerpt. Those interested in Betancourt’s full study can find it on GitHub: What properties...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 29, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Are we putting too much trust in algorithms and the mathematics upon which they are built? Mordechai Levy-Eichel, a post-doc from Yale, argues it is precisely because politicians and bureaucrats try to extend their power through developments in mathematics and...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 29, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
The average US household earns only about $60,000 a year, so tech workers might want to celebrate as average tech job pay rose to over $130,000 in 2017. This is according to a report issued by compensation management firm Hired, which qualified the report by saying...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 29, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries
Women with jobs in the predictive analytics field earn roughly the same as their male counterparts. Women in other IT fields are not as fortunate, as the 2018 Interop/InformationWeek IT Salary Survey revealed that women were paid about $10,000 less than their male...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Faced with much uncertainty at the start of a machine learning (ML) project, tech gurus Emmanuel Ameisen of Insight Data and Adam Coates of Khosla Ventures advise ML engineers to follow an ML Engineering Loop that will cycle through phases of analysis, approach...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 19, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Former Gates Foundation CDO Todd Pierce was awarded $4.9 million in damages after he was terminated from his job less than 17 months after being hired. And good news for the rest of us: the event serves as a case study for how not to hire a Chief Data Officer. Pierce,...
