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...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Tools
Vision Critical has upgraded its Sparq Platform with the addition of text mining and sentiment analysis to its capabilities. The upgrade was part of Vision Critical’s push toward a deeper understanding of their clients’ customers through customer profiling,...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Deals
As Houston rebuilds from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey, it will do so armed with flood hazard and property loss models from professional services firm Dewberry. The full story is from Directions Magazine: The granular, structure-level understanding of...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Millions of research papers in Europe, previously behind journal paywalls, may soon become open for text and data mining, thanks to new legislation which will receive final approval in January. Academic researchers can rejoice. But if you’re a startup, getting...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
The future belongs to countries and firms that do not drag their feet on artificial intelligence, according to a discussion paper from the McKinsey Global Institute. McKinsey’s research simulated the effects of AI adoption on economies worldwide and fate of companies...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Tools
Data infrastructure company Segment is now offering Protocols, a data governance product that ensures first-party customer data is clean, correct and trustworthy. Protocols automatically detects and prevents data errors in real time. Read more about Protocols in...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Algorithms are only as good as their trainers, argues Alchemy One’s Joel Trethowan. He makes a thoughtful case in Mumbrella: In problem solving, you have two parts – the first part, where you break the problem down into its components to really see what’s going...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights, Jobs and Salaries
Data is a strategic asset that has been left un-leveraged by many federal agencies. A study conducted by Jane Wiseman of Harvard has identified a crying need for more Chief Data Officers in federal government. Wiseman’s analysis found that among the ten largest...
