by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Text mining, Tools
Researchers C. Oswald and B. Sivaselvan have published a paper exploring a set of text and image algorithms that generate anywhere from 18% to 751% improvement in compression ratio. Oswald and Sivaselvan’s research can be read in the Data Science Journal. Here is an...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Firms should use AI techniques to generate new revenue rather than cut costs. This was one of several findings of MIT’s Sloan Management Review’ 2018 Global Executive Study on AI. The MIT Sloan study points out that companies that are early AI adopters will gain a big...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Tools
A construction worker might find a shovel helpful for digging the foundation of a house. But a shovel isn’t going to go very far when he starts putting up the walls. Roger Peng, professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, writes that there is no single best...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Deals
The first half of 2018 saw record private equity investment in the healthcare sector. At the heart of many of those deals: big data, and the sector’s desire to grapple with data that’s piling up in droves. Jonathan Simnett of Hampleton Partners, sums it up...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | People
After five years on the job, San Francisco’s first Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro has decided to move on. Taking over as the new CDO is data services manager Jason Lally, a colleague of Bonaguro. Bonaguro’s departure was reported by Government Technology: The work...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | People
Christian Ward is SourceMedia’s new Chief Data Officer, a post that was specially created for him by the digital business information provider. SourceMedia focuses on serving senior-level professionals in the financial, technology, and healthcare sectors. Ward’s move...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | People
Deutsche Bank is diving deep into data and has lured away JP Morgan Chase’s data chief David Gleason. Gleason will run a team of ten data specialists based in New York that will attempt to monetize Deutsche Bank’s trove of client and transaction data. Gleason’s hiring...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | People
Just five months after Coinbase poached Emilie Choi from LinkedIn, the cryptocurrency exchange startup has convinced senior LinkedIn exec Michael Li to become its new VP of data. Coinbase has been on a hiring binge this year, drafting new VPs of finance,...
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...
