Click to learn more about author Susana Duran. 2020 has been a year of rapid transformation. The advent of COVID-19 has accelerated many of the trends we have seen in recent years. This is especially true of AI and machine learning — there’s been an almost 25 percent year-on-year increase in business use of AI […]
Challenges for Data Governance and Data Quality in a Machine Learning Ecosystem
The high availability of data, enhanced computing power and advanced Data Science technologies together make a lethal combination for data-driven outcomes. With the open data economy just around the corner, well-tuned Data Governance capabilities will be the goal of most businesses. Current Data Management practices are focused on risk free data sharing and regulatory compliance. […]
Building an MVP That Is Centered on User Behavior
Click to learn more about author Tuhin Bhatt. Everyone from Uber to Facebook and even Amazon had their initial versions as MVPs (Minimum Viable Product). Building an MVP is considered to be the first step to testing and validating a groundbreaking or audacious idea. The Build -> Measure -> Learn feedback loopis what makes an MVP […]
Dear Laura: Agile Data Governance
Click to learn more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance, I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. Last year I wrote the […]
When It Comes to Data Collection, Transparency and Ethical Standards Are Not a Matter of Choice
Click to learn more about author Or Lenchner. Online data collection is an incredibly powerful tool. It enables you to gather real-time market intelligence effectively. By nature, online data is sourced from a wide variety of websites. Therefore, it’s essential that the companies collecting and leveraging the data have a strong ethical standard for how […]
Cloud-Based Data Management Platforms in the Age of Privacy
Click to learn more about author Keith D. Foote. Currently, many businesses are using public clouds to do their Data Management. Data Management platforms (DMPs) started becoming popular during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. At that time, the internet services offered by Amazon and Salesforce appealed to a large number of businesses because […]
Data as a Form of Personal Protective Equipment
Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. When numbers benumb the senses, when what is calculable as a number is incomprehensible as a fact of life, when we can assign each life a number but cannot articulate the enormity of the total number of lives lost to COVID-19, when in the course of […]
What Is a Digital Twin?
A digital twin is a virtual device that contains the exact state, information, and organization of the physical device to which it is connected. Think of it as a test version before proceeding with product development or interacting with a real-world device. Digital twins go hand-in-hand with implementing the Internet of Things (IoT). Industrial companies […]
2021 Predictions: A New Type of Communication Technology and the Changing Role of a Developer
Click to learn more about author Christine Spang. 2021 — we made it! 2020 brought us some hiccups, but the new year means a new time to reflect on what we learned as an industry. 2020, no doubt, taught us a lot. Two things specifically stick out to me: Our communication methods have changed as […]
COVID-19 Has Accelerated the Cloud Journey: Data Responsibility Now Needs to Catch Up
Click to learn more about author Shridar Subramanian. COVID-19 has been a significant catalyst for cloud adoption, pushing many organizations past their initial reluctance. Indeed, cloud spending is set to climb 18 percent in 2021, even as overall IT spending is estimated to fall 8 percent, according to industry analyst Gartner. We recently conducted a […]