According to many market statistics, data volume is doubling every two years, but in future this time span may get further reduced. The vast portion of this data (about 79 percent) is text data. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the sub-branch of Data Science that attempts to extract insights from “text.” Thus, NLP is assuming […]
What is a Customer Data Platform?
Click to learn more about author Jonathan Lee. In the past year and a half DATAVERSITY readers have been exposed to new Customer Data Platform (CDP) offerings from vendors like BlueConic, RedPoint Global, and others. But what is a CDP? First introduced around 2013, CDP is a concept defined by the Customer Data Platform Institute […]
Looker Unveils Looker 6: the Modern Platform for Data
According to a new press release out of Looker, “[T]he company announced the latest major release to the Looker platform – Looker 6. Built for the modern enterprise, Looker 6 is designed to be a unified and extensible platform for data that flexes and scales to the ever-changing needs of business. ‘Early on Looker built […]
Figure Eight Releases Enhanced Enterprise-grade Training Data Platform
According to a recent press release, “Figure Eight, the essential Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning platform, today released an enhanced enterprise-grade training data platform for customers with demanding security, scalability, and customization requirements in key industry sectors such as automotive, financial services, government, healthcare, media and entertainment, and technology industries. Figure Eight’s platform has created over 10 […]
M Science Launches Machine Learning-Based Transaction Data Platform: SWIPE
According to a recent press release, “M Science, the leader and pioneer in data driven research and analytics, has launched SWIPE, a new data analysis product within its M Data offering. M Science’s SWIPE uses machine learning to analyze transaction data that is collected from credit and debit card purchases, to provide institutional investors with […]
Synchronising Metadata Between Different Tools
Click to learn more about author Mandy Chessell. If you have bought data tools from different vendors, you have probably noticed 3 things: Although each tool adds value, no single vendor can support all of your organization’s needs. Each tool starts “empty” – with no knowledge of your data landscape. Only through use does it build […]
MapR Unveils Major Data Platform Update for AI and Analytics
According to a new press release, “MapR® Technologies, Inc., the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced a series of breakthrough MapR Data Platform advances to speed the operational impact of automated analytics, improve the productivity of developers and data scientists, lower TCO, and streamline security and storage across on-premises data centers, […]
MapR Expands Cloud Services with Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
According to a recent press release, “MapR® Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced that the MapR Data Platform now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS). MapR previously announced persistent storage for containers to enable the deployment of stateful containerized applications. With Amazon EKS, […]
Apache Pulsar 2.0 Brings Enterprise-Class Scale and Speed to Streaming Data Processing
A new press release states, “Streamlio, the intelligent platform for fast data, today announced availability of Apache Pulsar 2.0, a significant new release of the streaming messaging solution at the core of the Streamlio platform. Building on the proven Apache Pulsar foundation, this release adds new capabilities to Apache Pulsar that support easy development and […]
Alteryx Reveals Newest Platform Release
According to a new press release, “Alteryx, Inc., revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced the general availability of the newest version of the Alteryx platform (2018.2) at its annual user conference, Inspire 2018. The release delivers new features across the platform to improve the analytic experience for IT, business analysts and data […]