Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. This month we’re driving data projects. Have you ever been on the precipice of starting a major data project and wondered, “Where do […]
Ascend Launches to Create Automated and Intelligent Dataflows to Power Digital Transformations
According to a recent press release, “Ascend, provider of the world’s first Autonomous Dataflow Service, today emerged from stealth with $19M in funding to de-risk big data projects and accelerate digital transformations. Ascend operates the only solution with which data engineering teams can quickly build, scale, and operate continuously optimized, Apache Spark-based pipelines. By combining […]
Talend Delivers Easy, Pay-as-You-Go On-Ramp to Accelerate Integration Projects
According to a new press release, “Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced the Summer ’19 release of Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end suite. The new release serves as the industry’s first easy on-ramp to accelerate the development of all types of integration environments from simple ingestion tasks to […]
DataScience Inc. Concludes Elite Education Residency Program With Capstone Event
by Angela Guess According to a new press release out of the company, “DataScience, Inc., a data analytics company, today announced a new capstone event to mark the culmination of its inaugural DS12 data science education residency program. The one-day event, held September 2, 2016 at DataScience’s Los Angeles headquarters, will feature highlights from the […]
3 Reasons Data Science Projects Fail
by Angela Guess Isaac Roseboom recently wrote in Dataconomy, “The rise of data science in the last decade has been driven by the ease of access to deep data and significant reductions in the costs associated with processing it. These days anyone with a credit card can now setup a cloud-based data warehouse and tracking […]
3 Reasons Your IT Investments are Failing
by Angela Guess Oscar Berg recently wrote in CMS Wire, “Here’s a fact about corporate IT investments: All investments made in hardware and software, development and deployment are sunk cost, never to be recovered. That is why IT investments need to start generating as much business value as possible from day one. And if employees […]
Execs Starting to Take Charge of Modeling and Analyzing Data
by Angela Guess Hugo Moreno reports in Forbes, “According to a recent Forbes Insights executive brief, “Decisions, Decisions: How Leading Firms Are Arming Frontline Executives With Data-Driven Insight,” sponsored by Qlik, business executives are no longer satisfied with the long waiting periods, high costs and questionable quality of data- driven decision support being developed on […]