This Week in Data Preparation (June 8, 2020)
In this week’s post: 2 interviews (Forbes, Dataversity), 1 news article (Bloomberg), 2 opinion articles (CXOToday, IT World Canada), 1 capital raise announcement (by Census), and 1 partnership announcement (between Dataiku and Snowflake).
Data discovery is crucial, but not sexy. Danny Reeves, CEO of data discovery platform, Exonar, comments “Data is intrinsic to [AI and automation] technologies, but knowing what data you’ve got in your organization and having the ability to find it quickly and easily is crucial to leveraging it as an asset.”, in this interview for Forbes.
The logical data fabric: A single place for data integration. Ravi Shankar, the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Denodo, explains how data virtualization technologies are evolving and creating a logical data fabric, putting data all into one place and enabling better and faster business decisions, in this interview for Dataversity.
A tiny data firm is at the center of the Hydroxychloroquine storm. The company’s studies claimed a massive feat of data integration in record-setting time, however with questioned results, as discussed in this Bloomberg news article.
Vinod Ganesan, country manager for India at Cloudera, discusses data democratization. “Democratizing the use of data is the only way to weave it into the organizational culture thereby continuing to reap business benefits over the long term.” he claims, in this article for CXOtoday.
Is your AI data wrangling out of control? Yogi Schulz, who has over 40 years of Information Technology experience in various industries, sets the question. He discusses the high effort and unpredictability associated with data wrangling and shares his insights, in this article for IT World Canada.
Census, a data integration platform, emerges from stealth with $4.3m in seed funding. Census founder and CEO Boris Jabes comments: “If you’re a product-led SaaS company looking to get clean and unified data in all the tools your sales and marketing teams use, talk to us”.
In a press release, Dataiku announces partnership with Snowflake for cloud enterprise AI solutions. The partnership combines Snowflake’s powerful query processing with Dataiku’s machine learning and model management offering.
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