This Week in Data Preparation (May 29, 2020)
In this week’s post: 3 opinion articles, 1 research study, 2 capital raise announcements, and 1 partnership announcement.
David Langton, VP of Product at Matillion, discusses powering ML and AI efforts with data transformation, in this article for Unite.AI.
Fred Frost, Lead Data Scientist at SentryOne, discusses the growing challenge of data democratization, in this article for insideBIGDATA.
Alexander Igelsböck, co-founder and CEO of Adverity, talks about the three biggest data challenges facing today’s online retailers and how to overcome them, in this article for Internet Retailing.
Stanford scientists say complex data workflows contribute to a reproducibility crisis in science. “…given exactly the same data and the same hypotheses, different teams of researchers came to very different conclusions,” comments paper co-author Russell Poldrack, Professor at Stanford.
Indonesian startup Delman raises $1.6 million to help companies clean up data. The round was led by Intudo Ventures, and will be used to establish a research and development center and hire software engineers and data scientists.
Seattle startup DefinedCrowd announced a $50,5M Series B round, to fuel growth of its AI training data technology platform.
Data.world, provider of a cloud-native data catalog, and healthcare AI & NLP provider John Snow Labs announce a partnership to fight the global COVID-19 pandemic by sharing data and software for virus researchers.
Starting next month, news from the data preparation world will be posted in this series every Monday — see you again on June the 8th.
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