by Brett Hurt | Jun 19, 2019 | Data catalogs, Data-driven cultures
I’m beyond excited to share this news. data.world has acquired Capsenta! In this brief post I’d like to explain why I personally think this is important for the enterprise data universe, and I encourage you to also read Capsenta co-founder Juan Sequeda’s own...
by Jon Loyens | Jun 11, 2019 | Data-driven cultures
As with last week’s news that Google acquired Looker for $2.6B for Google Cloud, Salesforce’s $15.7B purchase of Tableau is a clear sign that bringing business users into the fold by making data and analytics more accessible isn’t just a nice...
by Jenny Ryan | Sep 12, 2018 | Data-driven cultures
Algorithms are only as good as the data that feeds them. Data scientists are deeply familiar with the impact of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), where messy inaccuracies, fragmented data, and the like result in poor analysis. But fairness, inclusion, and bias in the...
by Tyler Durman | Aug 29, 2018 | Data-driven cultures
This is Part 5 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. So, you’re a data executive. You’re on a mission to build a data-driven culture. You spend your days leading organizational...
by Tyler Durman | Aug 23, 2018 | Data-driven cultures
This is Part 4 in a series about Collective Data Empowerment. If you want to get the whole series and accompanying tools in an ebook, go here. Imagine… You are in a dark forest. Above, the dense canopy of branches and leaves hides the sun’s position. Your phone...
by Ian Greenleigh | Aug 15, 2018 | Data-driven cultures
“But now we’ve realized that, well hang on, if you’re gonna build a driverless car, how does the car interact with the humans on the road? And that is not an engineering challenge, that is a liberal arts challenge because you’re looking at the world of philosophy,...
