Operational Database Management Systems
China released its first industry-standard big data benchmark suite By Jianfeng Zhan,Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Recently,...
Pivotal For Good with Crisis Text Line: A First Look Post by Noelle Sio, DataKind Data Ambassador and Principal Data Scientist at Pivotal Note: This post originally appeared on Pivotal’s blog on January 13 2015. A...
Sharing data to learn about homelessness St Mungo’s Broadway Note: This post originally appeared on DataKind’s blog . Question Charities often sit atop a mountain of data. Imagine what we could achieve if social...
Data Science for the Social sector. By Brian Dalessandro, DataKind Data Ambassador and Jake Porway, DataKind Founder and Executive Director . At DataKind, we see countless opportunities for data science to make a huge difference...
Will Data Lakes turn into Data Swamps or Data Reservoirs? By Jerry Held, Tamr Welcome to Data Lakes, one of the more unlikely sources of controversy we’ve run across this year. Gartner kicked off the hullabaloo in...
Monetizing Big Data. By Patrick Schwerdtfeger. The key to monetizing ‘Big Data’ is in its predictive capacity. If you can predict an outcome before it takes place, there’s value in that. In what circumstances...
Predictive Analytics – A Case For Private Equity? By Lutz Finger, LinkedIn To build a data product you need to have the right data. This sounds simple, but it is often forgotten by entrepreneurs...
Rethinking Contemporary Operations Teams By Stephen Dillon |Schneider Electric| Global Solutions| Engineering Fellow| Data Architect If, like most people, you are very interested in the end game Big Data and Analytics promises then you...
April 15-16, 2015 Brussels, Belgium (LINK to Web Site/Registration) Hadoop Summit, the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community, is coming to Europe. This two-day event will feature many of the Apache Hadoop thought...
Ethical Risk Assessment of Automated Decision Making Systems By Steven Finlay, Head of Analytics at HML. In my previous article (https://www.odbms.org/2015/02/importance-ethics-data-science/) I discussed the need to consider ethical as well as legal issues when designing automated...