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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Data coming from machines tends to land (aka, data at rest ) in durable stores such as Amazon S3, then gets consumed by Hadoop, Spark, etc. Somehow, the gravity of the data has a geological effect that forms data lakes. DG emerges for the big data side of the world, e.g., the Alation launch in 2012.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. to join data science teams, e.g., to support advertising, social networks, gaming, and so on—I hired more than a few. 2018 – Global reckoning about data governance, aka “Oops!