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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly on Data

The race to the top is no longer driven by who has the best product or the best business model, but by who has the blessing of the venture capitalists with the deepest pockets—a blessing that will allow them to acquire the most customers the most quickly, often by providing services below cost. Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

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4 Considerations When Building Your Government Data Strategy

Cloudera

If you’ve followed Cloudera for a while, you know we’ve long been singing the praises—or harping on the importance, depending on perspective—of a solid, standalone enterprise data strategy. The ways data strategies are implemented, the resulting outcomes and the lessons learned along the way provide important guardrails.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

In the modern world of business, data is one of the most important resources for any organization trying to thrive. Business data is highly valuable for cybercriminals. They even go after meta data. Big data can reveal trade secrets, financial information, as well as passwords or access keys to crucial enterprise resources.

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How to Decide Whether a SaaS Tool is Worth Purchasing?

Smart Data Collective

In today’s more competitive, technology-driven corporate environment, all firms seeking to increase activity and productivity are reaping the benefits of the software world. It was launched as a paid service and went on to add a freemium option in 2009, growing its user base from 85,000 to 450,000 a year.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data (IT Revolution Press, 2019) tells the story of Maxine, a senior lead developer, as she tries to survive in a heartless bureaucracy overrun with paperwork and committees. Novels that entertain and teach Kreslins Jr. Practical, indeed.

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Ricky Ray Butler: How social media and “influencers” have upended the world of advertising

DataRobot

In 2009 Ricky Ray cofounded Plaid Social Labs, perhaps the first agency to connect advertisers with social media stars. BEN uses data and AI to tell advertisers where to find eyeballs, how to keep those eyeballs around, and which eyeballs are their best potential customers. Not that it was easy getting to this point.

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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox to Avoid Faulty Conclusions

Sisense

Everyone wants to get more out of their data, but how exactly to do that can leave you scratching your head. One of the simplest ways to start exploring your data is to aggregate the metrics you are interested in by their relevant dimensions. How can good data lead to faulty conclusions? How does this happen? 9/10 = 90%.

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