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Training the Next Generation of Data Leaders: The Data Intelligence Project

Alation

Our platform combines data insights with human intelligence in pursuit of this mission. Susannah Barnes, an Alation customer and senior data governance specialist at American Family Insurance, introduced our team to faculty at the School of Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM-SOIS), her alma mater.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Paco Nathan ‘s latest column dives into data governance. This month’s article features updates from one of the early data conferences of the year, Strata Data Conference – which was held just last week in San Francisco. In particular, here’s my Strata SF talk “Overview of Data Governance” presented in article form.

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How to Get the Most Out of Jet Basics

Jet Global

Offered as an extension included with Dynamics NAV since 2011 and Dynamics GP since 2016, Jet Basics gives users a simple way to create basic reports and business queries inside of Excel. You have detailed reporting requirements that calls for self-service reporting and analytics, drilldown capabilities, and data governance.

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Becoming a machine learning company means investing in foundational technologies

O'Reilly on Data

Use ML to unlock new data types—e.g., Consider deep learning, a specific form of machine learning that resurfaced in 2011/2012 due to record-setting models in speech and computer vision. You also need solutions that let you understand what data you have and who can access it. images, audio, video. Source: O'Reilly.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

By the way, here’s a paper by some researchers at Yahoo back in 2011 where they benchmarked their fancy algo against this 1933 algo and the 1933 algo wins, which is pretty cool. Nobody paid any attention to it whatsoever until 2011. We have a very good data governance group. Suddenly it’s like “Bam!

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Data Catalogs: A Category of Their Own

Alation

But as the category gains greater recognition, more companies are building data catalog solutions. Some companies included are re-positioning master data management inventories built for IT. Other vendors are doubling down on data governance solutions – re-positioning glossaries and repositories of governance rules.