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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

But this kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. “In

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The current state of data storytelling and its analytical requirements

BI-Survey

T he ultimate goal of data-driven decision support is to gain tangible benefits from analytics. The value of information and how it is used to save costs (e.g., Compared to BARC’s 2014 survey on Information Culture, a greater proportion of respondents in 2016 agreed with all but one of the statements in Figure 1.

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Data Privacy in the Digital Age: A Right or a Luxury?

Smart Data Collective

The current digital economy runs on our data, and allowing these companies to collect it and process it for their benefit seems to be the cost of entry. Most people don’t realize just how much data is being collected whenever we interact with a digital platform.

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What Is DataOps? Definition, Principles, and Benefits

Alation

However, there is a lot more to know about DataOps, as it has its own definition, principles, benefits, and applications in real-life companies today – which we will cover in this article! DataOps as a term was brought to media attention by Lenny Liebmannin 2014, then popularized by several other thought leaders. What Is DataOps?

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

I can't think of a better way to identify which content we create (pages, videos, interactive quizzes, comparison charts, op ed articles, flash magic thingies) is adding the most value… Again, same strategy. Hence, over time, though the costs were reasonable, I've become shy about these resources as a source of value/quality.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 5

Domino Data Lab

Guess who benefits most by that? For another perspective: ask anyone who’s ever maintained a popular open source project about the benefits of publishing and peer review w.r.t. Lend a friendly ear when they’re ready to change jobs and need to talk about new opportunities. Provide references. Suggest options, caveats, guidance.

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Stablecoins: Solving the cryptocurrency volatility crisis

O'Reilly on Data

This, of course, is in an effort to move forward the culture of open source, from static code branches sitting in source trees to living and evolving useful systems ready for live interaction, still egalitarian and open access in nature. Value opportunity: Open platforms. Stablecoin history.