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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

Alation

AmFam first implemented the Alation Data Catalog in 2018. Back then, our focus was three-fold, focused on: Taking inventory of our data assets, Building out a more formal data governance program , and. At this time, I worked in the Data Enablement Team and my primary focus was data catalog adoption and training.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. The next generation will shape human cognition, creativity, and interaction even more profoundly.

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And the winners are…. Congratulations to the Sixth Annual Data Impact Awards winners

Cloudera

And now, without further delay, we are excited to announce the winners of the 2018 Data Impact Awards, listed by award theme and category: Business Impact. The bank brought together 27 billion data points and uses AI to understand the next-best conversation 21 million times each weekday.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

CNN reported that Zillow bought 27,000 homes through Zillow Offers since its launch in April 2018 but sold only 17,000 through the end of September 2021. In March 2016, Microsoft learned that using Twitter interactions as training data for machine learning algorithms can have dismaying results.

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