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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Not to be confused with the ordinary sense of rent as a charge for temporary use of property, economic rents are the income above a competitive market rate that is collected because of asymmetries in ownership, information, or power. Attention is all you need What is the source of big tech market power? It’s not our data.

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

Cloudera

. — Mike Barlow, author of “Learning to Love Data Science” (O’Reilly Media). 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. Two weeks ago, we announced the finalists.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

But a Zillow spokesperson told CNN that the algorithm had a median error rate of 1.9%, and the error rate could be much higher, as much as 6.9%, for off-market homes. 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.

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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

Cloudera

Cybersecurity and data privacy: As news of data breaches become increasingly common, resulting in elevated privacy concerns, regulatory and compliance standards are becoming more stringent.

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The year of the data catalog

Alation

billion merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks, the widely scrutinized GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), or the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked Facebook. Amid the headline grabbing news, 2018 will also be remembered as the year of the data catalog. Be it the surprising $5.2 Below are some of our other favorites.

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Data Catalogs: A Category of Their Own

Alation

The Forrester Wave : Machine Learning Data Catalogs, Q2 2018. This is Forrester’s inaugural Wave on data catalogs. Analyst Michelle Goetz, a well known advisor to enterprise architects, chief data officers, and business analysts, has been tracking this market for some time. A New Market Category.

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Introducing Agile Data Governance – Alation TrustCheck

Alation

there has to be a business context, and the increasing realization of this context explains the rise of information stewardship applications.” – May 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Information Stewardship Applications. The rise of data lakes, IOT analytics, and big data pipelines has introduced a new world of fast, big data.