O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

The first step in building an AI solution is identifying the problem you want to solve, which includes defining the metrics that will demonstrate whether you’ve succeeded. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

Marketing 362

Marketing Experimentation Metrics Testing 362

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

Ontotext

MAY 2, 2024

Data leaders today are faced with an almost impossible challenge. They are expected to understand the entire data landscape and generate business-moving insights while facing the voracious needs of different teams and the constraints of technology architecture and compliance.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Lake Data-driven Enterprise 52

Rocket-Powered Data Science

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The way that I explained it to my data science students years ago was like this. They realized that the search results would probably not provide an answer to my question, but the results would simply list websites that included my words on the page or in the metadata tags: “Texas”, “Cows”, “How”, etc. What is a semantic layer?

Data Science 286

Data Science Forecasting Business Intelligence Sales 286

AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

Organizations often need to manage a high volume of data that is growing at an extraordinary rate. At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. We think of this concept as inside-out data movement. Example Corp.

Data Lake 113

Data Lake Analytics Dashboards Metrics 113

erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Prashant Parikh, erwin’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, talks about erwin’s vision to automate every aspect of the data governance journey to increase speed to insights. The clear benefit is that data stewards spend less time building and populating the data governance framework and more time realizing value and ROI from it.

Data Governance 97

Data Governance Metadata Data-driven Visualization 97

Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data-driven Sales 52

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Why AI software development is different.

Management 333

Management Machine Learning Experimentation Metrics 333

Cloudera

MARCH 3, 2022

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. Bad data governance practices lead to data breaches, lawsuits, and regulatory fines — and no enterprise is immune. . Everyone Fails Data Governance. In 2019, the U.K.’s

Data Governance 103

Data Governance Enterprise Data Quality Metadata 103

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re living in the age of real-time data and insights, driven by low-latency data streaming applications. The volume of time-sensitive data produced is increasing rapidly, with different formats of data being introduced across new businesses and customer use cases.

Analytics 113

Analytics IoT Data-driven Snapshot 113

AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

Data Lake 88

Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Optimization 88

Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

Metadata 40

Metadata Data Governance Data-driven Sales 40

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It seamlessly consolidates data from various data sources within AWS, including AWS Cost Explorer (and forecasting with Cost Explorer ), AWS Trusted Advisor , and AWS Compute Optimizer. Overview of the BMW Cloud Data Hub At the BMW Group, Cloud Data Hub (CDH) is the central platform for managing company-wide data and data solutions.

Dashboards 95

Dashboards Analytics Metadata Data Warehouse 95

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

The company uses AWS Cloud services to build data-driven products and scale engineering best practices. To ensure a sustainable data platform amid growth and profitability phases, their tech teams adopted a decentralized data mesh architecture. The solution Acast implemented is a data mesh, architected on AWS.

Data-driven 85

Data-driven Advertising Metadata Data Architecture 85

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can ingest and integrate data from multiple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to get insights. However, you may have to integrate data from multiple IoT sensor devices to derive analytics like equipment health information from all the sensors based on common data elements.

IoT 94

IoT Analytics Prescriptive Analytics Internet of Things 94

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a guest post co-written by Alex Naumov, Principal Data Architect at smava. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader.

Data Lake 89

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven B2B 89

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Although less complex than the “4 Vs” of big data (velocity, veracity, volume, and variety), orienting to the variety and volume of a challenging puzzle is similar to what CIOs face with information management. Operationalizing data to drive revenue CIOs report that their roles are rising in importance and impact. What’s changed?

Unstructured Data 52

Unstructured Data Data Lake Metadata Business Objectives 52

Alation

JANUARY 24, 2023

Most organisations are seeking to be data-driven because they believe in the value of data to inform key decisions at all levels, making data management absolutely critical. The aim is to harness the power of that data to deliver cost savings, enhanced efficiencies, an optimised customer experience, and more.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Data Governance Metrics 52

Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data-driven organizations are a bad idea. Using data to drive your organization is wonderful. But data, at best, can only be a powerful vehicle, or a reliable GPS system. Except sometimes we call organizations “data-driven” when really the data is driving them up the wall. And it should be.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Analytics Analytics Manufacturing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

Data Governance 144

Data Governance IT Risk Data Lake 144

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. The following figure shows some of the metrics derived from the study. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

Data Strategy 68

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 68

Andrew White

JANUARY 12, 2021

Predicts 2021: Data and Analytics Leaders Are Poised for Success but Risk an Uncertain Future : By 2023, 50% of chief digital officers in enterprises without a chief data officer (CDO) will need to become the de facto CDO to succeed. By 2023, ERP data will be the basis for 30% of AI-generated predictive analyses and forecasts.

Analytics 144

Analytics Metadata Enterprise Data-driven 144

Ontotext

JUNE 22, 2023

Another problem in drug development is that although companies gather a lot of data from multiple databases, they struggle to derive key insights about safety, drugability, etc. They need some kind of compass to find their way in the data jungle and identify information that is useful and relevant to their specific use case.

Metrics 52

Metrics Statistics Visualization Metadata 52

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This data is used in procuring devices’ inventory to meet Amazon customers’ demands. With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data.

Optimization 52

Optimization Forecasting Data Lake Metadata 52

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Organizations are grappling with the ever-expanding spectrum of data formats in today’s data-driven landscape. From Avro’s binary serialization to the efficient and compact structure of Protobuf, the landscape of data formats has expanded far beyond the traditional realms of CSV and JSON.

Cost-Benefit 86

Cost-Benefit Metadata Structured Data Management 86

AWS Big Data

MAY 16, 2024

Apache Airflow is a popular platform for enterprises looking to orchestrate complex data pipelines and workflows. In this post, we’re excited to introduce two new features that address common customer challenges and unlock new possibilities for building robust, scalable, and flexible data orchestration solutions using Amazon MWAA.

Testing 89

Testing Interactive Metrics Management 89

Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today’s best-performing organizations embrace data for strategic decision-making. Because of the criticality of the data they deal with, we think that finance teams should lead the enterprise adoption of data and analytics solutions. This is because accurate data is “table stakes” for finance teams.

Finance 52

Finance Data Transformation Enterprise Metrics 52

Cloudera

MARCH 14, 2023

We just announced the general availability of Cloudera DataFlow Designer , bringing self-service data flow development to all CDP Public Cloud customers. In this blog post we will put these capabilities in context and dive deeper into how the built-in, end-to-end data flow life cycle enables self-service data pipeline development.

Testing 87

Testing Publishing Metadata Interactive 87

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Analytics specialty practice of AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) helps customers across the globe with modern data architecture implementations on the AWS Cloud. In this post, we discuss a common use case in relation to operational data processing and the solution we built using Apache Hudi and AWS Glue.

Data Lake 91

Data Lake Data Processing Metadata Snapshot 91

Smart Data Collective

APRIL 14, 2021

Advancement in big data technology has made the world of business even more competitive. The proper use of business intelligence and analytical data is what drives big brands in a competitive market. Business intelligence tools can include data warehousing, data visualizations, dashboards, and reporting.

Business Intelligence 132

Business Intelligence Dashboards Visualization Big Data 132

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

This post is the first in a series dedicated to the art and science of practical data mesh implementation (for an overview of data mesh, read the original whitepaper The data mesh shift ). Taken together, the posts in this series lay out some possible operating models for data mesh within an organization.

Management 79

Management Risk Measurement Optimization 79

Alation

MAY 11, 2023

These metrics are a testament to our global expansion in EMEA and APAC. Stay tuned for more information on what’s sure to be another educational, memorable, and enlightening gathering of the data community. Under Pimblett’s leadership, 130 people at Very use Alation to drive excellence in data across all parts of the business.

B2B 52

B2B Finance Data Governance Marketing 52

Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing? Common data governance challenges.

Data Governance 96

Data Governance Strategy Data Quality Metrics 96

AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

FMs are multimodal; they work with different data types such as text, video, audio, and images. Large language models (LLMs) are a type of FM and are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and typically have application uses such as text generation, intelligent chatbots, or summarization.

Data Lake 90

Data Lake Unstructured Data Management Modeling 90

AWS Big Data

MAY 10, 2023

In OpenSearch Service, you can deploy data nodes to store your data and respond to indexing and search requests, you can also deploy dedicated cluster manager nodes to manage and orchestrate the cluster. When you use OpenSearch Service, you create indexes to hold your data and specify partitioning and replication for those indexes.

Snapshot 93

Snapshot Testing Metadata Management 93

Cloudera

JANUARY 15, 2021

Cloud data warehouses allow users to run analytic workloads with greater agility, better isolation and scale, and lower administrative overhead than ever before. The results demonstrate superior price performance of Cloudera Data Warehouse on the full set of 99 queries from the TPC-DS benchmark. Overview of Cloudera Data Warehouse.

Data Warehouse 99

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Consulting Interactive 99

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 2, 2019

Co-chair Paco Nathan provides highlights of Rev 2 , a data science leaders summit. We held Rev 2 May 23-24 in NYC, as the place where “data science leaders and their teams come to learn from each other.” Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab. First item on our checklist: did Rev 2 address how to lead data teams?

Data-driven 110

Data-driven Data Science Machine Learning Modeling 110