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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

March 2015: Alation emerges from stealth mode to launch the first official data catalog to empower people in enterprises to easily find, understand, govern and use data for informed decision making that supports the business. May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report.

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Unlock The Power of Your Data With These 19 Big Data & Data Analytics Books

datapine

Companies, both big and small, are seeking the finest ways to leverage their data into a competitive advantage. With that in mind, we have prepared a list of the top 19 definitive data analytics and big data books, along with magazines and authentic readers’ reviews upvoted by the Goodreads community.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

In my experience, hyper-specialization tends to seep into larger organizations in a special way… If a company is say, more than 10 years old, they probably began analytics work with a business intelligence team using a data warehouse. A series of debates in literature, editorials, lectures, magazine articles, film, etc.,