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

Alation

December 2012: Alation forms and goes to work creating the first enterprise data catalog. Later, in its inaugural report on data catalogs, Forrester Research recognizes that “Alation started the MLDC trend.”. May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report.

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The three certainties in life: death, taxes and GDPR

Cloudera

Organisations need to ensure that they can not only locate all relevant personal data about the individual, but also have the ability to extract or delete that data upon request and in a timely manner. When the world waited with bated breath for the clocks to tick over to 2000, very few computer failures were reported.

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EU Cookie / Privacy Laws: Implications On Data Collection And Analysis

Occam's Razor

These server logs can then be used to do basic reporting using off the shelf software. Another example, people don't realize that, depending on the browser you use, being in Private Browsing or Incognito or InPrivate mode does not mean that no data about you is collected by the sites you visit.

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Unsexy Fundamentals Focus: User Experiences That Print Money

Occam's Razor

Like me, I'm sure you are working on complex challenges when it comes to data. Multi-petabyte data warehouses. If you are a reader of my newsletter, The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect , you’ve seen me apply it to metrics (last TMAI was on Bounce Rate), reports, frameworks and more. Media mix modeling.

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Six Strategies for Advancing Customer Knowledge: Bringing Data Together

Cloudera

It is not the heart-racing, bleeding-edge use case that you hear about in WIRED magazine but a foundational and required step in getting to almost any customer insights solution; bringing data together. Data Warehouses and data virtualization may offer some remedy but as it is pointed out in the research….

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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

To outline that caveat, I count four main points in the article describing necessary conditions which a successful organization must put into practice: Position data science as its own entity—make it its own department, reporting to the CEO. A series of debates in literature, editorials, lectures, magazine articles, film, etc.,