Data & Analytics

 

GDPR? May 25th Was Just the Start (CBR)

To make sure you stay compliant systems will need to stay responsive. Keeping data sets clean and tidy, ensuring easy and transparent unsubscribe processes and dealing with other d... More

Taking Analytics to the 4th Dimension (Teradata Blog)

For many years, people have captured and analyzed data to gain insights. One of the lessons learned over time is that the more the data being acted on is integrated, the more insi... More

The Rise of the Chief Digital Officer (CMS Wire)

The number of positions with the title chief data officer (CDO) has more than quadrupled over the past four years as enterprises continue to focus on using data to create value. CD... More

Welcome to the Now of Analytics (Teradata Blog)

So, you’ve got your analytics environment set up nicely for your business. You have hindsight into what has happened, some understanding as to why it might have happened, and som... More

The GDPR and the Future of the Global Data Economy (The New Yorker)

Data protection is sold to Europeans as a tool for balance, equality, and autonomy in the digital world. But it is also a highly individualized regime; the actions of any one perso... More

How Has Data Science and the Role of Data Scientist Evolved Over the Years? (AI)

Over the years, data science has evolved to become more pervasive, and we are now witnessing newbie business analysts and students faced with the prospect of building their own ana... More

The Next Privacy Battle in Europe is Over This New Law (NY Times)

These industry alarms are not over the General Data Protection Regulation. Instead, the cause is an even stricter privacy law that’s pending — the tech industry’s next regula... More

IBM Releases Cloud Private for Data (ZDNet)

In the latest twist to the "data warehouse in a box" saga, IBM is taking the wraps off its Cloud Private for Data (a.k.a., ICP for Data) offering that it first announced back in Ma... More

Vermont Passes First Law to Crack Down on Data Brokers (TechCrunch)

While Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are hogging the spotlight, data brokers that collect your information from hundreds of sources and sell it wholesale are laughing all the way... More

GDPR Makes Europe World’s Leading Tech Watchdog (NY Times)

The notices are flooding people’s inboxes en masse, from large technology companies, including Facebook and Uber, and even from parent teacher associations, children’s soccer c... More

House Delivers for Tech Companies (MCN)

The House has overwhelmingly (351 to 66) passed the massive defense appropriations bill HR 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act for 2019, a bill that includes a data privac... More

Why Developers Need to Think Like Data Scientists (Datanami)

Data is growing faster than is even fathomable. By 2020, roughly 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet. Given the immens... More

IBM Study: Majority of Businesses View GDPR as Opportunity to Improve Data Privacy, Security (HITS)

A new study from IBM reveals that nearly 60 percent of organizations surveyed are embracing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as an opportunity to improve privacy, secu... More

Untapped Data – Getting More from IoT Data at the Edge and in the Cloud (Western Digital Blog)

Industry analysts estimate there will be 29 billion connected devices by 2021, and by 2025 a person will be interacting with a connected device 4800 times a day. That’s one in ev... More

New Privacy Rules Could Make This Woman One of Tech’s Most Important Regulators (NY Times)

If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know who Helen Dixon is, he will soon. From an unassuming townhouse in the Irish capital, Ms. Dixon, the country’s data protection commissioner, l... More

Five Critical Layers of Protection to Ensure Data Security (Dataconomy)

With businesses holding more data than ever before, the frequency of cyber breaches grows exponentially. A recent survey showed that there were over 1,792 reported data breaches in... More

Expert System Enhances Different AI Capabilities Accelerating Human-Like Language Comprehension for Text Analytics (HITS)

Expert System today announced key technological advancements in AI. By extending the use of machine learning to streamline Cogito cognitive capabilities for text analytics, Expert ... More

Demand for Big Data Professionals Rises 78% Ahead of GDPR Deadline (Gigabit)

According to a new UK report from Experis, the demand for big data skills and expertise has risen dramatically in the past 12 months, up 78% between Q1 2017 and Q1 2018, whilst con... More

White House Announces Creation of Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Fed Scoop)

Watch out China — the Trump administration has its own plans to dominate development of artificial intelligence. As the latest indication of this, the White House announced the c... More

GDPR Scrambling Has Spawned a Swell of Data Protection ‘Charlatans’ (Digiday)

Not every company is freaking out about the General Data Protection Regulation. Some are cashing in, big time. The widespread hand-wringing caused by the last-minute scramble of... More

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