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A/B testing is a critical and oft-overlooked element of data science at high-flying tech firms like Google, Netflix, and Uber, but it can be difficult to set up a testing infrastructure. Now you can implement A/B...

This week at its data and AI conference in London, Dataiku announced an update of its data science and AI platform, Dataiku 11. The company says the new release “provides new capabilities for expert teams to deliver...

Oracle is helping its hybrid cloud customers keep sensitive data on-prem with two announcements today, including a lowered price point for its full-service OCI Dedicated Region, as well as a preview of Compute...

The main promise of AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations) is to predict issues that could be major incidents and resolve it before it happens with Machine Learning and AI algorithms. How can such predictions...

Have large language models finally crossed the chasm and become self-aware? A Google researcher recently shocked the world by declaring that Google’s LaMDA has become sentient. Others in the business disagree, saying...

Any candidate for the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and its arsenal of enterprise-grade, open-source software for the public good first goes through the Apache Incubator. Now, the latest project has graduated from...

If your data warehouse is starting to look like Miss Havisham’s decaying mansion, you may have a data quality problem. A new survey of 500 data professionals from open source data quality tool Great Expectations...

A sea change is occurring on the data monetization front, as companies begin realizing data is as an asset that can generate profits rather than just a liability that brings risk. Data clearly has value from an internal...

Ahana today announced a free version of its hosted Presto service that can run on a six-node EC2 cluster indefinitely. It also added another $7.2 million to its previously announced Series A round, giving the startup...

Coursera has released its latest Global Skills Report, sharing key insights for business skills and technology skills in both the U.S. and worldwide. The report names the acceleration of digital transformation,...

DataStax, the commercial vendor behind the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, today announced that it has raised $115 million in a private equity round led by Goldman Sachs. The company says it will use the round to...

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the...

Splunk kicked off its .conf22 user conference today by unveiling a host of updates to its core platform, including a demonstration of an automated anomaly detection system based on machine learning of time-series data...

Snowflake kicked off its annual conference today by making a slew of improvements to its cloud data warehouse, including the introduction of native apps for purchase in its Snowflake Marketplace, support for...

Google has placed a senior software engineer on leave for violating its confidentiality policies after he publicly claimed its LaMDA conversational AI system is sentient. Blake Lemoine was part of Google’s Responsible...

AI ethics issues such as bias, transparency, and explainability are gaining new importance as the European Union marches towards implementation of the AI Act, which would effectively regulate the use of AI and machine...

AI training data vendor LXT has released a new report, “The ROI of High-Quality AI Training Data.” The report highlights the level of value companies are finding with their AI initiatives. “With the massive...

The market for extract, transform, and load (ETL) software is very well-established at this point, but there’s a fresh crop of new faces that are shaking up the market and grabbing share with new approaches and...