Collaborate Disseminate
The average person has become depressingly comfortable with the surveillance dystopia we live in. For better or for worse, they’ve come to accept the fact that data about their lives is constantly being collected and analyzed. We’re at the point where a sizable chunk of people believe their smartphone is …read more
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With the first large fines for breaching GDPR upon us, even anonymized datasets can be traced back to individuals using machine learning, researchers from University of Louvain and Imperial College London have shown. The researchers say their paper dem… Continue reading Current methods for anonymizing data leave individuals at risk of being re-identified
Clari started out as a company that wanted to give sales teams more information about their sales process than could be found in the CRM database. Today, the company announced a much broader platform, one that can provide insight across sales, marketing and customer service to give a more unified view of a company’s go-to-market […] Continue reading Clari platform aims to unify go-to-market operations data
Chronicle, the cybersecurity subsidiary of Alphabet (Google’s parent company), has announced Backstory, a cloud platform that can be used by enterprises to sift through their historic security data: DNS traffic, netflow, endpoint logs, proxy logs… Continue reading Chronicle creates Backstory, a cloud service for analyzing enterprises’ security data
In cracking down on porn, Tumblr is harming a group of porn consumers that is largely made up of young women. Continue reading A Quarter of Tumblr’s Users Are There to Consume Porn, Data Scientists Estimate
Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform that is designed to simplify much of the processing to get to querying and application building faster. As for the funding, it includes $3 million in seed money they got when they started […] Continue reading Rockset launches out of stealth with $21.5 M investment
Phoenix TS has added new Data Analytics courses to our public schedule. These five courses will help you increase your knowledge and skills to become a Big Data Expert! What is Data Analytics? Data analytics is the practice used to examine data sets. U… Continue reading NEW Data Analytics Courses
You might think that Anaplan CEO, Frank Calderoni would have had a few sleepless nights this week. His company picked a bad week to go public as market instability rocked tech stocks. Still he wasn’t worried, and today the company had by any measure a successful debut with the stock soaring up over 42 percent. […] Continue reading Anaplan hits the ground running with strong stock market debut up over 42 percent
When Tableau was founded back in 2003, not many people were thinking about artificial intelligence to drive analytics and visualization, but over the years the world has changed and the company recognized that it needed talent to keep up with new trends. Today, it announced it was acquiring Empirical Systems, an early stage startup with […] Continue reading Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition
Data analytics platform Tableau today announced the launch of both a new data preparation product and a new subscription pricing plan. Currently, Tableau offers desktop plans for users who want to analyze their data locally, a server plan for businesses that want to deploy the service on-premises or on a cloud platform, and a fully […] Continue reading Tableau gets new pricing plans and a data preparation tool