Data science and analytics
As businesses' data volumes continue to expand, data science has become vital for to inform decision making, strategic planning and marketing techniques. Learn about the latest data science and analytics techniques businesses are incorporating to help identify opportunities to streamline processes, identify potential business ventures and improve customer service.
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13 Feb 2025
IT orgs expand business observability beyond their own walls
Business observability could soon become a part of your IT environment, even if you're not the one who originally thought of it. Continue Reading
By- Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
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13 Feb 2025
Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development
With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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27 Aug 2024
Pinecone launches serverless vector database on Azure, GCP
Serverless, first launched on AWS, is now available on all three major public clouds in a move aimed at enabling customers to control costs in the environment of their choice. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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26 Aug 2024
GenAI evolving, remains dominant data and analytics trend
As enterprise use of generative AI evolves from theory to practice, it remains the dominant development focus, with governance and real-time streaming playing complementary roles. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
23 Aug 2024
What is data validation?
Data validation is the practice of checking the integrity, accuracy and structure of data before it is used for or by one or more business operations. Continue Reading
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22 Aug 2024
Collibra, Reltio integration targets discovery, governance
The new partnership aims to provide joint customers with complementary capabilities to help them better find relevant data for analysis and manage their data assets. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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20 Aug 2024
Evaluate 8 of the top embedded analytics tools
Selecting the right embedded analytics tool for your organization can be difficult. Use general criteria to evaluate eight of the top options and decide if one is the right fit. Continue Reading
By- Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy
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20 Aug 2024
Industry experts share top tactics for AI-powered analytics
Unlock the power of AI in data analytics with expert guidance. Learn how to implement AI tools that drive strategic success and future-proof your business. Continue Reading
By- Ana Salom-Boira, Editorial manager -- content innovation
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Opinion
16 Aug 2024
You need analytics governance
Analytics governance might not seem exciting, but it can improve innovation and mitigate risks. It's also critical to responsible data management and analytics practices. Continue Reading
By- Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy
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16 Aug 2024
What is data visualization?
Data visualization is the practice of translating information into a visual context, such as a map or graph, to make data easier for the human brain to understand and pull insights from. Continue Reading
By- Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Former Site Editor
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Definition
16 Aug 2024
What is machine learning? Guide, definition and examples
Machine learning is a branch of AI focused on building computer systems that learn from data. Continue Reading
By- Lev Craig, Site Editor
- Linda Tucci, Industry Editor -- CIO/IT Strategy
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05 Aug 2024
10 top data discovery tools for insights and visualizations
Data discovery can use sampling, profiling, visualizations or data mining to extract insights from data. These 10 top tools differ in scalability, performance and other features. Continue Reading
By- Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy
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News
01 Aug 2024
New Snowflake service enables secure AI, ML deployment
Snowpark Container Services aims to provide the vendor's users with a secure environment for deploying and managing models and applications without having to move their data. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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01 Aug 2024
Google Cloud's BigQuery gets AI injection, Looker to follow
The tech giant's latest analytics and data management moves include the general availability of Gemini in BigQuery and the imminent availability of Gemini in Looker. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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01 Aug 2024
New features make Google's Spanner a database for AI
The introduction of graph processing, vector search and full-text search optimize Spanner for developing and managing modern applications and models, including GenAI. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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31 Jul 2024
Astronomer adds DBT Core support to data orchestration suite
The vendor's latest Astro platform update integrates the open source transformation tool to help users better prepare information for analytics and AI models and applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
29 Jul 2024
What is an algorithm?
An algorithm is a procedure used for solving a problem or performing a computation. Continue Reading
By- Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
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26 Jul 2024
Generative AI a top priority for Amazon QuickSight
Though the BI platform already enables users to analyze data and develop data products using natural language, AWS plans to do more to aid insight generation and user efficiency. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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24 Jul 2024
Knime adds new AI governance measures to analytics suite
The vendor's latest update adds connectivity to AI providers to enable GenAI development as well as governance features to address the growing use of GenAI and its inherent risks. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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24 Jul 2024
Precisely aiding wildfire fight with risk assessment data
The data integrity vendor's specialized database includes added topographical and weather-related information to help organizations prepare for and predict catastrophic fires. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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19 Jul 2024
The top augmented analytics tools vendors are offering
Augmented analytics tools play a crucial role in providing users of all technical skills levels access to AI and analytics daily. Consider 10 of the top options available. Continue Reading
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18 Jul 2024
An explanation of advanced vs. predictive analytics
Predictive analytics is a type of advanced analytics. Learn more in this video. Continue Reading
By- Sabrina Polin, Managing Editor
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17 Jul 2024
Qlik launches Talend Cloud, aims to ensure data is trusted
The longtime BI vendor's new integration platform aims to deliver trust in the information users work with to inform analytics and AI models and applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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16 Jul 2024
Teradata integrates with DataRobot to aid AI development
The partnership provides the data management and analytics vendor's users with more choice so that they can develop advanced models and applications with their preferred tools. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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15 Jul 2024
AI readiness requires buy-in, technology and good governance
With interest in natural language processing, predictive analytics and other augmented intelligence rises, more than tooling is needed for enterprises to properly prepare. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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12 Jul 2024
Tableau launches generative AI assistant, updates platform
The longtime analytics vendor made a Copilot for data preparation generally available with similar tools for data cataloging and dashboard development and analysis expected soon. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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11 Jul 2024
Oracle's new Exadata architecture targets efficiency, cost
With Exascale, the tech giant aims to improve the efficiency of its relational database platform to handle GenAI workloads while dramatically reducing costs with new pricing. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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11 Jul 2024
Data quality specialist Soda secures $14M to fuel expansion
The Europe-based vendor intends to use its latest funding to shift its growth focus to the U.S. while also continuing to invest in its AI-fueled observability platform. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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10 Jul 2024
Graph technology helps battle election misinformation
Backed by a grant from Neo4j, including free use of its platform, Syracuse University is exposing coordinated networks that spread election misinformation on social media. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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02 Jul 2024
Databricks launches generative AI tools, including assistant
The vendor's assistant and automatically generated metadata descriptions together enable users to work with data using natural language and receive accurate outputs in response. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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27 Jun 2024
MicroStrategy's latest delivers embedded AI-powered insights
The longtime independent analytics vendor's new platform update combines embedded BI with generative AI to deliver AI-powered insights to users within the flow of their work. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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27 Jun 2024
Databricks bids to marry AI and BI
At its recent Data+AI Summit, data platform provider Databricks introduced a product that might be a harbinger of a new wave of AI-backed Business Intelligence Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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26 Jun 2024
SingleStore adds Iceberg integration, improved vector search
The data platform vendor's latest update targets GenAI development by enabling easier access to unstructured data, making searches more efficient and optimizing cloud consumption. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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26 Jun 2024
Oracle launches HeatWave GenAI to fuel AI development
The tech giant updated its database with new features aimed at simplifying model and application development cost-effectively, including in-database LLMs. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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25 Jun 2024
Sisense adds embeddable chatbot to generative AI toolkit
The embedded BI specialist introduced Analytics Chatbot, a tool that enables natural language interactions with data, and a feature that lets users easily create summaries. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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24 Jun 2024
Rockset acquisition strengthens OpenAI's enterprise play
The GenAI pioneer went outside the AI realm for its second acquisition, looking to the smaller database analytics vendor for its real-time search and vector capabilities. Continue Reading
By- Shaun Sutner, Senior News Director
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20 Jun 2024
Actian goes to the edge with latest Zen database update
The data management and analytics vendor's embeddable database now includes streaming capabilities via support for Kafka and faster query times that enable decisions in real time. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
18 Jun 2024
clinical data analyst
A clinical data analyst -- also referred to as a 'healthcare data analyst' -- is a healthcare information professional who verifies the validity of scientific experiments and data gathered from research. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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17 Jun 2024
Reltio targets trusted data with GenAI, prebuilt tools
The vendor's latest update adds new customer insight capabilities, including an AI assistant, and industry-specific tools all aimed at providing a trusted foundation for analysis. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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14 Jun 2024
Anomalo unveils quality monitoring for unstructured data
The data quality specialist's capabilities will enable customers to monitor unstructured text to ensure the health of data used to inform analytics and AI models and applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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13 Jun 2024
History and evolution of machine learning: A timeline
Machine learning's legacy dates from the early beginnings of neural networks to recent advancements in generative AI that democratize new and controversial ways to create content. Continue Reading
By- Ron Karjian, Industry Editor
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12 Jun 2024
New Databricks tools target AI quality, cost and security
The vendor's latest features aim to help customers improve model accuracy by securely developing compound systems that include multiple language models and RAG pipelines. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
11 Jun 2024
share of wallet (SOW) or wallet share
Share of wallet (SOW) is a marketing metric used to calculate the percentage of a customer's spending for a type of product or service that goes to a particular company. Continue Reading
By- Katie Terrell Hanna
- Spencer Smith, Site Editor
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11 Jun 2024
Qlik analytics suite helps cities combat climate change
The longtime BI and data integration vendor's tools enable C40 Cities, a climate leadership consortium of nearly 100 cities, to operationalize critical environmental data. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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06 Jun 2024
Databricks $1B-plus Tabular acquisition adds Iceberg support
The lakehouse specialist's latest purchase adds support for Apache Iceberg to its existing support for Delta Lake and is also a direct confrontation of rival Snowflake. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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06 Jun 2024
Qlik meets user needs with realistic approach to generative AI
With trusted data as a foundation, the longtime analytics and data integration vendor has been pragmatic in its creation of an environment that enables generative AI development. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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04 Jun 2024
Snowflake demonstrates shift to AI with newest features
After a slow start to building an environment for developing AI applications, the vendor unveils new features that show it is catching up to its peers. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
04 Jun 2024
What is data preparation? An in-depth guide
Data preparation is the process of gathering, combining, structuring and organizing data for use in business intelligence, analytics and data science applications, as explained in this guide. Continue Reading
By- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
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04 Jun 2024
Qlik unveils GenAI assistant, tools to build trusted AI
The longtime analytics vendor's latest new features include data integration capabilities targeting data quality and a GenAI assistant that includes data lineage capabilities. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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31 May 2024
Trusted data key for Qlik as it develops foundation for AI
The analytics and data integration vendor is focused on providing users with a foundation of trusted data as it develops an ecosystem for developing next-generation applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
31 May 2024
R programming language
The R programming language is an open source scripting language for predictive analytics and data visualization. Continue Reading
By- Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
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30 May 2024
8 benefits of using big data for businesses
Big data is a great resource for driving smart business decisions and changes. Here are eight ways that the use of big data is improving how business gets done. Continue Reading
By- Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy
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23 May 2024
Compare Amazon Redshift, Athena and EMR for data analysis
Trying to decide among Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena? Check out this overview of capabilities and use cases to help narrow down your choice. Continue Reading
By- Ernesto Marquez, Concurrency Labs
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Definition
23 May 2024
web analytics
Web analytics is the process of analyzing the behavior of visitors to a website by tracking, reviewing and reporting the data generated by their use of the site and its components, such as its webpages, images and videos. Continue Reading
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22 May 2024
Microsoft Fabric gets new generative AI tech, more openness
As the tech giant builds out its unified platform for data management and analytics, new tools address ease-of-use with AI and data unification with integrations. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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21 May 2024
Informatica adds AI assistant, GenAI development interface
The longtime data management vendor's new capabilities simplify use of its platform, enabling nontechnical users to work with its tools and making experts more efficient. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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17 May 2024
Differentiation key as Sigma Computing raises $200M
The vendor's attempt to broaden BI use within organizations with a no-code spreadsheet interface helps its tools feel familiar while enabling deep data exploration. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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15 May 2024
Alteryx unveils AI assistant aimed at improving efficiency
The GenAI assistant, now in preview, aims to provide the data management vendor's users with best practices and other assistance as they develop analytics workflows in Designer. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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15 May 2024
DBT Labs unveils AI assistant, more tools to transform data
The data transformation specialist's latest update includes new governance and metadata management capabilities as well as an AI-powered copilot for developer efficiency. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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14 May 2024
Generative AI adoption outpacing all other forms of AI
A recent survey by the research and advisory firm found that deployment of generative artificial intelligence has exploded after barely being a consideration in the past. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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13 May 2024
Alation adds automation to deal with exploding data volume
The data catalog specialist's Workflow Automation provides customers with bots and prebuilt workflows that aid data stewardship by automating repetitive data management tasks. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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10 May 2024
How to improve analytics maturity
Improve analytics maturity with advanced analytics capabilities and the proactive use of data. Navigate cultural challenges to progress to higher maturity levels. Continue Reading
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Definition
09 May 2024
ensemble modeling
Ensemble modeling is the process of running two or more related but different analytical models and then synthesizing the results into a single score or spread. Continue Reading
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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
The data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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07 May 2024
Dremio adds text-to-SQL tool, new partnerships to fuel GenAI
The latest update from the data lakehouse specialist includes text-to-SQL translation capabilities and new partnerships that help create an ecosystem for GenAI development. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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02 May 2024
MongoDB launches tools for developing generative AI apps
The database vendor's new capabilities include Atlas Stream Processing to enable real-time model updates and Atlas Search Nodes to handle advanced analytics workloads. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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02 May 2024
Oracle adds vector search capabilities to database platform
The tech giant's update features capabilities aimed at enabling users to operationalize unstructured data as well as bring AI to their data to avoid duplication and isolation. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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30 Apr 2024
MicroStrategy targets trusted AI with latest platform update
The vendor's platform now includes capabilities aimed at helping customers trust NLP responses, as well as automate workflows from dashboards and third-party applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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30 Apr 2024
Tableau adds generative AI tools, tightens Databricks bond
The analytics vendor's new features include a tool that enables customers to explore metrics using natural language as well as connectors that improve its link to Databricks. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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30 Apr 2024
TigerGraph unveils GenAI assistant, introduces new CEO
Under the leadership of Hamid Azzawe, the graph database specialist's new copilot and platform update target new users beyond its historical base of academics and engineers. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
30 Apr 2024
association rules
Association rules are if-then statements that show the probability of relationships between data items within large data sets in various types of databases. Continue Reading
By- Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Former Site Editor
- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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29 Apr 2024
data set
A data set, also spelled 'dataset,' is a collection of related data that's usually organized in a standardized format. Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2024
information
Information is the output that results from analyzing, contextualizing, structuring, interpreting or in other ways processing data. Continue Reading
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26 Apr 2024
Logi analytics suite to add new GenAI, SaaS capabilities
Insightsoftware, parent company of the embedded BI specialist, unveiled a new generative AI assistant and SaaS version of Symphony to enable efficiency and cost savings. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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25 Apr 2024
business analytics
Business analytics (BA) is a set of disciplines and technologies for solving business problems using data analysis, statistical models and other quantitative methods. Continue Reading
By- Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Former Site Editor
- Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
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25 Apr 2024
logistic regression
Logistic regression, also known as a logit model, is a statistical analysis method to predict a binary outcome, such as yes or no, based on prior observations of a data set. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
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24 Apr 2024
AtScale adds semantic layer support for AI, GenAI models
The vendor's new platform update centers around decision-making flexibility, collaboration and community, and includes a metadata hub along with support for advanced applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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24 Apr 2024
Snowflake targets enterprise AI with launch of Arctic LLM
The data cloud vendor's open source LLM was designed to excel at business-specific tasks, such as generating code and following instructions, to enable enterprise-grade development. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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17 Apr 2024
AI-fueled efficiency a focus for SAS analytics platform
The vendor's latest product development plans include an AI assistant and prebuilt AI models that enable workers to be more productive as they explore and analyze data. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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12 Apr 2024
noisy data
Noisy data is a data set that contains extra meaningless data. Almost all data sets will contain a certain amount of unwanted noise. Continue Reading
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11 Apr 2024
Customer segmentation analytics evolve with GenAI, ML
GenAI, machine learning and advanced analytics techniques automate time-consuming aspects of customer segmentation, freeing up analysts to find insights and create value. Continue Reading
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10 Apr 2024
Collibra launches AI Governance, unveils GenAI capabilities
The vendor's AI Governance suite enables users to ensure the quality and security of AI models while new GenAI features let them automate data quality and governance. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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10 Apr 2024
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service that provides numerous analytical tools for marketing purposes. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2024
Google Cloud to inject Gemini into data, analytics tools
The tech giant unveiled integrations between its LLM and BigQuery, Looker and its databases to provide customers with a foundation for developing GenAI models and applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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04 Apr 2024
Coalesce raises $50M to expand data transformation platform
The startup's new funding is a vote of confidence from investors given how difficult it has been for technology vendors to secure financing over the past two years. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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04 Apr 2024
Aerospike raises $114M to fuel database innovation for GenAI
The vendor will use the funding to develop added vector search and storage capabilities as well as graph technology, both of which can be used to train generative AI models. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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02 Apr 2024
AI assistant from Tableau targets efficiency, deep analysis
The analytics vendor's copilot can recommend questions that might lead to otherwise undiscovered insights as well as understand follow-up questions that result in deep analysis. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
02 Apr 2024
data analytics (DA)
Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets to find trends and draw conclusions about the information they contain. Continue Reading
By- Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
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01 Apr 2024
Vector search and storage key to AWS' database strategy
The tech giant is prioritizing vector search and storage, adding the capabilities to its data storage tools so customers can use them with language models to build AI applications. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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27 Mar 2024
New Databricks open source LLM targets custom development
The data platform vendor's new language model was designed to provide open source users with AI development capabilities similar to those provided by closed source models. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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27 Mar 2024
Domo to add prebuilt models, chat capabilities to AI suite
The BI vendor's latest innovations include conversational analytics capabilities and prebuilt models designed to help customers forecast outcomes and conduct sentiment analysis. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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26 Mar 2024
New embeddable MicroStrategy Auto bot expands AI beyond BI
The longtime analytics vendor's new bot enables customers to embed emerging technology in third-party applications just as they are now able to embed traditional BI. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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26 Mar 2024
entity relationship diagram (ERD)
An entity relationship diagram (ERD), also known as an 'entity relationship model,' is a graphical representation that depicts relationships among people, objects, places, concepts or events in an information technology (IT) system. Continue Reading
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22 Mar 2024
Generative AI capabilities increase data analytics value
GenAI can enhance data analytics uses. Automation and synthetic data let data analysts generate better quality insights more quickly and cost-efficiently than ever before. Continue Reading
By- Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy
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21 Mar 2024
Databricks acquisition of Lilac targets GenAI development
The data platform vendor's latest purchase expands its generative AI development capabilities by adding improved access to unstructured data that can be used to train models. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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19 Mar 2024
Confluent adds support for Apache Flink, unveils update
The streaming specialist has added a managed service for the popular open source compute layer so customers can use the tools of their choice to develop a data ecosystem. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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19 Mar 2024
Redpanda serverless streaming option targets cost control
The real-time data management specialist's new serverless platform enables customers to pay only for the compute power they use, which helps predict and manage spending. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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Definition
19 Mar 2024
data modeling
Data modeling is the process of creating a simplified visual diagram of a software system and the data elements it contains, using text and symbols to represent the data and how it flows. Continue Reading
By- Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor
- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
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15 Mar 2024
raw data (source data or atomic data)
Raw data is the data originally generated by a system, device or operation, and has not been processed or changed in any way. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2024
flat file
A flat file is a collection of data stored in a two-dimensional database in which similar yet discrete strings of information are stored as records in a table. Continue Reading
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14 Mar 2024
Sisense targets hardcore developers with new toolkit
The embedded BI specialist's latest update features a software development kit that enables developers to compose applications using prebuilt APIs, libraries and visualizations. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer
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14 Mar 2024
Databricks partners with Mistral AI to aid GenAI development
The data cloud vendor joins Microsoft and Snowflake in partnering with -- and investing in -- the startup to provide customers with access to Mistral's open source language models. Continue Reading
By- Eric Avidon, Senior News Writer