AI-driven platform helps to remove bias in data
As businesses become more reliant on data, ensuring that it's free of bias is essential to meeting compliance requirements as well as delivering useful insights.
A new AI-driven platform from Synthesized has been designed to understand a wide array of regulatory and legal definitions relating to contextual bias. It can automatically identify bias across data attributes like gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, and more.
Cloudflare Web Analytics is a new privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
Cloudflare is best known for its security and DNS services, but now the company is branching out with a new tool to rival Google Analytics.
The site traffic analytics offered by Google are used by millions of people around the world, but Cloudflare wants to unseat the search giant with its own Cloudflare Web Analytics. What makes the services stand out is a focus on privacy, with Cloudflare neither storing not profiting from data gathered about site visitors.
New platform helps businesses get the most from data lakes
Data is key to the competitiveness of modern enterprises, but the quality of that data determines how useful it is.
Customer data platform Segment is launching a new data architecture product built specifically to help companies deliver better customer experiences. Segment Data Lakes gives companies a foundation to produce advanced analytics, uncover customer insights, and power machine learning and AI initiatives.
IBM launches open source tool to help COVID-19 data analysis
IBM's Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT) is releasing a new toolkit that helps developers and data scientists answer questions about the pandemic.
COVID notebooks is designed to help with tasks including obtaining authoritative data on the current status of the outbreak, cleaning up the most serious data-quality problems, collating the data into a format amenable to easy analysis with tools like Pandas and Scikit-Learn, and building an initial set of example reports and graphs.
Data analysts spend only half their time analyzing data
During the course of a typical workday, data analysts only spend half their time actually analyzing data according to a new study.
Conducted by Dimensional Research for Fivetran, the online survey of around 500 data professionals across five continents also shows 68 percent of the analysts who responded say they have ideas that would drive more profit for their organizations, but they lack time to implement them.
Executives believe their companies will benefit from 'continuous intelligence'
New data released today by Sumo Logic highlights increasing demand for a new category of software called 'continuous intelligence' among C-level executives.
Continuous intelligence allows organizations to more rapidly deliver reliable applications and digital services, protect against modern security threats, and consistently optimize their business processes in real time.
IT leaders still keen to innovate and invest despite uncertainty
Research into the buying intentions of IT decision makers in the UK has revealed that, despite many organizations (55 percent) putting their buying on hold, 38 percent are still reviewing their digital needs and progressing buying decisions.
The study of 100 top IT decision makers, conducted earlier this month by data-driven consultancy Resonance, finds 67 percent of those actively seeking solutions have increased their urgency to implement them.
GigaSpaces helps enterprises boost speed, scale and availability of systems during the COVID-19 crisis
The restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic mean that enterprises are more reliant than ever on online transactions.
To help businesses improve their systems speed, scale and availability GigaSpaces, provider of the InsightEdge in-memory real-time analytics processing platform, has announced that it's offering a free Go-Live professional services package.
Integrated deployment approach plugs the gap between data science and production
While data is essential to businesses it increasingly seems that there is a gap between creating data science and actually using the information in production.
Open source analytics company KNIME is aiming to eliminate this gap with the launch of Integrated Deployment.
Employees reluctant to adopt data-driven working methods
New research commissioned by analytics database Exasol finds that 63 percent of UK data decision makers experience resistance from employees in adopting data-driven methods.
Key drivers of this resistance are anxiety over job redundancy if all decisions are based on data (39 percent), a lack of understanding (39 percent), and a lack of education on the positive impact data can have (36 percent).
SMBs aren't making the best use of data analytics
Although 67 percent of SMBs are spending at least $10,000 annually on people and technology to maintain their data analytics solutions, the majority of respondents to a new survey say their companies could be making better use of their solutions.
The study from managed services company Onepath shows 86.2 percent believe managers could be making better use of their analytics solutions. While 35 percent say it took too long to implement their data analytics solution.
How quantum computing will change analytics [Q&A]
Google announced in October that after years of theorizing, it had finally achieved the milestone of quantum supremacy -- carrying out a calculation in just three minutes that would take up to 100,000 years for a conventional computer.
Ask any analytics expert what they're excited to see in the future, and you’re likely going to hear quantum computing. That's largely due to the sweeping ways it will transform analytics. We spoke with Prasad Kothari, vice president of analytics and client solutions at The Smart Cube, about what that looks like.
New application delivers easier data access for business analysts
Businesses are collecting more data than ever, but ensuring that employees have easy and reliable access to information they need for their jobs can prove difficult.
Now though Kloud.io has raised $4 million in seed funding for its spreadsheet-based application that enables financial analysts to directly access data from multiple sources, such as Salesforce, Oracle, Netsuite, and hundreds more.
Lack of data confidence leads to AI failures
More than a third of AI and analytics projects in the cloud are failing due to poor quality data according to a new survey.
The study from data specialist Trifacta surveyed 646 data professionals across different industries and titles to examine how organizations are handling the accelerating transition of data to the cloud, the obstacles of data cleaning for analytics and the time constraints they face when preparing data.
Overcoming information overload with knowledge graphs [Q&A]
Businesses are generating ever larger quantities of data, much of it in unstructured form. Extracting value from this massive amount of information can be difficult, which is why it can sometimes feel as if there is simply too much data.
Augmented intelligence specialist Yewno believes it has the technology to help people research and to understand the world in a more natural manner, inspired by the way humans process information from multiple sensorial channels. We spoke to the company's CEO, Ruggero Gramatica, to find out more.
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