Author Archives: GilPress
The End of Big Data and the Beginning of Big Data AI
In December 2014, I asked whether we were at the beginning of “the end of the Hadoop bubble.” I kept updating my Hadoop bubble watch (here and here) through the much-hyped IPOs of Hortonworks and Cloudera. The question was whether an open-source … Continue reading
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Startup Unicorns’ Stock Performance After IPO in 2019
Source: The Hottest IPOs in 2019 HT: @fklivestolearn
A New Data Science Journal from Harvard and MIT
The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and the MIT Press just launched Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR), a “premier research journal, a leading educational publication, and a popular magazine.” The inaugural issue of HDSR includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars and … Continue reading
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A Very Short History of Portable Music
You will find more infographics at Statista From BuzzFeed: The recent discourse about AirPods, whether they’re good or bad, or neutral themselves but separating everyone from the physical, echoes what the original Walkman inspired. “With the advent of the Sony Walkman … Continue reading
Results from a New Survey of Data Privacy Regulations in 61 Countries
It seems that no week passes by without yet another revelation of how the most successful tech companies play with our data. When your business is driven by data, you are driven to ignore possible data leaks, to question the … Continue reading
The $250K Median Salary of Data Scientists Managers is Why Google and Salesforce Invested $20B in Self-Service Data Science
Earlier this month, Salesforce announced the acquisition of data visualization and analytics leader Tableau for $15.7 billion and Google announced the acquisition of data discovery and analytics platform Looker for $2.6 billion. Both acquired companies will beef up the acquiring … Continue reading
AI by the numbers, May 2019
AI optimists drive enterprise adoption US federal government contract obligations and AI-related investments grew almost 75% to nearly $700 million between fiscal 2016 and 2018 [Federal News Network]. 85% of US CEOs and business leaders are AI optimists; 87% are … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, AI markets, AI Predictions, AI Trends, jobs, Machine Learning
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Why Israel is the leader of the $100B medical marijuana market
Opening the CannaTech conference earlier this month, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak quipped that Israel is now the “land of milk, honey and cannabis.” Given the recent performance of the cannabis-related stocks traded on the Tel-Aviv stock exchange (Barak is Chairman … Continue reading
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How to Make Smart Cities Cybrsecurity Resilient
By 2050, about 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Using the Internet of Things, analyzing lots of data, putting more services online—all herald the digital transformation of cities. Becoming digital, however, means a new life … Continue reading
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