Jim Harris

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling, where you sense if you don’t find data quality, then data quality will find you? In the spring of 2003, Pixar Animation Studios produced one of my all-time favorite Walt Disney Pictures— Finding Nemo. This blog post is an hommage to not only the film, but also to the critically important role into which data quality is cast within all of your enterprise information initiatives, including business intelligence, master data management, and data gover

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2015

by AARON BECKER In a previous post, we described how data scientists at Google used Sawzall to perform powerful, scalable analysis. However, over the last three years we’ve eliminated almost all our Sawzall code, and now the niche that Sawzall occupied in our software ecosystem is mostly filled by Go. In this post, we’ll describe Sawzall’s role in Google’s analysis ecosystem, explain some of the problems we encountered as Sawzall use increased which motivated our migration, and detail the techni

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Data Science and Beyond

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Merriam-Webster defines an insight as an understanding of the true nature of something. Many companies seem to define an insight as any piece of data or information, which I would call a pseudo-insight. This post surveys some examples of pseudo-insights, and discusses how these can be built upon to provide real insights. Exhibit A: WordPress stats This website is hosted on wordpress.com.

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In(tegrate) the Clouds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Gaurav Dhillon , the co-founder and CEO of SnapLogic , who also co-founded Informatica in the early ’90’s and was CEO of that company for 12 years, posted 4 data predictions and 1 market prediction this week on LinkedIn and the SnapLogic blog. His predictions are as follows: Data Eats the World and Integration Strategies Will Drive Digital Transformation.

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TIBCO

DECEMBER 9, 2015

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Phillip Beal recently sat down with us to discuss IFC’s transition from on-premises IT to a managed service from Nutanix partner, Advantage Technology Solutions.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

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