The challenges of finding an alternative to Facebook
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up is by getting hold of its data and functionality, one piece at a time.
Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up is by getting hold of its data and functionality, one piece at a time.
How do you resolve the tension between the need to build and deploy accurate machine learning models fast, and the need to understand how those models work, what data they touch upon, and what are the implications? Data governance may be the answer.
State senate allocates $3m to hire outside firm to analyze student achievement data. Office of Education raises privacy concerns, claims it can build system in house.
Several states are pushing towards the creation of massive DNA databases by permitting DNA sampling of people when they are arrested - before they're convicted. Civil libertarians are complaining that "innocent until proven guilty" is given way to "suspected even if never proven guilty."
Open source database deployments are up more than 20% in the last six months, according to Evans Data. MySQL use, has increased by more than 25% in six months and is approaching a majority in the database space, with 44% of developers using the open source database.
Only 13% of retailers say their customer databases are 100% accurate and complete, even though 63% of retailers say maintaining up-to-date data is important to enhancing customer satisfaction, study by Dynamic Markets for QAS says.
Motivated by business goals such as compliance and supply chain efficiency, global companies are prioritizing investments in master data management. These are the set of processes to create and maintain a single view of products, customers, accounts, or locations, through a physical or logical hub, across the enterprise or, in some cases, across enterprises.
Worldwide sales of new relational database software came to $7.79 bln in 2004, up from $7.
In the latest issue the Fast Company magazine describes the database used for Amazon's Search Inside the Book feature. It includes 120,000-plus books.
AMR Research, in a report predicting open-source databases will be widely adopted by 2006, found that 43% of companies using open-source databases say they can handle mission-critical jobs today, while 37% expect them to be ready for such tasks within 24 months.
