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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The following sections will look at each area.

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Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

TechCrunch

Zenysis Technologies , a big data startup headquartered in San Francisco and Cape Town, announced today that it has closed $13.3 Jonathan Stambolis launched the company in 2016 to improve how developing countries respond to humanitarian emergencies and help them improve public health. . million in a Series B round.

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Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists

TechCrunch

Back when I was a wee lad with a very security-compromised MySQL installation, I used to answer every web request with multiple “SELECT *” database requests — give me all the data and I’ll figure out what to do with it myself. Today in a modern, data-intensive org, “SELECT *” will kill you. That’s where Select Star comes in.

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The 2016 Big Data Prediction: Which of these two types of organization will you be in?

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Today, there is countless data collected and analyzed by companies. Just a few years ago, that data was useless, now data is collected and used to provide answers and solve problems. As big data use cases continue to evolve, there will be an increasing number of business missions that will be served by new approaches to data.

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Embrace grabs a new funding round amid unveiling of new mobile data intelligence software

TechCrunch

Many companies collect data from all of their users, but they don’t know what is good or bad data until it is collected and analyzed. Founded in 2016, the Culver City-based observability and data company launched its Data Intelligence product following the raise of $45 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates.

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Continual raises $4M for its AI-powered data platform

TechCrunch

Continual , a startup that aims to bring operational AI to the modern data warehouse-centric data stack, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Amplify Partners , with Illuminate Ventures, Essence, Wayfinder and Data Community Fund also participating in the round. Image Credits: Continual.

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Big Data: Prescription for the Pharmaceutical R&D Plight

Toptal

However, a solution could be data analytics, which enhances and accelerates drug development. This article examines the current state of drug development, and how big data can improve its different components: drug discovery, clinical trial design, and adverse drug reaction detection. billion to bring a single drug to market.