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Business intelligence and analytics firm Pyramid Analytics raises $100M

TechCrunch

Pervasive BI remains elusive, but statistics on the category reveal that about a third of employees use BI tools for analytics to inform strategy. The big data and business analytics market could be worth $684 billion by 2030, according to Valuates Reports, if such outrageously high estimates are to be believed.

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Starburst acquires data lake analytics accelerator Varada to challenge Snowflake

TechCrunch

Starburst , the well-funded data warehouse analytics service and data query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced that it has acquired Varada , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on data lake analytics.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO

Organizations across every industry have been and continue to invest heavily in data and analytics. But like oil, data and analytics have their dark side. According to CIO’s State of the CIO 2022 report, 35% of IT leaders say that data and business analytics will drive the most IT investment at their organization this year.

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

TechCrunch

On March 3, we’re hosting TC Sessions: Justice 2021 , a day-long virtual conference dedicated to examining diversity and inclusion in tech. We then provide consumer analytics to small businesses and municipalities. TC Sessions: Justice 2021 takes place virtually on March 3. Founded by Aneshai Smith.

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How to Operationalize Data From Multiple Sources to Deliver Actionable Insights

Speaker: Speakers from SafeGraph, Facteus, AWS Data Exchange, SimilarWeb, and AtScale

Data and analytics leaders across industries can benefit from leveraging multiple types of diverse external data for making smarter business decisions. Data and analytics specialists from AWS Data Exchange and AtScale will walk through exactly how to blend and operationalize these diverse data external and internal sources.

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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Charles Caldwell is VP of product management at Logi Analytics , which empowers the world’s software teams with intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the analytics market, including 10+ years of direct customer implementation experience. Charles Caldwell. Contributor.

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Contentsquare closes a mammoth $600M round as customers clamor for digital analytics

TechCrunch

Contentsquare remains focused on its original bread and butter, which is to say web and app analytics. and abroad , policymakers are eyeing restrictions on the amount of data advertisers can collect for targeting purposes, making certain analytics products less attractive. In the U.S.

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How to Scale a Data Literacy Program at Your Organization

Speaker: Megan Brown, Director, Data Literacy at Starbucks; Mariska Veenhof-Bulten, Business Intelligence Lead at bol.com; and Jennifer Wheeler, Director, IT Data and Analytics at Cardinal Health

Join data & analytics leaders from Starbucks, Cardinal Health, and bol.com for a webinar panel discussion on scaling data literacy skills across your organization with a clear strategy, a pragmatic roadmap, and executive buy-in. Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM GMT. You’re invited!

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Interpret and make decisions from a cloud data analytics infrastructure. Tuesday January 12, 2021 at 12:30PM PST, 3:30PM EST, 8:30PM GMT In this webinar, you will learn how to: Take advantage of serverless application architecture. Optimize serverless and managed data processing pipelines. And much more!

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Are You Ready For Predictive Analytics?

Speaker: Anita Lauper Wood, Product Strategist

As a product or technology leader, you likely know there’s a tremendous value that can be gained from predictive analytics. That said, successful implementation of predictive analytics can feel unpredictable. How to de-risk predictive analytics such as how to avoid a lawsuit that might come out of bias in data and algorithms.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

According to the study conducted by Wakefield Research in 2021, only 22% of the data leaders surveyed have fully realized ROI in the past two years, with most data leaders (56%) having no consistent way of measuring it.

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How to Democratize Data Across Your Organization Using a Semantic Layer

Speaker: speakers from Verizon, Snowflake, Affinity Federal Credit Union, EverQuote, and AtScale

Driving a self-service analytics culture with a semantic layer. Using predictive/prescriptive analytics, given the available data. Avoiding common analytics infrastructure and data architecture challenges. Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EDT, 7PM GMT.