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Kavitha Mariappan

Kavitha heads up Databricks’ end-to-end global marketing efforts. She brings more than 20 years of extensive industry experience in product and outbound marketing, product management, and business development to Databricks. Prior to Databricks, Kavitha was the VP of Marketing at Maginatics (acquired by EMC), where she built and led the team responsible for all aspects of marketing and communications. Her previous professional experience includes leadership roles at Riverbed Technology and Cisco Systems, Inc. Kavitha has a Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

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Driving Value with Data Science

Kavitha Mariappan October 19, 2016

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Fighting fraud, reducing customer churn, improving the bottom line – these are just a few of the promises of data science. Today, we have more data to work with than ever before, thanks to new data-generating technologies like smart meters, vehicle telemetry, RFID, and intelligent sensors. But with all that