What was your first job in the industry and what was the learning curve? One of the most important lessons I learned when transitioning out of academia related to the deliverables of your work. As an academic, your primary output is scholarship and your audience is other people. In data science, you’re

With six top IT events under one roof, 300+ exhibitors and 300+ free seminar sessions, IP EXPO Europe is a must-attend IT event for CIOs, heads of IT, security specialists, heads of insight and tech experts. The event will take place on 7-8 October 2015, at ExCel, London. The event

One of the latest buzz terms to emerge, quite literally, from the shadow of Big Data is Dark Data. Despite its ominous-sounding name (one can imagine a tween goth band adopting that moniker), it is perhaps more accurate, if less foreboding, to see Dark Data as more like Big Data’s

What’s the most misunderstood thing about “Big Data”? In my experience, corralling data is harder than people perceive and analyzing is easier than most people perceive. Not that either is easy at all, just relative to each other. With corralling, if there’s any interruption at the front end, it quickly

Data Natives focuses on three key areas of innovation: Big Data, IoTand FinTech. The intersection of these fields is home to some of the most significant innovation happening today. Come and learn more from leading scientists, founders, analysts, investors and economists. Whether you’re from a technical background or not, you will come

Consumer finance technology company, Kreditech, has raised EUR 82.5 million in Series C financing to fuel the company’s growth. The round was led by J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC, a leading private investment firm dedicated to investing in the financial services industry globally. Peter Thiel and Amadeus Capital Partners (Amadeus)

As the founder and CTO of Kreditech, Alexander strongly believes that algorithms and statistical data are the building blocks for the next Industrial Revolution. Kreditech, one of Germany’s most data-driven FinTech companies, is a testament to that belief. Before founding Kreditech alongside Sebastian Diemer, Alexander managed engineering and product development

Most analytics products today are designed either for the individual or for the enterprise—and each requires a major compromise. On one hand, if you choose an individualized product so businesspeople can create their own reports, the tool probably can’t scale to provide widespread sharing, consistency, or collaboration on those reports,

Energy is a huge conversation and big data is already being used to make incredible changes. It’s leveraged to create better oil and gas practices, keep better tabs on expenditures, and even ramp up the renewable energy movement. With not just one, but countless companies integrating big data practices, the

  Today, in an unusual seed round for an Israel based company, Panoply.io just announced a $1.3m seed round led by a quality list of US investors. Significant participants in the round include Blumberg Capital, 500 Startups, and FundersGuild. The Panoply.io data warehousing platform released its closed beta in Q3