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Data Digest: Preventing Data Leaks, Biased Models, and Poor Predictions

How to stop employees from leaving with enterprise data, avoid seeing causal connections that aren’t there, and create better predictive models by combining diverse data.

InsightOps for Advanced Analytics and Data Science

DevOps addresses the challenge of engineering, deploying, and maintaining software for production use. IBM says we need something similar for advanced analytics and data science.

SAP Optimizes BW for HANA, Readies BW for the AWS Cloud

It’s official: SAP BW is coming to HANA, SAP’s in-memory database platform. BW is also coming to the cloud -- in this case, Amazon’s unstoppable AWS.

Microsoft Improves Power BI’s Usefulness as Advanced Analysis Platform

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making Power BI into an extremely useful platform for advanced analysis. New improvements promise to make analysts even more productive.

Data Stories: Correlation Is Not Causation

Bad visualizations are everywhere: some are created for humor; some are intended to trick viewers. Are you being fooled by misleading charts?

Data Digest: AI in Security, Benefits of Big Data Analytics, Become an Analyzing Data Scientist

Today’s articles explain the role of AI and machine learning in modern cybersecurity, the broad benefits of big data analytics, and a path for becoming a data scientist focused on statistics, analysis, and problem-solving.

Amazon Dominating in the Cloud

Amazon is one of a "Gang of Four" -- the others are Microsoft, IBM, and Google -- that control the cloud hosting market. Amazon and AWS have more than twice the share of runner-up Microsoft.

Data Digest: IoT Recommendations -- Object Storage, Playing to Your Strengths, Designing Strategy

Read how object storage might help manage IoT data, why IoT success isn’t dependent on owning an ecosystem, and how to develop and implement a great IoT strategy

How Accurate Are Your Data Sources?

We often assume that data obtained from outside sources meets the same quality standards as data from our own operational systems. Unfortunately, this may not be true.