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AI in the Crosshairs

At the 2017 World Economic Forum meeting, tech industry leaders openly discussed some of the ethical and societal challenges facing the current surge in big data-driven AI.

• By Barry Devlin
• February 17, 2017

Successful Data Lakes: A Growing Trend

Data lakes have been widely misunderstood, but they are now benefiting from new best practices -- helping organizations gain significant value.

• By Dale Kim
• February 16, 2017

Data Digest: Big Data in Marketing, Illegally Selling Customer Data, Cybersecurity Going on the Offense

How marketing might miss the point of big data, why you need to check your customer data collection policies, and how to improve cybersecurity with a change of tactics.

• By Lindsay Stares
• February 16, 2017

February 23, 2017: Graph Database Technology – Renowned expert Peter Perera circumnavigates and redefines THE ENTERPRISE GRAPH to expose the hidden, blind, and unknown connections and relationships. - At CoMotion Labs @ Startup Hall on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle.

• February 15, 2017

March 8, 2017: “Logical Data Warehousing and Data Federation”

• February 15, 2017

TDWI Colorado Chapter Meeting

• February 15, 2017

Data Stories: Visualizations that Encourage Investigation

Do you want to present an answer or allow discovery? These visualizations about employee poaching, Trump’s business empire, and the movie industry invite exploration.

• By Lindsay Stares
• February 15, 2017

Avoid the Premature Release of Data Warehouse Software

Although we may be subject to intense pressure to meet implementation targets, we should make every effort to avoid treating our user community as beta testers or supplying users with inaccurate program prompts or user documentation.

• By Mike Schiff
• February 15, 2017