It’s no secret that enterprise data has its challenges. It’s messy, difficult to use, and can feel overwhelming to understand. Driving improved business outcomes from this data can feel like an insurmountable task. This is particularly true in procurement, which…
Transformations are perhaps the least sexy part of every data project. Everyone loves the cutting edge algorithms used to provide new insights, but those algorithms are useless without the transformations that have come before them that are needed to whip…
What makes a Tamr internship different from any other? We decided it would be great to interview our interns and co-ops who are approaching the end of their 6-months program with us to understand from them what it is like…
Getting a unified view of your customers is a huge challenge for most enterprises. That’s because there are so many different data sources that it’s impossible to integrate all of them using traditional rules-based approaches like MDM or ETL. Littelfuse,…
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important, and most discussed, change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. Searching for “GDPR” on Google yields 13 million results — six times as many as “artificial intelligence.” It’s…
“You can’t deduplicate six million records manually… hell will freeze over before you finish,” according to Turing Award Winner Dr. Michael Stonebraker. Dr. Stonebraker, CTO and co-founder at Tamr, was recently a guest on the “Inside Analysis” radio show hosted…
Tamr CEO & co-founder Andy Palmer recently said, “It’s fun to think about starting a company, but the actual doing of it is much more difficult,” as part of his advice to would-be entrepreneurs on the Venture Fizz podcast. In…
Judging from the engagement on my latest post from across the spectrum of business leaders, data engineers, data scientists and thought leaders, DataOps is clearly picking up steam. There were too many comments for me to respond to them all on LinkedIn,…
In an article recently published in Database Trends and Applications data scientist Eliot Knudsen outlines a serious problem plaguing the Global 2000, the “Enterprise Data Debt Crisis.” Knudsen explains: “Large enterprises are facing a debt crisis. Not financial debt, but ‘data…
A recent Forbes article by Randy Bean and Grant Stephen outlined 5 ways that Big Data and AI will impact Life Sciences firms in 2018. While some of the predictions were oriented around the use of new technologies (like blockchain)…
