Big Data is in its infancy and is opening the door to grand opportunities and challenges in Data Science. We know that the data science tools and techniques being developed have enormous power. We also know that these tools…

Connecting and enriching data is a worthy challenge for information-driven enterprises, but data management in the enterprise isn’t a one-time project. Data is dynamic. Almost as quickly as data sources are understood and connected, new information will emerge from various…

  Welcome to Data Lakes, one of the more unlikely sources of controversy we’ve run across this year. Gartner kicked off the hullabaloo in July with its report, “The Data Lake Fallacy: All Water and Little Substance,” which held that…

Learn more about the Tamr platform and how it can be used to connect disparate data sources within the enterprise. Table of Contents What is Tamr? What is Data Curation? What is Data Unification? Who are Data Stewards? Is Tamr…

Why you’re closer than you think to fulfilling the “Big Data Promise”     So you’re a CEO – or CTO or CIO – of an enterprise that has made massive investments in data and analytics based on the heady…

Big Data & Analytics Pharma Summit, PA: November 5-6th, 2014   Tamr, Inc. will be a leading sponsor of the Big Data & Analytics for Pharma event in Philadelphia, PA. During the event, Tamr will demonstrate its data curation platform…

There is a long-standing debate about appropriateness of traditional RDBMS and NoSQL systems for different applications. One motivation for a non-RDBMS storage tier for an application is data flexibility. The conventional wisdom about applications like Tamr’s that work with a…

How Data Curation Can Enable More Faithful Data Science (In Much Less Time)   Thomas Piketty’s monumental Capital in the Twenty-First Century has deep challenges and lessons beyond the world of economics. In adhering to strict economic principles Piketty achieved the nearly…

Tamr is very pleased to announced that it has won the, “Best Big Data Startup,” award at the 2014 Big Data Summit. The Big Data Innovation Summit is the largest gathering of Fortune 500 business executives leading Big Data initiatives. The…

  “It takes a village …” and a bold leader when it comes to supporting a start-up ecosystem. Mona Vernon is one of the best village leaders we could have. Mona and her colleagues at Thomson Reuters, like Wilbur Swan,…