Storing great pools of data is an increasingly figured-out challenge. Between public clouds, and data lakes more specifically, you can stick oceans of corporate data in any number of places. But leveraging that data into something useful is another challenge altogether. The analogy that data is this era’s oil is at best half-baked. Oil takes […]
Welcome debuts a smarter city guide app on iOS, backed by $3.5M led by Accel
When you’re exploring a city — whether one you’re visiting on your travels or your own — there are a number of tools that can help you find out where to go, what to see and what to do, like Google Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor and others. But a startup called Welcome thinks that today’s set […]
Informatica’s IPO will test public markets’ appetite for slower-growing tech offerings
How strong of a cloud business has Informatica managed to build, and how winsome is its economic profile? It has yet to set an IPO price range, but there are reports of a valuation as high as $10B.
Sisu Data raises $62M to stop companies from making clouded business mistakes
Sisu Data, which aims to help businesses make better decisions, announced today it has raised $62 million in a Series C round of funding led by Green Bay Ventures. Existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and NEA also put money in the round, along with new investor Geodesic Ventures. The financing brings San Francisco-based Sisu’s total […]
DataRobot CEO Dan Wright coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to discuss role of data in machine learning
Just about every company is sitting on vast amounts of data, which they can use to their advantage if they can just learn how to harness it. Data is actually the fuel for machine learning models, and with the proper tools, businesses can learn to process this data and build models to help them compete […]
売買される「個人の位置情報」と、野放しにされるデータブローカーの脅威
個人情報を売買するデータブローカーと呼ばれる企業の活動が活発化している。規制の及ばない巨大なデータ仲介業界が、金を積んだ者に米国人のリアルタイムな位置情報まで売りさばく実情は、市民権や国家の安全、ひいては民主主義を脅かしている。
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アマゾンが収集している大量の個人情報の中身と、その“追跡”をかわす方法
アマゾンはユーザーのさまざまな個人情報を収集している。Amazonでの検索や購入の履歴のみならず、一つひとつのクリックやスクロール、そして「Alexa」が録音した音声まで、アマゾンのエコシステム内でとる行動のすべてが知られているのだ。この“追跡”は、いったいどこまでかわすことができるのか──。その方法を調べてみた。
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音声データの“脱植民地化”を目指せ：ビッグテックから母語の主権を守るマオリの人々
日本や世界では人種差別による同化政策によって、いまも2週間にひとつの割合で先住民族の言語が死に絶えている。そんななかニュージーランドのマオリ語の放送局は、貴重な音声データをビッグテックやグローバル企業に明け渡すのではなくマリオの人々のために役立てようと、独自に機械学習による自動音声認識ツールの開発に乗り出している。いまや言語の再生と復興に力を注ぐ他の先住民コミュニティにも拡がる音声データの「脱植民地化」を追う。
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Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI
The truth is, we are still early when it comes to data transformation. The success of tech giants that put data at the core of their business models set off a spark that is only starting to take off.
Simpson’s Paradox
If you look at Covid data from Israel across all ages, vaccine efficacy against severe disease is 67.5%. But if you break it down by age it turns out to be significantly higher: for those under 50 it’s 91.8%, and those over 50 it’s 85.2%. What’s going …