"Strata + Hadoop World" entries
Startup Showcase winners reflect the data industry’s maturity
The Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Startup Showcase highlighted four important trends in the big data world.
At Strata + Hadoop World 2015 in San Jose last week, we ran an event for data-driven startups. This is the fourth year for the Startup Showcase, and it’s become a fixture of the conference. One of our early winners, MemSQL, has since raised $50 million in financing, and it’s a good way for companies to get visibility with investors, analysts, and attendees.
This year’s winners underscore several important trends in the big data space at the moment: the maturity of management tools; the deployment of machine learning in other verticals; an increased focus on privacy and permissions; and the convergence of enterprise languages like SQL with distributed, schema-less data stacks. Read more…
Signals from Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, CA, 2015
From data-driven government to our age of intelligence, here are key insights from Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, CA, 2015.
Experts from across the big data world came together for Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, CA, 2015. We’ve gathered insights from the event below.
U.S. chief data scientist
With a special recorded introduction from President Barack Obama, DJ Patil talks about his new role as the U.S. government’s first ever chief data scientist, the nature of the U.S.’s emerging data-driven government, and defines his mission in leading the data-driven initiative:
“Responsibly unleash the power of data for the benefit of the American public and maximize the nation’s return on its investment in data.”