Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 12; Updates from Alteryx, MicroStrategy, Starburst & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of April 12, 2024.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy analytics and data science news items.

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of April 12, 2024

Alteryx Drops Analytics Cloud on Google Cloud

With the Gemini models integration, Alteryx is partnering with Google Cloud to deliver AI functionality that lowers the threshold for new users to get started on their analytics journey, accelerate productivity for building analytic workflows, and gives customers a conversational interface to interact with data.

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Anaconda and Teradata Announce Strategic Integration

This integration empowers enterprise users to work with Anaconda, provider of the world’s most popular platform for AI/ML and data science, and Teradata, the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI, to deliver breakthroughs today and in the future.

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Databricks Releases Data Intelligence Tools for the Energy Sector

Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform for Energy is founded on an open lakehouse architecture, providing enterprises with the capability to leverage energy data for AI-driven applications.

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New DataChat 2.0 Brings AI Analytics & Visualization

Specifically, DataChat translates users’ plain English queries into complex Python or SQL using built-in machine learning, predictive analytics and automated insights, and returns answers and visualizations.

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DataRobot Deepens Google Cloud Partnership with New AI Tools

Google Cloud is a member of DataRobot Partner Ecosystem, an initiative to unify the AI landscape with the most open platform for AI. DataRobot Partner Ecosystem makes it easy to leverage cutting edge AI technology, cloud infrastructure, and applications directly within the DataRobot AI Platform.

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Domino Data Lab Joins US AI Safety Institute Consortium

Domino’s built-in tracking, versioning, and reproducibility engine are the gold standard for responsible AI. We want to share these best practices to help define what AI safety looks like, not just for our customers, but for the world.

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Ikigai Labs’ AI Platform Now Available on AWS

With the Gemini models integration, Alteryx is partnering with Google Cloud to deliver AI functionality that lowers the threshold for new users to get started on their analytics journey, accelerate productivity for building analytic workflows, and gives customers a conversational interface to interact with data.

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Microsoft Unveils Copilot Experience for Report Creation on Power BI

To get started using Copilot, you need write access to at least a single workspace that is assigned to a paid Fabric capacity (F64 or higher) or Power BI Premium capacity (P1 or higher) that has copilot enabled.

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MicroStrategy ONE is Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Google Cloud customers can take advantage of a wide array of MicroStrategy ONE analytics tools integrated with AI-driven workflows to rapidly create and launch secure AI applications on a large scale. With MicroStrategy ONE and Google Cloud, large organizations can truly become data-driven organizations.

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Starburst Releases New, Managed Iceberg Service

Apache Iceberg is gaining momentum as the standard table format for a new generation of data lakehouses, thanks to its support for ACID transactions and other features that bolster data correctness and usability in busy data analytics environments.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Insight Jam Panel of Experts Offer AI Strategies for Data Management Professionals

A lot of data professionals are stuck with 5-10 year old data management thinking. Our panel discusses some of the latest approaches to and important facets of data management , like the importance of impact measurement and how to avoid getting bogged down in perfectionism.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Susan Walsh Reveals Why it’s Important to Maintain Your Data

Updates and changes mean that before you know it, your once neat & tidy data sets will contain unclassified data, data that’s been incorrectly classified by your team or AI, typos, and cut & paste errors to name but a few.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Mark Diamond Offers Insight on Creating an AI Governance Program

While AI promises tremendous innovation and productivity gains, the emerging compliance challenges and risks can feel overwhelming: Seemingly every week, new AI regulations are announced, the copyright and IP issues are only beginning to be addressed by the court.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner: Data Governance is Not Dead

Were the titles of the articles just “click bait” or do they have some merit? While the articles were interesting reads and made some relevant points, they also appeared to shy away from one important concept.

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For consideration in future analytics and data science news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.