Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of August 23; Updates from Domino Data, Reliant AI, Starburst & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of August 23, 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 August 23, 2024

Alteryx Partners with Udacity

Udacity’s platform, which has served 21 million registered learners since 2011, will now offer Alteryx Designer training to individuals looking to advance their careers or enhance their companies’ data capabilities. Comprehensive data preparation enables teams to harness AI’s potential to drive data-driven decisions and optimize business outcomes across various industries.

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Databricks Announces PyCharm Integration

Within PyCharm using the plugin, you can harness the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to process and analyze large data sets, train machine learning models, and deploy jobs to production so that anyone in your organization can see and use data to make decisions.

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Domino Data Survey Reveals Real-World Priorities for AI

The results show that while GenAI may be stoking AI enthusiasm and even budgets, today’s real-world AI initiatives and their underlying stacks are still diverse, rapidly evolving, and far from perfect for addressing today’s infrastructure and governance challenges.

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FICO Attacks Real-Time Decision-Making with Platform Update

The new problem-solving algorithm helps to efficiently compute solutions that are too big for traditional models and resources, helping organizations to leverage the maximum amount of data from multiple sources to calculate real-time decisions that balance competing priorities and resources and scale across enterprises.

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Reliant AI Raises $11.3 Million in Seed Funding

The founders are passionate about how generative AI can solve information challenges to reduce repetitive mental labor and accelerate decision making for enterprises. The company is initially targeting the biopharma industry and will use the new funding to hire engineering talent to expand its technology investment and footprints in Europe and North America.

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New Starburst Report Highlights Critical Real-Time Hybrid Data Access

This report, created in partnership with TheCUBE Research, presents valuable insights based on a survey of 300 IT professionals from diverse industries in the United States and Western Europe. The survey underscores the importance of efficient data management practices, real-time data access, hybrid and federated access, and robust security measures for successful AI implementations.

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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 where the human conversation around AI is happening. 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.

NEW From SR Thought Leader Wayne Eckerson: Self-Service is the Outcome, Not the Driver of Being Data-Driven

When I ask data leaders what their strategy is for creating a data-driven organization, most say that self-service is a key driver. They believe that if business users can service their own data needs, they will make timely, data-driven decisions. Furthermore, they believe that the way to empower business users is to give them a self-service analytics tool and appropriate training (i.e., data literacy).

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