What if machines could learn? This has been one of the most intriguing questions in science fiction and philosophy since the advent of machines. With modern technology, such questions…
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Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
No, this is not yet another uber-complex glossary for data terms. Think of the wiki as a fun, helpful encyclopedia for the data universe. Here’s our story. Why did we…
What happens in your brain when you read a map or untangle the meaning of a new word? A complex and rapid process of interpreting environmental stimuli, signals, and context…
Numbers are everywhere and drive our day-to-day lives. We take decisions based on numbers, both at work and in our personal lives. For example, an organization may rely on sales…
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Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
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The alternative data revolution isn’t about what alternative data to use. It’s about how to turn it into actionable insights. Road data for Pune, India, color-coded to show which roads…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
Here’s the definition of a data catalog and why a data catalog could be just the thing you need to meet the challenges of data and metadata management and collaboration.…
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Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
No, this is not yet another uber-complex glossary for data terms. Think of the wiki as a fun, helpful encyclopedia for the data universe. Here’s our story. Why did we…
What happens in your brain when you read a map or untangle the meaning of a new word? A complex and rapid process of interpreting environmental stimuli, signals, and context…
Numbers are everywhere and drive our day-to-day lives. We take decisions based on numbers, both at work and in our personal lives. For example, an organization may rely on sales…
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View All Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
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The alternative data revolution isn’t about what alternative data to use. It’s about how to turn it into actionable insights. Road data for Pune, India, color-coded to show which roads…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
Understand the DataOps principles, framework and learn how to implement DataOps within your organization Let’s start with a simple definition of DataOps (aka data operations). DataOps is a data management…
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Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
No, this is not yet another uber-complex glossary for data terms. Think of the wiki as a fun, helpful encyclopedia for the data universe. Here’s our story. Why did we…
What happens in your brain when you read a map or untangle the meaning of a new word? A complex and rapid process of interpreting environmental stimuli, signals, and context…
Numbers are everywhere and drive our day-to-day lives. We take decisions based on numbers, both at work and in our personal lives. For example, an organization may rely on sales…
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View All Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
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The alternative data revolution isn’t about what alternative data to use. It’s about how to turn it into actionable insights. Road data for Pune, India, color-coded to show which roads…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it…
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Discover how to successfully handle collaboration, security, team morale and management for remote data teams Going 100% remote for data teams is #$%*ing hard and chaotic. Miscommunications can become commonplace. Productivity can be difficult to monitor. Remote team members (i.e. your people) can easily lose track of the big picture and feel isolated, disconnected or left out. That’s why so…
Find out how your remote data team can 4x its productivity with scrum If you’re here, I’m hoping you’ve read my previous article on the toughest challenges that remote data…
From collaboration and dependencies to productivity, find out what are the top challenges that remote data team leaders face with agile. Raise your hand if you’ve ever planned a data…
Understand the DataOps principles, framework and learn how to implement DataOps within your organization Let’s start with a simple definition of DataOps (aka data operations). DataOps is a data management framework that borrows from the agile methodology, lean manufacturing and DevOps to democratize data, build trust and improve team collaboration. What is DataOps? Sounds quite straightforward, right? If only it were…
Understand data integrity, how it’s different from data quality and data security and discover how to maintain it in your organization. If you make decisions solely based on data, you…
Learn what a data lake is (definition) and how to get the best value from it with a data catalog. Much like the term suggests, a data lake is literally…
Learn about the definition and meaning of metadata, including how to best manage it (spoiler: it has everything to do with a metadata catalog). Let’s get meta about meta—because context and perspective is everything. First things first, what is metadata? At the metalevel, the easiest way to understand metadata or its meaning is that it is simply information or data…
Discover how Atlan, a modern data catalog, helps in ensuring data quality Does this sound familiar? The Head of Sales asks for a report of gross sales in Q2 2019. …
Learn what data silos are (definition); why they pose the biggest challenge to your big data strategy, pipelines and dreams; and how to break them down. First things first, if…
Understand what data quality means and how data quality management can solve your bad data woes How is your data? If that very question makes you cringe, then you’ve come to the right place. No one wakes up in the morning thinking “Yay, I get to work with bad quality data today!” Sadly, that’s the way things are in many…
Understand how you can meet the challenges of ensuring data quality and accuracy with a modern data dictionary. Raise your hand if this has happened to you too. ✋ An…
If you’re a Chief Data Officer, you know that one of the major challenges of managing data teams is knowing what’s latest in the ever-changing world of data! And while…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it can be to manage data and all its appendages, from metadata to data lineage and beyond! Now we know we can’t wave a magic wand and wish it all away…
Here’s the definition of a data catalog and why a data catalog could be just the thing you need to meet the challenges of data and metadata management and collaboration.…
DataOps can help you bring together your data, team, tools and processes to become a truly data-driven organization Did you know that Gartner listed DataOps (i.e. data operations) as one…
If you’re a CDO (Chief Data Officer), you already know this—it’s an exciting time to be a CDO! The role is soaring in popularity and importance—the number of CDOs in Fortune 1000 companies shot up from 12% in 2012 to 67.9% in 2018. And companies are all too aware of how CDOs are core to their growth and transformation. Today’s…
The world of data can be chaos! New technologies, tools, products and the ever-changing industry dynamics—there sure is a lot to keep up with. So, what do you do to…
As one of the most popular conferences for data scientists in India, The Fifth Elephant (organized by HasGeek) is an incredible opportunity to interact with data science practitioners, thought leaders…
The Fifth Elephant is one of India’s largest data science conferences with speakers from organizations such as Anaconda, Flipkart, Clustr, Gojek and more. At the event, the Atlan team interviewed some of the best speakers. This interview is with Peter Wang, co-founder and CTO at Anaconda. We asked Peter the qualities that data scientists should have and tips on staying updated…
The Atlan Team met Ishita Mathur, a data scientist at Gojek, at The Fifth Elephant 2019 (organized by HasGeek). A community-led event, The Fifth Elephant is one of India’s most…
No, this is not yet another uber-complex glossary for data terms. Think of the wiki as a fun, helpful encyclopedia for the data universe. Here’s our story. Why did we…
We like to think that air travel today is long or even dangerous, but it’s nothing compared to sea travel a couple of centuries ago. Imagine getting on a massive boat with hundreds of passengers, and then waiting for 50 days. Or 100 days. Or even 150 days. Make it a return trip, and that’s most of the year gone.…
Knowledge is at the core of any successful initiative. In the age of data, one would think that the task of incorporating knowledge would be easier than ever. However, the…
We hosted the Introduction to Machine Learning event, in collaboration with GDG Cloud and Women Techmakers Delhi. Here is a useful round-up and links to resources.
When we think of computers, we think of the twenty-first century. But did you know that India started using them back in the 1950s? Computers were the unexpected secret sauce for accelerating India’s economy after Independence. The government used them to process massive amounts of data and generate complex statistical models of the economy. How did the Indian government start…
A little over 3,800 years ago, humankind began to build the tallest structure ever known to the world until then—the Great Pyramid of Giza. Humans managed this feat without any…
Did you know that understanding the brain helps build better AI algorithms? Or that neuroscience can help validate AI techniques? Or that neuroimaging data science uses several Python packages such…
This year, over 1,000 attendees, 40 speakers, 19 sponsors, and more people from the data science and tech community witnessed the magic of The Fifth Elephant. Now, have you ever wondered how one of India’s most popular data science conferences got its name? We have an answer! Turns out The Fifth Elephant was named after a fantasy novel of the…
Graphs are elegant and powerful data structures that find application across multiple industries and organizations of varying scale. This article aims to introduce and demystify graph databases and the field…
On July 20, 2019, we complete fifty years since humans officially landed on the moon for the first time in 1969. This historic feat of accomplishment is often synonymous with…
