Review: Data Politics – Worlds, Subjects, Rights edited by Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, and Evelyn Ruppert

Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert (eds._ 6 Star — A pioneeering panorama Take the time to look at the Table of Contents using Amazon’s Look Inside! feature. This is a remarkable book, both comprehensible at the undergraduate or citizen lay level, and a foundation for advanced studies. I find this book absorbing in every …

Penguin: Open Source Data Storage & Intelligence

Open source storage: driving intelligence in the small data sprawl era Organisations are turning to open source storage solutions to gain value from the data they store. But, what has driven this trend? Cloud architectures and open source storage Open source in the analytics space Open source storage driving intelligence Read full post.

Stephen E. Arnold: Informatica Data Catalogue an Amazon Play?

Informatica: A Play for Greater Relevance in an Amazon Chess Game? According to “Informatica Aims to Better Track Data Lineage with AI-Powered Data Catalog,” its AI-powered data catalog, called Catalog of Catalogs is notable because it is trying to track data lineage across ecosystems. Catalog of Catalogs includes metadata scanners for business intelligence, data warehouses, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Online Data Market

Amazon Rolls Out an Online Data Market Here is some interesting news from Amazon Web Services. Inside Big Data reports, “Introducing AWS Data Exchange.” Third-party data has become integral to the processes of research, analytics, and machine-learning models for businesses and academic institutions, but the process of tapping into that data has been cumbersome and …

BREAKING: IG Report Out, FBI Lacks Data Integrity and Confidential Information Communications Security

Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) tweeted at 9:12 AM on Tue, Nov 19, 2019: Hot off the presses: Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Management of its Confidential Human Source Validation Processes Bottom line: FBI continues to be an abysmal disgrace, lacking in data integrity as well ascommunications security, names no names. As with its now …