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Book Review: ‘How not to be wrong’ by Jordan Ellenberg
It’s fun to read how mathematicians tried to “solve and understand the life” and how they failed or succeeded.
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Beyond Data-ism: Big Data and the Human Intuition
by Petr Hájek, Information Management Advisor What is intuition? The old ‘wisdom’ says that managers spend their budgets on data and analytics, but finally, they make decisions based mostly on their intuition. Intuition can be explained in many ways – some…
Review: DataWorks Summit 2019 in Barcelona
Last week, our Head of Data Science, Petr Paščenko, and Data Scientist Sergii Stamenov attended the DataWorks Summit #DWS19 held in Barcelona. Here are some of their brief impressions: As the event was hosted by Cloudera, the upcoming merge with…
Data is the new oil
Have you ever tried digging deeper into your company data warehouse? Perhaps you found one or two skeletons in the cupboard, but maybe also a hidden golden vein. If you haven’t, then it’s about time you roll your sleeves up and start the data…
Database Systems in Practice
As every year, at the end of summer I updated the lectures for the course called Database Systems in Practice that we teach at universities. This time I decided to radically update our computer workshop material. For my students, I have the same environment prepared…
Big-Data.AI Summit 2019 in Berlin
Our review of the most prominent event about Big Data and AI in Germany.
Big Data Harvest
Well, another autumn is here, and our data grow bigger every year (Based on a prediction from the IDC report, the global data volume will grow exponentially from 4.4 zettabytes to 44 zettabytes (44×1021 bytes) between 2013 and 2020). We use it to feed ever-hungry…
3A Systems– 42 Thoughts
3A systems described in the previous article “3A Systems – Definition“ are data processing systems whose development presents the same problems that need to be addressed and the same decisions that must be made. Getting to know them before getting deep…
3A Systems – Definition
Looking back on the data projects I have come across over the last 20 years, I see that the majority of them had the same architecture – 3A systems.
ClueMaker – No More Hidden Secrets
Profinit is primarily known for custom application development, information management and other software services. Nevertheless, using our extensive data expertise, we have quietly developed a tool that has grown into an impressive mature product – ClueMaker. ClueMaker is a visual analytics tool. It displays a…