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Synthetic data specialist Hazy has raised $9 million in a Series A round that will be used to scale the British startup. Funding was led by Conviction VC, with strategic investors including Nationwide and Wells Fargo. Originally a UCL AI spin out, London-based Hazy uses AI-generated synthetic data that preserves
Data, says Mohammed ‘Khal’ Khalid, “behaves a bit like sugar.” It’s an unusual simile, but the DXC Technology advisory director says his team’s conversations with Chief Information Officers and Chief Data Officers show that organisations are “experiencing a crisis in decision making exacerbated by an inability to metabolise
Amazon has open-sourced a new file client for S3 called Mountpoint for Amazon S3 that makes it “easy” for Linux-based applications to connect directly to Amazon S3 buckets and access objects using file APIs – not something that has always been easy or indeed possible for Linux-based large-scale analytics applications. Mountpoint
UK plans to relax some protections under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in its revised Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, after a round of external consultations. The proposed changes reduce requirements around the processing of personal data where it is used for “legitimate interests”, aim to clarify
At the end of June, over 400 prospective heads of data will gather, virtually, for the sixth annual online Carruthers and Jackson Summer School for Data Leaders. The success of the 10-week digital course is proof, as if it were needed, that the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role and the
Processes around spreadsheets become ossified and unable to change..."
Look at Dael Williamson’s profile and you might wonder, briefly, how he wound up as a Chief Technology Officer: There’s the degree in molecular biology and the masters in structural biology and the research position in structural bioinformatics; here is someone perhaps trying to save the world, who