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The Data Impact Awards: This is the “academy awards” of data solutions

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But I don’t care now, I’ve been on the stage in the big data community version of that gala. 2014 Finalists Announced for Data Impact Awards. Second Annual Awards Program, Presented by Cloudera, Honors Big Data Achievements. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). ? Oct/09/2014.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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The Final DATA Act: Here’s What It Means, Here’s What It’ll Do

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The House has passed the DATA Act twice already , so it seems likely that this bill will soon be on President Obama’s desk for his approval or veto. What data standards are Treasury and OMB going to establish? Can we be more specific about what data standards will be set up? That all starts at the Data Transparency Summit.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Microsoft alum Rahul Auradkar was named chief product officer of New York-based financial technology platform Capitolis. Former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff. Eric Emans.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

GeekWire

At Amazon she oversaw the worldwide public sector business, along with sales to the healthcare and financial industries. Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. During the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House’s national STEM program.

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Allen Institute for AI takes over Vulcan’s portfolio of environmental big-data projects

GeekWire

Skylight is a maritime monitoring program that will be transferred from Vulcan Inc. the diversified holding company that Allen created, to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. ” New AI-based applications that take advantage of data from satellites and sensors are sure to be on the agenda.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. She has a solid understanding of technology and its ability to deliver business outcomes.

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