Weekly DaaS Roundup for November 7

NEWS, READS AND MORE

The unsexy side of AI - dealing with unstructured data by Anthony Goldbloom

While coding, customer service and sales applications of AI grab the headlines and funding dollars, looking at job post data vs funding reveals an unsexy, underserved market - the cleaning, processing, and analyzing of data.

“Dirty” data costing companies millions by Eli Goodman

57% of data professionals cite data quality as the predominant issue they face. Combined with AI, clean, accurate data is going to be the true differentiator.

How to build data products by Dylan Anderson

Part 3 of an incredibly detailed outline starting from supply chain all the way to the difference between a data product manager and owner and delivery - it’s a good framing of the problems encountered along the entire lifecycle of data products.

Weather data and the evolution of adtech FastCompany

The discount Walmart offers you on a sweater may be weather dependent. The relentless march of “alternative data” into corporate use cases shows no signs of stopping.

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Windfall CEO Arup Banerjee - Data on the Ultra Wealthy

Arup Banerjee is the co-founder and CEO of Windfall, a data company that estimates the net worth of every American. Data on what wealthy actually means is surprisingly hard.

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M&A AND FUNDING (AND RUMORS)

Pretty quiet week, it’s as though there was a much bigger story out there…

ANNOUNCEMENT

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