A Brief History of Natural Language Processing

Natural language processing (NLP) helps computers understand and use human languages. In the early 1900s, a Swiss linguistics professor named Ferdinand de Saussure died, and in the process, almost deprived the world of the concept of “Language as a Science,” which eventually led to natural language processing. From 1906 to 1911, Professor Saussure offered three…

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TikTok Parent Open Sources Real-Time Data Warehouse

You might not yet be a major TikTok influencer, but you can still analyze data like TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, which recently released its real-time data warehouse architecture as open source. ByConity, the name of ByteDance’s data warehouse, is an elastically scalable, column-oriented relational database that’s based on ClickHouse, the scalable, open-source database that the…

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Collaboration Between Digital & Human Worlds

The role of semantics in connecting logical performance-driven functions with the lexical (linguistic) functions across any interaction between humans and machines through artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have witnessed significant headwinds in recent years. Despite the abundance of historical data or contextual information, AI solution providers have struggled to augment humanistic values into key decision-making processes…

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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of June 30; Updates from Alteryx, Databricks, Qlik & More

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy analytics and data science news items for the week of June 30, 2023, including a number of features from the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2023. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a…

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ThoughtSpot Acquires Mode Analytics, Goes After Data Pros

In the recently published report, The Forrester Wave™: Augmented Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2023, we wrote that “ThoughtSpot’s continued focus on conversational user experience (UX) is no longer differentiating.” ThoughtSpot’s announced acquisition of Mode Analytics on June 26 is perhaps a means for ThoughtSpot to grow beyond its historical business user-focused strength in UX. Mode…

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What to Expect at Solutions Review’s Spotlight with Alteryx on July 27

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Alteryx is entitled: Achieving Meaningful Business Impact with AI, ML & Analytics. What is a Solutions Spotlight? Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the…

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Key Findings From Forrester’s Latest BI Research, Including The Forrester Wave™: Augmented Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2023

Enterprise business intelligence (BI) continues to be the last mile to insights-driven business capabilities. No matter what technology foundation you’re using — a data lake, a data warehouse, data fabric, data mesh, etc. — BI applications are where business users consume data and turn it into actionable insights and decisions. The BI market has thrived…

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