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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

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The workplace of the future

All Things Distributed

We already have an idea of how digitalization, and above all new technologies like machine learning, big-data analytics or IoT, will change companies' business models — and are already changing them on a wide scale. The workplace of the future. These new offerings are organized on platforms or networks, and less so in processes.