Cambridge Semantics Shatters Previous Record of Loading and Querying ‘Trillion Triples’ by 100X - So What?

"So what?" you might say. Another hyperbole-fueled headline in tech is hardly a notable event. To answer, let's start with what we did.

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The Top 6 Most Popular Smart Data Blog Posts of 2016

As we head toward 2017, we thought we’d take this opportunity to take a look back at the most popular posts of the year from The Smart Data blog.

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Data Analytics Key to Curbing Wall Street Crime, Says SEC Chair

Summarizing the lessons she learned from her tenure in a speech earlier this month, Mary Jo White, outgoing chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), made a convincing case that...

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What Is a Data Mart?

A data mart is a simple form of a data warehouse that is focused on a single subject or functional area. It draws data from a limited number of sources such as sales, finance or marketing, and is...

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Insight Platforms: Turning Big Data into Action

The complexity of data management and advanced analytics is daunting to many organizations, but a new emerging class of software enables companies to spend less time managing their data and more...

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Government ‘Open Data’ Initiatives Should Incorporate ‘Smart Data’, Too

With all eyes on the federal government at the moment, I thought I’d take a moment to discuss a topic that concerns all citizens – government transparency.

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[Slideshare] Smart Data Lakes: Revolutionizing Enterprise Analytics

At Strata+Hadoop World 2016, the concept on everyone's mind was the Data Lake. Fortunately, Marty Loughlin, our Vice President of Financial Services, was there to discuss how Smart Data Lakes are...

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Show Recap: Strata + Hadoop World 2016

Last month, the Cambridge Semantics team set off to New York City for Strata + Hadoop World 2016, or what Wired likes to call, “the lollapalooza of big data conferences.”

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2016 Life Sciences Smart Data Discovery & Analytics Forum [Slideshare]

Last month, Cambridge Semantics held its inaugural Life Sciences Smart Data Discovery and Analytics Forum in Boston. At this forum, leaders in Life Sciences and Big Data met to discuss the...

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Why Data Discovery Demands Data Visualization

A picture is worth a thousand words they say, and this remains true for data discovery and analytics. For centuries, graphs and maps have been used to help us simplify, understand and convey large...

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