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Falkon closes $16M round to automate sales workflows and analyses

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CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, support product research and expand the size of Falkon’s team from 20 to 30 employees by the end of the year. ” Image Credits: Falkon. ” .”

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TomoCredit raises $7M to help the cash rich and credit poor

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So she teamed up with Dmitry Kashlev, a Russian immigrant, in January of 2019 to create a solution for other foreign-born individuals and young adults facing similar credit challenges. TomoCredit cards became available in late summer 2020. “We Kim, who immigrated to the U.S.

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The state of data quality in 2020

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Data scientists and analysts, data engineers, and the people who manage them comprise 40% of the audience; developers and their managers, about 22%. Data quality might get worse before it gets better. Comparatively few organizations have created dedicated data quality teams. This is hardly surprising.

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AI adoption in the enterprise 2020

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Whether it’s controlling for common risk factors—bias in model development, missing or poorly conditioned data, the tendency of models to degrade in production—or instantiating formal processes to promote data governance, adopters will have their work cut out for them as they work to establish reliable AI production lines.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

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The survey ran from January 31, 2020 through February 29; we had 1502 respondents from the readers of our mailing lists. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Teams that own the lifecycle succeed at a rate 18% higher than those that don’t.

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Manta, a data observability startup, raises $35M to grow its workforce

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But as data continues to grow in scale and complexity, it’s becoming scattered across apps and platforms — often leading to problems where it concerns data quality. “Data-driven decisions can only be as good as the quality of the underlying data sets and analysis.

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The Good and the Bad of Python Programming Language

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web development, data analysis. Source: Python Developers Survey 2020 Results. This distinguishes Python from domain-specific languages like HTML and CSS limited to web design or SQL created for accessing data in relational database management systems. many others. How Python is used. Object-oriented.